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The OBS Studio versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats in c/linux

[–] b_van_b 3 points 3 days ago

Looks like a positive outcome overall.

I asked the Linux Community to RANK 34 DISTROS, here are the results! in c/linux

[–] b_van_b 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Additionally, PopOS and Garuda were polled, but didn't appear in the final list. Based on the spreadsheet provided, PopOS should be #16 and Garuda should be #24.

Place	Distro	Average Score	Has been Tried
1	SteamOS	4.19	27%
2	Fedora	4.18	65%
3	Arch Linux	4.04	60%
4	Bazzite	4.04	15%
5	Linux Mint	4.03	73%
6	Endeavour OS	3.92	31%
7	CachyOS	3.87	11%
8	Asahi Linux	3.84	7%
9	Fedora Silverblue	3.77	18%
10	Nobara	3.73	22%
11	Alpine	3.71	19%
12	OpenSUSETumbleweed	3.67	29%
13	Debian Stable	3.63	63%
14	Debian Testing	3.63	23%
15	NixOS	3.52	23%
16	PopOS	3.41	49%
17	Tuxedo OS	3.36	10%
18	Gentoo	3.26	16%
19	Ubuntu	3.23	88%
20	MX Linux	3.14	16%
21	Linux lite	3.13	9%
22	Puppy Linux	3.13	16%
23	OpenSUSE Leap	3.11	19%
24	Garuda Linux	3.09	18%
25	Slackware	3.00	10%
26	Peppermint	2.99	9%
27	ZorinOS	2.94	29%
28	Vanilla OS	2.93	13%
29	KDE Neon	2.85	30%
30	Rhino Linux	2.83	4%
31	Mageia	2.81	4%
32	Solus	2.74	9%
33	elementary OS	2.71	28%
34	Manjaro	2.64	53%
35	Chrome OS Flex	2.03	21%
36	Deepin	1.97	15%

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Bun is up to 20x slower than NodeJS in logic operations (dev.to)

submitted 3 weeks ago by b_van_b to c/javascript

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My ~$2700 ThinkPad is worth $650 re Lenovo in c/linux

[–] b_van_b 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How did you calculate $1200 from this?

My ~$2700 ThinkPad is worth $650 re Lenovo in c/linux

[–] b_van_b 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are you thinking of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_incident

Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up' in c/gamedev

[–] b_van_b 6 points 5 months ago

Previous discussion here: https://programming.dev/post/19062798

Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee in c/gamedev

[–] b_van_b 10 points 5 months ago

I only know about the developers of Slay the Spire switching to Godot. Not the biggest name, but still well-known.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/slay-the-spire-2-ditched-unity-for-open-source-engine-godot-after-2-years-of-development/

Steamdeck Button Mapping for Godot Input Map in c/godot

[–] b_van_b 4 points 5 months ago

I assume that left joystick up/down is axis 1, correct?

Godot Community Poll 2024 in c/godot

[–] b_van_b 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What would you suggest as an alternative?

Remove Polyfill.io code from your website immediately • The Register in c/tech

[–] b_van_b 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This setting appears to work for me. It shows up as blocked in the logs. I've also blocked it in NoScript for good measure.

How I date in c/programmer_humor

[–] b_van_b 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I assume it's because many people outside the USA are accustomed to taking off their shoes when entering a house or apartment.

DevToys - Announcing DevToys v2.0 Preview in c/linux

[–] b_van_b 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

According to GitHub, development of DevToys predates it-tools by a year. If anything, I'd say they're both inspired by CyberChef.

ClamAV Frontend in Godot in c/godot

[–] b_van_b 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Godot engine GUI is also made in Godot.

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Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 years ago by b_van_b to c/linux

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Is a dereferenced reference not equal to the original variable? (self.rust)

submitted 2 years ago by b_van_b to c/rust

3 comments fedilink

I'm going through the interactive version of The Book, and I'm confused by the results of an exercise in Ch 4.3 - Fixing Ownership Errors.

The following code does not work, and they say it's because it would result in the same heap space being deallocated twice:

fn main() {
    let s = String::from("Hello world");
    let s_ref = &s; // reference s
    let s2 = *s_ref; // dereference s_ref
    println!("{s2}");
}

But in my mind, this should be equivalent to the following compilable code, which transfers ownership of s to s2 :

fn main() {
    let s = String::from("Hello world");
    let s_ref = &s; // reference s
    let s2 = s; // move s directly
    println!("{s2}");
}

If s_ref is a reference to s, then dereferencing s_ref should return the String s, shouldn't it? Why can't s be moved to s2 with either the above code or let s2 = *&s;, which fails in the same way?