maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

if you tell me that the many different ways (default setting by user, wrapper script, renice after launch) in which you can set a program's priority in linux are accessible to anything below a power user, you are lying.

on windows 10, i don't have that problem, because by default today the OS is pretty robust against user-space programs halting the entire system. so how do you solve that on linux? change the program's priority, or "niceness". i want you to look up how to do that right now

my girlfriend is trying to use a web-based generative art program written in javascript which freezes her entire computer every time a loop becomes too long (doesn't even need to be infinite). she loses control of the entire desktop and needs to reboot forcibly.

i'm going to try to elaborate: yes, anyone can pop a (modern) linux install cd and go through the steps to get it to work on most any desktop computers today. however, more often than not problems crop up that cannot be solved without deep dives into the system

if you feel like coming into my mentions to disprove me: don't. *I* have a computer engineering degree, i use linux daily both on servers and on desktops, and i don't think it's a good end-user desktop OS.

i have unkind opinions towards linux and how it purports to replace end-user OSes such as windows and mac os while containing integral parts to its functioning that are completely unaccessible to anyone short of a computer engineering degree

is there a way to make linux programs not hang the entire desktop when they hang or is that just how linux is? case in point is firefox hanging ubuntu on large JS loops forcing the computer to need to be restarted because desktop control cannot be regained

the artist ✨ the art

it's real hard to search for "pc game kinda like lego but not lego"

when i was younger i played with a block-building win98-era game, it was like playing with lego but it wasn't a lego game... i want to find it again but i'm not having any luck

TERFs are fascists! 😊🥰💜

EYYY

when the teapot

who the fuck am i