I live in South Africa. I can stream 1080p from YouTube with no issues, but Twitch is usually one of two outcomes: stuttering/lag across all browsers or, since the auto quality feature has been implemented, jumping between 720p and 144p, constantly adjusting quality.
Occasionally I can watch 720p just fine, but this is rare. I've resorted to watching tournaments like TI on YouTube, with the Twitch chat popped out for extra entertainment.
Stop using the operating system where everything works: apps, games, hardware, good office package, etc.; rather use an operating system on which debugging to a layman translates to a plane of hell itself, where your hardware may or may not work, and half your game library certainly won't.
I would happily switch to Linux permanently the day the flagship office package UI doesn't resemble Office 97 (the ribbon UI is absolutely fantastic in MS Office), I can get all of my games to work, and I don't need to recompile a kernel to get something as basic as a graphics driver running.
Many games don't port to Linux until all users have switched. It's a chicken-egg problem :(
> I don't need to recompile a kernel to get something as basic as a graphics driver running.
You already don't need to do that. Intel and AMD's open-source drivers are included in the kernel and nVidia's driver can be installed without recompiling the kernel.
The games are getting better. Just over half of my steam library works at the moment. Not sure when it happened but over the last 2 years I noticed more and more things being available. It's no longer just low quality indie stuff.
If any Blizzard game would be ported, that would truly be a milestone (StarCraft 2 with WINE is a lot slower on my machine).
Also many games require nVidia drivers or AMD's open source driver (e.g. Life is strange). I'm using a 144 Hz monitor and therefore need touse AMDGPU Pro (AMDGPU has a bug with >120 Hz: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93826 ).
But you're right: It's getting better :) For example Rocket League and Dota 2 work great.
Your refutations are both weaker and discussion-worsening when you call names and are personally thorny. The guidelines are here so we can have more civil and insightful discussions.
My refutations aren't weaker, they're just in poorer taste. I'm sick of the typical Windows apologist making baseless claims about Linux and I don't see it necessary to treat such people with respect. They haven't earned it.
I know. It's still frustrating that you'll moderate comments like mine but comments spreading harmful misinformation never hear it. It's also difficult to take your rules seriously when even you don't.
If something is culturally significant then it should be preserved and these two hyperlinks should easily make the case that preservation requires distribution.
Never been there, but Johannesburg looked pretty cyberpunk in District 9. Accordim to Neill Blomkamp, during the winter season, Johannesburg "actually looks like Chernobyl", a "nuclear apocalyptic wasteland".
Even worse in South Africa! I only got to play the shareware versions as a kid from floppies included with (I think) Computer Shopper magazines, which my dad used to buy.
I draw my 1's the way it's often displayed on screen, with a little tail at the top and a line at the base. Your system keeps detecting this as a 2. I've also had 3's detected as 2's.
I have always written 1's with a tail at the top. That is both the way it's taught in German schools, and how this program outputs the digit. Most of my attempts get recongnized as 7.
I prefer my writing as unambiguous as possible, so I also like that way of writing it. Like someone else mentioned, "mousewritten" is not necessarily the same as handwritten, so that could be part of the problem.
This has very little to do with terrorism. I'm sure you can find the odd counter-example, but most terrorists enter their target country perfectly legally and are often radicalised while resident in the West. Terrorist organizations know that such people can operate much more easily and are less likely to be monitored by authorities so that's where they focus their recruitment and operational activities. Anyone conflating illegal immigration with terrorism is snowing you in order to push an agenda.
Getting on a plane in EU with EU passport is easy. Getting off the plane in London will get you to a proper security check. They would have caught him there, hadn't he declared his syrian nationality.
Hell, most of the times I've flown between European countries, nobody even looked at my ID. If somebody did, it was usually check-in staff, so there would have been nothing preventing me from checking in under my own name and then handing my ticket to somebody else.
Occasionally I can watch 720p just fine, but this is rare. I've resorted to watching tournaments like TI on YouTube, with the Twitch chat popped out for extra entertainment.