I imagine that is what Google wants. They don't want solo developers. They just want a company making apps. And dealing with companies is easier than with a solo developer. One could argue that a single employee company and a solo developer is the same, but again, the intention is to burden a solo developer single company, so that only small companies are the ones creating apps.
If they have not gone to the route of directly banning solo developers is just to avoid the pushback.
The problem is how much founding a company varies by countries. For example, I live in Portugal. Setting up a one-person company (Unipessoal LDA) is fairly cheap and easy here, but you're still required to have a certified accountant with certified accounting software. This increases the costs to around 100 €/mo minimally, just for running the company even if it has zero income. That's quite some bullshit if you just want to publish an app. But I guess Google doesn't care.
Yes, but they don't want unipersonal companies either. They want companies with certain size, and legal department, so if any issue arises, it will be between the legal teams to resolves, rather than support.
Syncplicity is a name I haven't heard in a while. It was the best (free for home) from all those names in the list 10 years ago. It seems they have abandoned the home user space nowadays.
It is the only map application that allow you to check public transport (bus/metro/tram) with changes other than (if it exists) a local app for the city.
As far as I know, there is no other map application that does that.
Exactly. Here in Tokyo, there is a local app that's tied into public transit just like GMaps, but all it does is tell you how to get from Station X to Station Y. If that's all you want to know, it works quite well. But most people want to know more than that: where is Business A, and what's the fastest/cheapest way to get there from my current location? Which station exit should I use? And oh yeah, how are the reviews on it? And can I see the menu, and place a reservation too?
And yet, the win32 is the only one that is confirmed to work.
Example: Game Neo Scavenger is available for linux with binaries for them. They dont work in any modern linux because (I believe) they were compiled for a 32bits version of linux.
Do you know how you can play the game on linux?
Yes, using the windows version with lutris, which is 32bits too.
That doesn't help, most Linux distributions do not maintain ABI (library-program linkage) compatibility between major releases, and in the case of rolling distros half the system has to be recompiled when things such as libcurl, openssl, libc etc change. If these change, it's possible that anything compiled agaisnt the system version of it will no longer work without being recompiled
Windows goes back and beyond for compatibility with existing compiled software and Wine inherits that, is partially why Windows versions under Wine often have a higher chance of running than the native versions (ARK is a great example)
Projects like Flatpak attempt to solve this by the use of runtimes.
How long will it be until Google, instead of understanding people are looking for a different search by using udm=14, will close the option with some mambo-jumbo excuse?
Safari does respect you, it's a pretty well-behaved browser. Pre-chromium Edge was similar in many ways (and had zero bloat), I'm still sad it got killed. Much like UWP OneNote, it had great design, proper scroll integration with touch input and used native UI components. Not anymore.
It does not respect my desire to change the search engine to something other than the very few on this list. I have to use an extension which redirect all calls to this engine to my engine of choice.
But man, looking at the competition… I tried using Edge on windows for a while, and every. Single. Time I install any windows update whatsoever, it resets my search engine to Bing. It says something like “your search engine may have been inadvertently changed, so we changed it to Bing for your protection” or something horrible. (I use Kagi, installed from an extension.)
It’s very obvious to me that the only reason Edge exists at all is so MS can steer everyone towards Bing. It solves a Microsoft problem, not a user problem (it’s not even their code base, they just de-googled chrome, added a different theme to it and use it to force Bing on you.)
Safari may require an extension but at least it doesn’t repeatedly change the search engine back the moment you turn around.
Pleas re-read the discussion, you’ll notice that there is a search engine choice, and the problem is that the list is pre-defined and is fixed by an extension - something that Google is continuously working on restricting. It has DuckDuckGo so it’s good enough. Most importantly, it works better than Firefox and is not Chromium-based.
Realtek audio has gotten to a pretty good place on Linux. I've had several over the past few years, and they just work for the most part. Fedora, especially has been a wonderful out of the box experience for audio.
I must be the only unlucky one because my linux approved motherboard Intel DQ77MK with a Realtek ALC892 8-channel for audio kept switching between front and back panel (although nothing was plugged in on front) on Fedora 39 :( . It does work fine on windows.
Actually now that you mention it, I did have a similar problem on one particular motherboard. I don't attribute it to linux though so hadn't thought of it. It turned out to be a hardware issue (with the motherboard) though. The card kept resetting due to too low of input power. I had hoped a BIOS update would fix it, but it didn't. I have had a couple of built-in audio modules die and stop being seen by the kernel on old laptops.
Honestly I would just buy a USB interface. I got a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and have been very happy with it.
Unfortunately no, I don't think I have the knowledge to try a hackintosh? Also not very sure if the system would be compatible with it. It is something to try eventually though.
I do have one, whatever HP figured was good enough for their "high-end" elitebooks. Worked perfectly on Arch without any fiddling. Even the mute leds on the keyboard work as expected.
I believe I do, though I'm not certain. I have whatever is built into my Asus motherboard, which seems like it is ultimately a Realtek chip. Not sure though.
If they have not gone to the route of directly banning solo developers is just to avoid the pushback.