KDE 6 FOR ARCH LINUX IS HEREEEEEEE
sorrybookbroke @ sorrybookbroke @sh.itjust.works Posts 18Comments 400Joined 2 yr. ago
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I wouldn't suggest arch unless you know it's issues. I love the distro, but I understand many might not.
It's the quickest rolling release for most things. When you update, things sometimes break, and break bad. Like the grub issue we all had where you restarted to get a "grub rescue" screen with no way to boot. Like the linux 5.17(I think?) Kernel that had some intel laptops backlights go flash from max to zero, possibly destroying the machine.
You'll also have some software or drivers with major bugs like the nvidia driver a while ago that stuck brightness at 100% (or 50, in my case) requiring a downgrade of both the kernal, and nvidia driver.
Arch is the first place where new software gets to meet a large userbase and their hardware. The first place it might interact with other new software.
Sometimes you need to manually intervene and change stuff, and this means keeping up with current arch events via their mailing list, lemmy, or reddit (reddit sadly is the safer bet)
If you're ok with this I'd highly reccomend arch if not only for the AUR. If not, PopOS and Fedora are also pretty sick and, there's also tumbleweed.
Edit: Please don't downvote OP. It's a good discussion and their opinions are well written
They'll do exactly what google did to XMPP, an alternate chat platform running in the same manner as mastadon and lemmy do. They federated, and since google had more people XMPP users found the majority of their contact lists were filled with google users. Most google based users had no idea what XMPP was.
They embraced it
Google changed the API without stating quite often, at first mildly but then drastically in ways that fundamentally altered the API. Other servers either bent the knee and did whatever google wanted or defederate.
They extended it
Meanwhile, when google changed their api XMPP users lost the majority of their contact list and the google user saw that their friend whose trying to get them to switch just kept disappearing, and lost their chat history. Why would they move away from their google service if XMPP was so shit? People moved away from XMPP too, of course they did. They couldn't talk to their contacts.
In the end, maintaining XMPP got insanely difficult so most servers shut down, and google shut down it'ss XMPP node
They extinguished it
Why would Meta do any different? I can't remember who said it, but that's the company where the quote "competition is for pussies" comes from
The decision to federated is the decision to allow them to hold a knife against our wrist. Sure, they could help out, or they could end the competition. This is suicide.
The joke is that the alarm failed to go off, or you failed to wake from it thus oversleeping.
I'm the same way. Had to wake up at five a month ago, and found myself up at 4:58.
The new version of plasma coming out on the 28th has this fixed on wayland. We're currently on rc2, but fill release will be soon. It may be a bit before your distro has it available however so you'll have to use a PPA on debian/ubuntu/etc., install manually once it's available, or compile from source if you'de like it now
Peoples arguments stem from her political career before VP specifically due to her being a cop, her strong support for stop and frisk, and some terrible policies which harmed the black community by propagating their mass incarceration along with poor standards of education and access to public services. To be clear though, still better than the guy who states he'll be a dictator for "a day" whose lawyer claimed in court he could have his political opposition killed and as long as he wasn't impeached, it'd be legal
They absolutely will be. I'll be streaming to youtube at the same time in order to keep the vod there as twitch seems to only keep it up for a week unless you're an affiliate or partner
I'm in the same boat myself, though I didn't get more than a few chapters in so it's likely a common trait. We'll be happy to have you
The best places I learned from were installing gentoo in a vm and separately linux from scratch for the more advanced stuff. Though I learn more from doing than reading personally
Oh wow! Now they'll have to make sure their shareholders are profiting and happy keeping them in mind for all decisions. No worries though, they gave 'us' first shot at it! So If some massive multimillion dollar company who's sole motivation is profit comes in and buys more than we could ever really it's our fault for being poor.
What a non-scummy way to announce a public offering. Stating that we, the good people, can give them more free money while they take upward of 5 years to deliver something you may not even find valuable at that time. Will we be able to upgrade our shares in four years in order to get the updated version by paying more under vague threats that we'll recieve nothing if we don't pay up? I wonder if it'll include a bunch of proprietary firmware and software when it releases even though we all payed for a fully FOSS product? When we try to sell the share will they say "sorry, we've updated our policy, you aren't allowed to get your money back"?
That'd be a great long term goal but I'd argue a focus on one to begin would be a better idea. If we go full out with many codebase to start we'll atomize quickly with what might already be a quite small group
You know what? I'd be up for it. Sounds like a cool idea and we might be able to contribute as a team where possible.
We should likely have a bi-weekly, monthly, or whatever voice call discussion on the code we've reviewed on mumble (or discord if more convinient)
That there be load bearing pornography
Not true, firstly 'framework' never tried Coreboot they have provided boards to coreboot devs however, who've had issues including accidentally bricking the board. New boards have been shipped, and the origional fixed. They haven't given up though completely and the work is still being done. There was a recent talk that had to be canceled due to the speaker getting sick on this subject. Work is likely still being done, but is slow, and will continue to be so.
Still though, there's no evidence that framework has ever had or ever will have the intention of including core-boot by default. They're simply supporting coreboot devs to make it compatable
The reasoning for why the others have it is likely due to system76 and nova customs using mostly generic parts like the shell and motherboard along with being around longer. It's great to support a company that's ensuring coreboot works on their system however and pushing towards a non-proprietary future
Sure do, though not for all the claims I'll make here as that was from me obsessively watching the purism forumns and reddit over the 5 or so years this was going on. They promised a phone which most people didn't get for five years. When it shipped the specs were not great especially for the already pricy cost they had it at. This, after quite heavily suggesting they were nearly good to go. When it came close to the end of waiting, they added a second option (no phones were in hands yet) to upgrade their order, at a cost, to skip the line and get it quicker. Suggesting that if it didn't sell the company couldn't ship the original either after taking money both from a crowdfunding campaign and their site. Though a few were eventually able to refund, they sneakily changed their policy to include "no refunds" when at time of purchase they stated clearly refunds would be available at request. There's also been an issue with their laptops which were advertised as fully FOSS, etirely non-proprietary before eventually shipping with some proprietary software. All around, their customer service is terrible and their responces to allagations and critisism has been childish threats and legal attacks. All around bad group.
here's some blog posts and an article:
https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1 (read all 3 parts)
https://anarc.at/blog/2020-07-13-not-recommending-purism/
Here's Luis Rossman (Not always correct on what he reports, but by my memory quite good here):
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk
Piped - https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s
Piped - https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s
If you're willing to import, tuxedo computers is another great choice. I can personally vouch for framework but I'd caution if you're looking for the 16, it'll be a bit before they're available. 13ish batches pre-ordered, with batch one shipping in a few weeks, it may take quite a bit to get. The 13 though is in stock and shouldn't take too long to recieve
Edit: oh sorry, 13 inch is your preference. I'd strongly vouch for framework. I'd also say stay away from purism due to their scummy history on the phone if you care about that.
If you like youtube, the linux cast is a great option. For news though, the linux experiment can't be beat. You'll learn more as you go along and always know you can ask questions if you have them