theshatterstone54 @ theshatterstone54 @feddit.uk

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I've said it before, I'll say it again. Snap slowdowns have been supposedly fixed, but the only snap that updated their packaging to apply the fix was Mozilla's Firefox (from what I've heard).

And there is a way to create a custom store other than Canonical's (but it's obscure and hidden, so I bet nobody would bother).

And snaps have better support for cli programs.

If snaps were as good as flatpaks (which I don't think they are yet), and they were not made by Canonical (got them some extra bad rep), they could have been the dominant packaging platform. The issue is that their reputation precedes them. I don't think Canonical can ever fix that.

TLDR: Snaps are not as bad as people make them out to be (anymore). It's just that their reputation precedes them, and some of the solutions are there but are not in use.

I've been trying the same with Bazzite and ublue. Also gave it 2 days, and then left it as well, right before doing that with NixOS.

Personally, I use cal all the time.

Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I'm going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for "Shiny thing sindrome", or the "grass is greener on the other side" stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I'd have known better.

Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.

If Harris wins, Trump loses. That much is certain. Can't say much about what will happen next, because there's no real way of knowing.

Also, is nobody going to mention how typically, the incumbent stays as the next candidate, while the contender from the last election is replaced, because they were clearly not good enough for a win?

While this time, It's the opposite: the last winner stepped down, the last loser is a candidate once more. Isn't that weird???

Zig is feasible for systems programming and some, (most notably, the Primeagen in one video) claim it should have gone into the kernel instead of Rust, but I don't know Zig so I don't feel qualified to comment beyond that.

No, why? It's not like it would hurt them that much. FINE THEM HARDER!!!!

You can probably build a server image. I used Bluebuild, I'd recommend you check them out

All those apps are tied to Plasma, pull Plasma as a dependency, and as such, are not what you'd want to use unless you want to keep 2 DEs around. Okular is an exception, but I know for a fact that Dolphin pulls all of Plasma with it. For an Ark alternative, just use xarchiver (contrary to the name, works perfectly on Wayland). Gwenview is just an image viewer. Use ristretto or something else. COSMIC comes with its own screenshot utility as Spectacle replacement (and COSMIC Screenshot is quite good in my experience). And just replace Dolphin with COSMIC files (for a simpler experience) or Thunar (for something more powerful) and you're good to go.

Edit: But I agree QT theming should be added. IIRC, they've talked to the Plasma team, but it was just too time consuming so they've put it of for now, but will have this done eventually. It's a promised feature, it just probably won't happen soon.

No Way! What??? How did they manage to...? Is the Issue Board on Github wrong? It shows tens of issues yet to fix???? Link: https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1

It's dnf5 time!

cries in still waiting for new Anaconda installer

(for those curious, I had to use Anaconda 8 times in the last 2 days, because I was setting up (more like trying and failing to set up) a custom ublue image).

A light grey flat cap

I'm hoping we get a persistent jailbreak for the PS4. The current one is not persistent, so I didn't bother. But I have a 10.50 FW one laying around, just in case.

And THAT is the attitude that causes Linux to still not be ready for many people.

Unfortunately, a lot of those are super popular and there are still gamers that want to switch to Linux but can't because of those games.

I've had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I'm sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven't explored the rest of its features.

A lot of examples people here are giving, are types of doublespeak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP07oyFTRXc

It's scary how our corporate overlords watch all the distopian films and are like: Let's turn that into a reality!

I so hope they get broken down, AND have to pay some outrageous fines before that, AND have to comply to some insane rules that restrict them hard. And then make the rules apply to all of Big Tech: Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, make them all suffer as they should, after the damage they've caused.