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Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 21

But privacy and data protection has become one of the main selling points for Apple in the last decade or so. They tried to bridge the gap with their "Privat Cloud Compute" approach, but this is so complex and hard to understand (and to implement) that nobody will really care, they will just see "all my data will be processed in the Cloud just as Google does it" and that's it.

From the summary, it seems Apple is asking them to train a model that will run on Apple's private servers, thus maintaining privacy.

Comment Re:Why not just move to a different distro.... (Score 2) 61

The whole point is that Bazzite is the Red Hat-based gaming distro. If Bazzite used another distro, it would really be something else entirely and likely be somewhat duplicated effort.

What I don't get is why they can't do their own packaging of 32 bit libraries? I assume that what Bazzite devs do is mainly packaging, so why not also package this thing that your distro needs to work?

Comment Disallowing access (Score 4, Insightful) 41

"... allowing access to multiple game stores unlike Valve's Steam Deck."

What kind of bullshit is this? The Steam Deck doesn't disallow or block other game stores. Most other game stores don't have native Linux versions like Steam, so you have to use proton to get them working. This framing of Valve lock-in is disingenuous.

Comment Re: Year of the Linux Desktop ... (Score 1) 104

Haha a litle bit more confusing :) Sounds like the Linux kernel is a behind the scenes kernel for Android :p I think we mostly agree, Linux is the kernel, the rest of the environment is something else and these things can be mixed and matched in some ways. Android could switch from a Linux kernel to BSD just like you can have GNU/BSD on the desktop if you want. There's currently a project to run GNU/Linux on phones and we recognize it as different than Android because of the environment in which software runs on both platforms.

Comment Re: Year of the Linux Desktop ... (Score 1) 104

One of the reasons it upsets Stallman is that it leads to this kind of confusion and ambiguity. Android runs Linux just like my desktop does. The difference between Android and GNU/Linux is the rest of the environment around the kernel. I agree that we typically shorten GNU/Linux to just Linux when we're talking about desktop operating systems, but when the topic is broadened to talk about non-desktop OSes, it doesn't make sense to say that Android uses the Linux kernel but not the Linux operating system.

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