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  • They are talking about the code sitting inside the flatpak I think. If a developer fails to continue updating the system libraries a flatpak contains, you retain old vulnerabilities you could have otherwise fixed with a sudo apt update && apt upgrade or a sudo pacman -Syu

  • KDE's "Discover Store" (gui package manager) also does as well, which is awesome. While I don't like the idea of packaging system libraries with software due to the fact that they can and will sit out of date and hold on to vulnerabilities, I do like what flatpak is trying to achieve and the fact that we have a very solid leader in the area, putting the closed-source proprietary Snaps system firmly in second place.

  • You haven't used LibreOffice's pivot tables have you?

  • It sounds opt-in.

  • I'm surprised they didn't go with an openfpga chiplet setup where multiple fpga chips work in concert with each other like how real hardware does.

  • You can put your own keys in on many motherboards using some of the command line EFI tools, but you would have to basically recompile everything from scratch using your keys to get them to run. I.e. might as well switch to gentoo at that point.

    On the other hand, Microsoft's keys are a common target and if the distro is partners with MS, they can have their packages signed with the MS keys. This is technically less secure as the key is widely shared and if it gets cracked somehow, anyone using it is compromised. But it's a "good enough" solution for many who care to use secureboot at all.

    Personally I just turn it off, and I haven't experienced any attacks on my machines over the last decade that would take advantage of something that low level. Then again, I'm very careful with what I download and who I open emails from, etc.

  • It's not even that, it's a data-harvesting engine disguised as a gamidied tool.

  • For now, they're also slowly weaning off of it.

  • As a multimonitor user with mixed properties, and an AMD user, Wayland has been nothing but a massive gain for me and continues to get better in equally massive strides on KDE (been using kwin-wayland for almost a full year as a daily driver now). It even improved the user experience on my surface pro that I'm running the surface-linux kernel on.

  • I second this, and guild wars 2.

  • Unironically this is the entire purpose of VRChat, and the devs have made sure it runs on SteamOS (and therefore Linux as a whole).

    You do not need a vr headset to play. If you don't have one already though, this game may convince you to get one eventually. SteamVR does work on Linux, and headsets like the Vive, Index, and BigScreen do/should also work (anything that is steamVR-native tends to "just work" on Linux).

  • Documentation is not a community though.

  • Blaming others for your own shortcomings in being able to pick up a language is the same kind of behavior as some kid on League blaming everyone else on his team except himself for failing a match.

    Stop letting a community dictate your use of effective tools, whether it be C++, rust, python, or air fryers.

  • One thing I've always wondered is why people keep parroting "eat the rich" and say they actually mean it when you ask, but not a single story about someone actually doing it comes up. When is someone going to actually follow through?

  • It would help if we started explaining that an "observer" in quantum mechanics is another singular quantum particle like an electron or a photon. To "observe" means to collide or entangle.

  • Have you actually installed chimera on the rog or are you just dredging up old linux problems that aren't true anymore like how Nvidia fanboys say AMD drivers don't work on Linux to this day despite AMD having higher compatibility?

  • XDG is a massively important component of any and almost every modern Linux desktop.