Who exactly was talking about a retarded normie strawman? Not me.
Ah, the first program I bought "off the internet", ie. mailed a check to the developer, and he mailed a printed key back. Big nostalgia hours. The "internet" before the Internet was fun.
Probably because PC speakers are now a rarity in most systems, especially after Windows Vista/7 removed driver support for it. You were only left with some third party drivers that could re-enable it, just about every computer had integrated HD audio and the PC speaker only made sense for debugging. I know that back when I managed to get it working I made an AutoHotkey script that would play L'Amour Toujours and the Bad To The Bone riff. Made another one that would play the melody, show a gag notification window, then after closing it it would play it again. Shame that Microsoft screwed over the fun by killing off the old Beep driver.
No not really, the PC speaker is an extremely basic way of making noise that existed ever since the first IBM PC so it doesn't need any complicated audio drivers to work, which is why GRUB had the option to have a fun custom jingle play once it loaded up. Remember that for a proper audio jingle in GRUB, you'd need to load both the sound file and a rudimentary audio driver stack into the EFI partition which is already tight on available space, and doing all that shit for that extra rice is just pointless. A PC speaker melody on the other hand is super cheap to implement.
See above, though IIRC there were ways to make the PC speaker play PCM samples akin to how C64's SID chip could do it, but then again, wouldn't be the same. The macOS startup sound is unique to Mac hardware since Apple controls it from top to bottom, so they have their own little implementation of the sound stack where it will play that sound once it finishes booting, and unlike Windows/Linux, this is way lower level, hardcoded in the motherboard. In the Windows/Linux/"x86 IBM-PC compatible" realm you only get that POST beep at that level.
Try using winget at some point, it's super comfy to be able to install, update and remove software from the command line. And once you delve a bit deeper into it you can make PowerShell scripts to autoinstall shit in batch, so instead of manually looking up all the installers, downloading and running them, winget will automate it for you, and all you have to do is run a single script.
winget install firefox and hit Enter again?
I wrote crappy batch scripts before I heard of Linux and I quickly found Bash more intuitive, the tools are nicer. Even today when I write terrible Powershell scripts I hate it. It's probably a skill issue but I don't care at this point, the Linux terminal is a comfier place to live in.
Ah, so I guess it's more for something like a data center rack, where you can hear the tune and know the machine has reached the boot loader instead of being stuck in POST or something? That's neat I guess. I suppose that's why it works on my old laptop too that still has this feature.
It most likely is since PowerShell is object oriented, unlike Batch or Bash which is strictly string oriented. For example, to pull out the uptime, you pull out a date object which then you can format to pull out individual values. Or when pulling out the local IP address you pull out an object with all the information of the interface, then you pull out the IP value. It's not better or worse, just different with it's own pros and cons.
Just a relict of a bygone era really. Computer cases used to have those mounted by default and the SPEAKER connector was a part of the standard front I/O.
The first one? That sounds faster in that niche scenario, but what if I don't remember the program I am trying to install? Shit, is it going to be winget install brave or winget install brave-browser? If I'm going to look for a new program to install, it's usually going to be me looking at what those programs are online to compare them, and by that point I'm already looking at their webpage that has the installer button smack dab in the middle. Shit, it's been three months since I needed to install anything, what was that command to do it? wingrab? win-get? Fuck, I need to look this up again. At that point it just seems like a middleman.
This is actually a good explanation that I could follow along with. But unfortunately you are right, I don't think I am convinced about the need to compile my own programs. Or more broadly, I don't get why this freedom of cpu architecture or portability or cpu speed matters to me. If I was the dude in the example I would just be following up with questions of why doesn't linux just use the same cpu architecture or why it doesn't have a One True Place when that seems more convenient. I don't need portability, it's not like my programs are going to pick themselves up and move somewhere else. Maybe if I did look over dependencies, I would end up with less disk space usage and a more secure computer. I care about those things, but only enough that I finally clean up the exe files on my 1 TB hard drive if I only have 100GB left or I download malwarebytes or something if I'm that suspicious of the program I just downloaded.
On things like Gentoo, and arch. Distros with a lot of packages available, that are rolling release. So basically up to date. It's pretty easy to completely avoid using flatpaks. I haven't for a while.
I should point out that apps like Steam provide a .deb installer that functions exactly like a Windows installer. If anything they're preferred because then you're getting the sources directly from the Steam repository or whatever
If you have an issue with remembering six letters then you are a certified nigger. When you launch winget with no parameters, it spoonfeeds you on how to use it, with a very useful parameter called "search". If you don't remember the exact name of the package you can just look it up, and it will still be faster than using Edge to install another browser. Fun fact: with winget, the names of the browsers are short and static, so it's "brave", "chrome", "vivaldi", "opera", "firefox" and so on. The ones that have a longer name have a moniker assigned to them so you can install them mnemonically. Don't forget that you still have to click through tens of different consent forms before you can even start looking something up on a fresh Edge install, meanwhile with winget you only have to type "Y" once on your first run. Microsoft goes out of their way to make your life easier and you're still looking for excuses.
ive been recently using endeavorOS, just to try the AUR, as i've been very limited using ubuntu on my computers. i think soon i'll go onto trying arch by itself because the experience of using the AUR has just been so good, and i hear archinstall works well. i like not having to figure out if something is on flatpak or snap or apt or maybe some appimage on github or whatever. there genuinely seems to be a package in the AUR for literally everything. years ago i was told this and i didnt really beleive it, but now i do. only tricky part is archinstall seems to break when i've tried to install to a computer using emmc storage? maybe it's fixed by now.
Bro, how often do you think I am downloading a new browser? Or multiple browsers for that manner? I think with brave it was 8 or so years ago when I last upgraded the computer, maybe more because that's not something I remember off the top of my head. Maybe if I was downloading firefox once a week remembering it would be reasonable, but I'm not remembering to shitgleep when I can't even remember what I had for breakfast that morning. If I'm spending 10 minutes to learn how to use it and what to search versus 2 minutes to install it with GUI, I've actually lost 8 minutes as a casual user. But I was actually thinking of installing dolphin emulator, so lets try it. I'll enter in winget install dolphin, and watch it go. Except, it wants me to refine it between DolphinEmulator.Dolphin and KDE.Dolphin? Which one is the one I want? Is this a difference between the nightly and stable builds? Do I have to.... Le google it anyways???? If only I was using something with like, a big page to describe what the choices are, and a button with a label you can push while your at it instead of a system that stopped being popular after DOS.
Have you considered the emulator is one the called DolphinEmulator?
I did. And I was wrong, because the latest one is KDE.
If you genuinely don't think that "DolphinEmulator" is the right one in that case you are a massive nigger.
Okay I get it, you want to desperately hate on the CLI to act like a contrarian and get replies. So you're not just a nigger that refuses to use a command line. You're a flaming faggot as well. A niggerfaggot if you will.
If you're not fucking with a system that works, only to fuck it up where you then work on unfucking it as a past-time, you're not a real tech enthusiast.So I'm retarded and was using KDE Neon on my laptop. Decided to update for the first time in like six months and it totally raped my installation. Lesson learned
The lastest (sic) what? KDE Dolphin is a file manager and completely unrelated to the Gamecube/Wii emulator. I don't know what's going on with winget confusing them, sounds like someone fucked up somewhere, but it doesn't mean DolphinEmulator isn't what you're looking for.