This idea of replacing traditional but not very friendly ways of delivering Linux desktop apps, such as DEB and RPM package management systems. [ ... ]

Pardon my French, but what the fuck is so "unfriendly" about installing DEBs?

RPM and DEB are an absolute $(GOD)-send to users, particularly those who've had to suffer under the scourge of Windows, where you have to update each application individually, each usually with its own bespoke updater (many of which will try and up-sell you on shit you don't need). And if it turns out said program needs an updated MSVC++ runtime? Nothing will warn you; you get to find that out The Hard Way when it crashes, and then you get to grovel through Microsoft's awful site looking for the latest MSVC++ runtime, and pray to the gods that abide that upgrading it doesn't break something else.

DEB just fucking works. Except for very rare hiccups (in my experience), upgrading a package magically upgrades all the dependent libraries along with it. If you get sick of a program and delete it, all the libraries it required get deleted as well (if nothing else also needs them), saving you disk space and reducing potential attack surface. And you drive the whole updating process from one place -- not one program at a time, not with special snowflake updaters the marketing department occasionally throws over the wall. A consistent, reliable management system for all the software on your machine.

DEB is awesome.

...a new, future-proofed engine "built from the ground up in Unity." [ ... ]

I don't think the speaker understands what "ground-up" means...

...NVIDIA's gaming platform...

...What gaming platform would this be, then?

And no, GeForce Now is not a platform. It's a launcher and settings manager. Windows is the platform...

Bing Is Not Google.

Yeah, that ended well...

Also: Has anyone besides me noticed that manufacturer's claimed unrecoverable read error rates have basically not improved in the last several years, and are stuck at 10**14 bits (10**15 on "enterprise" drives)?

The Linux kernel infamously doesn't make any guarantees about driver APIs, rendering the idea of binary drivers a pretty shaky proposition [ ... ]

Mneh, mneh, mneh, mneh....

Uh-huh, sure. BTW, how may versions of the MSVC++ runtime are currently squatting in your system folder? I think my Win7 machine managed to get up to something like 14. But no, it's Linux that's a moving target...

I live in San Diego. The freeways are great, and this is definitely a car city. It is hard to get around without a car. But you can do it. I know people who do it by choice, and others because they can't afford to drive.

Funny you should mention San Diego. It, along with Los Angeles and other major cities, were victims of a concerted effort to hamstring or reduce rail-based mass transit in favor of buses and cars ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).

So, is the fact that San Diego is now a "car city" really the result of a meaningful choice by its residents?

The person guilty of litter is not the paper maker.

Interesting how you carefully selected paper for your example, and not plastic. Just try to find a consumer product on the shelves that uses no plastic packaging. The end-user has no meaningful choice here -- yet another reason why blaming the end-user is invalid.

why couldn't he take donations? Non profits take donations all the time.

He does take donations: https://www.patreon.com/mastod...

The majority of major security flaws in the last decade have been with open source software - Ghost, Heartbleed, Struts2 vuln, Shellshock, Log4j, etc. and the problem shows no sign of slowing down.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Still running WIn7 here. Well, I say "running;" I haven't booted it in months. I'm pretty much All Linux All The Time.

"But ewhac!" I hear you cry. "How do you play our PC games?" Well, you have three choices there. You can either release a Linux binary, you can run well under WINE, or your game won't get purchased. The ability to run shiny games is not an acceptable trade-off for the massive security and infosec risks of running Windows.