mrbigmouth502

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GNOME Disks is awesome. It’s the one GNOME app I use regularly, and it amazes me just how good it is given who develops it.

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I would possibly upvote this if it were just a GNOME customization guide, and if it didn’t try to insist that “GNOME is good, actually.”

TIL at least one German computer magazine still ships cover discs.

Title is clickbait. All that’s been confirmed so far is FRL.

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I think Mint should ditch Ubuntu and go all-in on LMDE.

If Mint ever releases a version that allows me to use KDE without installing any other DEs, or XFCE reaches the point where it has mature Wayland support, I may consider it. The Linux world is in dire need of a distro that’s basically “Kubuntu, but good”, IMO.

Mint has both Ubuntu-based and Debian-based editions. IMO, I don’t really see what benefit comes from using Ubuntu as a base, other than compatibility with PPAs or apps that expect Ubuntu-specific versions of libraries.

“This release bumps the suggested alternatives for Windows apps by more than 40 percent to a total of 240 applications. This is one of Zorin OS’s niche features, recommending users tailored alternatives to sideloading their Windows executables.”

That’s a pretty far cry from what the title of the article suggests. Clickbait.

“The beauty of the AUR is that you stop waiting for developers to ‘support’ your OS. If the community wants it to work, it works. Period.”

I take issue with this statement. The AUR can be very useful, but the packages in it are maintained by volunteers, so the onus ultimately falls on those volunteers to make sure those packages keep functioning. It’s not uncommon for packages to fall out of date with upstream, and sometimes packages even end up being abandoned.

Arch is a fast-moving system, so packages for it need to be actively maintained to remain installable and functional. Flatpak packages are often volunteer efforts as well, but Flatpak at least allows packages to use specific versions of different libraries so that they can keep functioning.

I see. I’m generally a fan of Flatpak even though I still think it has some drawbacks. I think it’s good to have alternatives though, because I don’t want to be stuck in its ecosystem if the people behind it decide to take it in a stupid direction.

Yeah, if I were willing to comb through systemd’s source code and compile my own version, or add someone’s repo containing a modified version, assuming anyone even bothers to cover oldstable.

Right now the only Debian system I have is on Oldstable. If Debian decides to implement age verification/attestation, do you think it’s going to be backported to that version? 🤔

I mostly agree. I will say that I’m not a fan of Flatpak’s resource usage, since it uses a lot of storage and incurs a performance hit on low-end systems compared to native packages, but I like that Flatpak packages are almost guaranteed to “just work” even when native versions of those packages don’t.

What’s the TL;DR version of this?

This will be interesting as well. Your Linux desktop will be able to remember window positions and sizes across restarts. So if you are meticulous about an organized layout where the terminal is on the left and the browser is on the right, it will be the same even after your system restarts. Note that session survives temporary app closures, too.

It’s about freaking time.

EDIT: I just realized that KWin has already had this for a year. Then again, maybe this means it’ll actually get used now?

Even if their software stack isn’t totally FOSS, I’m still happy to see a potential challenger to Google and Apple in the smartphone space. Duopolies suck.

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