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  • I think rust has good ideas and may even become the default systems language in the mid-term. I find it irritating that there is a very vocal subset of rust proponents that tend to insist that every project in every language needs to be rewritten in rust immediately. I suspect that is also why other people are down on rust.




  • It’s better today than it was a year ago, and WAY better than it was 3 years ago, and is still improving. There are a few categories of games where you are likely to have problems though.

    • competitive multiplayer games [kernel level anticheat, that one will probably remain a problem]
    • very old games [getting better all the time, because wine is getting better all the times]
    • very new AAA games [they mostly use one of a handful of game engines, so they tend to get fixed in batches]

    I would say whether linux is ready for (windows) gaming depends on is different per person predicated on:

    1. What categories of games you play
    2. Any specific problematic game that is a dealbreaker for you

    For me, I tend to play some older games, and there are a few that don’t work well. I don’t want to boot windows, so I just decide I can wait for it to get there for them.

    For some people, “ready” means will run every windows program as if running on windows. We’re still a ways off from that, if we ever get there (it’s a moving target, as windows is still being developed…)





  • That is a very rudimentary understanding of the system that doesn’t always pan out in a particular time frame or due to external factors.

    1. It takes time for that effect to occur
    2. It doesn’t take into account barriers to entry, of which there are many for food
    3. It doesn’t take into account that there are are actually a small number of companies that own the bulk of our food supply chain and it’s in their financial interest to keep prices high for things that are perceived as luxury