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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:39:43 JST tech? no! man, see...

   every #linux post that actually lands on my timeline: hey folks let's be gracious and understanding; now is not the time to rub peoples noses in what's happened

   the replies when I click thru: *the most rancid snobbery imaginable from @firstnameLastname@betterthanyou.fossbro*

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:00:52 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     I Kissed Windows Goodbye

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:35:29 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Alex ☕🇨🇦

     @Alexjgriffith you'll notice my latest game uses tic80 which doesn't have that problem =)

     but yeah; to me it feels less that "userspace" is a mess and more "libc is trash" but the end result is roughly the same because everyone uses libc no matter what

     my solution so far has been "keep a thinkpad in the house that's two debian versions behind so I can build with a libc that's old enough for everyone" but I'm not saying that's a good solution

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     Alex ☕🇨🇦 (alexjgriffith@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:35:30 JST Alex ☕🇨🇦

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     @technomancy Userspace on Linux is an absolute mess. Without AppImages supporting more than a single distro becomes a game of which version of libc do you have on your system, bro?

     With windows I can boot up an executable compiled in the 90s without a thought.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:36:21 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Alex ☕🇨🇦

     @Alexjgriffith (but also, it wasn't until I started doing game jams that I ever had the desire to run a binary I downloaded from a web site instead of apt, and even now it only happens twice a year so I can deal with it)

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:37:23 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Cian O'Connor

     @cian imagine the most rancid spyware you can, and then crank it up a couple notches in awfulness

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     Cian O'Connor (cian@post.lurk.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:37:24 JST Cian O'Connor

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     @technomancy

     What did I miss in Windows world?

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 05:10:18 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Alex ☕🇨🇦

     @Alexjgriffith appimages are great if you have a program that is never connected to the network or any source of potentially untrusted data

     which means ... games, basically; not sure I'd ever trust them for anything else

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     Alex ☕🇨🇦 (alexjgriffith@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 05:10:19 JST Alex ☕🇨🇦

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     @technomancy 100%, almost all of my applications are installed through a package manager or a deb provided by the company.

     AppImages are great if you want to run a snapshot of a program (more than a couple years old or bleading edge) and you don't want to go through the process of configuration and compilation.