awk is supposed to be simpler. If it isn’t, just use your favorite scripting language. It comes from a period of time when a lot of the scripting languages weren’t as easy to use or readily available.

Sounds like job security to me.

VM adds too much overhead for anything near modern, even if modern VM integration does add GPU drivers that act as a bridge for 3D acceleration. But SteamOS and Steamdeck are great examples of how far gaming has come in Linux, it’s no longer something just on the fringe.

I sort of do agree with your last comment. I tried to introduce several family members, and their take was basically that, why bother with something that seemed as unfamiliar as Linux for something they were already used to using. And if you try to use it at work, you are going to have to end up installing a Windows VM most of the time for most jobs. Monopolies be like that.

It’s not a specific one, it’s about not having to worry about which one are in the ProtonDB list and how it actually performs and can be configured. I just lose less out of having Linux in a VM for what I use it for, and have less surprises running the games on the system they are marketing and testing for.

I used to use Linux exclusively, but I eventually gave in to the appeal of Windows. I’m just too into gaming, even with all the advancements Steam and Proton are bringing into Linux. The main difference I’ve had is which OS type hosts which OS type.

You can already get it working under Linux, running a Windows VM. I remember doing that for Homeworld, it’s basically the emulator approach. A VM is ok if it isn’t too demanding graphically.

Now do Gentoo.

Simple, easy dumb way to transfer money from public federal funds to private contractors you are leeching off of.

I think the only thing they really care about is the American hostages. Anything and everything else is just politics and diplomacy that they’ll get around to if it becomes a PR issue. PR wise, the US is already claiming it has stepped in to get Israel to step it down some of its measures, but they aren’t going to step back when it involves outside parties like Iran playing proxy war in Israel through Hamas, even if it does screw Palestinians who have little say either way.

I think it’s part of the reason some people get so mad when you point out that Semitic includes Arabs so antisemitic should really apply to both. They’ll argue to hell and back that it wasn’t the original German use and that it always meant Jews, but while contemporary use may be that, the origins were really just all racially charged Aryan versus Semitic eugenics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage It’s like they can’t cope with the possibility of putting yourself in someone else’s place, but I guess that’s the blinders of religious fervor for you.