“Driver install” is mainly a windows thing. Linux ships with drivers that just work out of the box for nearly everything, with the only notable exception being Nvidia‘s proprietary drivers. However, every distro streamlines the installation process for that since it’s so common (And Nvidia is slowly moving towards open source anyways)
The first time you connect a printer to your linux machine and you find that it just fucking works is when you will see the light.
I owned a Blackberry Passport back when it was a thing, and to this day it is the best phone I’ve ever owned. The keyboard was capacitive, so you could swipe your finger on it to scroll or move the cursor around. The OS also had a thing called “Blackberry Hub”, which was basically the Android notification tray on steroids. You could swipe up-right from any app to access a combined list of all your messages (email, sms, whatsapp, etc) in a common interface to quickly reply or compose messages.
It was all an incredibly well designed experience. I loved it so much that I never sold my passport even after it was clear BB was doomed. I still have it with the original box in my closet (next to an HTC Dream lol)
…but I wouldn’t buy something like this. As nice as the physical keyboard was, I was always way faster with a virtual keyboard. I’m sure that the capacitive/physical hybrid idea wasn’t explored to it’s fullest potential, but I can’t see it beating gesture typing on a modern virtual keyboard. Plus, BB10 OS was a major part of the formula that made the form factor compelling. Grafting a physical keyboard onto a modern Android device just isn’t going to be the same. That’s why I didn’t bother buying any of the Android-based Blackberry devices.
Although I will add that GBA/SNES emulation (and gaming in general) is a million times better with a clicky keyboard than virtual controls. I remember mapping the dpad to QWAS and having a blast playing through Link to the Past on it.
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In Star Trek Enterprise, there’s an episode where the crew finds a planet being ravaged by disease. Bizarrely, the planet has two humanoid species: one dominant (intelligent, technologically advanced) and one less dominant (less evolved brains). The captain mentions that in every planet they’ve encountered, only one humanoid species survives the process of evolution.
Well, it turns out that the disease is genetic, it only affects the currently-dominant species, and they will go extinct in a few centuries because of it. The same evolutionary phenomenon that explorers encountered countless times before on other planets was happening right before their eyes.
Middle Earth has like at least 3 humanoid species (Man, Elf, Dwarf), more if you count Hobbits and Orcs. That’s totally incompatible with Star Trek lore!
This isn’t entirely accurate. If Valve were a public company, the enshittification factor would increase significantly. The reason they’re great now is because the current board is the original founders who are passionate about their business, and actually care.
Private or not, once Gabe and the other old farts die, Valve will enshittificate. That’s almost guaranteed.
#! /bin/sh #update_everything_in_one_command.sh set -e apt update apt upgrade -y flatpak update -yTada!