I've thought about starting a business where I buy older (but still sufficiently powerful) computer parts in bulk, assemble them into usable systems, install Mint or OpenSUSE on them, and sell the finished systems at a markup. There are a lot of people who hate Microsoft but get turned off by the idea of having to install an OS by themselves, so this might be an opportunity that you can take advantage of in your local area.
All we need to do is end US government subsidies for PrEP and all HIV meds if the disease was caught as a result of sodomy or drug abuse. After that, we wait a few years and we won't have to worry about trannies or fags.
I mean.. most of those dependencies make sense for an application that uses a GTK interface, draws windows with transparency/holes in them, uses SDL to abstract some controller stuff.
Yes--If you really want to sell people on switching, they need to see why Windows is a problem, not why you like Linux better. If it isn't broke why fix it. Same with most things really. Microsoft's approach to fucking over customers is slow enough that people just put up with it because "that's how it is", until it affects them on a personal level at which point they will probably just get a Mac instead and all the issues that brings. Otherwise, it still does your taxes and your school papers and your video games, that's all people really want.
If you used an open source emulator you'd probably be able to compile it without SSE2 then. Developer probably compiled it with SSE2 without a second thought because of how old it is. But if an open source program refuses to support CPUs without it that's retarded, all of these extensions can be recreated on a 486 even if it'll be slower.
mate at some point old systems have to be dropped, you can't expect a dev to support a cpu from the late 80s that cant address more then 64mb of ram. (especially since it's from an era before 3d acceleration which so many emulators take advantage of)
The reason I wanted to use this emulator over open source is that I know it does not need SSE2 to run, at least on Windows. It even ran games fine using the shitty integrated VIA graphics this ancient board has.
Linux is only "secure" because there are so many kinds of it, and so few users, that if you find a vulnerability, it's probably only in one thing that a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage of people have.
Fedora kinda works around this by requiring packages be reproducible from source. So at least the package maintainers can't be bad actors there.
It is not that extreme. Having replacement functions for platforms that do not support these features is not some burden, they're just simple vector operations that could be done before, but less efficiently. And it not only makes it possible to run on older hardware, it makes it easier to port to non x86 platforms.
It's starting to sound like they just don't care anymore about anything before the athlon 64 now that 32 bit is "dead." After all, not a single Ubongo user is going to complain about this because every single 64 bit CPU has it.
Linux is far and away the most installed operating system in the world. It's on every Android phone, a majority of servers, and pretty much every embedded device. Not all computers are home PCs.
You say that, but all really important devices, like ATMs, run Windows XP Embedded.
If upstream is hiding malicious stuff in build scripts there's not a whole lot you can do about it. Unless you wanted to hire a whole fucking LOT of people to audit things line by line.
Why even bother when normies are becoming tech illiterate every day it passes thanks to smartphones being popular and even locked down to extreme measures?
