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  • I mean the person I’m responding to seems to want a traditional Unix experience given how they’re talking (and given they use suckless software). Linux generally isn’t that, and it never really has been (or at least hasn’t for many years). If you want something more traditional, there are a bunch of available options like the BSDs. If you insist on using Linux, you can use distros that don’t use Wayland, systemd, flatpak, etc., but the support for them is lower, and if you need to use something that isn’t packaged for example you’ll need to deal with getting it working with e.g. systemd on your own. A bunch of software makes assumptions that stuff like systemd is now included if you use Linux. I’m currently using a distro without systemd and am seriously considering swapping back to my old one because it’s such a hassle.


  • I do, but more importantly there are translation earbuds and stuff, and people can also just use their phone with paired wireless earbuds. Sometimes people already move to another country and don’t really bother learning the language because they can sort of get by. I imagine the number of people who do that would increase if they can just rely on their phone or earbuds to accurately translate everything for them (more so with a phone and paired earbuds since it can then both listen and speak for you).

    Also, I imagine a number of people learn English and largely just use it to read or listen to stuff on the internet. If they can just automatically translate it without issues like missing phrases and other errors, then they might not learn it, which could in turn harm e.g. their employment prospects if they move abroad. This could apply to other languages too, but English is basically the default language on the internet so it’s an obvious example.



  • I’m using gnome rn and it doesn’t crash much anymore. When I used xorg, there’d be crashes that brought down the entire desktop (or the computer as a whole) too. Also, generally every time I have a crash now it’s from using xwayland to play a game and having certain extensions enabled at the same time (although those issues seem to have disappeared recently too). All the other issues I either don’t care about or are supported with some extra work. For gnome, some of the issues are just because they have a phobia of exposing settings and you need to use stuff like dconf to deal with it.

    Jesus what joke of an implementation, it’s the anti theist of Linux. Everyone got fooled and allowed GUI developers implement the rendering backend…

    As you mentioned earlier, it’s a protocol. Implementation issues are due to how gnome/kde/whatever implemented their compositors. I think it’s pretty much standard for Linux given that stuff like systemd and flatpak exist. If you want to use something more traditional unix-y, maybe you should use a bsd or solaris derivative or something.


  • This is an unfortunate issue since I think stuff like machine translation is incredibly useful as an individual, but the better it gets the less need there is for human translators for commissioned projects. At least it’s still really obvious when machine translation is used without thorough editing, so high quality translation still requires humans. A lot of foreign games and other stuff that isn’t super high budget don’t really seem to care about quality and consider the AI “good enough” though :/

    Another concern I have with machine translation getting better is it discouraging people from learning foreign languages since they can just rely on AI to translate it for them.