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Meta, and threads, is just a pathetic attempt to retain the centralized control of customerpeopleuser account holder data, identity and advertising profile as we transition into web3. Don't be lazy. Take control of your own data and identity. These corporate assholes have proven beyond any doubt that they despise people and will abuse you, your rights and privacy without hesitation or remorse. Just quit those broken and failed centralized corporate web2 advertising platforms already.
It's a decent suggestion. Using multiple windows in a tile stack would be the way I'd do it, but it sounds like that probably won't be a valid suggestion. I don't think it's a such a great feature that I'd comply with DRM based web page tracking and ads for. For clarity, any site with Google's DRM will need to be seen with Chrome or you won't be able to use the site, period. You will be 100% tracked and served ads. They will know exactly who you are on any site. They will clutter your pages, tab stacked or otherwise. I don't believe Google when they say this for your safety and will stop ads. It will give them exclusive power to push ads and companies will pay them a premium to force ads in your pages. This isn't Google's engineers who are pushing this. It's Google corporate making it's engineers break the web for profit and ad dominance.
Losing the ability to block ads completely or have tab stacking - I know which way I'd go. But hey, you can't force people to do anything, and unlike Google I wouldn't, so I'll just leave it there.
I especially like the option to auto move full screen windows to their own workspace
That is a useful option. Some time ago I played with another extension which handled that and I liked the work flow. You could name the app in the Extensions app settings for it, and allocate a workspace number. Too bad it often broke and I got tired of that. If this were an option in COSMIC I'd use it for sure.
OK, glad you got a result. It is odd, but some dependency issues have been observed lately. I don't know why full-upgrade didn't handle that after running that sequence. Here's a little context;
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
the general settings for individual packages.
full-upgrade
full-upgrade performs the function of upgrade but may also remove
installed packages if that is required in order to resolve a
package conflict.
The technical answer is that COSMIC is a desktop environment, and like any other desktop environment you can install it on top any Linux distribution that supports it. Meaning it should be technically possible to install on an existing 22.04, or maybe 24.04 Pop!_OS. But here's the tricky bit, and nothing is concrete yet. COSMIC DE might be getting released on a new Pop-core which will not be what already exists. In that scenario a fresh installation would likely be necessary. So to answer your question - I'm not sure how that will roll out just now.
I will say this. After using and watching Pop!_OS development for five years now, whatever System76 release will be awesome. It simply has to be as they're a hardware sales company and need a stable, secure and functional OEM operating system.
If it is phased updates two weeks is not uncommon. In the meantime you can try to fix the packet manager and use full-upgrade which focuses on dependencies.
Most everything in Pop's repos that is able to be built for COSMIC works OK. The settings applet being the central hub is getting fleshed out with usable toggles and functionality on a steady basis. Did you have anything specific in mind?
It varies from annoyances to more serious. Theming is a common issue. The situation is improving all the the time. Here is System76's lead developer's answer. https://lemmy.world/comment/1068614
This is great news. A file manager and hybrid editor written in Rust by System76 sounds too good to be true. Add a Rust based simple music player and I'm in heaven.
Looking at the documentation for Pipewire it seems like it's a case of "work it out yourself". Getting this integrated/functional is no small task. Nice job!
Yes, I believe theming and color options are in the pipeline. I was aiming at showing how functional the desktop was already despite being pre-alpha. I love the little stack icons they've added though.
Pop!_OS being an OEM for System76 probably means they will definitely release with a file manager GUI, but I wouldn't care if it had none at all. You should be fine to swap out the default if what you want is a Flatpak though. Alternatives include any terminal TUI like Felix and any Rust apps developed with Iced or Slint, which I would be in favor of.
Both Nautilus and Felix currently work well in the pre-alpha COSMIC, but navigating in and working with the filesystem in terminal is a breeze when set up nicely. Bash is great, but I prefer Z shell (Zsh) with auto-suggestions, auto-completions, autojump and a stack of aliases and scripts.
Have you got "Show Window Titles" toggled off in Pop shell's settings? You can see in the extensions App. Or, try toggling off whatever you installed.
Having said, auto tiling is easy enough to learn. I use the desktop without any titlebars relying on keyboard shortcuts for all window management. It's a nicer workflow.
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This article neglects to point out that the initial join up number was a deceptive and manipulative corporate strategy which amounts to smoke and mirrors. 100 million people didn't join up for threads! Meta created a placeholder account for every Instagram account in existence. People were able to follow an account that the owner of never made or approved of. Then to top it off, Meta made it initially impossible to delete said placeholder unless you delete your whole Instagram. Nice retention strategy. Too bad it smells like a corporate dump on it's users. When it became possible for people to delete it without losing Instagram it halved overnight. But they got the big media headline, and that's all that matters right. Meta, and threads, is just a pathetic attempt to retain the centralized control of
customerpeopleuseraccount holder data, identity and advertising profile as we transition into web3. Don't be lazy. Take control of your own data and identity. These corporate assholes have proven beyond any doubt that they despise people and will abuse you, your rights and privacy without hesitation or remorse. Just quit those broken and failed centralized corporate web2 advertising platforms already.