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Are you talking about persistent "notifications" that stay in the notification list and can show for example media controls? I think for media players using certain (cross-desktop) APIs it can do that automatically, but other apps would need to have that feature added specifically as far as I'm aware.

I don't dislike GNOME and in isolation, it's probably more forward-thinking and sometimes even makes more sense than KDE. But the reality is that most applications don't specifically cater to GNOME, including the ones I've listed. Even Valve, which invests a lot into supporting Linux, doesn't specifically support GNOME with Steam. If you close all Steam windows, Steam is apparently gone (but it's obviously still running). I'm not even sure if it still shows up in the "dock" as running that way?

I think GNOME's philosophy of not adding every feature anybody could want to have is good. They are clearly focused on their vision and leave the rest to extensions via an API that breaks compatibility rather often, but is otherwise very extensive.

But my point still stands: for a beginner coming from Windows - which is what I assume where most Linux beginners come from - KDE feels more at home, matching pretty much everything Windows Explorer (or whatever you want to call that desktop environment) does: there is a task bar that by default pretty much behaves like the Windows taskbar, the tray icons area works in much the same way, you can minimize windows, the start menu offers search and a list of applications etc. What you already know from Windows will get you quite far in KDE. It then adds a ton of configurable functionality on top and that's where it gets more complicated, but most users (especially beginners) won't even want to fiddle around with this stuff.

If we're talking about a beginner as being someone who is new to computing in general: well, take your pick.

My point being that KDE doesn't need these extensions for what one might (as a beginner coming from Windows) consider essential functionality. I don't even use any non-preinstalled/third-party KDE extensions but I am using an extension for tray icons whenever I use GNOME, because it's just a fact of life for me that I use applications that make use of a tray icon where I don't want to lose the functionality. It's not about "GNOME extensions break while KDE extensions don't", it's just more likely that a beginner would want to use extensions with GNOME and is probably less likely to want/need them with KDE. Context matters here :)

I also never said that GNOME is worse, just that KDE is probably better for beginners because the default out-of-the-box configuration is more feature complete when you expect certain features Windows has - which, like it or not, is where most beginners are coming from.

From what's known most of the attack vectors involve brute forcing the passcode and the vulnerabilities allow it without rate limiting/anti-replay.

So you're at least much better off with a long alphanumeric passphrase.

Fedora is pretty much vanilla GNOME. And yes, pretty much all users install third party apps. Not everybody installs Steam of course, but let it be Teams or Zoom for meetings for example. I don't know anyone just using stock apps on their computer (or phone for that matter).

Okay but the comparison was about GNOME vs KDE, not "GNOME modified with 5 extensions and tweaks that may or may not break with the next major update".

Also, most users will want to install third party applications. Your average gamer will likely install Discord and Steam, both of them use a tray icon. And no, most gamers aren't very technical when it comes to their OS.

I get where you're coming from, but I disagree that an accusation that turns out to be nothing should be penalized. Multiple teams noticing the same (potential) breach of rules on another team's car would wait for each other to file a complaint so they don't risk their points. Some of these complaints also simply result in a "clarification" of the rules.

Certainly Plasma if you're coming from Windows, unless we're considering pre-customized GNOME variants like for example Ubuntu uses.

Sure, KDE can be more complex in terms of configuration and customizability, but the default configuration is already good for most users.

Beginners using vanilla GNOME will quickly miss features like a minimize button and certainly tray icons.

I'm not quite sure why people are still worried about the stability of btrfs when it has been rock solid for years. Synology has been using it for quite a while now in their NAS systems, they surely wouldn't if it'd mean a lot of customers were at risk of losing their data.

There are valid reasons not to be using btrfs (although I'd argue most ordinary use cases don't have a valid reason), but stability certainly isn't one of them, independent of the distribution used (unless it's ancient).

Tumbleweed people like me would say it's a great filesystem because it enables snapper to work effortlessly.

I don't know, Toto vs. Christian was proper trash talk.

Zak just seems like he's trying desperately to hurt Horner's feelings and every time it doesn't work, he thinks of something new to say that makes no sense.

I feel it's way too cocky without him backing his talk/position up with good results. Also I don't think it's very smart to shoot at Verstappen, he might want him in his team one day.

The longer this goes on, the more I think Sainz is vastly overestimating what his worth is to most teams.

Hardly exclusive to Red Bull to be fair. Teams will do anything they can to get an advantage. Every team does it.

I think it's fairly simple. They push the chips way too hard at factory settings (whether set by the motherboard manufacturer, or even Intel's 253 watts (?) PL1 and PL2 is completely crazy) and these high limits were clearly what they wanted reviewers to benchmark these chips on.

At these levels of power most chips degrade very quickly (in a matter of weeks or a few months) and so they eventually start producing errors.

It's horrible that Intel is waiting so long when they should cut their losses, recall and refund all 1(3/4)000K(F/S) CPUs and either release a fixed version under a new name that reviewers can re-benchmark or stop selling these SKUs altogether.

I highly, highly doubt they'll find a cheap fix that doesn't significantly degrade performance.

I feel like once a chip shows the symptoms, it has already degraded that much that a software fix won't help, it won't run stable even at conservative power/voltage limits at this point.

Let's see whether this fixes the lag and frame drops that I get since KDE 6.1 with a VRR dual monitor setup when watching full screen video and moving the mouse from/to the other display.

I assume this has something to do with explicit sync (as KDE 6.1 introduced support), but I'm not sure what part of the chain is at fault. I'm on a Radeon 7800 XT.

My comment was more about how SUSE benefits from openSUSE development (and vice-versa) and that Tumbleweed has a similar relationship to SLES as Fedora has to RHEL, as they are both upstream of their respective enterprise distributions.

Besides, people don't need SLES. Enterprises do because of the support they get. And I'd assume employees responsible for that kind of thing at such enterprises would know the difference.

And the Red Hat logo is literally a fedora hat.

If it's just a name change done well, I couldn't care less (although openSUSE is a very recognizable name and brand recognition would have to be reestablished). I just hope that this isn't the beginning of something worse.

Doesn't SUSE actively benefit from openSUSE development? I thought Tumbleweed and SLES had a similar relationship as Fedora and RHEL.

Link never skips leg day.

Username checks out.

True, especially since JIT is even forbidden outside the App Store via (EU) side loading.