The monitors blacking out and the system not booting is suspicious.

I think you’ve said you tried a few distros. Does the exact same behaviour happen on all distros?

If possible, I would suggest giving it all another go with x11 instead of Wayland. Nvidia is still the worst for using with Wayland. It’s gotten a lot better, and it’s almost there for complete support, but there are still some issues here and there.

they are dumb as fuck

This isn’t an argument in the way you think it is. Something being “dumb” doesn’t exclude it from possessing intelligence. My most metrics toddlers are “dumb” but no one would ever suggest in seriousness that any person lacks intelligence in the literal sense. And having low intelligence is not the same as lacking it.

Can you even define intelligence? I would honestly hazard a guess that by “intelligence” you really mean sapience. The discussion of what is intelligence, sapience, or sentience is far more than you’d expect.

follow a stupid algo

Our brains literally run on an algorithm.

the data make them somewhat smart, that’s it

And where’s the intelligence in people without the data we learn?

They don’t learn anything by themselves

I don’t know what you even mean by this. Everything learns with external input.

I could do that with a few queries and a database.

The hell you could! This statement demonstrates you have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. LLMs learn and process information in a method extremely close to how biological neurons function. We’re just using digital computation instead of analogue (the way all biology works).

LLMs have regularly demonstrated genuine creativity and even some emergent properties. They are able to learn certain “concepts” (I put concepts in quotes, because that’s not the right word here) that we as humans intrinsically know. Things like “a knight in armour” are likely to refer to a man, because historically it was entirely men that became knights, outside of a few recorded instances.

It can also learn general distances between cities/locations based on the text itself. Like New York city and Houston being closer to each other than Paris.

No, you 100% absolutely in no way ever could do the same thing with a database and a few queries.

But either way, I never considered LLMs to be A.I. even if they have the possibility to be great.

It doesn’t matter what you consider, they are absolutely a form of AI. In both definition and practice.

So most of the entire world is using windows/mac if they want to do something serious other than web browsing.

Absolutely not. Depending on what you want to do, Linux enables you to do way more than Windows.

And most of the linux desktop usage is contributed by enterprise and office pcs using linux.

Do you have actual numbers for this, or is it just entirely your own anecdotal observation?

Even if developers follow these numbers and start supporting linux, they will soon realise it is not worth their time because linux usage is mostly due to enterprise running chrome.

Garbage argument. It’s like the whole induced demand nonsense city project planners use. No one ever says “I’m only using Linux because I don’t need the extra stuff Windows can offer”, instead what you often hear is “I’d switch to Linux if this one specific application wasn’t Windows only”.

The largest thing that has held Linux adoption is application compatibility.

And one fact that I know that questions your “it’s only cheap enterprises” argument is that Linux is huge in the academic sector in India (and the world also). More than half of the AI and ML demo videos on YouTube are from Indian accounts.

These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux

So just like Windows numbers being massively inflated because of corporate computer fleets?

These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser Nobody here cares what os they use in their office pc.

Right, so again, the mostly the same with Windows for both office and personal use.

I don’t see anyone here switching to linux on their personal pc other than the IT students who are forced to install kali linux.

What are you expecting exactly? Is the choice of each person supposed to be formally announced? Are we supposed to real into a populated areas and declare like Micheal Scott “I declare: I’M USING LINUUUUUX!”?

People here buy desktops only for gaming/content creation, which means most households here doesn’t need/require a desktop.

You just described the entire world. This is far from unique to India. Most people I know don’t have a desktop and maybe have a laptop, and I live in North America.

Not to be conceded, but I’m guessing this post is in response to my comments from a couple days ago?

I really don’t understand your point. It’s like you’re saying “the users in India don’t count because they’re not using Linux the way I do”.

Does that mean that all the workstations at CERN don’t count? Or that the systems up on the ISS don’t count?

To me (and I’m certain most people in general would agree) the ISS story is very important, because they were originally running Windows on those systems, but it kept crashing. They switched to Linux to get more stability out of those systems and have been using Linux ever since.

Also, does the story of the City of Munich switching to Linux not count either? It’s supposed to be a major win, btw. A city government switching away from Windows and choosing to go with Linux is huge. I see it the same way with India. The more often people are Linux in the wild, the more normalized it is and the more mind share it generates. And mind share is huge in getting people to make a certain choice. It’s the reason why product ads are everywhere. The more often you see a product/brand, the more likely you are to say to yourself “that’s the thing I’ll buy”.

Before anyone says Munich switched back to Windows, they didn’t. Microsoft made an under-table deal with some officials with the at-the-time in power government to switch back to Windows if they set up a Microsoft office in Munich. Then a new government was voted in a few months later and said “hell no, we’re continuing with the Linux rollout” and that’s where we are today. The City of Munich is a Linux success story.

Ultimately your post was just stating some facts and then waffling on about how it doesn’t count.

Your claim was that this is “increased awareness to the average person”. How are you mixing “average person” and “Arch extras repo”?

You’re intentionally conflating two separate points I made.

Point #1: the fact that you went out of your way as a result of the lawsuit news to download and try Yuzu proves my point that more people will try it out.

Point #2: the binaries are still available in some of the usual places. For example, it’s still available in the Arch repos.

Those two concepts aren’t directly linked together. And I decided to check out the Suyu progress and they’re making much more than just README and branding changes. They’ll have binaries available soon also.

And like I keep saying, Yuzu wasn’t the only Switch emulator out there. So even if people can’t find Yuzu, they can find the other one which is very much active and available to use. It’s called Ryujinx, btw. It’s a terrible name, but it works.

Yes the project can continue. The original developers, who were obviously best suited to continue it, are gone. I’m sure suyu can do a good job, but I just don’t see how you can call it a positive.

Well, for one thing, I never said it was a positive. I didn’t use that word, nor did I even imply it.

Look at LibreOffice. It was forked from OpenOffice and it has far outpaced OpenOffice to the point that it’s embarrassing that OpenOffice is still being developed. Just because the original core devs are gone means nothing in the long run. Switch emulation isn’t some black magic secret project that only a handful of people know how to do. The biggest hurdle is always the DRM portion, which has long since been cracked. The rest is basic dev stuff.

And in any case. There is another project that’s been around as long as Yuzu and is as equally capable and performant.

I wasn’t interested in Switch emulation before this, but wanted to try out of curiosity when this happened.

This statement literally proves my point.

All the download sites and tutorials are dead, and sketchy alternate downloads cannot be trusted.

The binaries still exist in some repos, like the Arch extras repo.

No it’s not going to have the opposite effect.

It will. The nature of the project will shift from a core team like Yuzu had to a decentralized process. If they avoid the legal pitfalls that killed Yuzu (like donations) then there’s little to nothing that Nintendo can do legally.

There’s already a project forked from Yuzu called Suyu that has a ton of activity on it. To me it looks like all the external contributors have jumped on to that new project and are working on removing all references to Yuzu and they will continue the work.

The dev process has absolutely been temporarily halted and significantly slowed down, but it’s not going to stop.

Best case scenario a different team will take over the project and continue, which is not impossible, but far from a given.

It happened within 24hrs of the news.

More awareness to an abandoned project?

The binaries for Yuzu and all the tutorials still exist. Everything that has worked on Yuzu until now will continue to work forever. The news has simply increased awareness to the average person that you can play Switch games on a computer. People who otherwise would never have known about it.

And all of this completely ignores another still existing Switch emulation project that was just as capable as Yuzu that has existed for just as long.

So yes, it is ABSOLUTELY going to have the opposite effect. At the very “best”, Nintendo won an empty victory.

I really doubt that they are that stupid.

I wasn’t referring to the Yuzu core team.

all the ppl that were directly associated with the group are no longer legally allowed (or at least would risk a lawsuit against them) to contribute. So a lot of expertise got lost.

Sure, the core “Yuzu” team. That doesn’t include any of the external contributors. There’s very often a larger contributor base outside of a core team in FOSS projects.

And yes, there’s expertise that was lost. But that doesn’t mean no one else knows how to do the work. It will march onwards.

The lawsuit against Yuzu is going to have the exact opposite effect they hope.

All it’s doing is increasing public awareness of the project, and because it’s open source it will just sprout more heads like a hydra, and it will live on forever.

it’s funny how the butthurt Firefox users downvote me for just talking about my experience with the browser.

Nobody is downvoting you for just talking. They’re downvoting you because you very clearly lack knowledge in what you’re doing but are blaming it on the browser.