HKayn

HKayn , 3 months ago to KDE in malicious KDE theme wipes out all your data

That’s obviously not what OP was referring to when mentioning “Firefox themes”.

HKayn , 3 months ago to KDE in Appreciation post for Plasma 6 - My current experience with the Fedora 40 beta

I’m guessing it’s mainly placebo.

HKayn , 5 months ago to KDE in Gushing about KDE applications

I’ve been considering trying out Kdenlive. How does it compare to Shotcut?

HKayn , 6 months ago to KDE in Breeze Icons Update!

Plasma 6 has already entered feature freeze, so it might only make it in a later update.

HKayn , 6 months ago to Fediverse in For the "Why are you so hostile to Threads federating?" people..

I’ve checked it out, and I saw someone who couldn’t deal with counterarguments.

@feditips What does Meta’s history of human rights have to do with federation?

Are you under the impression that federation somehow supports these violations? And if so, how?

E: they’ve blocked me instead of answering.

fosstodon.org/@AudraTran/111585549506311164

HKayn , 7 months ago to KDE in This week in KDE: Panel Intellihide and Wayland Presentation Time

I will never get tired of reading these

Kudos to the devs at KDE!

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in This week in KDE: time for the new features

Love reading these. It’s nice to see floating panels get some continued love

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

It would help if you pointed towards specific incidents where a boycott was the direct cause of an improvement in Linux support.

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

You said that Linux users should boycott Nvidia. I’m asking you how that will incentivize Nvidia to improve their Linux support. Can you answer that question or can you not?

HKayn , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

Okay. I’d like to know how a boycott will lead to positive change.

According to Steam’s latest hardware survey in August, Linux systems make up 1.82% of all hardware. I’d prefer to use this over the StatCounter statistic, since Steam’s survey data more accurately represents Nvidia’s target demographic for their graphics cards.

Let’s say all Linux users start boycotting Nvidia. I will assume that 60% of them are already on AMD cards since as you’ve described, they have better Linux support.

So the remaining 40% of those 1.82% (approx. 0.73%) can now start boycotting Nvidia and lose them additional sales.

So of the 98.9% of the gamer demographic (100% - AMD Linux users) that Nvidia could market to, they would lose 0.73 / 98.9 = approx. 0.7% of their sales.

How can a boycott that lowers their sales by up to 0.7% at best improve hardware support? I get that each individual person will be improving their own situation by switching to a card with better support, but I don’t understand how it will incentivize Nvidia to improve their Linux support.

Edit: Rectified some calc errors.

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

I’m not worried. I’m being realistic.

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

Why do you care so much about those people? Why not just let them live with the consequences of their own actions?

As a Linux user, you will never be able to boycott Nvidia. Linux users make up about 3% of computer users. It won’t matter to Nvidia if 3% of anything boycott their products.

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

No, I just don’t base my purchasing decisions around whether some other person would like it or not.

People like you are the reason why the Linux community is viewed as elitist.

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

Because my life doesn’t revolve around what Linus says?

Is that so hard to understand?

HKayn , 9 months ago to KDE in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

How about we let Linux users do what they want?