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ikidd , vor 10 Tagen

As to why distro maintainers go along, if you had to vet every time the network stack updated and make sure it doesn't break your custom solution to predictable naming, you'd probably just go along with it and let anyone that needed it devise and maintain their own solution. 99% of users won't worry about it.

ikidd , vor 20 Tagen

Gnome devs judge release success by the amount of features they managed to remove since last release and make it easier to maintain.

Eventually it'll be one button in the middle of the screen that turns it on and off.

ikidd , vor 20 Tagen

IDK, I've found Gnome unusable for a long time. I tried to make up for it with extensions for a while, but every release would unapologetically break something I found essential and the extension devs would give up trying to keep them going.

I understand that eventually they got better about dropping breaking changes without warning, because extension devs were leaving in droves, but at that point KDE got good again with Plasma, and I've never looked back.

Gnome has their vision to be a completely hands off, dumbed-down, unbreakable DE for the lowest common denominator. I guess judged by that light, it's a success. It's the default in a lot of distros because it's low maintenance for packaging and support. Frankly, I think it's a major reason for the slow speed of Linux desktop uptake, but what do I know.

ikidd , vor 20 Tagen

Memes are srs bidness.

ikidd , vor 26 Tagen

Yah, the pervasive surveillance should help immensely and totally not be used against the people.

ikidd , vor 25 Tagen

SaaS

owned

Pick one.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

93% of paint splatters are valid Perl code

ikidd , vor einem Monat

Also: -ova

ikidd , vor einem Monat

Might explain the hysterics.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

Jesus, I don't miss that shit. Now, it has to be something way the hell out in left field to not be picked up and installed silently. linux-firmware ftw

ikidd , vor einem Monat

It was the SSD, just sayin.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

I've used it about as long, and I've never seen it as easy to maintain as the AIO container strategy they're on now. It's effortless, and after years of failed updates and rolling shit back via occ, it's night and day. Even NCPi wasn't as bulletproof.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

Just use the docker AIO image.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

Just use the AIO docker image.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

This one? It was only started a couple years ago, I'm not even sure there's been multiple major version changes since it was put out and generally available.

ikidd , vor einem Monat

Thanks for listening to my TedX talk, which I paid to present.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Since KDE changed to dbl-click by default, the only thing I change is Numlock on boot. 10 seconds to fix, and I know it'll stay changed because KDE is allergic to removing user settings.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Look, we knew Fedora wasn't going to drop Gnome. Gnome is almost entirely a Redhat project, it's there for the paying corporate market so it doesn't confuse the drones by offering "choices", and Fedora is the proving ground of any changes that might affect said drones. I can't even argue with the logic.

Lots of Plasma-Fedora distros out there, like the spin and Nobara/bazzite that frankly are better starting places for most power users anyway, since you don't have to get around the repo/codec issues yourself.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Yah, that's what I meant by "the spin". Can't say I've used it recently, and I imagine it has the same lack of non-free repos as the parent, so the others are less trouble and work fine. Heck, Nobara's had V6 included for a few weeks now.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

They forgot the halo.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

So, here's a thought. Instead of removing customization, people just, you know, not customize things. It's like going into the Settings page, except instead of doing that, you don't do that.

Problem solved.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

porting Firefox directly to Wayland

I'm trying to understand what that even means.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

I would posit to you that it is, in fact, the perfect amount of complicated. If I want to change something, I don't have to program and/or install an extension that will get blown up on the next release of the desktop environment because of the lack of fucks that Gnome gives for people that build extensions for it.

I will concede that it would nice to have dconf. But considering the amount of stuff that can be configured in stock Plasma, that might take a lot more than the 3 settings that Gnome allows you to change.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Here's my complete KDE post-install configuration procedure: go into Settings, search for "Numlock" and change it to "on at boot". It used to include changing Single Click - selects files, but that's the default now, as natural law would demand.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Windows 12 will run on Musk's Neauralink hardware, with direct connection to your pain centers for instant compliance with advertising directives.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

They're set up in Nobara by default, haven't had to use them yet but every once in a while I see them in the journalctl and get a warm feeling.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

I walked my 83 year old dad through a Linux Mint install on his laptop over the phone a few weeks ago when the Windows install shit the bed. All he needs is a browser, he's good now.

Get out of here with that "software engineering degree" BS.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

No, because like 99% of people on this planet, he uses webmail, and I haven't seen audio fail out of the box on a Linux install in 15 years.

Roflmao lol omg bbq

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Get the maintainer to PR it to the linux-firmware team if its unique.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Can't tell if joking...

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

LMDE and don't look back.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

sudo is not installed. Check apt search sudo for possible sources.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

I had to convince my cousin I bought him a Mac, but I didn't want to support a Mac, so I tweaked KDE to look like OSX. He thought it was great how cheap he got a laptop, and was surprised Dell made Macs now. Had him fooled for about 2 years until he asked some kid to help him do something.

I just shrugged and asked him if he'd have known if he hadn't been told. Yah, cuz knows cows, not computers.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Really, no issues. Manjaro KDE. All he uses is a browser and WPS Office.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

I run Manjaro on about a half dozen systems for the last 5 or so years. I've had very few problems. I've used a lot of distros over the last 30 years, it's been the least maintenance.

There's a lot of unfounded Manjaro hate on this site, probably by people that have never used it and just parrot the Manjarno narrative. It's pretty sad to see how it gets maligned at every opportunity.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Windows.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

It's a tantrum. Just pat their head and tell them it'll be OK.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

I'm guessing you're responsible for the documentation, as well.

ikidd , vor 2 Monaten

Been watching this drama about HDR for a year now, and still can't be arsed to read up on what it is.