DefederateLemmyMl @ SpaceCadet @feddit.nl

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Tech hipsters be like: you had me at container!

Yeah I found that, but it seems that it can't arrange my desktops in a 3x2 grid. A 6x1 grid makes the desktop miniwindows a bit small.

In the meantime I found a few more nice ones ...

• Mouse cursor does not always obey the selected cursor theme, so depending on which window I hover over I get the white Breeze Light cursor or the black Adwaita cursor... Oddly enough, it's the new QT6 applications that get the Adwaita cursor. I couldn't replicate this on a "fresh" desktop with a clean user account, so it must be something in my existing settings that caused b0rkage in the 5 to 6 transition.
• Can't toggle mpv to fullscreen. The F key does nothing, neither does the --fullscreen switch.

I mean… Young people don’t know things yet… Isn’t that normal?

Depends on the context I guess. If this is a professional IT context in which the 25yo is expected to be proficient enough on a Linux system to edit a text file, not knowing that vim exists is kinda sad.

Here's an overview:

• SDDM crashed with some error about the theme: I haven't looked into it yet though. For the time being I disabled SDDM and reverted to console login and startx.
• All my kwin window rules stopped working. Apparently, the window title matching string now should include the window class (i.e. "urxvt URxvt" instead of just "urxvt"), so I had to redo all my window rules.
• ksysguard is gone, together with all my customized monitoring pages and its replacement plasma-systemmonitor is broken. It's complaining about missing sensors, and core dumps on some screens.
• Some of my custom keyboard shortcuts were not working anymore. Had to reconfigure them.
• Desktop overview is gone, replaced with something that has less functionality: I can move windows from the currently selected desktop to another one, but I can't drag windows between desktops.
• The Breeze theme now shows a very thick (and IMO ugly) outline by default. Thankfully you can tune or disable it in the settings.
• Floating taskbar by default is also not my thing, but easy enough to disable. New "edit mode" feels a bit janky though.
• When navigating between panes in System settings, it often shows the "apply settings" dialog even when no settings have been changed. Stop gaslighting me ksystemsettings, I know what I clicked.
• Resizing the window of some (but not all) applications now produces a kind of rubber banding effect: like the contents of the window get stretched and then snap back into place multiple times during the resize. It looks and feels really janky. It doesn't appear to affect QT and GTK applications, and Firefox isn't affected either. Applications that are affected: chrome/chromium, vscode, freetube, tigervnc, urxvt, xterm and all the x* utilties. Turning off compositing "fixes" it, but who wants to run a desktop without compositing nowadays?
• Screen locking is completely broken. When I press Meta+L, instead of simply showing me the lockscreen, the display turns off and starts to flicker on and off multiple times while showing just a black screen and a mouse cursor. After a while the lockscreen does appear, and I can type my password to unlock but instead of showing me my desktop it dumps me back to a black screen with a mouse cursor. After a while, if I'm lucky, the desktop reappears. One time my entire system froze and rebooted (!) before I got my desktop back, and I lost my unsaved work. I disabled automatic desktop locking for the time being, and am fighting against my muscle memory to press Meta+L whenever I leave my desk.

Especially the last two are bothering me.

No. They closed their sources to subscribers, which in itself would be fine, but the terms of service contain a clause forbidding redistribution of the sources by subscribers, at the penalty of termination of the agreement.

Smart. I wish I hadn't updated. It kinda caught me by surprise and I'm experiencing a lot of issues.

Hah, yeah. Most of my piracy nowadays is digging up old gems from the past.

Lots of small but annoying issues here. Nothing that really makes my desktop unusable, but hunting down plasma settings was not how I imagined spending my evening. So far not too impressed...

I gotta say, it's working. I pirate a lot less than a few years ago. Not because I'm afraid of getting sued, but because it's all shite not worth pirating nowadays.

Yeah I did that for a while with firefox.

And then firefox broke apulse again due some sandboxing permissions, and you had to override it with some about:config flag: security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist

So that worked for a while and then the audio in some proton games stopped working, and that's when I said fuck it and gave up. I'm only prepared to play the whack-a-mole game for so long, and if the solution to pulseaudio flakiness becomes even more alsa related flakiness, it's not worth it anymore.

It runs on top of ALSA, as far as I know.

Possibly hardware dependent?

I always had audio hardware that was well supported by ALSA, I never had any ALSA issues until applications stopped supporting it.

clients (apps) should continue to use the PulseAudio/JACK APIs because the PipeWire API is not designed for general use

Really? That is news to me ... explains why mpv's pipewire audio output was briefly broken a couple of months ago.

And rightly so. There's a reason we're migrating away from pulse to pipewire.

For the longest time the solution to any audio issues was "just uninstall PulseAudio, and use plain ALSA", and that usually worked. I held out for years and ran an ALSA only setup because it just worked and PulseAudio was always giving me one issue or another (audio lag, crackling, unexplained muting), until some applications started to drop ALSA support.

Then Pipewire came along, and so far it has been rock solid for me.

No it does not. Unless it tasted like shit to begin with.

Oh right, so the same Axe as I had in mind then. Yeah, none of them smell good.

Do you have a link to such an Axe "deodorant+perfume" combo? Because I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

It might be a cultural thing then

I doubt it. I live in Belgium too.

I do agree with you that Axe is vile, and I use a lightly scented deodorant of a different brand myself ... but this notion that wearing an actual perfume every day is the norm for adult men is frankly ridiculous.

lazy men who don’t want to bother with a separate perfume and have a distinct lack in taste, but it’s not the norm for anyone over the age of 16.

What the actual fuck?

I am 48 and don't know a single man who wears perfume daily. For me a fragrance is reserved for special occasions, like weddings or dates and to wear it to work would be considered quite unprofessional (like dressing up above your boss). But I guess we must all be lazy and lacking your refined taste... yeah