It isn't equivelent in the sense that the progressive scanout on CRTs resulted in near-zero latency and with minimal image persistance, versus flat panels which are global refresh adding latency and worsening motion clarity. So it isn't really a "but", it's a "made even better by being rendered only one pixel/dot at a time".
Motion clarity yes, but it's zero latency in the least useful way possible, only true when you're rendering the top and bottom of the screen at different points in time. And scanout like that isn't unique to CRTs, many flat panels can do it too.
When rendering a full frame at once and then displaying it, a modern screen is not only able to be more consistent in timing, it might be able to display the full frame faster than a CRT. Let's say 60Hz, and the frame is rendered just in time to start displaying. A CRT will take 16 milliseconds to do scanout. But if you get a screen that supports Quick Frame Transport, it might send over the frame data in only 3 milliseconds, and have the entire thing displayed by millisecond 4.
If you install a distro that uses KDE Plasma, you're already most of the way there. Not just because of it's design similarities to Windows but it's the desktop environment that's been getting the most financial support lately and has seen the most rapid improvement.
I personally prefer it at this point. Dolphin blows away explorer, window management is more slick and more flexible out of the box and it also happens to be deeply customizable.
I'm in a few Linux communities and they have grown somewhat over the last couple years. There's definitely been a swell of users moving over, if not a wave.
You're fairly significantly downplaying their contributions. They have a substantial amount of FOSS developers under contract working on SDL, DXVK, VKD3D and there's over a dozen people on working on KDE on Valve's dime alone. Proton isn't a fork of Wine, it's a Codeweavers managed project funded by Valve that packages Wine, virtually everything useful ends up going upstream given Codeweavers are also the main contributors to Wine. AMDGPU, NVK, Valve funded. Valve have been funding FEX since it's conception.
That isn't even everything, just what I've been able to confirm either through interviews or conference talks where their involvement has come up. They've quietly been doing a lot for Linux.
The problem with 'well just don't buy it' is that in many product categories, enshittification has become so entrenched that there are no longer options to avoid it. The availablity of product features is driven by market forces, if it's no longer profitable to sell a TV that doesn't require online connectivity for the purposes of ads, then such TVs will no longer be sold.
Alternatives like using monitors designed for digital signage come with drawbacks. Expense, they don't have desirable features like VRR, HDR or high refresh rates, since they aren't needed for those use cases. Older TV models will break and supply will dry up.
In the long term, this problem, not just TVs but the commercial exploitation of user data across virtually all electronic devices sold, isn't something that can be solved with a boycott, or by consumers buying more selectively. The practice needs to be killed with legislation.
VRR is Variable refresh rates, so if there is nothing going on in the content, they can bring the refresh rate down and save processing, thermal issues and energy. If there is a lot going on(say a game), they can ramp the refresh rate back up super high.
There are a few different "standards" around VRR, not every device supports all of them.
Their explanation of the reason for VRR is bad. The primary reason people want it is gaming where the game is not locked to a specific frame rate. Without VRR, the timing of a frame being delivered isn't necessarily going to match when the display is expecting a new frame. This leads to one of two effects. Either the display is forced to hold an old frame for longer and pick up the new frame on the next refresh cycle, which creates stutter. Or the display switches which frame its using partway through the refresh cycle, which creates a visual tear in the image.
Not for long. Android phones (with Google Play Services) will soon require some degree of authentication to sideload applications, once that happens then those phones will only have the barest of features available without a Google account.
Being able to fork a project when management turns hostile is one of the most effective ways GPL software protects itself from enshittification and corporate sabotage. Source available does nothing to prevent this.
This essay is a classic example of poor critique of depictions of race and culture in media. The film depicts every male within it as a slimeball and it's core theme is about objectification. Projecting the intent and feelings of those characters, who are clearly and obviously depicted in a negative way, onto the author is ridiculous.
It largely stems from the reading that the ending being sympathetic to Caleb, which I imagine happened mostly from atrocious media literacy. Caleb wasn't the protagonist, Ava was.
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