I don’t have all the facts but based on the article I don’t see the problem everyone seems upset about.

They received the report, decided it was valid but didn’t match a bounty. Then asked him to follow standard responsible disclosure processes giving him credit in the final release. All very standard.

Should there have been a bounty? AMD has the budget, probably yes. But nothing in the communications seems any different from what I’ve seen and have received similar from companies in the past.

I believe the current meta of SEO is seeing how far you can get prompt injecting your site into AI summaries via llms.txt. So… that’s cool too.

I assume it’s like a lot of things happening in the US. Does America care? Americans care. The country…

I walked him through how things worked once

And there’s why it worked.

Ok, let’s dig in to it.

Let’s say he was installing windows 20 years ago. First, you have to find it. you’ve got 20 versions of XP Home, Enterprise, Media Edition. You can’t really get most of them online legit so you’ll have to steal it or head to the store. Hopefully you end up with some version of XPSP2. You might not and SP1 was not great. Then hopefully your network drivers work or you’ve got the disc hanging around because none of your drivers are going to work. Otherwise you’re going to need another computer to find the drivers from the manufacturer if they even exist. Maybe one of the sketchy driver sites has it… And hopefully your video card works because that’s not a given, you might have to side load the drivers into the installer or figure out how to boot into safe mode and copy the drivers off a floppy. Then you’ve got to figure out all the random places to find slyour software and where your copy of office is.

Contrasted with “yes mint will work. Yeah Belinda etcher. Yeah the hidden one is your hard drive the only option is the USB drive. Yes those formatting options are fine. Yes that’s the right time zone, our city isn’t directly selectable. Ok you’re done. Yeah everything is just working. Yeah no drivers. Open the software center. Yeah that’s it. No really it’s working. Yeah just type in steam there and install it. No really that’s it it’s really working.”

My son installed Linux last week and I’ve been close to a help desk for close to 20 years so I feel comfortable commenting on the experience vs windows.

I walked him through how things worked once, and gave him some suggestions for software. Like heroic launcher for non stream games. Then he installed it himself. Everything just worked when he logged in.

So install, choosing a distro is overwhelming but otherwise easier than windows 20 years ago.

Post install, he saw lutris was cool for one of his games. It didn’t work (shocker). I reminded him to use heroic, walked him through, epics login sucks, but after fighting through that it just worked and he saw a bunch of other games he could just play.

The one problem he’s had is X crashes when he jumps back and forth between discord and games 50 times a second. So I showed him how to switch to wayland and it’s rock solid but his mouse software doesn’t change acceleration anymore and one of his games (roblocks) treats shift as a button press instead of a modifier like it should. This is also a problem for Wayland.

X is a disaster. Wayland is an awesome display server but its input is a shit show for legacy software and software built around MS Windows quirks and this is a problem.

But let’s be honest, if he’d started in Wayland, his mouse would have a broken non essential feature and a weird game would have a bug. Is that really worse than windows at any point? Probably not.

Since then, he’s not had any other problems that I know about.

So are there problems. 100% Is it worse than windows? That’s pretty debatable IMHO.

I think the biggest problem linux actually has is that it’s not Windows. People have spent their entire education and careers and personal lives using Windows. They have a lifetime of tacit knowledge on how to fix and avoid its weird quirks. They’ve had help desks, friends, family, and mentors guiding them. Leaving that behind and trying something they’ve been told is hard their whole life is hard. But maybe not because UX is broken, but because it’s just a hard thing to do.

So we need to be patient, listen, deescalate their frustration, and welcome them to a cool new way of using their devices.

I don’t know the exact reason but yeah. “Marketing” departments don’t get to just make fundamental product decisions in any company I’ve ever interacted with.

For your specific question: Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier?

This is AMD’s marketing decision.

Kind Regards, Anatoli Curran, Xilinx/AMD Forum Moderator

Translation, we looked at the books and thought this could make us more money.

People saying good things about the snapmaker u1. Also have a friend with the centauri carbon and it seems to do well. Don’t know about the multi filament setup though, he bought it before the release.

People saying this believe you should be able to do whatever you like with the things you purchase without additional conditions. If that’s not the case, in some sense, you don’t own it.

It’s possible that it doesn’t matter to you. Apple is incredibly popular and tight controls on what you can do are their entire business model so clearly it’s a model that works for companies.

But to the people that do care, they tend to care a lot. It’s infuriating. They’ve been supporting, evangelizing, even developing the android ecosystem and this feels like a rug pull.

Mango’s videos are great. I’d wager there are gems in there for even experienced users of freecad. I’m often surprised by some of the tricks he has.

I absolutely love freecad. There are dozens of us that actually really like it

“improve security”

isn’t basically common knowledge at this point phone recovery methods decrease security? How do companies keep getting away with this.

never had a large qa team. And my experience has when we have qa resources, people move to the new feature so it’s up to the developers to not break the critical features everyone forgets about until they break. And I’ve yet to meet a developer that has time to also be a full time qa resource

I meant my first sentence to be an apology for jumping to conclusions but it clearly isn’t. It’s late. Sorry for the snarky response.

I see it seemed more like a weird flex.

Anyways, I couldnt possibly deploy with any confidence a large project or honestly a small project I expected someone to rely on without layers of test. Unintended consequences of even a small change are just a reality. And with the expectation to move quick with large legacy systems, if you don’t have tests that’s a dangerous high wire act.

Is this like a who’s got a bigger portfolio situation? I’m not sure how to respond

I guess I’ve been developing for decades including consulting for Page 6, a stint in RD at Sony Music. One of my open source contributions was used as part of the backend for one of Obama’s State of the Unions. I spend my time these days writing and maintaining multiple software stacks integrating across multiple platforms.

I think we do very different development.

You… just started writing unit tests?

I kind of agree it’s a multiplier. But so far every time I’ve had it do something its written such an ugly turd I have to rewire it all taking more time than if I’d just solved the problem to start with. Maybe someday but it’s not up to the quality I expect of development.

I remember several decades ago when I dug into wine things asynch io was a thing there was a lot of discussion over. Apparently windows actually has a very robust asyncio interface that’s emulated with a bunch of epoll and other logic.

I believe a lot of games did tricks with this and the hacks sometimes had performance costs.

A quick Google says that’s still a thing being worked on and there’s a newish io_uring but apparently that has problems. So maybe that’s a place we can see improvements in the future.