(...) if Russia can't even win against Ukraine how would they ever fight against the EU, our army is both larger and much better equipped then Ukraine.

The problem is, the EU isn't united nearly enough to fight a war together. If, for instance, Russia attacks, it'll be mostly Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia defending. Maybe Romania too, and maybe with some support from the rest of the EU. As it stands right now, the EU is divided on many issues, with some countries (notably Hungary) intentionally sabotaging it from the inside.

Even if - and that's a big if - all or at least most of EU member states can come to agreement and cooperate in a conflict, our militaries aren't very well prepared to work together. This would require years of cross-border military drills between all of the member states. Especially considering the fact that the vast majority of all EU soldiers have never seen any real combat. Russia may be losing a lot of soldiers in Ukraine. But those who survive become extremely valuable assets for the military, since real world combat experience is infinitely more useful than textbooks or casual training exercises.

You're also massively wrong about DirectX on Linux, DXVK and VKD3D both work to run various versions of it on Linux.

I very clearly wrote that Linux does not support DirectX. Which is 100% true, no matter how you look at it. Just because there are translation layers, it doesn't mean Linux 'supports DirectX', because it doesn't. It supports Vulkan, which DXVK and VKD3D translate DirectX API calls to.

Let's say you can't read Spanish, but you hire a translator to translate a text for you. Now you can read it. Does that mean you can suddenly read Spanish?

They created the Game Porting Toolkit a while ago

Hmm... Must have missed that. I'll need to take a look. Might be the exact same thing I mentioned and I just had no idea it was already released.

The RaspberryPi has existed for ~15 years at this point, the platform is far more mature than Windows on ARM and rivals macOS for support.

I wrote "From my experience" and "Might depend on the device though." Also, RaspberryPi is not a daily use device. At least not for the vast majority of people.

If Linux works on ARM for other people - great. I'm hoping to be able to switch to it sometime in the near future. However, the last time I tried it was horrendous. A lot of programs I use were completely unavailable, with no compatibility layer that I know of. That was about 2 years ago.

That said, I also tried Windows 11 on ARM around the same time and it was great. Practically everything worked out of the box and worked flawlessly. It was basically the same experience as on amd64.

After introducing Metal (their own proprietary graphics api), Apple killed OpenGL support and never implemented Vulkan support. Almost every single video game nowadays uses either DirectX (Microsoft's proprietary API) or Vulkan for 3D graphics. 2D games use OpenGL and Vulkan. OpenGL and Vulkan are both open source and cross platform.

Windows supports everything, Linux everything except DirectX, and MacOS (for Apple Silicon devices) only supports Metal. You can still play OpenGL games on Intel-based Macs. Steam tells you which games won't work on recent Mac systems.

In order for a game to run on ARM Macs, it has to either be ported to Metal, or there needs to be a compatibility layer like Wine and Proton. However, neither of these two work, since Apple no longer supports OpenGL or Vulkan. Theoretically, it is possible for people to write a new compatibility layer, specifically for Metal. The problem is, nobody wants to, because it's a lot of work (as usual with development for Apple devices), and you never know when Apple may decide to drop support for some other libraries/APIs/drivers.

Additionally, Apple seems to be working on their own Metal translation layer. Leaks show impressive performance in Cyberpunk 2077. However, nobody knows what the availability will be like or when it releases.

In the case of Macs it's not an issue with the ARM architecture, but with Apple. Since they dropped support for some libraries a few years ago, new versions of wine (and proton) stopped working on Apple Silicon. That's the main and pretty much only reason why you can only play like 13 games on newer Macs.

As for Linux, ARM support is still in its early stages. From my experience it's not even ready for regular daily use. Might depend on the device though. M1 Macbooks run pretty good with Asahi.

That's a great question! I'll be happy to help you count the lights. I see five lights.

This symbolizes the fact that for the last five hundred years white people have been victims of genocide in South Africa.

Would you like to learn more?

Personally I've been in favor of heavily restricting or banning social media for anyone below 15 or 16 (or even 18, for that matter) for a long time. To me it looks like these platforms do almost nothing but harm, regardless of parental intervention, because the parents are often clueless as well.

However, YouTube is a major source of educational content, a lot of which can be legitimately useful for both school and private life. Same thing with Reddit, but not so much 'educational' as maybe informational. I'm not sure about straight up banning these two. Unlike social media (I wouldn't call YouTube or Reddit that), they actually serve some positive purposes.

In cases like these I think the best solution would be to find a middle ground, e.g., let children browse or watch, but not post. Or create sections for kids and actually put in the effort to moderate them, as opposed to YouTube Kids featuring multi-million view suggestive or straight up erotic videos, as well as scam and pornographic ads.