I went ahead with this! I use Bazzite or Nobara as my main OS - and I love it. (Bazzite has been generally more stable for me, and I like the immutable platform its on. Nobara is definitely easier though.)

But... there are issues.

- General game compatibility isn't one of them - games often run on SteamOS that wouldn't even run on modern versions of Windows. Other don't. It's a mixed bag, but it's not worse than Windows.
- HDR support - this is a sore spot, but it's getting better. In particular, there's no way to set max brightness or paper-white values - which is available on Windows (even if it's a bit hidden), and all the consoles. The result is that on my screen, the entire image is WAY too bright, to the point of hurting my eyes. I made a feature request: https://steamcommunity.com/app...
      - It also gets in to half functioning states when you switch between game mode and desktop mode, and other annoyances.
- HDMI consortium are assholes, and won't let us use our own hardware, because of a DRM subsystem that no one wants. The result is, on AMD GPUs (which is the only reasonable hardware to use on Linux) and newer Intel GPUs (not sure about nvidia) you can't output in HDMI2.1, so you can only really get 60Hz at 4k, if you want things like full range HDR and VRR. This REALLY SUCKS, and it's especially irksome because of how mind numbingly stupid the reason for it is.
- nvidia is still a giant pain in the ass, and hostile to Linux in general. From what I've read it's gotten somewhat better, but my God, they've been single handedly holding back Linux gaming for years.

Most of the other issues I've had with Linux over the last 25 years are basically solved at this point. It's never been better!

MacOS dropped 32-bit a few years ago, and it did the same thing - murdered gaming dead, on macOS. It's actually easier to run Windows 32-bit binaries on macOS than it is to run 32-bit macos binaries. MOST of my macos compatible Steam library doesn't work any more. (And it'll be so much worse when the remove Rosetta 2 - and they will, bet.)

What would make sense to me, is to create some kind of hybrid virtualization/containerized thing to run old binaries (think something like WPA2.) Hybrid binaries might be more challenging, and require irksome stuff, like duplicating your 64-bit subsystems... But this must be possible? I know it doesn't exist yet - so the comment about this being "too soon" makes sense to me. There needs to be some kind of transition plan. Linux can do this better than Apple did for sure!

LLMs predict text based on what's in its static training data, as processed by a model ahead of time. It quite literally can't do reasoning. What the "chain-of-thought" technique is trying to do, is set up the context window, so that it can predict something like a reasoned response. The challenge is that if something similar to the reasoning it's trying to predict doesn't exist in its training data, then it will simply predict tokens as best it can, which might not be very useful. It's worth knowing that, because that's always where it falls down.

LOL - you trust Microsoft to do the right thing, just because someone (or some corporation) paid them. That's amazing.

They probably vibe code their UX or something. It's not just bad UX, it's also buggy.

Most managers have bet their careers on the usefulness of AI - so they NEED their subordinates to fact check AI generated stories - or more specifically, the need their staff to PROVE the value of AI, whether there is value or not.

It's kind of easy to see what they are going to get wrong.

Most of their materials about their new browser are for like automating web apps like gmail. But anyone who would use that kind of feature is already using some high powered native app. There is almost certainly going to emerge a platform for "AI apps" soon, which will provide direct interfaces for LLMs to use, which will remove the need to automate human interfaces through a browser interface. Then those apps will make way for regular old integration within existing apps.

Selling a browser was always a tough thing to do - it's not like there aren't a few "browser companies" who have been trying to do that for ages now.

"What we did wrong" - tried to sell a browser...

Firefox has done a decent job photo copying some of Arc's features. Here's hoping they continue.

How about that?

Came here to say that. If you want to misunderstand everything sent to you, just read the summary!

I'm glad I don't use gmail...

Came to say the same - their printers have been a scam machine for decades. Their laptops are design to literally (and physically) fall appart - see any of the problems with their hinges, or generally any of their thermals. They make junk. It's not even cheap junk - it's just junk. I swore off HP ages ago, and will continue to avoid it for the rest of my time on this marble.

She settled - that means, the prosecutors probably threatened her with unreasonably strong and inappropriate charges that she probably didn't understand, so that she'd settle for the appropriate charges, and the prosecutors get to avoid a trial. That aspect is rarely covered in these stories. A lot about this case could have been revealed by a court case. But a persistent conspiracy to short circuit that process keeps that from happening with regularity. Justice my ass.

My guess is you, RobinH, write code at a professional level. The folks who have rebutted you - do not. That's my guess.

There is a real disconnect between the professionals who actually write code, and the less than jr level technical managers who think this AI slopware is a sane thing to ship. The managers are currently winning, but I wonder how long that'll last. There is a way to use the slop generated by an LLM, but not without a professional who know how to write good code. It's definitely getting interesting.

I prefer to believe he was disrespecting all those with ANY shared delusion.

Thank you for this. In this age of AI-ruination, where I'm just looking for a way out, your sane and thoughtful comment brought me just a little bit of hope.