Usually because they include by default some proprietary software. Usually that is firmware for processors or graphics. Or they by default include repositories with non-free software. Also media codecs are a common one too.

The FSF takes a pretty extremist approach to FOSS. Which isn’t necessarily bad.

Fuck em. “Oh but it’s a free Internet people can participate wherever they want”

Yeah you have a right to be a total dickwad and scream in people’s faces at the grocery store, don’t be surprised when everyone thinks you’re an ass though. They don’t want your input. That. Simple.

A segregated internet would be more like if they had a whole version of Lemmy for all topics but only for women, and then didn’t also participate in the other one.

This is just one community calm the hell down they can have their space.

Lmao a huge number of people use it for work still

Sure, but for say the average laptop buyer nowadays not really.

It is - that’s just how URLs in non-latin fonts look unfortunately. URLs, (and a ton of tech infrastructure) is hugely English/latin script biased.

The URL is Japanese.

Locked down would probably be a plus for enterprise.

But honestly I’ve never got that argument. In what way is macOS more locked down than Windows? In the hardware that it will run on yes. But for the average user it seems fairly similar on the being “locked down” front.

I have a Roborock that supposedly has Matter support (over WiFi not Thread, but still) and integrates into my Home assistant fairly well.

I wonder if it would break without Internet.

Yes, but I think inflation quickly makes that a pretty low number.

I think the line to never have to work again is pretty far under $100mil

No, but it seems like a logical step is all. Allow devs to distribute ARM binaries of their game. Release Steam for ARM.

If they do the work anyhow no sense in wasting it.

Yes, but they’re making a build specifically for this set. They own all the source code. Presumably that means they made this version native for ARM.

Considering the big rise in ARM PCs it’s completely logical that they start supporting it more too, allowing devs to make and distribute ARM builds.

For Linux, you find out if there is a package. If not you go to a website and see if there is an app image or zip file. You then need to know where to place the downloaded file, how to get it running (making it executable), knowing how to chmod and chown (it is better to have to do it like in Linux, but it is an extra step), and how to add it to your desktop (there is no right+click and add to desktop/create shortcut option in Arch based distros like there is on Windows). If there is a service component you may need to go into command line and systemctl to enable it.

I don’t think I’ve ever followed that workflow to be honest. Except for when doing something niche and way above and beyond something a casual user would do.

Open the software center, search what you want. Click install. Done. I use the terminal to the same effect but that’s by preference. Installing packages as you described is not at all recommended… They won’t update with the system.

The “add to desktop” thing really depends on your Desktop Environment too. GNOME not really, KDE and most others yeah.

I don’t think the learning curve is any harder than someone who’s learning Windows for the first time.

It’s just different. Honestly in some ways simpler IMO. But if you were a life long Mac user and touched Windows for the first time today you’d probably have a rougher time I think.

Bypassing the battery?

They will sell optional controller straps, and the controllers have 5 finger capacitive tracking.

I bet it will be. But I’m not sure if there will really be any OSes developed for it.

Wait but I have been side loading on my Quest 3? They disabled the ability to sideload Android APKs? Still works for me.

It’s not a Linux Vision Pro. Vision Pro is aimed at productivity and “Spatial Computing” or whatever.

This is a gaming device first and foremost, and you can see that from the black and white passthrough on the Valve machine.

But you’re right that it can definitely be the foundation for AR/VR forward Linux environments. It would be really cool to see a 100% spatial compositor that challenges the conventional flat computing paradigm.

But playing with full color passthrough and hand tracking on Quest 3 does make me a little disappointed in this. I was able to sideload standard Android APKs and interact and move them around with my hands which was mega cool. I could do the dishes with YouTube just floating in front of the sink. I didn’t actually do it more than once but it got me excited about the future of spatial computing.

Yeah I mean push through as in they don’t keep trying