ratchet426 said: S.Peelman said: Why do people always want Linux on everything anyways. They don't. That's just the altruistic cover story. What they really want is a way to pirate games for the Switch.  The other favorite cover story for would-be pirates is "As a consumer I should be able to make an archival copy of my games to protect my legally purchased games/apps."  Same bulls**t, different twist.

Lol, yeah that's probably it.

ratchet426 said: S.Peelman said: Why do people always want Linux on everything anyways. They don't. That's just the altruistic cover story. What they really want is a way to pirate games for the Switch.  The other favorite cover story for would-be pirates is "As a consumer I should be able to make an archival copy of my games to protect my legally purchased games/apps."  Same bulls**t, different twist.

The mask comes off completely when pirates are able to talk amongst themselves without fear of ostracization.  For Nintendo's sake, I hope that this method is too cumbersome to use and that Nintendo can find a solution soon so that it doesn't affect them considerably.

Good job - though with so many mobile devices in the wild, emulation is ehhhhh... yeah. The dock is nice to have though.

The good thing is, with such a lackluster online infrastructure as of now, hacking it and losing online services (like one usually does with hacked systems), is not a problem.

S.Peelman said: Why do people always want Linux on everything anyways.

It's not so much about Linux itself. Linux is just proof of concept that you can run any software.

The hacking itself allows for broader usage of your device. For instance on the DS I used homebrew to add calendar, notepad and music player - things that Nintendo added for 3DS. You could add an Android-layer and get every Android app, as long as it doesn't use phone specific stuff. But internet is possible with the switch, so many useful apps could be ported.

Nope, that is the cover story of haters, that everyone is a pirate and everything revolves around pirating things. Open Source Software actually is based on the idea that sharing your work is no problem. You don't pirate by using Open Source Software.

So, two generic users without avatar but with similar generated usernames talk to each other about a phantasy of everything is about piracy... Bots for astroturfing?

Why?

I noticed that too

Yeah I remember when fail0verflow said the PS3 hack couldn't be patched. Didn't last long.

Oh c'mon, let's be real here: nobody is interested in putting Linux on a Switch. 99% of the excitement over fail0verflow's "accomplishment" is the idea that a  plethora of free, pirated games may soon be coming to Switch owners who are so inclined.

I'll concede that there may be a very (very) small percentage of people who are legitimately looking forward to watching a Grub boot screen on their Switch, but for the "masses" this development is all about FREE GAMEZ!!

(btw, I have long been a supporter of OSS - I've got Fedora 27 on my work PC  with LibreOffice and back in the day even donated a few $ to the Firefox 1.0 release )