I'm not sure what advantage loss32 has over any normal distro+wine? A familiar user interface?
The advantage of Loss32 is that your shell would be inside the WINE layer, so you don't have to run things with WINE because you boot straight into WINE. It's easier for the user.
ReactOS' claim to fame, IIRC, is that it also has driver level compatibility, and that's something a Linux kernel couldn't ever realistically do.
There's a lot of driver support already in Linux. And aside from incredibly niche devices, more drivers could be made if needed. Especially if Linux becomes more popular and OEMs start shipping prebuilts with it, they will ensure driver support.
Is driver support stable in ReactOS? Can it handle hardware video encoding? Modern games with ray tracing and DLSS? FSR4 and frame generation? Does it crash less than Linux? If it still requires dev work for them to get new drivers working in ReactOS then is that actually better than just using Linux?
Getting more people on Linux will increase driver support, but ReactOS will always be smaller than Linux.
When I need to help someone with a GUI, I ask them to send a screenshot and then I put red circles on it for them lol, or number labels on the things they need to click on.
Hopefully we have ways to recycle the old chips. Some of the GPU chips could maybe be put on consumer boards? I've already heard of memory chips being recycled, except HBM of course.
Of course a lot of these companies would probably just prefer to put them in a trash compactor lol.
Like, can you run the game + Discord + a browser on a 16GB system or not.
Typically that's fine, otherwise 32GB would be the recommended system spec, because that's normal behavior.
Also they likely never tested on a 12GB RAM system to verify if that satisfies the minimum requirements or not. I used to run 12GB on plenty of games that said they required 16GB, it's usually fine if you close some stuff.
The term Link Aggregator has got to go. Call it a forum and call it a day
Its not the same, as forums dont use scores and have less focus on external links. The text already mentions forums, by removing link aggregator it would also be too short here.
I don't think link aggregator is a good term at all. If I said that to my mom she would never imagine anything like Reddit, she'd probably think of Google instead. Forum would be much better. "Discussion forum" would fix the issue with it being too short.
Or even "forum with voting and comment trees" lol IDK, I feel like anything is better than "link aggregator".
Interesting that they don't even attempt to put a label on what type of website Reddit is, they just describe its features. IDK if that's good or bad lol. Maybe for Lemmy you'd want to start with "discussion forum" and then describe additional features.
I agree. Users shouldn't be allowed to choose a name that already exists as a community. But it would be a shame if communities could not be created because a user with that name already exists.
One issue is I think Lemmy's UX means there's less friction with local communities than remote communities (not sure why) which is why usually the lemmy.world version of communities typically wins without a lot of effort to steer people
What if the community was the first entry in the results instead of the user? Maybe that's more appropriate and might cause Mastodon to default to the community when there's a conflict
The advantage of Loss32 is that your shell would be inside the WINE layer, so you don't have to run things with WINE because you boot straight into WINE. It's easier for the user.
There's a lot of driver support already in Linux. And aside from incredibly niche devices, more drivers could be made if needed. Especially if Linux becomes more popular and OEMs start shipping prebuilts with it, they will ensure driver support.
Is driver support stable in ReactOS? Can it handle hardware video encoding? Modern games with ray tracing and DLSS? FSR4 and frame generation? Does it crash less than Linux? If it still requires dev work for them to get new drivers working in ReactOS then is that actually better than just using Linux?
Getting more people on Linux will increase driver support, but ReactOS will always be smaller than Linux.