Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. This is why I'm actually strongly in favor of the Hot Potato License: you may do whatever you wish with this software, so long as you update the contact information if you make any changes.
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  2. For those that, like me, didn't know, NVD is the US National Vulnerabilities Database and is part of our National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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  3. Honestly, one-way covenants are pretty goated—"if you submit a PR or a bug report to us, you can expect us to treat you in this way, and we expect zero reciprocity" is refreshingly mature.
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  4. I've seen so many comments from people saying, "That's it, I'm switching to Linux." I hope even a tenth of them do and that they don't choose something dumb like Arch, Nix or Holo for their first distro—we veteran members of Club 🐧 owe it to these newbies to suggest Mint, Pop or Nobara as Baby's First GNU. Don't worry—the true neckbeards among them will find their way out of the kiddie pool when they're ready.
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  5. 13:29 Counterpoint: the Mastodon devs successfully forced Truth Social to share their source code under the AGPL with only the threat of litigation.
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  6. The threat of MV3 is literally what motivated me to switch (back) to Firefox, after I was literally one of the first adopters of Chrome back in 2008.
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  7. "Smart golf balls" reminds me of that prank gift where the ball has a remote-controlled motor inside, so your dad slices a perfect drive, and you curveball it right into a tree.
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  8. Bear in mind that DARPA funds a lot of weird research that isn't directly—or solely—related to defense. Makes complete sense that they'd be interested in developing a high performance file system if for no reason more interesting than... the US military stores computer files.
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  9. Hot take: a man page is not a substitute for an indexable HTML site. There are so many autodocs tools, there's really no excuse. Fwiw, the reverse is true as well—just because the docs are online doesn't mean your tool shouldn't have a help CLI entrypoint.
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  10. Such a dumb mistake. Who could possibly think that package signing has anything to do with anti-cheat? It's obviously about combatting Steam Deck delivery thefts. 😉
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  11. As a federal employee, this was your hardest troll I've ever clicked on.
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  12. 12:58 is kind of hitting the nail on the head—if GTK5 doesn't support an app developer's target environment, then they won't update to GTK5. If GIMP is still using GTK2 after 20 years, our grandkids will still be using something written using GTK4.
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  13. "GNOME used to stand for something!" "I know, the project has really compromised its principles." "No, I mean the name had meaning!" "Yeah, and now it's just a shell of its former greatness." "You're not listening. These days GNOME just stands for GNOME." "I know! They're just in it for themselves."
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  14. This is incredibly validating to read. Today is the last day of six months of unemployment. Between job hunting I spent most of my time writing my own FOSS projects. I justified it as keeping my skills sharp, learning new tools and paradigms, and building a public portfolio, but mainly if was because I needed to write code. Thanks for sharing, Brodie!
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  15. The Steam Deck was my first computer that had a non-"this incident will be reported", and I thought it was so smart of Valve not to scare the pants off of 1MM+ Linux n00bs. Only found out later that it was changed way, way upstream.
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  16. I get that it's not exactly a coincidence but it's still shocking to see all these companies suddenly competing to be the absolute worst. Suddenly, the Ubuntu Pro motd ads are looking a lot more palatable... 🤢
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  17. I think I have an explanation for why "RF Burns" asks this question once per year and doesn't respond to questions—it's those rascally students keeping the meme alive as a class prank and rite of passage.
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  18. Can confirm you are the only person talking about XWayland rootfull. It is literally how I discovered this channel.
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  19. I'm a simple man. I don't need my terminal emulator to be fast or hyper-customizable. But if your terminal is dropping frames, you're doing something terribly wrong. I use the elementaryOS terminal, btw. Even / especially on Arch.
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  20. Yep. And the people who know enough to disable the ads are the exact same people who would never click an ad for whatever sketchy product is paying for that placement in the first place, so from Microsol's POV, it's literally nothing lost.
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  21. He hated it so much he had to violently purge his system.
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  22. Fwiw, Brodie, I do find COSMIC daily-driveable and am finding fewer and fewer reasons I need to hop over to my X11 fallback. I happen to really like the design language and find COSMIC's UX to be extremely intuitive (as someone who never found a good multi-monitor tiling flow with sway or Hyprland). Anyway, I should hope Vaxry isn't madly in love with COSMIC—if he were, what would motivate him to continue to work on Hyprland?—but writing a whole blog post to 💩 on the project is just weird. At the end of the day, it's a free internet, and the Wayland ecosystem is net-net better off with Vaxry doing his own thing in his own corner, so I wish him the best.
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  23. Valve—and specifically GabeN—see the XBox Store as their #1 existential threat. If Microsol decides to pull a Cupertino and limit certain capabilites to their "software partners," Steam is hosed. Sinking all this investment into Linux is their escape valve 🥁. Of course, them deciding to open source their secret sauce is what makes them the 🐐.
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  24. In our defense, we developed a strong passion for bicycles and bicycle storage.
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  25. Wow, that certainly is-odd... Hopefully nothing critical is actually using these packages—seems like a great way for someone to get even
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  26. PS/2 users: "My my my, how the turns have tabled." (just make sure your mobo has a real PS/2 port and not a hidden USB adapter)
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  27. This is a great explainer. You can really tell that POSIX' privilege model comes from the mainframe space where you had a ton of users with varying degrees of ownership / trustworthiness all sharing one giant machine of vacuum tubes and mechanisms that went "bing." I kinda like that it's taking this new form of properly keeping daemons on short leashes.
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  28. As someone who'e been trying to get people around me to drop support for 3.7 and the other EOL versions, this is pure violence.
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  29. Funnily enough, of my first full system lockups on COSMIC was because of a memory leak... in IntelliJ from trying to open three projects at once. 😂 All the Rust in the world can't save Java from Java.
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  30. EVE Online players: "Wanna compare Excel macros?"
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  31. Just finished my systems audit. As expected, half (Debian, elementary and SteamOS) were using an old xz (5.2), and the other half are Arch, which don't build from source tars. Looks like very few real-world systems were actually compromised, thanks to how quickly this was caught. Thanks for covering this, Brodie!
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  32. I'll never forget the xkcd line about Haskell—it's guaranteed to have no side-effects because no one will ever run it. 🤣
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  33. ​ @mjdxp5688 That's the optimum in my book—GNOME is bad, GTK is bae.
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  34. Can't believe for the whiteboard you didn't write: "WINE 10 X11 SHELVED"
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  35. I'm pretty sure his April Fools video gave at least three "X12" developers fatal aneurisms.
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  36. The thing to remember here is that COSMIC is meant to be a lot more newbie-friendly and batteries-included than KDE (and certainly Hyprland/Sway). As such, I'm fine with them being opinionated even if I don't always agree with those opinions. That said: I hope that the smithay compositor supports everything you're noting and that eventually we get a "COSMIC Tweaks" application that lets advanced users customize these behaviors.
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  37. Blood doesn't rust because the iron in hemoglobin is already oxidized.
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  38. Fun fact: AMD's XDNA "NPUs" are (most likely) Xilinx FPGAs, which, if we ever get a Linux SDK, will make those chips incredible for retro console gaming.
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  39. While I have been thoroughly impressed by the M1 macbooks (and have felt strongly that the bloated macOS is what's holding it back), the fact remains that macs—laptop and desktop—are NUSPIs¹ to a degree that even Dell and Lenovo could scarcely dream of. Guarantee that if your screen goes bad or your touchpad disconnects, Apple will refuse to touch it if they turn it on and see a KDE splash screen. ¹No User Serviceable Parts Inside
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  40. It would be cool if there were casual users doing The Linux Challenge. Like, imagine System76 mailing out fully loaded Thelio desktops to a bunch of content creators and streaming influencers. That would be huge.
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  41. We thought the Primagen interview was a big deal. Imagine if Brodie got to talk with Rossmann for two hours!
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  42. I read that the creator of of Xvi had switched to vim years ago. No greater praise for a project than your rival switching to using your software. ESC+:q, Bram. You will be missed.
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  43. Vaxry's "normies don't care about tiling" line reeks of gatekeeping, and it's also patently false. I love tiling, but I don't know enough about what I love about it to properly write a good config for every system (Hyprland on the Steam Deck is 🐐ed, but I never got a good flow on a desktop). tl;dr—there's a clear niche for an opinionated tiler, and System76 is filling it.
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  44. There's an episode of The IT Crowd where our heroes accidentally get trapped next to a bomb-diffusing robot, which locks up, leading to the following interaction: IT worker: "What operating system is it running?" Police officer: "Vista!" IT worker: "I'm going to die!"
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  45. In this case, it's more like: "We used to slap a body kit and a new badge on a Nissan Sentra, but now we want to build our own car. "Building a car from scratch is hard, so instead we found this woman building the Planet Express Ship and brought her on board. "Sure, our users don't need to visit The Moon or Atlantis Atlanta, but aside from the clingy, possessive alcoholic autopilot, it's actually a really good basis for a daily driver."
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  46. ​ @systemchris Damn, I just started learning Rust. Maybe if I just grow my neckbeard out a little thicker people will just assume it's a fursuit?
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  47. It'll be interesting to see if they get "Sherlocked" the same way the gigachads at CodeWeavers got shafted when Apple: 1. took CW's open source work on WINE 2. rolled out an extremely lazy (but officially supported) DX-to-Metal translation layer 3. And made CodeWeavers' product in that space obsolete overnight.
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  48. elementaryOS Stan here. Pantheon is the definition of a DE that does its job and gets out of your way. It's for people who loved OSX but think macOS is waay too busy. The main problem with it right now is that the development team is tiny, and they're rebuilding the DE from the ground-up to work with Wayland, so the current stable version is still based on Ubuntu 22.04, while the Arch packages break fairly often. That said: elementaryOS 8 is nearing the finish line, and I'm pretty psyched to see how it compares to COSMIC Alpha.
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  49. On the one hand, this seems like a Brodie troll, and that popping is a pretty easy effect to add. On the other, Kdenlive just did this to one of my videos for zero reason (the source audio was fine), and the popping was still there on a re-render, so 🤷‍♂️
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  50. Tomorrow's news: "50k Linux nerds across the world were found dead of alcohol poisoning. Security researchers say to expect major problems across the IT space, and three major waifu body pillow manufacturers have already announced layoffs due to a loss to their core customer base."
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  51. ​ @Jossandoval It's like the most requested feature on their forums.
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  52. This is one area where RedHat (and Canonical) need to step up. Can't sell your software to corporations and governments with disability protections if your software doesn't have basic accessibility.
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  53. ​ @vidal9747 I think it was LIGO that could detect when someone was microwaving popcorn halfway across campus.
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  54. Guy mostly works on Postgres. Compared to DB vulnerabilities, running point on this probably didn't even raise his blood pressure.
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  55. ​ @caron27 The reason to pay for RHEL was support--if you needed a mainframe set up to do a certain thing, they'd deploy and manage the solution for you so that you weren't utterly at the mercy of the weirdo in sub-basement six who built and maintains a custom stack that nobody understands and that breaks every time they go on vacation. What IBM's reacting to now is that companies aren't using mainframes any more--they're putting everything on VPCs and abstracting their code into microprocesses running in containers that don't care if they're running on RHEL, Ubuntu or Biebian. In that world, the people you're paying for support are AWS or Azure, not RedHat. This is a last, desperate grasp for profitability from RedHat, and all it's going to do is hasten their demise at the hands of their parent company.
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  56. I unsubscribed from the LTT main channel after the waterblock thing and from everything featuring Linus after their response to GN. The two channels I still watched were GameLinked and TechLinked, not just for Jeff Geerling's son, but more for Jakob and Jessica, the two best writers they ever had. Had. Because they were laid off (along with Horst of MacAddress) a week after Linus talked on the WAN show about how LMG was doing record numbers. Linus is a garbage human being, and that whole company is a rotting fish. They can't fall into irrelevance soon enough.
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  57. So wait, this whole time has lacros essentially been, "Yo dawg, I heard you liked Chrome. So now you can run Chrome in your Chrome on your Chromebook (and if that's not enough Chrome, you've got a second Chrome so you can keep Chroming)"?
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  58. First Reiser, next the Decade of 2.6. Brodie is taking me—and, I suspect, a large portion of his subscribers—on one heck of a trip down memory lane.
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  59. ​ @NormTurtle 0:48 — the SQLite development team are explicitly saying this is not a "code of conduct" but merely a statement of their own principles. They're not requiring anyone to abide by these "rules," they're just promising to abide by them, themselves.
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  60. ​​ @jirikral1052 Yes. That's why the "this isn't open source!" guy is a doofus.
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  61.  @VaDR3d  I wish! My dating prospects would be considerably improved.
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  62. 1. That new logo slaps—the devs should just embrace it. 2. IMO if you're really wanting to fight Google's web dominance, use Firefox or another non-V8-powered browser so Google doesn't have so much power to dictate web standards. 3. Iceweasel memories ♥
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  63. As I understand it, "fairly good" in Aussie is "incredible" in Amercian English. That is, a step above "not bad" and just a shade below "Vegemite-grade."
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  64. I'm frankly shocked that Adobe hasn't gone browser/cloud only by now.
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  65. ​ @AClockworkHellcat That works. Verified / unverified is fine too. The issue I have is solely with the scare warning about the potential for malware—not because unverified packages can't contain malware, but because verified ones can as well.
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  66. They're already shielded—pretty much all FOSS licenses contain an "as-is" disclaimer disavowing all warranty and responsibility for their use. If anything, marking certain packages as "safe" opens them up to legal risk.
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  67. Fun fact: your original video on rootfull XWayland is what brought me to your channel (not many resources on the subject). I was trying to run Pantheon (Gala) on the Steam Deck in Gaming Mode. Never got it working (ended up settling for sway), but it was quite a brainfudge trying to make sense of the stack, and your video helped me more than any other resource.
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  68. Damn, you got me with the clickbait thumbnail, but I stayed for the really informative update. RIP Bram. Your legacy is in good hands.
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  69. It's partially a reaction to the Rust fanbois—who, in my experience, are an entirely separate group from the folks who are actually proficient in Rust. It's a case of the 5% most obnoxious members of a group arguing with another group and not realizing that the only people arguing back are the 5% of that group.
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  70. Danielle Foré also announced a few days ago that elementaryOS 8 (due out in late 2024) will be Wayland. And critically, even if you don't care about Pantheon, that means they're working on a new dock.
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  71. Nice call-back to the last video.
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  72. Seconded. I've never been a fan of desktop search. I encode my "metadata" using folder names and file paths.
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  73. 2to3 is right there. Please, for the love of Guido...
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  74. I used Linux for 15 years without knowing more about POSIX than "it's non-Windows."
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  75. Modularity, bro. Imagine if a 9.8 Severity CVE was found in is-odd that, due to an integer overflow, would incorrectly return false if a sufficiently large odd number were provided. By having is-odd separated, users who only need to check for evenness are kept safe. Because internet: this is a joke based on Brodie's last video.
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  76. In the early days they definitely used a distinctive box that was covered with Portal memes. They switched to nondescript packaging after reports of unscrupulous delivery drivers stealing the devices.
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  77. Eh. The migration system could be a script that users run exactly once. I'm usually against breaking backwards compatibility, especially without a deprecation window, but when your design is this bad, it's fine (and it's even fine by semver if you save the change for a major release).
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  78. Good to see you mention Decky as an essential. CryoUtilities is the other one. I'm also hoping that you do a video exploring Nix on the Steam Deck. I have Hyprland as a non-Steam game, and Steam Input + Tiling WM = OP
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  79. Reminds me of Brodie's "bad software licenses" video. I wonder if there's one that says, "You may redistribute this software on the sole condition that you do so under proprietary and non-free terms, with no attribution to the original author or inclusion of this license."
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  80. When I clicked and when you said Intel, I thought this was going to be about Pathfinder, Intel's RISC-V project that only ever existed inside their "Simics" simulator (is that somehow distinct from an emulator?)
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  81. Thank you for the tireless work. I hope you have some inkling of how much joy you've provided to people using your WM. There are DEs that are inoffensive and just stay out of the way, but that's not Hyprland—Hyprland is positively a delight to use (for me, specifically on the Steam Deck). I'll try to contribute where I can—I've written C++ before, but I'll probably be more useful contributing to the documentation. Again, thank you so much for your hard work, and, more importantly, thank you for having the courage to speak up and ask for help when you felt the grind was getting to be too much.
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  82. The thing I love most about Brodie's videos is the comments from people like you, who are regularly making my Linux experience better. Your applet is awesome. Thank you for building it.
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  83. Yeah, Brodie didn't really acknowledge how much Hyprland emphasizes Discord as a support forum. While my personal take is that Discord is a garbage platform to use as a support forum, even Minecraft is using it as their official feedback "site" now, so I think I've lost that battle...
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  84. ​ @cameronbosch1213 But how much of RHEL is v3 as opposed to v2?
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  85. Yeah, if Google actually did anything with their user reporting data, the comments for this video wouldn't include an obvious pornbot.
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  86. ​ @eikotokura1117 As I understand it, they're kinda like berds but don't grow on trees.
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  87. Pat "80386" Gelsinger recently made some noise about how CUDA's proprietary API needed to die. My hope is that Intel starts contributing to ROCm and HIP and picking up AMD's slack when it comes to documentation and compatibility. Throwing some developers at ZLUDA wouldn't hurt, either.
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  88.  @reilandeubank  Idk, I feel like I'm seeing a significant rise of "Linux first, Mac second, Windows eventually" tools in the software development space. It's significantly easier to get PyTorch running on Linux. Same with anything that interfaces with a local webserver.
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  89. ​ @lua-nya It was good, though. It did its job and otherwise stayed out of the way. Especially coming off the heels of the bloatfest that was Vista. Then again, take what I say with a grain of salt—I was on Hardy Heron when it dropped and Trusy Tahr when it was discontinued, so I only ever used it in a VM.
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  90. Convicted in 2008? Yeah, I would have read about this on Ye Olde Slashdotte.
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  91. Allegedly SteamOS 3.5 adds support for installing software via nix. I'm eager to try that out and can totally see it changing my desktop approach.
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  92. Your criticisms were valid. You weren't pointing to open issues on their TODO—your focus was on wontfixes. The only thing I thought was premature was workspaces—it's clear that's something they're iterating on (case in my point: on my multimonitor tiling setup, moving a window to another workspace just got 2x harder in the latest alpha) and where I think we should let them cook for a bit longer.
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  93. Minecraft Java is de facto "source available," as Mojang even publishes their own de-obfuscators. I don't know if this has ever been legally codified, but their attitude has been: "You can alter the code" (through mods) "as long as you don't publish the original code, and as long as you don't sell your mods," and even that last bit hadn't been enforced, as a bunch of mods these days are locked down—either in early access or completely—behind Patreon paywalls.
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  94. See that? 👆 That's bait.
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  95. FYI, the Nix package has been working great for me on the Steam Deck. Thanks for providing that option—controller layout + Steam Input = a glorious Hyprland experience
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  96.  @BrodieRobertson  No, the internals are completely different, down to the fan orientation. GN actually shows side-by-side comparisons of each an every part—even if you don't know the first thing about soldering, it's striking how many fewer SMT components are on the new motherboard, for instance.
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  97. Python 3.12 will run 99% of code written for Python 3.4. They're extremely good about following semver and giving long deprecation windows.
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  98. As much as the headline is HDR, it's still wild to me that they made the Deck's APU more efficient given that the OG Deck is still the performance-per-Watt champion under 10W PPT.
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  99. Oh yeah? Well??? I really like your pfp! Did you draw it yourself? I hope you're having a lovely weekend! So there!
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  100. Uwuntu, Biebian and Red Star OS.
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  101. A big project should never have only one owner, though. GH is really good about managing repo rights, where there's a really good slope from "trusted contributor" all the way to "admin."
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  102. The thing is that Valve, moreso than even Canonical, benefit the most from widescale adoption—every copy of Steam running on a system is a built-in revenue stream, even from people like me who mostly plays flatpak games on his Steam Deck—and minimizing their dependence on Microsol's stack is a huge mitigation of an existential risk.
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  103. Yeah, and that choice should just be Mint. Don't think, don't argue—Mint should be Baby's First Linux for everyone coming from Windows.
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  104. I gotta say—making it your life's work to 🦆 with Canonical... while it wouldn't be my choice, I can think of worse windmills to tilt at.
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  105. Except that this vulnerability is older than a quarter of the people watching this video.
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  106. That's why Proton was a gamechanger—it flipped the script! Notoriously for Unity games, I find the Windows versions run better than the native Linux builds these days.
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  107. It's kinda hilarious how he originally had no intention of releasing it, which just made a whole bunch of people harass him and beg him to publish it.
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  108. Yeah, that's frustratingly irresponsible. No matter how much of an Arch fanboi someone is, there should be a consensus that recommendations for Baby's First Linux should be something: - stable - with batteries included - with a large userbase - with a "try-before-you-buy" LiveCD
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  109. Which version, though? The Linux kernel is v2, and as I understand it this sort of shenanigans is exactly why v3 was written.
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  110. I look forward to the upcoming LTC lunar local time, which factors in general relativity to account for the extra 56μs / Earth day.
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  111. A theme I've found—really since Alpha 1—is that each new COSMIC release is less stable, with more serious issues, while being more "feature complete." Glad to know it's not just me. Also: the new problems in Alpha 5 are just strange: - Minecraft (and only Minecraft?) will minimize itself when in full-screen and I move the cursor to my second display (to, say, start OBS). - Steam fully seizes my computer in that "not-a-Kernel Panic" state that Brodie covered a few Alphas ago.
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  112. I'm glad they finally pulled the plug. And I'm glad you're doing a video on it so I don't have to do my own research into which of the many forks, rewrites and alternatives to switch to.
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  113. I'd go a step further: unless you're a security dev, you shouldn't be writing parsers for user inputs, you should be installing a battle-hardened library to do it for you. Many languages even have this sort of stuff built-in, like Python's os.getpass() and urllib.parse(). Because (again, unless you do this for a living) there is an approximately 0⃣% chance that your code is going to do a better job at protecting you from attacks you haven't even thought of than something that hackers of all hats are devoting their careers to trying to exploit.
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  114. Garbage docs (and the fact that they seem to change their recommended CLI twice a year) is the reason I hesitate to recommend nix, even as a package manager, even though it's opened up so much for me on the Steam Deck.
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  115. Luckily, unlike Canonical's snap store, you're welcome to stand up your own repo and play by your own rules.
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  116. You post on an Alphabet-owned platform... Not calling you out for hypocrisy, it's just that Google going down will take a lot with it (which is why I wish [competitors]¹ all the best) ¹recently any time I include the name of any other streaming platform—and I mean ANY—in my YT comments, YT puts my account in timeout for a day for "spam."
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  117.  @helloimatapir  I think we're talking past each other—I'm also saying Mint is great for an out-of-the-box experience and that neckbeards will learn to distrohop on their own
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  118. God, I struggle enough compiling linux-vfio from the AUR on a 24-thread Ryzen¹. I can't imagine doing that for most packages every time I did an update. ¹TBF CPU utilization during the pkg-build is minimum, so it's quite possible that it's not using a parallelized build script 🤷‍♂️
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  119. Counterpoint: Wikipedia
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  120. My hottest "change my mind" take: the Windows 11 desktop environment is a blatant ripoff of Ubuntu 16.10 / Unity 8 + Mir.
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  121. This is full chaotic evil.
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  122. I think I posted this the last time Brodie covered Bottles, but a Hot Potato License is actually a pretty good idea: "The last person to edit this codebase takes full ownership and responsibility for the code. The new owner must remove the trademark and all bug reporting links and point them to their own trackers."
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  123.  @AlucardNoir  Sure, but since when is the truth an impediment to meming in the background (the joke is 9/10/11/12).
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  124. GJ mentioned. Inb4 this video gets delisted. 😂
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  125. This is what made Debian a nonstarter for me for a decade. But nowadays with flatpak, Nix and distrobox, you really can have a host system that is rock stable while running the latest & greatest on top. That said, Hyprland >0.32 installed via Nix on top of SteamOS isn't working on my system, seemingly due to mismatches between the compiled and present versions of MESA, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
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  126. This. When I got a Windows laptop for work, I spent more time in the terminal tweaking things and getting software running than I did outside. And it took me far more time and frustration than to set up my next work computer—a completely blank Framework that I loaded with elementaryOS.
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  127. I'd say this must be a copypasta, but from my experience y'all are allergic to having any reference material written down.
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  128. If nothing else, it's proper semver to save your breaking changes for the major version bump. If they want to throw up a bunch of deprecation warnings now, fine—never too early to give people a head's up.
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  129.  @kazzxtrismus  idk, every time I hear about a new feature being adding to macOS or Windows I'm always shocked like, "Wait what? That's been standard in most Linux distros for decades." The two most jarring ones I can remember are Windows adding tabs to file explorer and macOS adding better support for tiling.
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  130. ​ @ivanv754  Well but back then it was just "ARPA" (the added "D" stands for "Defense").
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  131. You sure this is a kernel issue and that you didn't just import antigravity in your Python REPL? Edit: saw the thing about "dead languages," but that's literally just FORTRAN, which is still actively used in numpy.
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  132. ​ @thingsiplay Hate to break it to you, but Magical Catgirl Adventure Society is probably going to be delayed to 2025. (please let this not be a real title)
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  133. ​ @zaneearldufour Bingo. Jeff Geerling has announced that he will no longer support RedHat in his purely volunteer open source projects because the number of installs you get with a free developer account isn't quite enough to be useful for contributing to Ansible
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  134. I love how, as Brodie states, there are only ten NixOS users, and they're all in this comments section. 😂 On a serious note—I really am thinking about switching as soon as your API stabilizes and your docs are updated.
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  135. I think about this issue constantly in every project I author—what is the risk/reward in adding another dependency? How difficult would it be to swap out or remove that dependency entirely? If it's the most efficient implementation of a mature compression protocol, I'm going to copy a static version of the source into my tree or advocate for it to get added to the stdlib. If it's one of the billion single-purpose libraries designed to wrap a simple API request, I'd rather rewrite it myself and know how it works. The only time I add an unpinned dependency is when the project has an exciting roadmap and a solid team behind it, and even then, you better bet I'm opening bug reports and writing PRs.
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  136. Haha yeah, Ubuntu literally did exactly this in 2012. Which makes a lot of sense, because Windows 11 has always felt like the Unity DE to me.
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  137. Terminal emulator slander would be fun. - kitty: Your GPU can't even run CS:GO smoothly, but you're darn well getting 240fps running fastfetch - xterm: your system has 256GB of RAM and 2TB of swap, and you need every last kibibyte - konsole / GNOME terminal: you just need some place to paste that command you found on reddit - powershell: you didn't understand the prompt
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  138. I can't think of a single decision Ubuntu has been on the right side of in the last decade (and I'm being charitable). They threw a lot of money into making Linux accessible to the mainstream—and they deserve credit for it—and their "our way or the highway" attitude is certainly less bad than the "Infinite bikeshedding" we've seen across Linux generally, but... they're kinda like the Tesla Cybertruck: 1. Generated a lot of hype about workhorse EVs 2. Made some godawful design decisions that everyone who had been around longer would have told them not to do 3. Constantly getting stuck in ditches (and forced to get a tow from Ford—Debian in this analogy) 4. Even with all the failures, still gets waay more attention than it should
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  139. ​​ @NeftisIsHere The more pressing issue with PolyMC (and what distinguishes it from Hyprland and Fabric, IMO) was that the lead dev hijacked the project and was threatening (or joking) to use the project to load malicious code. One of the booted developers had the app's MSA keys (and had them revoked), so the project was dead anyway until the new Poly team got their own.
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  140. Didn't you see? It allows you to set a blocklist—just make sure to be specific about which particular fetish sites it should know not to record, and it will happily comply... at least until the next Windows update.
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  141. Git is pretty intimidating, sure, but there are some excellent "for dummies" wrappers like gitless and gsb.
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  142. NPUs are hugely cool. They're either tensor cores capable of multiplying big matrices very quickly, or they're FPGAs—chips that can literally be reconfigured on the fly to optimize for a specific task or to match a given architecture (that's why you see them a ton in low-volume "emulation" boxes—because they're not actually emulating anything, they're running the original instruction set). It's the software that's the scam, not the hardware.
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  143. Obligatory shout-out for how incredible the Hyprland experience is on the Steam Deck (as a "non-Steam game" installed via Nix). Eager to see what customizations are now at my disposal via built-in plugin management.
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  144.  @The_Wandering_Nerd  The funny thing is that that's a myth—frogs on a pot of slowly boiling water will jump out!
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  145. Ah, Compiz memories...
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  146. ​ @Mwrp86 What you're describing is exactly what Apple did with the Game Porting Toolkit, sherlocking all the open source work CodeWeavers have been doing for Vulkan-to-Metal translation. If Valve was going to do similar, they would have done it by now. Instead, they've been shoveling money at CodeWeavers to continue their FOSS development efforts.
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  147. Every fresh system install, I sit on the gparted selector and ask, "Should I try something new?" and then end up selecting ext4 and moving on with my life. Btrfs snapshots sound interesting... but I actually understand how timeshift works over rsync.
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  148. That's the Arch advantage for you. The Gentoo person would have beat you, but today's the day she's rebuilding the kernel.
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  149. Yeah, local transformers are pretty fun to play with—if you have an AMD GPU, ROCm is entirely open source and enables you to spread your compute across CPU and GPU. I think everyone should try running an LLM or text-to-image model on their local computers, at least once, namely because it'll show people just how dumb these "intelligences" are. Don't get me wrong—I've gotten some absolutely trippy pictures out of SDXL, and Mistral is way more capable than I would expect a mere "7B" model to be... but these things aren't ready to take anyone's jobs any time soon.
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  150. To clarify, I discovered Brodie from his video "You Can Run a Full X11 Session in Wayland???" last year I've been a subscriber for about six months, lol.
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  151. It would have been really sus if Brodie had awarded himself a point for this and not the "no murder" one though...
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  152. The effect of competition. If your distro has ads, you're gonna hop to a different flavor.
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  153. I actually like GTK4 and am neutral about libadwaita (I prefer Granite), but not having any support for server-side decorations is a bold choice for any application that's supposed to feel "native."
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  154. Wasn't NT similar, with File Explorer, the control panel and pretty much every non-Office Microsol application running in a kiosk'd Internet Explorer?
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  155. 💯 I literally keep one (OSX) mac on hand just for the extremely rare case LibreOffice Draw, Inkscape and now Firefox can't handle a form.
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  156. Three weeks puts you in the range of having an affected version, but because PKGBUILD scripts clone the repos instead of downloading the source tars, you should be fine regardless.
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  157. I'm actually one of those people who pays for elementaryOS. I run it on three machines—including my work laptop—and I just wish I could donate my time to help with development as well. Brodie's point at the end of his Playtron video about FOSS not being free is a really good one.
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  158. This was an apology video. Brodie clearly didn't feel that he earned the right to rm rf
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  159. I use Cosmic purely as a tiling WM. I decided to try enabling it when Alpha 2 came out, and I 💯 see the appeal. Bottom line: it's a toggle—turn it on or don't.
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  160. Without the hybrid tiling I probably wouldn't bother with COSMIC and would have continued to wait for elementaryOS 8. But whereas I never could get the hang of Hyprland on the desktop (it's OP on the Steam Deck), COSMIC's UX is really easy to pick up.
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  161. Laurie Wired, a professional security researcher, was just talking about potentially building an LLM into a decompiler that would infer and suggest method names based on their function. I mostly think "AI" tools are garbage, but this idea is one I could 💯 get behind.
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  162. ​ @charles03_yt especially the C community.
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  163. elementary too—looks like they're accomplishing it mostly by upgrading their stack to GTK4 (as opposed to their Cairo fork) which has built-in support Wayland
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  164. Highly correlating this response with Wayland dominating X11 as "preferred session type."
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  165.  @cameronbosch1213  I think IBM's lawyers are arguing the other way around--if license-holders want to redis coreutils or any of the other GPLv3 bits, vaya con Dios but if anyone republishes the RHEL kernel, that's a permaban.
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  166.  @ImperiumLibertas  "a certain level of quality within a group?" Were talking about users of personal desktops, not some kind of trade association.
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  167. Yeah, Arch users want to tell everyone about how they climbed Everest (even though the real challenge is K2—aka Gentoo and LFS).
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  168. Well XWayland will always be a fallback, and virtualization the ultimate fallback.
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  169. I've had to tell YouTube to stop recommending his videos—actively trolling to drive engagement seems to be his MO these days.
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  170. God, baloo can be such a resource hog. I don't typically use KDE, but I remember digging into performance issues on my Steam Deck and asking myself, "What the grep is baloo and why is it taking up so many IOPS?"
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  171. I'm so excited for you and can't wait for you to really get into it. A suggestion? Don't start gaming on it until after you've done your software teardown, installed a system package manager and customized your device into the ultimate Linux cyberdeck. Because if you game on it first, you're going to end up like me—I fell so in love with the gaming experience that now I'm afraid to break anything 😂
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  172. I remember Upstart!! It's a huge reason I was happy to switch to systemd—because it couldn't be worse than Upstart!
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  173.  @Pelicanzzz  Even disregarding the other reply, they could always rename it WINJE (pronounced "whinge"): WINJE Is Not Just an Emulator
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  174. Hardy Heron was a damn good OS. IIRC I skipped Lucid and kept using Hardy until Precise Pangolin came out.
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  175. Honestly, while the KDE design is obviously wrong, it's always seemed weird to me that DEs share the same user-config space in the first place. Brodie-on-Plasma and Brodie-on-COSMIC should be treated as two different users—maybe even all the way to having two different home dirs. Bear in mind: I'm a weirdo with the "un-UNIX" philosophy that documents and data should go on entirely separate partitions from /home anyway.
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  176. I actually applaud Canonical* for aiming for a default installation that targets providing 90% of users with 90% of the software they need. IMO, the default suite should contain, beyond the base "server" installation of systemd, apt, snap—fine, because we're Canonical—etc - That flavor's desktop environment with its preferred settings configurator - Graphical "software store" - File browser - Terminal emulator - bash, Python, curl, wget, git, nano and vi[m] - graphical plaintext editor (gedit/kate) - Web browser - PDF reader and CUPS printer / scanner suite - Image viewer (*not* a photo "manager") - Simple music / video player - Font manager - LibreOffice because since the majority of people still don't export documents and slide decks to PDF, users still need a way to view (if not edit) those files without uploading them to GSuite. But that's probably it. No IDE for sure, no GIMP, no Shotwell, no iTunes clone, no Steam, WINE or Lutris, and no email client, because who the heck uses an email client in 2023?! *wow, I don't say that every day
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  177. Oh shoot! This exact same thing happened to me last week (COSMIC-on-Arch). Seemed like a KP, but I could ssh in. I Syu'd, and the issue didn't happen again. 🤷 As you say, Alpha problems.
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  178. The one game I bought that didn't work on launch day was fixed within 24 hours, and I was able to track the progress (and even test the Proton patch!) in an open source repo. That's a huge paradigm shift from the traditional model where your only avenue is to complain on forums and wait for an official statement.
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  179. Yeah, the best vts are essentially invisible—they just get out of the way and let you do your magic. Which is why it's really hard to say what you like in a terminal emulator and really jarring when you're using a bad one GNOME terminal one that you're not used to.
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  180. ​ @nature2508 And now there's Neoforge (although IIRC the Forge guy was just an 🍑 to everyone regardless of their gender identity).
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  181. As a professional data scientist, the first rule I learned developing on my company-issued mac was never use the system Python That was largely because of this dependency management shenanigans, but also because the macOS version of Python was extremely outdated at that time (tied to the fact that for corporate security reasons we were always 1-2 OS releases behind the latest from Cupertino). Honestly, the first thing I usually do on any system is install mambaforge and edit my bashrc to auto-activate the base environment. That's a habit I've had to unlearn with Arch given just how many build scripts in the AUR use the session's Python executable rather than explicitly specifying to use the system Python.
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  182. For sure. Once you go pac[man] it's really hard to go back[, man]
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  183. ​​ @cameronbosch1213 Yeah, but do you really need the latest VLC or Inkscape? Given that developers who don't release their own flatpaks tend not to like answering bug reports from people who use those flatpaks, I don't think this is actually the worst policy in the world. Edit: clarifying—preferring packages packaged by trusted users / OG maintainers is fine—conflating that with security is not
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  184.  @keit99  true, but: 1. I absolutely avoid Dependency Hell 2. Disk space and network speed increases have vastly outpaced increases in Linux framework installation footprints since 2008
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  185. My non-lawyer opinion is that that's where this is heading.
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  186. He literally can't! It's copyleft, and nothing anyone can do could change that! For example, there are arguments for why it would be better for Linux to be licensed under GPLv3 instead of v2. I think Linus is nominally against it, but he's even said it doesn't matter because he'd have to get approval from every single contributor or rewrite from scratch any code written by the hold-outs.
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  187. SteamOS (Holo) vs. Android is a great case study, because both are largely FOSS and designed for a specific purpose with optimizations for specific hardware. But whereas Google decided to reinvent the wheel and focus all open source development on AOSP, which they tightly controlled, Valve pumped money into existing community solutions like Wayland, WINE, dxvk and gamescope. I remember when Android hit the scene I was convinced that it would drive Linux adoption as people realized that there was life outside of Microsol. But outside of some extremely niche projects, doing Android things on a computer is either not possible or _just bad_. Meanwhile, I respond to 2-3 reddit posts a day from people who want the Steam Deck experience on their NUC or laptop and tell them, "Nono, put that HoloISO away and go download ChimeraOS which took all the best parts of SteamOS and put it in an operating system that will work for everyone."
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  188. As you shared a bit ago, vaxrys seems overworked. Maybe let a co-maintainer step up. I've heard good things about a dev named Jia Tan. But seriously: I really do think that appointing someone from the Hyprland team to serve as a designated liaison with the FDO sounds like the best solution for all involved.
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  189.  @donaldmickunas8552  Eh. Can a language be said to still be alive when its most awesome practitioner (Veronica Explains) has retired from developing on it? 😝
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  190. I do think we should cut him some slack and remember that this was his personal (if public) blog. He wasn't jumping into System76's forums or writing an editorial for The Register. Vaxry is someone to expends a lot of energy into areas that I don't think are productive. But it's his energy to expend.
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  191.  @BrodieRobertson  Ah, okay. I didn't realize that. Thanks.
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  192. Am I misremembering that 4.20 was an LTS? Edit: yes I am. 4.19 was LTS
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  193. I still don't get that choice—yeah, the assumption is that the majority of people using desktop mode will be Windows converts using a docked keyboard, but MATE is so much more touch-friendly, and the first-time launch lets you choose to style your desktop UI after "Redmond" (or "Cupertino")
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  194. I daily drive Arch with COSMIC, but mostly because I enjoy pain. My "default applications" are not respected; COSMIC Files sucks, but Nautilus (and a few other GTK applications) are completely nonresponsive under COSMIC; screen capture works, but only if I log out and then log back in; and then there are the memory leaks and the random crashes caused by windows entering and exiting fullscreen. Plenty I love about it—as I said, it's good enough for me to daily—but I wouldn't recommend it in this state to a normie.
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  195. The fact that everyone's jumping onto Wayland—even / especially stalwarts like Fedora—is extremely promising. These aren't just niche/expert distributions anymore. And since all this development is happening out in the open, it's not like these distros are going to ship in broken states—if Wayland hits a critical blocker, then we'll see people walk this back.
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  196.  @zeyadkenawi8268  Yes, but for Alma and Rocky, losing even a single component (especially when that component is as important as the kernel) makes their projects nonviable. I don't think having one part of your OS licensed under v3 automatically means your whole project must be licensed under v3.
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  197. Regarding the whiteboard: having gotten into programming long before I got into gaming or internet culture, I just assumed for years that git gud referred to some Graphical User Daemon for source control. 🤷‍♂️
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  198. I think it ships with a 30W charger, which is, frankly, the lowest wattage you'll see in a PD charger these days. Since it uses PD, it will slowly recharge even connected to a 5V/1A brick. But I would recommend a 45W charger (more is good if it has multiple ports, but the Deck won't draw more than 45W from the wall).
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  199. ​ @crsv7armhl ​The mental health of the developer is important, as evidenced by him having disappeared three months ago.
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  200. The only thing stopping me from installing COSMIC on my Steam Deck (via Nix) and my GPD Win 4 is lack of touchscreen support (so, like, lmk if that was added in Alpha 3).
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  201. I get AMD's logic here—these are going into laptops, and AFAICT nothing in the Ryzen or Radeon desktop 7000-series has these co-processors. These are not for general AI development but rather for some demoing some tricks that Microsol / OpenAI are spearheading.
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  202. Kind of a feature not a bug, IMO, as I'm of the belief that wipe-and-reloads are good for the soul. They also breed good practices like putting your OS files in a separate partition from your user configs, which should go in a separate partition from your actual data. Learned the hard way that borked upgrades happen, and they should never prevent you from getting access to your data.
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  203. All-things-Flatpak has really been a game-changer. Back when I started using Linux (2006), if I wanted GNOME Mahjongg and KDE Konquest, I'd have to install both frameworks and would end up with an extremely bloated desktop where the theming was just a mess—and that's assuming I even managed to avoid Dependency Hell.
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  204. The funny thing is that for open source software, those nerds are also the ones submitting PRs. I maintain a handful of Minecraft mods which, being Java, function identically on all operating systems. But half of my bug reports, 3/4 or my issue discussion and 100% of my outside contributions come from Team Penguin.
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  205. The fun part will be to see what the feds start doing for their own systems. As Brodie mentions, this kind of tracking is a nightmare for anyone who works on confidential (or in this case: classified) projects.
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  206. As my kid has been getting older and more independent, I'm tempted to try streaming. OBS has been working great (under COSMIC and Wayland!) for desktop recording, but I wonder how much lack of global hotkeys will make managing streamer-y things a nightmare. I guess I could ask Brodie!
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  207. He's egotistical, entitled and vindictive and immoral. He nearly ruined a startup by testing their waterblock on an incompatible GPU, complaining about how it didn't work, and then, when confronted, refused to retest or retract the video. He's a toxic boss who created a company with a toxic burnout culture, and while no allegations against him have ever stuck, there sure are a lot of "misunderstandings" between him and women in tech. He didn't lift a finger to out Honey (after being their #1 spokesperson), but he sure did make sure to warn all of his personal creator friends. Meanwhile, he's gone after GN and other outlets that have criticized him, claiming that their testing is inferior while his own videos are riddled with errors. Also: did you miss the part about firing his best staff after bragging about profits?
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  208.  @Koffiato  I hate to say it, but Konsole isn't bad. I got used to it on my Steam Deck, even going as far as adding a launcher for it from Gaming Mode. Still wish I could've gotten elementary terminal working, but I'd rather use Konsole than GNOME terminal or xterm.
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  209. I could be misremembering, but my recollection was that the whole Qt landscape was a giant mess ca 2008. Nokia had recently acquired Trolltech and was much more interested in pivoting the toolkit to support mobile. And while GTK was aggressively FOSS-first, with high-quality tools like Glade being GPL, Qt was at least toying with the idea of a "freemium" developer ecosystem. If my 15-year-old recollections are wrong, hopefully someone will correct me, but I distinctly remember consciously choosing to go the GTK+-2.0 route even though it made cross-platform development a bit jankier.
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  210. lol, so untrue. When I started on Linux back in '06, the number of GNOME games installed by default in Ubuntu sure beat the three that came with XP. And I know enough of the early history of computing to know how floppies and punch cards of the earliest games got circulated amongst UNIX mainframes.
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  211. They don't even have Emily Young anymore. My guess is that the person at the company with the most knowledge of desktop Linux at this point is Luke Lafalfa.
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  212. The contributors in this story all had a history of good contributions. It's also easy enough to look at someone's GH profile and make sure they have an established history. The risk of a project rotting due to lack of / high friction for code contributions is realistically much higher than the risk of someone being malicious.
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  213.  @DDracee  SteamOS does, but not desktop mode—that is a fully X11 desktop environment.
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  214. Part of it might be the frameworks. I haven't really played around with the SDKs since 2008, but what I remember learning Qt4 vs. GTK+-2.0 was that the APIs and (FOSS) tooling were significantly better on the GNU side (plus Qt was going through a bunch of acquisition drama that put its future in question).
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  215. ​ @TheFerdi265 This is wild. The Asahi team never fails to impress.
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  216. SQLDark(Lord)
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  217.  @Storya-tq5gy  Are the snapdragon laptops more repairable? And is it expected that they will be able to run Linux without an Asahi level of effort? (I don't know—I'm actually asking)
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  218. While it's not really the same, this reminds me of the case of Uzi Nissan, who fought the car company in court and won. Sadly, the 🐐died in 2020 and the landing page has been replaced (presumably his next of kin didn't want the smoke, though it's telling that they didn't hand over the domain).
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  219. What makes you think any anti-malware tool would have detected this when the distros' own build tools didn't?
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  220.  @MisakaMikotoDesu  I respectfully disagree, though I'm sure it's largely a matter of personal preference. To be clear, I've used OSX/macOS for work for about a decade. In my experience: tiling is clunky, notifications are cluttered; on first install the dock is disgustingly crowded; Finder is horrible, with "default applications" settings beyond non-intuitive. And while hardware is orthogonal to this conversation, I'm still incensed that we had seven whole years of "Pro" laptops without a dedicated escape key!!
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  221. I'm a vocal advocate of test-driven development, where you write tests before you write the implementation. I strongly believe in implementation-driven testing, were you add more tests based on concerns you have about your code's edge conditions. I firmly enforce that bugfix contributions must add additional tests that cover the issue. I evangelize meta-tests, because nothing is worse than having a blind spot caused by your tests not testing what you think they're testing. In short, my ideal codebase is 90% test, 10% implementation.
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  222. Compare with the large number of people clamoring for Valve to release SteamOS for generic hardware when ChimeraOS already exists it's clear that that OS was designed for one particular class of device. People really seem to gravitate towards software made mindfully by hardware makers (see also: Hackintoshes).
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  223. My advice: go look up some old Steam Hardware Surveys and look at what the most popular build was of 2018. Now look at how many AAA games have baseline system requirements greater than that. On the GPU side, it's a few AAA games from 2023 and practically nothing from earlier. On the CPU side, you could honestly still be fine with a chip from 2013. That is all to say: it is highly unlikely that the Steam Deck won't be able to keep up over the next five years of game development, and given AMD's track record—especially on Linux—we can realistically expect the existing hardware to perform better in 2028 than it does today.
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  224.  @robnobert  Oh, 💯 it was unfairly maligned. Part of the issue was that a lot of laptops that were sold as "Vista Ready" really weren't. But also: why should it be reasonable that every new version of an OS have higher and higher system requirements?
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  225. COSMIC Epoch has earned its spot as my Wayland DE of choice for the foreseeable. I'm 48 hours in on running it on Arch, and it's way more functional and stable than I was expecting for an alpha release, with better multi-monitor support than I have ever had on Linux. Feels like they learned a lot from Plasma 6 in terms of what not to do in terms of keeping things flexible for multiple workflows while not burying the user in layer upon layer of confusing config. I haven't tiled on my workstation since Windows 3.1, and so far I love COSMIC's flexible hybrid approach (complete with a dock applet that lets you swap settings and reminds you of the keyboard shortcuts). Pantheon will always be my bae, and Wayland-first elementary 8 should be out in the next few weeks, but I gotta be honest—if they don't adopt the COSMIC tiler, I'm not sure I'll be switching back. That said: it's pretty funny how bad some mainstream software (GIMP, JetBrains) still is on Wayland.
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  226. Honestly, those additional terms are awesome and should be more standard. If OBS had those terms, they wouldn't have had to deal with Fedora's BS.
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  227. And they're advertising HDR support on the Deck's new HDR LED panel. Which should make every Linux user excited.
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  228. Just go AGPL by default. Force companies to disclose that they're using your tool and share-alike all modifications and, arguably, all their strongly linked code.
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  229.  @autumnjeserich2689  Yeah, it might even be the default. But Hyprland is Wayland-only, so people enthusiastic about Hyprland will also be enthusiastic about Wayland.
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  230. Serious comment: I will die on the hill that CC-NC licenses are worse for Open Source than any of the licenses on this list. Joke comment: 4:24 SMDH discriminating against the fine software devs in the Small Magellanic Arm...
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  231. Or just as a really powerful adwaita alternative to GNOME terminal, which I've always disliked.
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  232. These pedantic responses ("technically correct--the best kind of correct") are legitimately and unironically the reason I love talking with fellow Linux nerds. ♥
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  233. ​​ @guss77 Gonna be honest—my comment was partially a troll to get a good list of VCS that might work better for my use-case. 🙃 Any you'd particularly recommend? My big pain-point right now with Git is how expensive pruning loose objects can get after squashing commits ("deleting" interim backups).
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  234. Desktop GNU/Linux¹ going mainstream is going to send the hardcore neckbeards scurrying. I mean—the rock-solid stability of Ubuntu² is what ended up pushing me to Arch³, so I include myself in this description. ¹read: not ChromeOS ²plus the difficulty of installing bleeding edge packages like the ROCm stack ³and what has me occasionally eyeing Nix
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  235. elementaryOS is still on track for elementary 8 to be Wayland-first. Dock is done (and has Wayland-friendly animations!) and pretty much the entire DE has been ported to GTK4. Their WM recently pulled a bunch of improvements from upstream mutter. Honestly, IBM pulling the rug out from under Xorg is proving to be a pretty enormous positive for the Linux ecosystem.
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  236. I'm curious what you mean by "strong gaming focus." Do you just mean, "comes pre-configured with Steam, ProtonGE, Lutris, Bottles, MangoHud, Gamescope, etc." do you mean, like, has an optimized kernel, or do you mean is essentially a FOSS console like SteamOS or Batocera?
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  237. Using Arch is like climbing Everest—not particularly hard, given how many guides are available, but you better bet everybody around you is going to be hearing for years about the fact that you did it.
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  238. I have the right to complain that you broke my workflow. You have the right to say you don't support my workflow--almost all projects are published under MIT, GPL or other licenses with explicit "no warranty" terms. That's totally fine and fair, though, because I further have the right to switch to something else, even if it's just a fork of your thing!
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  239. Another reason to dislike Mojo, lol (srsly, fam, just use numba)
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  240. Final warring—get your halberds and katanas ready.
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  241. If your concern is large corporations running off with your software, the solution isn't non-commercial clauses, it's copyleft. I've started licensing all my projects under AGPL, which is probably the most aggressive copyleft license, as it requires anyone using your code in a SaaS context to make the full source¹ available to all users of the service, but honestly I'd be fine going even harder and forcing companies to disclose not just the changes they made to my code but the configuration settings they used to execute it. Or add a requirement enforcing the full disclosure of any data collection. None of that would limit the freedoms of people and corporations to use and further develop my software, it would just prevent them from limiting the freedoms of their customers. ¹I'm actually not sure how far that extends—does it only apply if they modify my code? Does it apply to wrappers written around my code or portions of the application that call my code as a microservice?
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  242. 6.1 kernel while my Steam Deck is still on 5.13...
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  243. I decided to become a monthly sponsor of elementaryOS a few years ago and recently did the math—at this point I've paid about twice as much for my Linux distro as I would have for a full-price Windows Pro license. To be fair, I use elementary on two systems and their Pantheon DE on two others, so I'm still coming out ahead. 😅
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  244. This, so much. I love Granite (elementaryOS' GTK4 library) and really want to use it to make a graphical front-end for a Python library. But the Vala documentation is really outdated (and the development stack is really hard to set up on a non-Ubuntu distro), and the official GTK docs are barely useful for finding out what methods each widget exposes. So far the best path I've found is literally reverse-engineering existing applications that have widgets I want to adapt...
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  245. I'm primarily a Python programmer and, aside from some Arduino projects, haven't touched C since grad school. So yeah, I naïvely thought for a long time that "memory safe" meant that the linters were checking that memory was properly being freed.
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  246. It's called poisoning the well, duh. 🙃
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  247. The second I saw "$configPath" I facepalmed. I also immediately thought of the Steam issue and thought, "At least this poor dev is in good company."
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  248. Merry Xmas, Broidie. Hope Old Nick brought you some new gaming... paraphernalia. Let us know if you post a review of 13:28 anywhere. 😂
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  249.  @soulstenance  My ASUS TUF X570 Plus has one PS/2 port. And if I'm parsing this out out correctly, it is indeed registering as a PS/2 device.
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  250. They finally fixed vertical monitor screen capture, Brodie!! Edit: I see you covered that at 12:00, but I'm still really excited for both of us. Now if only screen capture worked on first login for me...
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  251. I really enjoyed that video you did a while back on all of the other limited-scope no-login accounts that exist on a modern Linux system. Those never have passwords, and I think of root in the same vein.
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  252. History lesson: before there were Chromebooks there were netbooks that were heavily advertised and shipped with a lightweight version of Ubuntu. Netbooks ended up failing once Ultrabooks hit the scene, since out of small, slow and cheap, people were willing to sacrifice (3) if it took (2) along with it.
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  253.  @NightDescendant  I'm demonstrating my ignorance here—and am glad to be learning. I thought Blender had workflows for parametric design. But then again I've heard of people using Blender as a nonlinear video editor. So if you and OC are saying that the Linux tools are nowhere near as suited for the job as AutoCAD and SolidWorks, I stand happily correctly!
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  254. Ugh. I hear what you're saying, and you're not wrong... But ugh. And fwiw, my reaction is kind of the point--very few of us are actually paid (and paid well) to work on Open Source. So as a developer working on something in his off-time, the thing I'm working on will be geared either: - towards making my life better (solving my very esoteric customer need) - towards playing with something shiny. Nobody--and I mean nobody--wants to subject themselves to work on a faster horse and deal with the 💩 that entails.
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  255. FYI, poetry and conda are both extremely mature solutions for this problem. You specify your development or execution environment with a TOML/YAML file and can create your virtual environment in a single command with a little more functionality than you get from pipx.
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  256. I disagree pretty strongly. I recommend elementaryOS, in spite of all your points about lack of documentation, because it doesn't need documentation—any guide written for Ubuntu, Debian or Mint will also apply to elementary. People like DT bad-mouth spins / flavors like elementary, Neptune, Ububtu Budgie, etc. because they're just other distros with some theming and configs. And, yes, that's the point. When the main thing standing in the way of someone adopting Linux is that the look and feel aren't to their liking, and there's a project that aims, for example, to be minimalist simplicity in a way that macOS hasn't been since it stopped being OSX, yeah, that's an easy recommend.
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  257. The default GNOME desktop group on Arch is also GNOME at its worst. I hadn't really realized how much effort Fedora and Ubuntu put into their theming until I booted into a pure GNOME session on Arch for the first time. 🤢
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  258. ​@christophepomes​ IDK about 4, but the GIMP 3 rc is pretty great.
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  259. Noted.
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  260. I'm far from being a normie—my Year of the Linux Desktop was 2006—but I feel like this might be a GNOME/Ubuntu issue. elementaryOS 8 worked out-of-the box on my last two (albeit all-AMD) installs (with Wayland working even better than X11), and I've done a lot of DE hopping on my Arch machine (also all-AMD) with zero issues like what you're describing, even when it comes to advanced stuff like virtualization or the ROCm stack.
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  261. Haha, yep. Just did an audit of my systems. Half are on LTS distros, and the other half are Arch, which doesn't build from source tars. Reading up on this, it looks like it compromised basically zero real-world systems due to how quickly it was caught.
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  262.  @burkino7046  Yeah, the lack of any power management was a surprise, but given that my other DE doesn't even have a working lock screen, COSMIC is actually an improvement for me in this regard. 😄
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  263. ​ @DePhoegonIsle I don't know about "most." The suppression of one's natural emotions (and all the Christ mentions) are pretty antithetical to their dogma.
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  264. I can't stand Dolphin. I'm spoiled by Elementary Files, but outside of Pantheon I use Thunar or nemo.
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  265. I respect a good opinionated standard (I daily drive elementaryOS) but "my way or the highway" will never fly in Penguin Land.
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  266. Bummer there's not a ZYpp or RPM packaging of the DE. I might try it on Arch if I need a Wayland DE before elementary's Pantheon is ready.
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  267.  @mmstick  Thanks for the response. I'll look into that (I'm indeed using an AMD card on Arch).
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  268. ​ @mmstick Thanks! Switching to RADV and adding that env var to my /etc/profile did the trick to stop the not-kernel-panics.
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  269. I was looking for a tool to manage incremental backups for game saves. That history is linear, I don't need branches, centralized would be a feature, and the save files I was going to be managing were going to be large binary blobs. I went with Git. Because there are no other mainstream VCS that are actively being maintained, and certainly none that have as much of an ecosystem and are available on pretty much every platform.
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  270. It's going to be a config setting, and if it annoys you, you can disable it, the same way you probably disable TPM. But having it as an option will mean that it's a viable option for enterprise and government.
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  271. Just a quick note that if you can do it by a checkbox, you should be able to do it by a config file as well—if you're, say, configuring a whole computer lab, you shouldn't need to resort to Ansible if you want push-button deployment. As an example of this done right, the OpenGApps installer has a setting to remember (or import) the last selection of Google Suite apps and services you chose. That's stored in a config file somewhere and easily ported between machines without needing to explicitly specify your full package list or sync via an Ubuntu sign-on.
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  272.  @AstoundingAmelia  Literally said on the WAN show that he warned his friends and then proceeded to say that he didn't make a more public statement because there were other videos (from channels with 2k followers) about it at the time. So talking out of both sides of his mouth: "Everybody was already aware that they were doing this," on the one hand and "but I made sure my buddies were safe" on the other. I also didn't mention the waterblock auction because that seemed like a legitimate mistake. Everything leading up to that, though—especially the "it's not a review, just entertainment" (that will ruin this company's whole reputation) response—is valid to criticise.
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  273. I haven't daily driven Windows since XP, so I have to ask: did it ever get any better in Windowsland? I know PowerShell is a thing now, but it's my understanding that's more about the shell than the terminal emulator itself.
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  274. I'm realizing now that Brodie is an evil genius—getting all of us to comment with whether we use root or not. With YouTube logging our IPs, that means that he now has the ability to bruteforce into a nonzero number of our systems. 🤣
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  275. Yes. By default the apps are fully isolated. You can reuse shared dependencies if you ask nicely, though. I personally use conda, which works like flatpak, storing each dependency in a shared repo and then building the full virtual environment from symlinks. The pro is that you don't have 52 identical copies of the numpy stack on your system. The con is that if you don't periodically run conda clean, you end up with a TON of unused dependencies cluttering your system.
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  276. Let me explain to anyone who's confused: this feature isn't for you. 1. It's for their training data, so they can build more models on more videos, even ones that weren't published in the same language 2. It's for their shareholders so that they can all clap and buy more stonks when some bozo VP announces at the next earnings call that this feature is translating a gazillion hours of video per day.
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  277. I require contributors to license their code contributions under a GPL-compatible license. That can only be done by the author or someone who holds a copyright, and courts have already held that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted.
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  278. I mean... what do you mean by account? You can 💯 disable there being a root account that you (or anyone else) can log into and thus require that every action be done using privilege escalation (sudo / doas). That's actually always been the default on Ubuntu-based systems. I don't think it's possible for any operating system to run without at least some processes running with complete system-wide permissions.
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  279. ​ @Daktyl198 I remember people complaining loudly about sysvinit, but it always worked fine for me... Bear in mind this was 2008, and my neckbeard hadn't even started growing in yet.
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  280. ​ @ayaya-ayaya Except flatpak relies on a very rigid privileges system—the default is for the application to be heavily sandboxed. Flatpaks also do not contain their entire dependency chain. Unlike AppImages, it's very common for a given package to depend on a pinned version of a runtime.
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  281. That would violate the sole restrictive terms of the license which say you cannot remove the freedom of anyone in the Milky Way from contributing to the repo.
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  282. Anti-glare on the old top-tier Deck was pretty nice for gaming while touching grass, but you might want to see if anyone's done a side-by-side with the new OLED panels. 512GB + a 1TB microSD is more than enough storage for the same price as the 1TB model. That said, if it were me today I'd be buying the 512GB deck and swap out the SSD for a 2TB 2230 NVME.
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  283. I'd love to see this running in lynx.
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  284.  @Beryesa. Oh yeah! I should have mentioned oneAPI as a viable standard! It even looks like academics and others have gotten it running on Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Ultimately, I haven't touched the low-level APIs since my PhD, so I'm not educated enough to say which framework is better--all that matters to me is that whatever standard dominates is FOSS.
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  285. I'm with the posters who commented that they were fine with this functionality, but coloring it blue and explicitly calling it "bsod" was a 🤡 move
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  286. Gaming on Linux in 2006-2013 was in some ways better than it is now—WINE was really good, and you could pay for CodeWeavers, which did Bottles before Bottles. Most games were at least Bronze, even in multiplayer, and a lot of older titles were actually easier to get running in Linux than they were through Vista or Win7's "compatibility layer." Heck, I could even run iTunes, Photoshop and my Windows-only scientific software through WINE for the longest time!
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  287. "always finds a way to get infected even though he's obsessed with antiviruses" Well that's the problem right there—malware masquerading as anti-malware tools is the oldest trick in the book.
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  288. > we just need OEMS to adopt Linux Oh you sweet summer child. If past is prologue, the only laptops that OEMs will stick Linux on is the factory-fresh eWaste that doesn't meet the Windows Copilot minimum requirements. People will buy these laptops and will assume that they're 💩 because of the OS, and it'll be 2011 all over again.
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  289.  @manitoba-op4jx  My God. There are people who are unironically nostalgic for Windows Vista?! I feel old. I need to sit down.
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  290. pipx (which this channel convinced me to try) was my solution to that problem—it's absolutely glorious. My only problem (which I think I just need to research) is that it conflicts with conda (and, tbf, you can always just set up an auto-activating base environment and installing all your global python executable there).
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  291. Yeah. One of the big learning curves for me in switching to Arch has been that build scripts for AUR packages use the tools in the environment's paths. Since I have a habit of having conda activated by default (advice on any other OS is never to use the system Python), I'd keep having builds fail (or install correctly but be unusuable) due to confusion about which dependencies existed on the system. At one point I went as far as adding: `alias yay=conda deactivate && yay` to my .bashrc
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  292. Meanwhile GTK-based Pantheon is OSX (explicitly not macOS) done better than Cupertino has managed to deliver since Jony Ive was around.
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  293. Haha, same.
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  294. Steam also supports p2p local downloads. So if you have a 6e router and your Steam gaming library on your desktop, you'll be able to get a lot closer to those theoretical gains.
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  295. You mean like specialized industrial software? Blender is FOSS, Autodesk has a Linux port of Maya, and more and more tools are moving to the browser/cloud, so I'm surprised to hear this.
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  296. ​ @NerdyWasTaken  "Mama, Papa, don't make me choose!" -Me, who uses Arch with the DE from an Ubuntu-based distro and who uses a dozen packages from the AUR which are literal torn down and reassembled from debs
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  297. So along those lines: one of Valve's talking points with the Deck was that it should serve as a reference implementation of what a Linux handheld should be (something that Wayland lacks). What's shocking is that after all this time we still don't have a competitor in the Linux handheld space, even though Windows is 🐶💩 on handhelds and (with Buster having been released this year), literally any maintained Linux distro will work out-of-the-box on the 7040/Z1.
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  298. Arch build 5.6.1-2 is fine. Arch also shouldn't be affected generally because PKGBUILDs clone the repos.
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  299. Was was the experience like during 2020-2022 when Valve was sinking money into Wayland?
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  300. No need to wait. There are already multi-modal systems based on Apache-licensed models (like llama and Mistral), and, as a recent Tech Over Tea episode discussed, ffmpeg can be scripted to do screenshots!
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  301. It's a known problem that AI summarization tools amplify sentiment. That is, if I write a 100-page report that "X software is mostly solid but has some non-critical UI quirks," an LLM will summarize that as "X software is hot, unusable garbage!!"
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  302. Even Pantheon (elementaryOS) gave in on this one. Glad to see Plasma knowing when to fold.
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  303.  @crsv7armhl  For sure. I have no problem with his PRs being reviewed and accepted—I'm saying let's (listen to Brodie and) slow down before declaring him the Savior of Xorg, handing him the keys to the repo or going out and installing his personal fork.
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  304.  @gimcrack555  I switched in 2006, right when Vista was coming out. I didn't switch because of Vista—I actually rather liked the OS when it was running on appropriate hardware—but I really thought there'd be more people joining me, especially given how great Dapper Drake was for Baby's First Linux.
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  305. To be fair, if that one FTP server host hadn't had his say we'd all be getting our "freax" on...
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  306.  @CptJistuce  It's good to differentiate the GNU-Freax from the Busy-Freax.
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  307. If you've been using Pop_OS! there really should be no need to change to anything else. Chasing fractional gains on a "gaming optimized" distro is a losing proposition that's going to depend a ton on your hardware, the kernel version and whether Mercury is in retrograde. The only reason to go Arch would be to make it easier to DE hop (I have COSMIC as my Wayland compositor and Pantheon as my X11 fallback, for example).
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  308.  @soulstenance  I'm not 💯 about the "don't download release tars" thing, but Arch's announcement said that they don't directly link openssh to liblzma (thus blocking this attack vector).
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  309.  @richardpurves  That's good to hear, and I'm happy to be corrected.
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  310. Funny—the nix overlay on my Steam Deck is a giant mess because half the packages are flakes and the other half don't support flakes. I'll buy that this is a "skill issue" but I have found no guides or documentation for how I was supposed to set up all of this.
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  311. ​ @that_leaflet Which makes it doubly odd, because when I installed COSMIC on Friday (also on Arch), single-window was the only option.
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  312. Ctrl-Alt-F[2-6] is the fastest terminal—where we're going, we don't need emulators.
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  313. ​ @Psoewish Haha, I totally bought the Steam Deck to use as a cyberdeck as someone who barely gamed. Then when I got it (and, critically, after my first Steam Winter Sale), it ended up turning me into a gamer.
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  314. A quick note on 3:28 — I believe that's indicating that this magical AI chip is a modified Xilinx FPGA which, if true, would be incredible to have on an SoC that's going in literal gaming handhelds. Sorry for the double-post.
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  315. GPLv3 already prohibits this*. The issue (I suspect) is that there's enough of RHEL that's still v2 to prevent the entirety of RHEL from being redistributed by license-holders. *Clarification: I actually would have thought clause 6 in v2 would have prevented this as well, but I suspect this falls into the gray area that were clarified in the additional patent license guarantees added to v3.
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  316. I actually really love the duality of the Linux kernel philosophy: - We have absolutely no way of controlling for all the insane user configurations - We do not break userspace
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  317. - SaaS has an explicit carve-out in GPLv3 (it's ambiguous in GPLv2), which is why Affero exists. Put another way: if you do not distribute the binary, you don't have to distribute the source. - Arguably, if your application doesn't directly use a GPL component but, say, makes a call to an interface that could be implemented by a permissive or even proprietary library, then you don't have to license your application, only make the source code of the GPL component available if you ship the binary. This is explicit in LGPL, but Google v. Oracle should swing both ways (an interface is not subject to copyright).
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  318. Maybe I'm a luddite, but I prefer rules-based code-scanners and auto-linters. Because those kinds of tools obey straightforward logic and can be unit tested.
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  319. Especially since we have that already: it's called ChromeOS, and I would sooner install Windows 8. Actually I really liked the UI of Windows 8--very much had an Ubuntu Touch / Netbook Remix vibe.
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  320. Found the clip. I think it's a legit Easter egg (that is, the scriptwriter must be a fan).
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  321.  @Beryesa.  There's a need for an X11 environment on the Deck. Plenty of ancient applications (including games like SimTower) have no route to being Wayland-compatible.
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  322.  @johnstath9666  I mean... SteamOS, Octopi, every low-cost IOT device that runs Android... Linux has so many advantages besides security. Why gatekeep and dissuade people from using FOSS software when their device might not be visible to the outside world or even airgapped?
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  323. This is why any organization that knows what it's doing only allows packages to be installed from its own internal mirror
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  324. 4:25 I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as AI, is in fact, ML/LLM, or as I've recently taken to calling it...
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  325. You're a braver nerd than I am to run it on mobile hardware. That said: I'm going to install it on my handheld (GPD Win 4) as soon as they add touch support.
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  326. The lack of customizability on Windows bothers me so much. Like not being able to split the taskbar ("dock") from the status bar. Obviously macOS is even more rigid, but at least there it (mostly) aligns with my personal preferences.
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  327. Does Google Forms auto-translate?
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  328. I may not be understanding this properly, but the multi-workspace suggestion seems like the solution to make this feasible for tiling WMs, as it allows for arbitrarily irregular geometries. Practically, giving the multi-window workflow access to, say, 3/5 tiles while you have a web browser and a terminal having squares reserved on the remaining two seems like the ideal outcome.
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  329. I honestly have no concept of whether that's a lot, lol.
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  330. To quote Voltaire (a noted early GNU developer), "If Linux did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it." There will always be a contingent of people who demand to be able to rebuild their engines or modify their operating systems. People thought that electrification would kill car mods, but just look at the number of people who have installed aftermarket upgrades on their Nissan Leafs. Similarly, modding Android has such a high barrier to entry because of the bespoke hardware involved. That doesn't stop pretty much every phone ever made form having a sub on xda-developers with instructions on swapping the kernel or installing a new ROM.
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  331. Tbf, multi-window was the main thing that made it difficult for me to learn GIMP, so when I tried it again after five years, I was pleasantly surprised to find the new one-window modal was the default. But yeah there are a ton of use-cases for multi-window applications, especially if you have multiple monitors, from nonlinear video editors, CAD software (as you say), IDEs, and basically any application where you want a persistent "preview" pane separate from your primary editor or command console.
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  332. Because of the sandboxing or the atomic rollback? Because the latter isn't really a solution any different than restoring a Timeshift snapshot.
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  333. That Fibonacci Hyprland(?) flex at 5:00...
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  334.  @realryleu  and Gamescope is a full XWayland instance, right?
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  335.  @install_gentoo  My issue isn't performance, it's peripherals. I have a Keychron keyboard, and the Fn keys aren't recognized (unless you switch to Mac mode) on 5.13. This issue was explicitly fixed in 5.19. I know I could switch to the preview channel, but Decky only works on stable (or, at least, that was the case the last time I checked).
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  336. 💯. The Linux kernel, development of which is dominated by adding support for newly released hardware, is pretty much the ideal use-case for calver.
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  337. Haha, hijacking GitHub comment attachments as a shadow CDN is a trick I'd used for years in Enterprise to generate permalinks for validation reports and build artifacts that were too big for Jenkins. Good times.
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  338. I upgraded the second the release hit the Arch repos. The new settings are nice. Not being able to launch apps from the Super menu is not. 😂
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  339.  @trajectoryunown  That's literally AMD's business plan with their Instinct line.
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  340. GH "magic words" have been super flaky for me lately. It's probably a tenses issue ("resolve" vs. "resolves") or I need to check the cheatsheet, but honestly my projects are small enough that the extra click is no biggie.
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  341. That sounds like a variant of the Hot Potato license, which Brodie talked about a while ago, and which I really like for this use-case.
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  342. Ah, okay. Stallman actually has a valid point here, though I don't even think he realizes it. He's saying that Debian, Fedora and Arch play a vital role as gatekeepers who audit the software that's included, even in their nonfree repos. The reason PPAs and the AUR exist is that the distro maintainers (leaders in the free software movement) don't deem that software as an essential part of their experience. Stallman's concern is that the rise of Flatpaks means that people won't be installing the "Debian-approved" build of Blender or Firefox, but the developer-approved bundles, and that this will encourage bad habits. Audacity is a good example. They're FOSS, but they threw in telemetry on a whim, and there was little stopping the Flatpak version from immediately going out to users. To be clear: while I would agree with this stance if distros had all the staffing and funding in the world, they don't, and the amount of time and the effort spent reviewing and repackaging software across a dozen distros is squandering precious resources. I also think Flatpak's sandboxing-by-default and dependency isolation features more than outweigh this lack of review. Especially because, ultimately, these are our systems, we're going to install the software we want, and having to apt-add a PPA has never deterred me in the past.
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  343. I haven't even looked at Abiword in years—how does it compare to Libre when it comes to viewing docx? You're probably right that unless you're a student (who is likely stuck in GSuite) you probably aren't loading PowerPoints or spreadsheets too often.
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  344. My 8yo is heavily into Scratch. The online community is the killer app—you can take anyone's project, run it, see how it works, and then fork it and modify it to do something else. Honestly, this is pretty much how grad students and business analysts share Jupyter notebooks, so it's good to see Scratch teaching 'em young.
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  345. Flatpaks?
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  346.  @RadikaRules  The latter.
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  347. Hot take: CC-NC is more damaging to the "open source" movement than MIT or Beerware style licenses. As a creator it seems perfectly reasonable to say, "Hey, I don't want anyone else to profit off my work" but imagine if OBS were licensed exclusively under non-commercial terms--that could very well mean that no VOD or Streaming creator could use it if they stood to earn a penny of ad revenue. To be clear, OBS is GPLv2, but that's probably a more familiar example to most people than the MIT/BSD-licensed projects I could name off the top of my head.
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  348. Definitely a generational thing. I came up on Ubuntu (starting with Dapper), and I still remember how uncomfortable I felt the first time I worked on a machine where the root login wasn't disabled.
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  349. Glad to see people (besides me) sticking up for kdenlive, so I'll just add that between dxvk, wined3d and DOSBOX, I'm far more likely to be able to play a randomly-selected non-DRM/EAC-restricted title on an OS built off the 5.15 kernel or newer than I am on Windows 11.
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  350. Does inference happening in "a few seconds" on a laptop means maxing out the CPU for those few seconds? I'd assume so. Now let's say you're loading a page with 20 images. Is that a full minute of your processor going full bore?
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  351. Djibouti had it coming. Seriously—what self-respecting nation has a capital with the same name as the country.
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  352.  @vilian9185  Wayland isn't really an issue because SteamOS' Desktop Mode is fully X11. As for the project status—Valve did a pretty good job of funding the projects they were relying on, so they probably would have helped turbocharge whichever DE they chose. 🤷‍♂️
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  353. Right on. I still have a PS/2 keyboard (and spend a lot of time hunting for PS/2 mobos whenever I upgrade). Even though more than likely the motherboard just uses an internal USB adapter, nothing beats the feeling illusion of inputting straight to the bare metal.
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  354. Just makes me reflect on how RHEL abandoning X11 is a bold move considering that a considerable portion of their userbase interfaces via RDP.
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  355. Wait... Do you get those graphical glitches happen when you disable your network interfaces (operate offline)?
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  356. I stopped trusting Google summaries about a year ago. I completely ignore it unless it has a link to the source, and even then I'll click the link to read the excerpt in its full context. I really just need to bite the bullet and switch to DDG.
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  357. ​ @BrodieRobertson Okay, but when did we all settle on Oobuhntwo?
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  358. Do you hold down the power button to turn it off? From my experiences (with VMs) it's usually on shutdown that Windows springs those automatic updates on me.
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  359. Been reckoning with this. The sort of troubleshooting steps I'm not just willing to take, but that will occur to me without thinking, is beyond the pale, not just of 99.9% of computer users, but me of five years ago (and I've been using Linux for almost twenty).
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  360. Hey, I resemble this remark!
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  361. $300 for a full desktop application suite is pretty good (IIRC MS Office + Norton AV + OriginLab cost about that much ca 2006, and that's before adjusting for inflation), especially if it comes with software updates and especially if it comes with pretty darn permissive access to the source.
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  362. Pantheon is still my favorite desktop environment. I use COSMIC on Arch for the full tiling (and because the Pantheon Arch packages are usually borked), but I still use most of Elementary's application suite (terminal, file manager, calculator) as my defaults.
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  363. I'm in the same boat with Pantheon. It looks like you can run gala in --wayland mode now, but I really don't know enough to want to be that close to the bleeding edge.
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  364. I'm gonna go 🌶️ for a second: if your DE doesn't have it's own dedicated calculator, calendar, music, video, settings, file manager, archiver and terminal apps, then what are you doing? Yes, I believe in the idea of an independent XApps project and that it should be easier to make cross-distro apps feel at home on any DE, but if you're implementing your own theming and application feel, then having a library of basic, reference apps is essential for developers to be able to develop for your platform.
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  365. I have no problem with how Arch does this—if one package exists in multiple repos, it just prompts you to ask which one you want installed.
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  366. This seems like a good use-case for automated UAT. Set out a few rules of expected behavior: (1. After installing a theme, I should be able to access my home directory) Then create macros for installing the theme and checking each UAT condition. Now create a VM snapshot from a working base KDE installation, run your macros, and summarize the results in a dashboard. Will you catch every issue? No. But you won't ever get burned by the same issue if each problem is captured as a new test case as it's discovered.
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  367. Similar for me. Steam Deck > Arch > Wayland > XWayland > Rootfull XWayland > Brodie. His XWayland videos are to this day the only resources I've found that explain the what, why and how of running an entire XSession inside of a Wayland compositor (read: SteamOS' Gaming Mode).
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  368. Hyprland (really wlr and libdisplayinfo) broke Pantheon for me for a while, does that count?
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  369. Your comment just reminds me of all the hilarious UI vs. UX memes I've seen. I'm 💯 with you, btw—even though it's rare these days that I want anything on my computer to notify me of anything, I like that they all show up in one spot in elementary, as opposed to each application managing its own toasts like how Apple does it.
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  370.  @sirzorg5728  Oh, way ahead of you, comrade. I'm Arch+Pantheon on two machines now and Arch+Sway on a third. Though I still prefer deb-based distros for servers.
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  371. In all seriousness, this isn't designed to prevent you from plugging in a HID—it's to prevent you from plugging in an HID that has a hidden storage drive, spycam, etc., which is not something that will be able to run over PS/2.
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  372. I'd still be using Haswell if I didn't need more than 32GB of memory. My 4790K is is not meaningfully slower in single-thread than my 5900X. CPUs haven't gotten meaningfully faster in the last decade, just denser and more efficient.
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  373. Veronica Explains pronounces it Guh-Noam, and she explained (🥁) that she does because she heard one of the early core developers pronounce it that way. So that's my answer. More importantly, and much more rarely known—it's not Cue-Tea, it's Cute.
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  374. They're not placing any conditions or restrictions on what he says. It's paid consideration but not sponsorship, and Brodie disclosed it properly. This is exactly how Jeff Geerling handles all the ARM prototyoes he's sent.
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  375. I was confused about this—don't have the issue on my vertical display—until I remembered that it's actually a horizontal panel that I turned 90°. Which is probably why System76 didn't catch this bug themselves, because native portrait displays are still very rare outside of handhelds.
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  376. You do you, 🐧 pal! I love GTK, but I haven't enjoyed the GNOME DE since the early 2010s. Still better than KDE though 🤢
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  377.  @sinom  Maybe "skill issue," but I find getting Python set up on Windows in general to be unnecessarily painful.
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  378. Maybe don't uninstall the old kernel until you've rebooted with the new one? That way you can still boot using the old kernel via GRUB. With Debian-based systems, it always keeps the old kernel around (and the old kernels in the GRUB menu) unless you run autoremove.
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  379. GNOME is still the most important DE. Without it, how would every GTK-based DE know what not to do? 🙃
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  380. CoreCtrl? IIRC that was a one-hoop affair on my 6800U and worked OOTB with my 5900X+6700XT setup.
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  381. Anything is better than the GNOME desktop, lol. I've been a KDE hater since before KDE 4 happened, and all but one of my favorite DEs are GTK-based, and even I think GNOME is mobile-wannabe trash. Anyway, if GNOME only wants to support Wayland in GTK5, we'll just see forks—that's how we got MATE, right?
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  382. Hilariously, because this wasn't in any stable releases, the only "production" systems to be affected by this are... macOS system running Homebrew. Now that I type that out, I really hope Tim Apple doesn't get wind of it, lest he try to crack down on macOS "sideloading"
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  383. Big difference between a warning that "this theme might not work" and "this theme has the ability to run arbitrary code," which I am terrified to learn is apparently... standard practice.
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  384. Excuse me, I use Linux for fun and I actively dislike Windows and macOS¹ Also, nothing makes my day quite like seeing a public terminal with a stack trace on a TTY or GRUB boot screen instead of a BSOD. It's still the minority, but it's definitely not as much of a rarity as it was 20 years ago. ¹OSX was 🔥 though² ²I use Pantheon, btw
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  385. There's an online game called Vim Adventures. It's really good and how I learned the basics. The first level is also free.
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  386. Absolutely love that game. The soundtrack still goes hard after all these years.
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  387. So I'm building a 128-node Beowulf cluster. Back in the day, I'd pay for one subscription to RHEL for the namenode and then install 127 copies of Cent on the workers. Now RHEL wants me to buy 128 licenses which is going to lead me to buying zero licenses, setting up my cluster with Ubuntu Pro (🤢) and training a few generations of scientific computing engineers to use deb-based distros. That's how you become irrelevant, IBM.
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  388. Just to add: TOTP is an open spec / algorithm, and there are absolutely desktop authenticators you can compile and run locally.
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  389. I run a lot of software exclusively in userspace (conda environments, for example), and my PATH includes .local/bin , so noexec'ing ~ would completely break my workflows. I definitely think noexecing ~/Downloads should be the default, though.
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  390. It feels like this is missing a punchline like: "And now my system won't even boot!" But in all seriousness—I'm both really glad for you and super curious regarding your proompts—like, what were you asking it to help you do?
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  391. He's had Plasma leads and Glorious Eggroll on Tech Over Tea. He's also literally the best YouTuber to go to for practical news about Wayland (trust me—I've looked for others). All of this to say: I'm surprised, but not shocked.
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  392. It's a lot of work to fight with the GitHub UI when Git's interactive CLI is honestly 🐐ed for this exact use-case.
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  393. lol, I had to log into GNOME in order to set up GDM (only DM I've tried that works with both COSMIC and Pantheon), and my immediate reaction was, "God! People use this? Willingly???"
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  394. I authored a bunch of "inner sourced" packages during my seven years at my last employer. I was extremely generous about giving commit rights to anyone who wanted it and made sure that every major project had at least one other admin besides me. Anyway, I'm no longer with that employer, and I still occasionally get messages from ex-coworkers who are continuing to use those projects. Gone but not forgotten is about the happiest ending anyone can hope for in this world.
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  395. Let's also give a shout-out to companies like CodeWeavers and Anaconda, which do almost exclusively open source development that is either sponsored by companies like Valve or paid for and stress-tested through contracts with companies and users who might be entitled to a dual-license / copyleft exemption.
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  396. Same with kiTTY
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  397.  @ArbitraryCodeExecution  Well I'm apparently wrong about the cloning being the standard practice anyway—still, Arch says they're not vulnerable because they don't link openssh to liblzma. 🤷‍♂️
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  398. They do, though, with their Instinct accelerators (which have Linux support), which are, pound for pound, about 50% cheaper than Nvidia's HPC hardware
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  399.  @bernardogalvao4448  The Arch wiki explains how to set it up (with SteamOS having already done all the hard work of setting up the /nix filesystem). It's my understanding that Nix environments are overlays, similar to Python virtual envs, and a step less isolated than containers. So no, it's completely isolated from the root package manager. And the path overrides are somehow smart enough to not cause conflicts.
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  400.  @Noname-67  Yeah, that was supposed to be the joke. But you're right that it doesn't really work. I'm sure Brodie will do it better.
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  401. It's not obvious parody, so Popehat's Rule of Goats applies: 1. If you <kiss> a goat 2. And then clarify that you did it "ironically" 3. Then you're still a goat-<kiss>er.
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  402.  @jdecicco91  Yeah, it's all shortcut based. And since the Steam Deck has roughly seven thousand buttons, it allows you to bind each action to a specific input.
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  403.  @SebSenseGreen  💯. A 5V charger is not something I'd ever want to use on a Deck if I have any other choice.
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  404. If you want a wireless option, AndFTP supports rsync over ssh.
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  405. You are not their customer—their shareholders are. You know that old adage, "Either you pay for something or you're the product"? Nadella—really Ballmer long before him—literally pulled a "¿por qué no los dos?"
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  406. First and only time in history that AMD has a majority CPU market share! I'm just laughing that, even combining the dGPU and APU share, they couldn't out-muscle Nvidia for even a plurality of graphics options. Also: I made it! I'm the one and only person who chose Pantheon as their favorite DE/WM. 😆
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  407. ​ @NeftisIsHere Yes, 💯. I updated my comment to clarify.
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  408. I hecking love calver. Every project should consider using it, and especially ones that have no intention of respecting the semver API/ABI compatibility rules.
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  409. Isn't this why the needrestart package exists?
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  410.  @bigpod  You realize they already do, by and large, right? A package's installer isn't going to just call `sudo service sshd restart` because what if the system manages daemons directly using systemctl? Instead, there's going to be a section of the package manifest that says: "Post install, flag these services for restart: [list]"
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  411. Now set your timezone to Melbourne (Sydney? Idk where Brodie lives).
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  412. This 1000%. Especially since every Ubuntu Debian derivative can be turned into any other by just editing the repo lists and running a few (unsafe) commands. Especially when comparing distros that don't use snap, "mint vs. pop vs. elementary vs. zorin vs..." is the spiderman-pointing meme.
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  413. Navi 32 is absolutely supported by ROCm—you just might have to grab builds for ROCm 6.
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  414.  @Roxor128  You actually don't need to limit yourself to VRAM—there's going to be a performance cost, but the HuggingFace API allows you to offload assets to system RAM (or, theoretically, swap).
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  415. It's not wrong, but it's always jarring for me when Brodie says "Windows doesn't support tiling" given my first experience with tiling was Windows 3.1 😂
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  416. Ugh. Building from source on a Pi Zero is a nightmare. I was setting up one for CNC.js, and never have I appreciated as much just how bloated the node-stack is. As I understand it, people like Jeff Geerling—who rebuild the Linux kernel for Raspberry Pis so frequently they have a shirt for it—will do it on another system and then copy the binary over to the target device.
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  417. Yeah, that's a variation of calver. 💯 would recommend for projects that either already have a static ABI or don't care about telegraphing breaks of backwards compatibility.
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  418. Is the UHD situation really that bad? I haven't used Intel graphics—integrated or otherwise—in about seven years, but my understanding was that the mesa drivers were as mature as their AMD counterparts, if not moreso.
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  419. ​ @ethanepperson-jones9952 Frfr, it's honestly boring how well AMD dGPUs and iGPUs work on Linux. I had to do a little bit of fiddling once upon a time with a 6800U to unlock RyzenAdj, but I think when I last reinstalled the system the proper driver was baked into the kernel.
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  420. Mostly the winners today are AWS and Azure who will happily publish the source for their bespoke AMIs knowing that no one could or would want to use them outside their ecosystems.
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  421. Codellama is, what? A 7b model? So, like 14GB of RAM (preferably VRAM) and as much FLOPS as you can throw at it? I mean, I guess that's still lighter weight than VSCode¹ ¹Insert JetBrains or emacs as desired
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  422. Oh thank God. With the way my feed has been lately, I thought for a hot second it was going to come out that the Linux Kernel was heavily invested in Israel.
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  423. Those are the people who might actually switch. But 90% of users don't think of Windows as the reason their computer feels bloated—they worry they have a virus and download the first sketchy "registry cleaner" (or worse—Norton AV) they find.
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  424. ​​ @mindblow7617 The thing you have to remember is that the RedHat of today is not the RedHat who fought Ballmer, tooth and claw. That company was swallowed whole by IBM and has been slowly digested and turned into chyme. Don't simp for the orca that ate your favorite penguin.
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  425. Fwiw, "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them" (coined The Platinum Rule) is better morality than the Golden Rule, at least in my book.
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  426. Saab: "hold our joystick"
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  427.  @stupidbeard3702  Thank you! That's an awesome #TIL
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  428. As I understand it, Microsol is one of the archetypical examples of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
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  429. Good job reporting on the real culprit here. A lot of your examples of A/B testing, though, I find pretty nefarious, as moving the description box and other UI elements at random is tantamount to gaslighting. I choose GNU/Linux¹ because I want total control over my system—I want to choose which "public betas" I participate in, and the rest I expect to "just work" in a stable, consistent and repeatable way. The ethos of "Web 2.0" and SaaS in general is all about robbing users of freedom, choice and control. Anyway, I realize ¹I'm sounding like Comrade Stallman, so I should probably go touch some grass. Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Amercians!
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  430. I haven't even gotten fractional scaling looking good on X11, and I gave up even trying—much better has been going into my WM/DE configs and theme settings and just upping the default font size across the board.
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  431. 28:05 Weird—OBS Flatpak this morning gave me the option of full-screen or single-window. I recorded single-window with zero problems.
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  432. Counterpoint: AMD GPUs being difficult to use for AI is the only thing keeping them cheap and available for gaming
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  433.  @BrodieRobertson  I assume you've read the xterm README? For a program that ubiquitous, it's hilarious how much the authors absolutely hate it.
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  434. While immutable distros (distinct from atomic ones, where you decide what's included and can roll back to a prior configuration) may work fine for Baby's First Linux, I'm not a fan of the trend overall—if I want kitty instead of Konsole as my terminal emulator I should be able to change that without installing an entire package overlay.
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  435. Here's why Linus' video is making my neckbeard itch—he's setting people up for thinking Linux = SteamOS, with all the limitations of that desktop, the same way Linux became synonymous with Ubuntu's netbook spins in the early 2010s. Now, a lot of those netbooks were great for what they were designed to do! But when people realized that 16GB of storage and a single Atom processor was not going to be enough to replace their computing needs, Linux earned a sour reputation by association that lasted a full decade.
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  436. My guess that whatever country this guy lives him isn't in any rush to arrest or extradite him.
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  437. AMD hardware is more than capable when it comes to AI inference. I've run SDXL and Mistral 7B on my 6700XT, which these days you can pick up for like $200. And yes, getting the ROCm stack running (on Arch, btw) was a pain in the toucans—I still don't have tensorflow quite right, and my PyTorch venv is more unstable than Bing when she's calling herself "Sydney." Still, it's all worth it not to pay for Jensen's jacket tax.
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  438. This comment is what got me to switch on my GPD Win4 (think Steam Deck but more compact and with a keyboard). Followed the Arch guide to replace pulse, and it worked right away. When does that happen?
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  439. lol, Arch doesn't even ship with networking by default—the chance of them ever shipping unattended upgrades pre-configured is precisely zero.
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  440. One additional follow-up: the Minecraft issue is a well-known issue with Minecraft that's been marked as "works as intended" by the developers. The fact that this didn't happen on other DEs / older Alphas was the "bug," and the solution is to employ any of a number of mods that add a "borderless windowed" mode to the game.
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  441. Exciting times. Elementary 8 (with GTK4 and a Wayland-compatible Dock) is apparently out in early access. I might have to spin up a VM to try it out.
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  442. As someone who is not socially inclined, I'd be happy to license a project under the optional condition of "buying Brodie Robertson (of Linux YouTube fame) a cider"
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  443.  @sergeykish  It's usually not quite that simple, otherwise projects like anbox and Waydroid would be far more capable. Mcpelauncher works because the Android app itself is just a launcher for an inner Minecraft executable (a design decision I guess they carried over from Java), and even so, it's prone to frequent breakages, especially where online functionality is concerned.
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  444. Tbf, this isn't his review (and isn't marketed as that). This is literally his unboxing video.
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  445. ​ @excidium666 You don't think there's a single high-seniority Hyprland dev who would be able and willing to abide by FDO's CoC? My motivation is that there should still be an avenue for contributing changes upstream and communicating the Hyprland impact for changes to portals and other protocols.
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  446. How secure is the default-permission sandbox? I know I've found not having access to /usr/bin, for example, to be a pain in the toucans, but making things inconvenient for users is different than making things safer against malicious developers.
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  447. ​ @markh.6687 Excuse me, lattes? What do you take us for, Apple enthusiasts?! We brew only single-origin, ethically sourced light roasts... and then have heated debates about those who choose to drown them in milk and sugar. ☕
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  448. I have a tool called EnderChest that coordinates sharing Minecraft configurations between different instances and computers, and I purposely abstracted the sync interface so I could implement different backends. So far, I have: - file:// (simple file copy) - rsync:// - sftp:// (via paramiko) And I'll probably look at either FTP (samba) or MTP next. The amount I know about each protocol now is 10x what I knew going in.
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  449. I have never seen a KDE-based desktop I've liked (if I'd liked the look and feel of Windows XP, then I would have kept using XP). I'm not a huge fan of modern GNOME either, but GTK-based distros (Pantheon, Budgie, Pantheon, MATE) are great! And as to your whiteboard—yes, Hyprland is bae. 😂
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  450. Tbh, this really shouldn't be a space that Valve needs to enter. Ryzen APUs crammed into ultra-SFFPCs have been delivering good 1080p gaming since the 3400G, and Linux works on them out of the box. I personally just run elementaryOS, but if I cared about having a "Steam-like experience" beyond auto-launching Big Picture, that's what Chimera and Bazzite are for. The fact that Minisforum, ASRock and Geekom haven't been selling their units configured this way is just ridiculous and them leaving money on the table.
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  451. ​ @cameronbosch1213 Oh, 💯. I hope their share prices collapse and some nonprofit or coalition can afford to buy out RedHat from under them.
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  452. OBS fed into a local multi-modal llama? If you have the hardware and the storage, I can think of worse experiments.
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  453. Agreed. I'm a Stan of famously duck-typed Python, but I use type hints and mypy for everything I write (including notebooks). It's notable that one of the most well known developers of mypy is Guido himself.
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  454. Isn't the solution just to gamescope all the things? I just figured out why Steam performance is pants on COSMIC for me—something is going horribly wrong, and the games think they're running on an 8k display (it's 1440p)—so I expect that once I get SteamTinkerLauncher set up, that'll be the last nail in the coffin for my X11 fallback.
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  455. Point of fact: a not-insignificant number of Brodie viewers literally did not have brains—or eyes or limbs—20 years ago.
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  456.  @MarquisDeSang  I'm saying that 20 years ago these kids hadn't even been born.
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  457. So Linux should never be used for single-user systems? 😕
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  458. Hardware incompatibility is much less of a thing these days, with every webcam and mic I've seen being recognized OOTB with standard drivers. In terms of specialty hardware, if it's got a large community, somone will have made a package to use it in Linux (I was surprised to learn today this includes the Elgato Stream Deck!). The only things I've had issues with in recent years are fingerprint sensors (as ​ @manitoba-op4jx  said) and extremely niche RGB (OpenRGB works for the rest).
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  459. Yeah, (we) Arch users are all about bragging that we climbed Everest (even though it's essentially a tourist trap these days and K2—aka Gentoo—is the actual challenge), while Nix folk are more like door-to-door proselytizers, trying to spread the Good News about their cult.
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  460. Haha, same.
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  461. Eugh, Lord save me from photo and music "library" apps. I have an organizational system, it's called file folders Sorry for the salt, but when I click an mp3, I just want it to play—I do not want iTunes or its Linux clones to spoil up, import the file and append it to a playlist.
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  462. More importantly its ad-blocking extensions work on mobile. Sometimes I'll open a webpage in some app, and it'll render in Chrome, and it's shocking how much worse the experience is than if I click the "open in Firefox" dooblie.
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  463. If Graphene adds a way to install flatpaks, I'll switch to it today.
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  464. A lot of people used Linux for the first time when they bought a 2010-era netbook that came preloaded with Ubuntu Remix. For them, Linux = sluggish performance and a computer whose hard drive fills up within a week of use. It set back the Linux adoption cause by a literal decade and a half.
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  465. Common Manjaro F? Or was this just because 2018 was the middle of the Gaming on Linux dark ages?
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  466. I'd be curious to know how that could be enforced without giving anti-cheat really scary kernel-level access. That is, what's to stop me from spoofing my OS name?
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  467. Flatpak (runtime) of the various Javas would make sense so they could be shared across the dozen or so Minecraft launchers. As it stands, I think they each just include their own JREs inside the package.
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  468. I'm surprised hyprland doesn't announce itself in neofetch (the screenshot say "wlroots wm" which, tbf, hyprland is...)
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  469.  @flarebear5346  nah. Under the hood, neofetch runs some specific info calls that can absolutely be overwritten—citation: I recently learned how to get neofetch to show "HoloShed Linux" on my gaming-handheld-optimized Arch.
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  470. Not ready now. But probably ready in the next 18 months.
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  471. ​ @happygofishing lol, that's a new one. I really wish Jews had half the power y'all antisemites like to think we do. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my shift manning the space laser.
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  472. b) "A few seconds" per image of your processor maxing out can chew through a laptop battery pretty quick c) The image-to-text encoders are trained on CC datasets. GPT-2 is trained on CommonCrawl, which contains copyrighted works. Don't get me wrong—I'm mostly in favor of this feature being available. But I'm glad it's off by default, and, subject to accessibility workflows, it should only process images the user explicitly requests.
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  473. FWIW, looks like their Instinct line of dedicated AI accelerators do have drivers for RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE. Completely different use-case, I know. But I also fully expect these "AI cores" to go the way of PhysX co-processors in 3-5 years, at least where consumers are concerned.
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  474. If you're worried about backdoors in black box software blobs... shouldn't you be singing the praises for the level of sandboxing built into Flatpaks by default?
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  475. Can we have a good natured laugh for a second about how it took the suyu team 23 commits to update their README? I get it—GitLab Markdown is hard, and not everyone knows about squash.
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  476. Suggestion: put your /home and /data folders on separate partitions from your root. Then double, triple or quadruple boot—your data can be accessible from each OS, and with flatpaks or, better, AppImages, you can even share your applications to some extent so you can easily wake up one day and decide you're feeling Manjarish, and then halfway through the day decide to hop over to LMDE.
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  477. I feel like a complete idiot—I've been commenting that kitty is "famously chromeless" in response to ghostty's lack of server-side decoration support. Only this morning I sat down to my machine, launched kitty under COSMIC... and 💯 it's got a title bar. 🤦 Common kitty win, common me fail.
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  478. I'm forking your license and creating the Aggressive Tolerance license—this software may only be used by individuals who have nothing but love and respect for all their fellow humans. This explicitly bars racists and white supremacists—I hate those people! 😡 (because Internet, this is a joke. It's inspired by ripping off the introduction to the Tom Lehrer song "National Brotherhood Week")
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  479.  @that_guy1211  ah, that makes sense!
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  480. They squandered a great opportunity to call the Wayland version peuoW
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  481. Have you considered Timeshift? Makes rollbacks a cinch. When I had a catastrophic upgrade, I grabbed my rescue ISO, chrooted into my system to grab the pacman log (to see what I installed last), then once I found the culprit, I restored my last backup and then excluded the bad package from my yay -Syu.
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  482. These videos are only going to become more common over the next year as that Oct 14, 2025 Win10 EOL approaches. People really hate Windows 11 to a degree I haven't seen since Vista (which was when we had the first "year(s) of the Linux Desktop"), and Microsol is doing all they can to make sure that even people who'd be willing to bite the bullet can't upgrade their old machines.
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  483. It was actually invented by the Germans in WWI.
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  484.  @commander3494  Nice!!! Are you doing it through Nix as well or did you just disable the read-only filesystem?
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  485.  @commander3494  Nice!! How did you get it installed? Nix or by making the file system mutable?
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  486. ​ @cameronbosch1213 I'm a happy Kdenlive user. My needs are low—and I'm happy to bust open Tenacity and GIMP rather than insist that my compositor does everything perfectly—so Kdenlive qualities as "feature complete" for me. I ask myself sometimes if I should try Resolve given how people rave about it, but FOSS is actually a really big selling point for me to ensure that if the developers turn evil, I'll be able to continue on a fork (see: Tenacity).
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  487. Yeah, at this point they should have just skipped GTK+-3 and gone straight to 4.
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  488. Brodie, Brodie! I just found someone else discussing XWayland rootful! Vinegar, the Roblox launcher for Linux has an RFC open for using rootful XWayland to help with issues they're facing regarding cursor-grabbing!
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  489.  @terminalvelocity4858  PKGBUILD scripts are still how Arch packages get built.
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  490. AppImage is a godsend—even more so than flatpak. Works everywhere, requires zero coordination with dependencies.
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  491. ​ @thingsiplay which reminds me that I've been meaning to check out PyShell for literally a decade, lol
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  492.  @nobodyimportant7804  Have you tried tldr?
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  493. If by "out of the box" you mean, after careful coordination of alsa/pulse/pipewire with OBS." And the current experience is worlds better than it was back in my creator heyday of 2010-15. I haven't tried multi-window recording on Wayland yet, but saying that Xorg "just works" belies the amount of software development needed for shims, workarounds and general hacks that went into getting the screen capture experience as smooth as it is in 2024.
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  494. Literally looking up what MX Linux is rn.
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  495. I'm really excited because I'm at an inflection point in my life where I'm looking at changing out my entire stack. Hyprland tricked me into trying kitty, and it's probably going to get me to switch from elementary terminal. tofi took almost no work to make it look absolutely gorgeous. I'm also liking ironbar so far. If I can't figure out how to set session-specific themes on Thunar or nemo, I might give up and learn nnn like a real nerd. If people have any suggestions for a Wayland-compatible hotkey daemon / key-remapper that works with X-input, please let me know—I'm looking to upgrade past input-remapper. Vanilla vim with a minimal vimrc is a philosophical choice (and my hedge for the real possibility of needing to work on airgapped systems). And then the biggest change for me is that, outside of active development, I've been able to ditch conda (mamba) for pipx, so thanks, Brodie, for promoting that a few months back.
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  496. 19:12 So elementaryOS now automatically updates all flatapks on your system nightly¹, since these will never require a restart. I know elementary is a polarizing distro for a bunch of reasons, but I have to ask: why isn't every distro doing that? ¹you're actually given the choice on first startup whether or not to enable this, along with whether to delete files older than 30 days from your downloads and trash
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  497. If you've never had the chance to do a force-push before... that is exactly what it feels like. Even better when you're bypassing branch protections because you're the repo administrator.
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  498. So it was 2007 not 1998 but my final project for Electronics 201 was an automated tea brewer controlled via LabView. I got an A-, with the professor noting that due to my failure to ground a wire, my application posed an enormous fire hazard. Good thing I was on the track for theoretical physics...
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  499. You're thinking of su. Principle of least privilege is that a sudoer should not know the root password (because if they did they would have logged in as the root user). Remember also that sudoers can be configured to give really granular access to what an individual user can and cannot do.
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  500. The best "best practices" are ones that end up saving the developer time and effort. - autoformatters (like black for Python) - pre-commit - build automation (yes, like slsa, but more like any of the billion one-line actions in GitHub Marketplace) - cookie-cutter project templates that set up your project with all these tools for you
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  501. He'll do elementaryOS eventually. There's so much low-hanging fruit 🍏!
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  502. Fr. Ethernet randomly stopped working on one of my elementaryOS (Ubuntu deriv) machines yesterday. The Ubuntu docs on NetworkManager were unhelpful, but popping over to the Arch Wiki I found the commands and configs I needed to tweak in about five minutes and got it back online.
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  503. Other way around (I know—I was as surprised by you when I first found out). Aptitude is a "graphical" interface for apt.
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  504.  @anonymouscommentator  I don't have a satisfactory answer. All I can definitively say is: - I opened three projects I have open concurrently all the time - Responsiveness suddenly ground to a halt, and I got some sort of "low memory" / "out of memory" warning from the IDE (Xmx, btw, is set to 2GB by default—my system has 128GB in total) - Before I could close some windows or kill IntelliJ altogether, COSMIC completely locked up - I tried again a few days (and a few software updates) later, after radding JetBrains' new experimental Wayland support flag to the VM options (and raising Xmx to 4GB), and everything worked fine.
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  505. Like a Minecraft modder or a Mojang employee? Because if the latter you're better off learning C++. And if the former, honestly knowing Java is a hinderance, as the way you have to set up Minecraft mod projects is pretty bespoke.
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  506. The Logi M570/575 is 🐐 if your thumbs aren't old and arthritic like mine. I'm a Kensington Stan, fwiw—I would kill to protect my Expert Big Ball, and the Orbit is the best fingerball for anyone who only needs two mouse buttons. Just stay away from ELECOM unless you're up for performing some mods—amazing pointers that are absolutely ruined by bearings that are literal garbage.
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  507. 0:20 Now I feel really old because my first tiling experience was Windows, it was the default WM experience, and it was glorious. I'm talking about Windows 3.1
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  508. Thank you! Downloading it now. I'm still using Audacity (sandboxed up the wazoo in a flatpak) because I was waiting to see where the dust would settle.
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  509. I cut my teeth on the Adobe Suite back in the day (nostalgic noises for Macromedia/Adobe PageMaker) and ran a (legally obtained!) copy of Photoshop 7.0 for years through WINE, but I made the switch to GIMP a few years ago and never looked back. Now, though, my kid is getting really good with Photoshop CC (education licensing = drug dealer giving you a discount on your first hit), and I have no idea how anything works in their new system.
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  510. Every macOS developer I know has a .zsh_profile as long as their arm. Everyone who does serious work on Windows carries around their vscode settings file on a thumb drive. Meanwhile, I've customized Ubuntu and now elementaryOS for over a decade exclusively through graphical settings applications that are way easier to use than Windows Control Panel (switchboard is bae).
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  511. Okay, but what is an Erlang JAM file?
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  512. ​ @zerotwo_.002 Is Budgie coming soon? The only DE that's on my radar in terms of "imminent Wayland support" is Pantheon.
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  513. The dealbreaker for me is that the "compress" options only include zip and tgz. No xz? Back to file-roller for me.
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  514.  @somenameidk5278  Yes. Look at any compression benchmark—LZMA has the best compression ratios across the board. Gzip is still the speed champ (IIRC), but if I'm bunding up an installation of something to stick into cold storage, I'm going xz almost every time.
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  515. ​ @rodrovelasquez1634 Is maté the correct pronunciation? That's what I thought from the beginning, but I thought I heard it pronounced some other way by someone with a lot more knowledge than myself.
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  516. I think this is where dual-licensing can come in handy. Say I'm Fairphone or System76, and I want to ship some FUTO-developed apps on my devices. Could I pay FUTO a nominal royalty to grant me permission to do that?
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  517.  @yigitorhan7654  Oh, that's great! Thanks for the info.
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  518. Unironically: I could really use a guide to declarative package management using Nix (OS optional). nix-env and nix profile are great and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of the advantages of the system.
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  519. I'm usually a big fan of Calver, but for packages that don't require continuous updates (and where consistency of the ABI and clear depreciation roadmaps are incredibly important), semver is the way to go
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  520. I understand the desire to leave off LibreOffice—it's big and consumes a lot of system resources. But if you need to open a docx on your 32-bit single-core laptop, the alternative is doing it in the browser, and that is way worse
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  521.  @JessicaFEREM  Okay, cool, we're on the same page. I just mean that the problem with update-on-shutdown is that you don't find out if the update broke your setup until you start the system back up.
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  522. As much as I hate how Apple forces all iOS browsers to use WebKit, I'm at least grateful that it's effectively capped VP8's market share. I also hear from web devs that WebKit is the absolute worst when it comes to actually adhering to standards, though, so 🤷‍♂️
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  523. The Ancients teach us that the entire universe is carried on the back of a turtle. What the Ancients failed to mention is that the turtle is named Logo.
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  524. I thought the whole point of Arch was that there was no right way of doing things and that you were supposed to configure your system exactly how you wanted it. 🤷‍♂️
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  525. pytorch-rocm has been solid for me on Arch. ROCm was actually the big reason I ditched Ubuntu (despite it being "officially supported" and with debs being available, I could never get it working).
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  526. I came to make this comment. I have a really hard time recommending this software in workplaces and other settings that try to be actively inclusive. I usually just refer to it as the "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (Imp is also a term people should avoid as it's used as a derogatory term for people with dwarfism).
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  527. ​ @Redmage913 I'm trying to remember the permissions set by Timeshift—I hope it's not u+w but I'm not positive.
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  528. Intel says their Lunar Lake APUs meet the 40 TOPS requirement, and AMD already has NPUs in their mobile systems, so this isn't going to be limited to ARM.
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  529. lol, I thought this was about the macOS Finder extension that Apple reverse-engineered with zero credit or acknowledgement, thus coining the term Sherlocking. I was so confused why this dingbat was asking for an exe.
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  530. At the same time, I think this explains why Hyprland >0.32 is broken for me on SteamOS-through-Nix—because while you can install multiple versions of wlroots, if you don't put them in different profiles, it will just use whatever package has the highest priority. Now that I know how to do rollbacks (Nix is bae in this department), I'll have to give this another go.
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  531. I felt like a complete degenerate when I grabbed my package count, but at 1704, you have me beat by over 400+, so that's a relief 😅 I'm guessing we could both benefit from a wipe & fresh install, but I ain't got the time for that.
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  532.  @ayaya-ayaya  Three things: 1. Flathub is moderated (and I've witnessed firsthand what happens when a maintainer goes rogue and tries to insert malware—the Flathub staff locks that stuff down) 2. The requested permissions are shown when you install the package 3. The user can always use a tool like Flatseal (or just use the CLI) to further restrict permissions (for example, I made sure Audacity had no network access around the time the telemetry 💩 hit the fan)
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  533. "Normie" distros need to be working overtime to get their installers to the point where they set up everything automatically, and everything a user could want is a click away in a GUI "store." elementaryOS 8 has done this really well, Mint has a good track record (but Wayland is still experimental), Fedora KDE is going to be a full spin, and Pop_OS! is going to be the 🐐 once COSMIC is released.
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  534. ​ @LaughingOrange If you're on a Debian-based system, just install PythonIsPython3
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  535. See if I'm going to jump on a random repo and virtue signal, it's going to be to try to get them to rename their primary branch from master ➡ main (see: 5:28) Sincerely, a non-practicing Jew. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Happy federally mandated holiday to most everyone else.
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  536. Did this stop being a thing at some point? It used to be that distros like Ubuntu offered a "minimal" or "network" ISO and then "LiveCD" which, as it was meant to be runnable on airgapped systems, contained the full software suite without assuming you could access the internet.
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  537. Not to say that Wayland is perfect, but "There is nothing wrong with" Xorg is something you really only say when you've been using it for so long that you're just acclimated to its limitations.
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  538.  @theoliverblogs  Ooh, I see your point. That said, JSAUX will almost certainly have a transparent backplate or whole-case kit for the updated model (which IIRC has been reported as easier to body-swap than the first iteration). And it's super easy to find cases for the Deck in all flavors these days. But if you feel the itch for the "limited edition" version and your finances permit it, I absolutely wouldn't judge you if you went for it.
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  539. That choice of 2004 was so sus. The year that Linux went mainstream was clearly 2006 when I adopted Linux (Dapper Drake represent!)
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  540. You didn't do my bae elementaryOS, so I'll do it for you: You want your desktop experience to be absolutely clean and clutter-free. You're tired of Choice Paralysis and just want your system set up by someone else as they whisper UX into your ear. You want your machine to work out of the box... because want to never leave that box.
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  541.  @ShadowOfTheSPQR  Yeah, but that's low-hanging fruit. 🍏
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  542. Massively triggered. You're not wrong, but Blender has the least intuitive UX of any 3D design program in existence.
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  543.  @qunas101  It's possible for software to be highly capable and customizable while also being straightforward and user-friendly for beginners trying to perform simple tasks. Say what you will about Adobe and Autodesk (and I have a lot to say), but my 8yo learned to use Premiere Pro and TinkerCAD without any help whereas it took all of my considersble Google Fu to figure out how to do crossfades in Kdenlive and combine 3D objects in Blender. But maybe I'm just old. 🤷‍♂️
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  544. I use Steam exclusively in Big Picture Mode, so Exit Steam (which actually shuts it down rather than minimizing) is always right there for me. And hey—you always have the option of modifying the launcher script. One of my favorite things about Linux: almost everything is a plaintext file that lives in userspace.
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  545. AI-generated code is such an enormous can of worms. 1. The submitter is much less likely to understand the code they're submitting 2. The submitter is much more likely to naïvely trust the code than something they copied from StackOverflow 3. Neither the "proompter" nor the LLM's company is considered the "author," so even if it's not verbatim-plagiarized from the training data, how can anyone transfer a copyright to the project?
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  546. Command-line is just more efficient. If there's a piece of software I want, I could: 1. Select AppCenter from the launcher 2. Wait for it to verify its network connection and load 3. Enter the software name in the search bar 4. Figure out which listing is actually what I want (because SEO is affecting Linux app stores now??) 5. Click "Install" 6. Watch a spinner spin 7. Open the app Or I could open a terminal and type $ flatpak install vlc (don't even need the full identifier any more!), and with, like, three additional keystrokes I have it running on my system.
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  547. Actually, "comprehending" is something that GPTs do really well. The magic of these algorithms is that, rather than use recurrent networks to find deep patterns, they instead focus on "attention" mechsnisms that contextualize the input into as many ways as possible. This makes them ideally suited for information extraction and summarization. The issue is that they're lousy when it comes to insight and invention—their goal is to synthesize the most likely /appropriate response to a proompt from the training data, and that means that they can never exceed their training data. For a vulnerability scanner, that means that they can only ever find code similar to other vulnerabilities and can never actually discover novel threat risks.
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  548. Have you tried mamba? Drop-in replacement for conda, but the solver is ridiculously faster. IMO mambaforge should be everyone's first and last choice of a portable Python installation.
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  549. ​ @user-pe7gf9rv4m I prefer to think of nosql as a helpful reminder—"No! SQL!"
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  550. This mirrors my Linux story so well. I switched to Linux at the encouragement of my Intro to Scientific Computing professor. This was 2006, and the choices for a newbie were Fedora and Ubuntu. I really hated rpm/yum, and so Ubuntu it was! Fast forward a few decades, I was talking with my boss and telling him about some issues I was having with my (desnapified-)Ubuntu-based workstation, and I made a joke about switching to Arch. He said I should do it—and that he ran Arch. This was literally the first time he mentioned that he daily drove Linux, let alone Arch. I tried it in a VM, learned about how little is included in Arch base, and then did a dull install, dual-booting Arch and Ubuntu. It took less than two weeks before I was 100% on Arch. I will say: I knew enough to know that I was hopeless with fdisk, so I did all my partitioning in system-rescue and GPartEd. 10/10—CLI partition management is exclusively the realm of the Gods.
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  551. Ooh, I just got super excited about this, because it might mean that SimCity 2000 will be playable in Wayland one day!
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  552. I grew up in Maryland. The oriole is our state bird. This is deeply offensive. Even though I love snaps, and cherish those ads in my motd, I have no choice but to boycot Canonical and uninstall Ubuntu across all my systems.
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  553. I have no problem with things breaking when I update—I chose to use Arch over Ubuntu—but things breaking because the system decided to update without asking me first is an entirely different matter, and it's one of the big reasons I haven't dailied Windows in 17 years.
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  554. Definitely good to have when developing and debugging, but once you've got your build process solid, GitHub Actions (I know, owned by Microsol) is ace for not needing that local VM.
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  555. Do you know if it supports X-input (as in, 🎮)? I've been looking for an alternative to input-remapper.
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  556. Welcome, penguin chick! Your rainbow knee-socks are in the mail.
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  557. ​ @Kraust It doesn't need to be a force-push, though. It should be an interactive rebase of the PR branch onto the HEAD and a regular push. I didn't quite understand why it's not.
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  558. Interesting. I just used example configs, taken from project GitHubs, AwesomeHyprland and various galleries, and my setup was more than usable within maybe an hour. I'm not a particularly opinionated tiling user, though, so that could explain the difference if you have specific preferences.
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  559. The sad thing: that's probably the win from Google's perspective. YT hemorrhages money, and if you're blocking ads, you're probably also blocking tracking—without any way to monetize you, you're a straight loss to them in the form of the cost of serving you HD videos of Brodie shilling for Wayland.
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  560. ​@kleddo3126​ What 99% of people want is atomic distros where you can roll back system settings to a last good state. You can technically do that with any distro by just installing Timeshift, but Silverblue and Vanilla should be more frequently recommended.
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  561. ​ @arturpaivads That's what they said about netbooks and ChromeOS too. All that happens is you end up with eWaste at the end of the day when people don't realize they can do more with their hardware.
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  562.  @yasamito  Endeavour + Pantheon = :goat-turquoise-white-horns: if you can manage it—the packages are going through a ton of development right now with the upcoming release of elementaryOS 8, and it's not clear to me that their extras repo maintainer is actually testing anything before deploying.
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  563. LibreOffice is pretty nice, IMO. But if GDocs isn't your style, I believe Office365 is fully available in the browser now.
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  564. ​ @Plexsusmax Are you offering me a job?
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  565. ​ @Ozzy_Helix_ Holo is a garbage desktop OS. It's a console OS with an immutable filesystem and an entirely arbitrary update cadence.
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  566.  @Ozzy_Helix_  Plenty of great OS's for OEMs—Dell and HP sell 1-2 SKUs that ship with Ububtu, and Pop is literally a distro developed by an OEM. But most makes don't want to take the risk.
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  567. ​ @jeonghutamilim2259 My point was that we don't want to be forging digital refugees in a crucible. We want to be welcoming them with open arms and rainbow knee-socks.
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  568.  @SunsetNova  Aww, that's Qt
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  569. Python3 code is extremely forward-compatible. It's been my primary language since 3.4, and the only times I've had stdlib code break was when an import moved around (and that move was telegraphed versions in advance).
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  570.  @thingsiplay  It was never random, just nonsensical (IIRC it had to do with hashes). Dicts being non-ordered was never part of the spec—if your code relied on that behavior, then that's just xkcd 1172.
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  571. Donation doesn't even mean money, it could be time, PRs or even bug reports. The issue is that legal departments hate when developers make open source contributions, because the very knowledge that BusinessCorp uses common_package is somehow a "trade secret."
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  572. Me but with gedit completely unironically. Thank God there's a flatpak of it.
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  573. You mean the ML-based filters and new generative AI plugins?
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  574.  @happygofishing  Yeah, that was the joke
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  575.  @bitterseeds  Ah, yup. I see the discussion that this is a firmware limitation. That really blows. Or doesn't, I guess, depending on what the fans are(n't) doing.
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  576.  @mskiptr  Brodie's video also taught me the joys of pipx. It's great for software that doesn't need a specific version of Python.
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  577. Please tell me that thing about Spark is a joke. I'd sooner trust an implementation written in LUA
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  578. A fish-lover wrote the Ansible playbooks for my former employer's entire data science stack, which meant that every time I logged into an EC2 I had no idea what the 🐠 was going on.
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  579. It's a shame that VLC can't be installed by default with most distros (due to codec licensing concerns).
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  580. Loved my M570, but I had to give it up due to twitching in my thumb, so now I'm all about the Logitech fingerballs.
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  581. If you hit Ctrl twice in Pantheon (elementary), it will draw a flashing circle around your cursor
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  582. You must not know very many programmers. Most people—Rust devs included—just use whatever tool is right-ish for the job.
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  583. Just FYI—if you're not already using conda, UV or Nix to manage your virtual environments, you really should.
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  584. Steam Input is glorious for i3/Sway, just saying.
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  585. Casr in point: the best guide I've found for setting up Pytorch-ROCm is the Arch Wiki.
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  586. Windows 7 was a mighty fine OS. Though I didn't use it much outside of VMs, my experience with it was that it did its job and otherwise stayed out of the way. That's something I can't even say about a lot of modern Linux distros these days.
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  587. That's actually not a bad idea... 3/4 always-on machines are debian-based.
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  588. Per the Arch announcement, 5.6.1-2 (and above) are fine. As Brodie mentioned, Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible—the new build is out of "an abundance of caution."
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  589. One of the first games I installed on my Steam Deck.
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  590.  @levygaming3133  Allegedly ROCm is supported on RDNA2 and above, and AMD does have drivers out for their XDNA "neural" coprocessors. I have a machine with a 70W 7840HS, so one of these days I do plan on actually trying to get an AI stack up and running on it, but mostly just for a laugh. I am blessedly pivoting away from that waste of space and trying to put as much distance as I can between myself and "AI" before the bubble bursts.
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  591.  @itjustcrashed  When I heard some company called Spigot or something was making a handheld, AMD-powered Linux computer I clicked "pre-order" so fast it was only after that I thought to ask what those joysticks were for. I'm only half joking, but I really did need to create a Steam account to order the Steam Deck.
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  592.  @akeem2983  IMO it falls in the same camp as kitty (the difference is that kitty doesn't look like dog-poop OOTB). Simiarly, rxvt falls in the same camp as xterm.
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  593. ​ @cameronbosch1213 AI is going to kill it. Few people want AI, fewer still wants always on AI, and nobody wants to be told that their perfectly good laptop is no longer supported because it can't run AI.
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  594. Ah, I've had similar issues on my main Arch machine which runs COSMIC with Pantheon for X11 fallback. Certain updates would completely corrupt the GTK themes, meaning anything that used those style sheets (file manager, terminal) looks like garbage, with many apps being plain unusable. Using Pantheon Tweaks to "switch back" to the correct theme fixed the issue, but I'm guessing flushing the cache would have had similar results. That's the great (and terrible) thing about Arch: beyond being on the bleeding edge, it's also Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. 🖖
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  595. ​ @volodymyrkilchenko I was going to ask the same question about pulse until I remembered that if you install pipewire-pulse (the best way to purge pulse pulse, if nothing else), then you don't have to change anything on your system—any audio routed through pulse will get redirected through pipewire as a drop-in replacement.
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  596. ​ @zvoidzy I have. But it led to me posting a bug report on the package's GitHub and getting some cool peeks behind the curtain at their development process, so I'm not complaining. It was also happy days when I got the notification that the bug was resolved and could celebrate by immediately -Syu'ing with no exclusions.
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  597.  @Luci-gh7ud  Ah, right. It's the new MacBook Air that ships with a 30W charger. That I regularly use to charge my Steam Deck. Because USB-C, baby!
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  598. I'm with Daniel (and Linus) on this. GitHub is too aggressive about forcing you to use Git their way. Hell, I remember when "rebase" and "squash" weren't options! For me, the worst part is that release notes are not stored as tag annotations, and the only reason why that I can fathom is really obnoxious vendor lock-in. I still use prefer GitHub over GitLab or bitbucket because the former make my eyes bleed and the latter is owned by the people who develop Jira, but lack of alternatives does not make GitHub good.
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  599. ​ @cameronbosch1213 not if you remember to include the Intel+Nvidia entries. It's super close, though.
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  600.  @bigpod  Depending on the packaging system, the post-scripts are still semi-structured, though.
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  601. There are so many videos showing you how to set up Bazzite or ChimeraOS on the current batch of 780M / 890M mini-PCs. I don't understand how the companies that make them don't just ship them that way.
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  602.  @cameronbosch1213  Some of them will sell you a barebones unit without an SSD, so I don't think it's that so much as not investing in an employee who knows desktop Linux.
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  603. I'm intrigued by the comment about there already being a Linux driver for the Xilinx co-processor and it theoretically being usable on 7040 devices—feel like looking into it and reporting back? Because if it is, it makes it 50x more likely that I'll be buying that AMD Framework laptop (or a GPD Win 2 Max 2) in the next year.
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  604. I will bet you a dollar that when Microsoft retires the NT kernel, they'll switch to using the Linux* kernel. Now, NT may be around for another five years or fifty, but I don't see Microsol developing another kernel. *Imagine if they didn't and adopted XNU or, even more hilariously, HURD!
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  605.  @kevinsteinman8967  Impressive. And props to your microSD card maker!
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  606. Eh. There are plenty of distros that "stay out of your way." Base Debian, Ubuntu Server—or even minimalized. That said, none of them have the documentation or the customization options (save NixOS or Gentoo).
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  607. This was such an interesting question, I looked it up, and the answer is: it depends on the distro. For some—like SUSE—the answer is "HECK NO!" For others like Arch, it's "Pls no," meaning you can find scripts to do it complete with all the reasons not to do it and the things to do instead (read: use /etc/aliases)
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  608.  @nervaproject  They'd prefer it. SteamOS doesn't make them any more money than Steam-on-Ubuntu does. And it's not like you can't use other game stores on the Steam Deck.
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  609.  @tablettablete186  I hear what you're saying, but to me these seem like signs of how far Ubuntu has fallen—I would never recommend Ubuntu to a newbie, but I would recommend in a heartbeat any of the de-snapified derivatives that don't run GNOME and have flatpak OOTB.
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  610.  @zxuiji  Is there a reason not to tie your versioning to the library version then?
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  611.  @us4tiyny4n  COSMIC is absolutely daily drivable if you don't mind dealing with jank and other "alpha problems" (I also suspect the Pop_OS! image is more stable than the Arch experience). Just make sure to install SteamTinkerLauncher so you can force gamescope.
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  612. While I think these use cases are noble, I do want to caution that a model being "open source," "permissively licensed" or "open weight" is only half the issue—if the training dataset is not open as well, there's a near certainty that the models were trained on copyrighted material. It's amazing that the computer vision models were trained on widely available open datasets, but they're coupling that capability with GPT-2, which was trained on CommonCrawl, which just indiscriminately scraped the web. CommonCrawl claims their dataset constitutes "fair use," but time will tell whether that's legally defensible—let alone morally justified. There's also the very real fact that transformer models are taking system resources and draining your battery / driving up your power bill. If you're vision impaired, I'm sure that's a fair trade-off. But for other people who neither need nor want alt text, performing this inferences should be opt-in and disabled by default. Anyway, that's my 2¢. Ultimately, Mozilla is being a lot more ethical here than pretty much anyone else. But every proposed application of GenAI should be met with at least some degree of skepticism.
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  613. ​ @Poldovico Yes, for this specific use case, I agree. But I also understand the perspective that there is no ethical use of system built unethically, and, at the very least, it should be a conversation.
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  614.  @Poldovico  Really bad example, since the current medical consensus is that the results of those studies have little—if any—scientific value (the results and conclusions were wrong and likely set back our understanding by decades). Also pretty bold of you to trot out that example to someone with my pfp and last name, but 🤷‍♂️
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  615.  @Poldovico  Again, I agree with you about the specific. However, I still think it's something we should always keep in mind in order to ensure that the benefits outweigh the potential harms (which, again! in this case they do!)
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  616. Have they already officially decided to skip GIMP 4 to jump straight to targeting GTK+-5?
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  617. IIRC Playstations have run some variant of FreeBSD forever. Honestly, I'm willing to bet that all the major studios would prefer to drop "PC" ports in favor of native Linux build if the market would support it.
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  618. Immutable filesystem based distros (ChimeraOS, Silverblue, SteamOS) say hi. Edit: Sorry--still trying to grok how NixOS uses immutability
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  619. ​ @SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Strange times indeed. Though maybe it's helpful for one's psyche to call Freund a Postgres developer who gets a paycheck from Microsol. Don't forget that Redmond runs GitHub and employs Guido van Rossum, along with dozens of other FOSS luminaries.
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  620. They're also clutch for binding to modifier keys when programming keyboard macros (RTS games, Minecraft Java, or, tiling WMs like Sway).
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  621. lol, imagine a world where every weapons targeting system and nuclear weapon schematic were public domain... I mean, I'm not against it per se...
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  622.  @arthurmoore9488  Can something be "confidential" and still public domain? That's the issue I was responding to.
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  623. That's awesome. I wonder if it's a backronym, though.
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  624. ​ @IbilisSLZ Well it's definitely not XP grass 😝—I still can't believe that desktop background was a real photo and not computer modeled.
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  625.  @FlanPoirot  Today I learned! I though it was the release codename (I'd seen references to "Epoch 2" scheduled for some time in 2025)
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  626.  @conjurermast  Agreed. But—and maybe I'm misremembering—doesn't Chromium receive pretty timely updates on all Debian/Ubuntu branches?
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  627. The problem is that SteamOS is optimized for one particular piece of hardware and one particular usecase—gaming. It's a 🐶 💩 choice of OS for software development, 3D design, AV editing or general productivity. And it's going to run like 🐶 💩 on any hardware that's not an APU codenamed after a FFVII character.
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  628.  @curious-pixelz  Only if you break immutability or set up Nix. Trust me—I tried to make the Steam Deck my daily driver, but it's so much more difficult than it's worth.
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  629.  @notuxnobux  That would explain my issues—I tend to prefer GTK applications and desktop environments. On the Wayland side, though, it's really hard to beat the simplicity of env = XCURSOR_SIZE,14 in my hyprland.conf (I know that's not font size, but you get the idea)
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  630. I mean, I never browse the AUR. I only packages from it that are: 1. Recommended by the Arch wiki, 2. Recommended by a credible (and recent) blog, or, 3. Linked to from the official documentation of a project I would otherwise be building from source I also always check the AUR page for: A. date of last version B. comments along the lines of "this broke my system and hard-bricked by pet badger."
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  631. (ffmpeg absolutely has a flatpaks, btw—it's a runtime / dependency for other flatpaks like Handbrake and OBS, IIRC)
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  632.  @anon_y_mousse  I mean the original authors.
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  633. ​ @eriklundstedt9469 I do, but unfortunately YT is eating them. Let me see if I can thread the needle. Search for "sway" + "nix" + "steam deck" for a great end-to-end tutorial that generalizes to Hyprland as well. Note that with SteamOS 3.5, the /nix partition is already set up.
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  634. CUDA is the API calls. ZLUDA is a way to translate those API calls to ROCm.
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  635.  @Roxor128  pacman logs (and, more drastically, Timeshift) have really been coming in clutch for me in these situations.
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  636. They even let you try-before-you-"buy" thanks to WSL! Honestly, between them owning GitHub and employing some of the best minds in Open Source (Guido van Rossum, the Postgres guy,...), Microsol has done more to further Linux development in the last five years than anyone short of Gabe Newell.
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  637. 75% of the time when I buy a game with a dedicated Linux port, it's a Unity game I force Steam to use the Windows version to get better stability.
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  638. I had no idea about kittens before yesterday's video. Forget icat—they have a remote files / ssh client! That's pretty baller.
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  639. ​ @DMSBrian24 if device IDs are unique, then the malicious actor would have to "clone" the allowed device. Which is obviously a risk, but it's less of a risk than the "charging cable" you bought from Andy's Web Services (& Tchotchky Emporium) installing spyware.
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  640. ​ @insu_na I thought PKGBUILDs cloned the repos. I assumed the 5.6.1-2 builds were just scrubbing the dormant payloads.
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  641. Taking the time to set up a good display manager has been totally worth it for me in terms of being able to trial different DEs / WMs. Finding one that works with all your sessions can be tough (ly didn't work for Pantheon; LightDM is hot garbage didn't support COSMIC), but SDDM seems to work with pretty much anything.
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  642.  @joshallen128  Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but the only way I see to solve this problem would be for GPLv4 to be explicitly incompatible with components that didn't cary the same end-user protections found under GPLv3. That means no Linux kernel, no WINE or Proton (LGPL), no scikit-learn (BSD 3-Clause). That means it's not happening.
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  643. Been using COSMIC since Friday, and I've been positively giddy about it. Hearing your critiques, I clocked, "Oh yeah, I had that issue¹, oh for sure, that would be nice," but it didn't change my glowingly positive opinion. About halfway through, I realized why the cognitive dissonance—I don't love COSMIC despite the bugs, but because of them. Since I grew out my neckbeard and actually started caring about my DE (ca 2020), everything I've used has been boring. Either: - Boring because it just works (Budgie, Pantheon, sway), or - Boring because it requires an hour of reading through config files and recommend extras (Hyprland, KDE) COSMIC is the first DE I've used since, I wanna say, Mir that has felt exciting, partially because the learning curve is gentle (config through a generous, but not overwhelming number of GUIs; keyboard shortcuts and window management features I'm still discovering on my own; hybrid tiler with training wheels) and because things don't just work (mostly it's been Wayland issues with flatpaks), it's exciting, challenging and rewarding when I find a workaround or solution. This is the "OG" Linux experience that got me hooked in 2006 with Dapper Drake—90% daily driveable with 10% charlie foxtrot—and I'm so delightfully surprised I get to experience it again. ¹Not the screen flickering though—AMD 6700XT here has been rock solid with dual display. Especially since OBS didn't capture it, are you sure you don't have to loose monitor cable?
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  644.  @JR-uy2nd  Some, but not all. Take Brodie, Louis Rossmann or anyone else who just provides commentary on current events. OBS for recording and a compositing editor like Kdenlive will meet their needs. And OBS + the community Stream Deck UI means that Linux is viable for streamers.
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  645.  @jarod1701  I know you said "most" users, but the continued existence of the Mac Studios and Mac Pros suggests the market segment very much exists.
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  646. ​ @terrydaktyllus1320 Steam supports DRM but does not require it. I have bought plenty of Steam games that are DRM-free and can be launched outside of the Steam launcher. Nothing against GOG, btw—I wish them all the best. Competition is good, and we should count ourselves lucky that we have choices.
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  647.  @dispatch-indirect9206  It's actually more nefarious than that—strict interpretation of NC means: - I can't distribute this content from my own site if I serve ads, even if the ads don't actually cover the server costs - I can't use this content as sample assets in a training I teach to my OnlyFans Patreon members - I can't post a video containing the content to YouTube, because YouTube may make revenue from it! I don't really think most people using CC-BY-NC really intend those restrictions—I think they're just trying to prevent people from selling their art on Redbubble—and CC really needs a new variant that's better thought out.
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  648. 5:30 "Back then" nothing--my previous employer as recently as 2018 wouldn't allow us to use any GPL libraries because of IP fears, even if it was an internal-facing product, and even if it was GPLv3 which explicitly carves out a source code exception for SaaS (hence the need for Affero).
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  649. As long as the disk isn't encrypted, though, you can always grab a recovery image, chroot into your system, then passwd (or install and configure sudo). That's what happened to me on my first Arch install (in a VM, so I really could have just wiped and started from scratch). That was an educational day, as it was the one on which I learned that Arch base doesn't include any networking or DNS tools 😂
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  650. I've had such a hard time finding a DM that works with my sessions. LightDM doesn't work with COSMIC (or GNOME), ly doesn't work with Pantheon. GDM is so far the only one that works with everything, which is annoying, because it is not a good DM in terms of multi-monitor, ease of configuration or just general UX.
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  651.  @cameronbosch1213  I stopped looking once GDM worked. I'm not a fan of KDE's general aesthetic, but TIL that SDDM isn't actually a Qt/KDE project, so I should try it.
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  652. Been a few weeks, but I gotta say GitHub handled this really well. I've been part of other MFA roll-outs where it wasn't clear when or whether keys or tokens (like those used for automated CI/CD actions) would be affected, and GitHub in contrast made everything transparent, workflow-friendly and, more importantly, logical (no security theater). Credit where due, Microsoft—this was expertly handled.
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  653.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Interesting. Can't find it after about a 15m Google.* Do you remember when or in what context he said that? *All I could find is him expressing concern that Linux under GPLv2 is likely illegal in various parts of the world, him claiming that Linus probably didn't understand the part of the v3 draft he was upset by and the results of an audit of BusyBox which found that none of his original code was in the current (2006) codebase.
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  654. Out of the loop—what's Phoronix done? I've just been using them for the Phoronix Test Suite and keeping up-to-date on kernel changes, so this is the first negative I've heard.
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  655. ​ @Tweaker420666 That's why when someone asks what operating system I use I just send them the neofetch combined with pacman -Qe
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  656. I thought the issue with VLC was codecs and licensing—like, even with distros that don't have a problem with non-FOSS in their official repos, I thought there were legal reasons it couldn't be included in the base install without having to send MPEG-LA a nickel every time the ISO was downloaded. If that's not the case, then I really don't get why more distros don't ship with VLC installed by default...
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  657.  @max_im_um  I was fine with them collecting my data at the time because at that point everyone using Chrome was serving as a beta tester. This was also squarely in Google's "Don't be evil" era, when they had an unparalleled level of public goodwill.
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  658. I can't play Switch games on a PS5, therefore the Nintendo Switch isn't viable. When you can buy an SFFPC for $500, throw Linux on it, stick it under the TV, and run 95% of your Steam games, 90% of console games through emulation and 75% of other PC games through Bottles or Lutris...
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  659. That's funny—the way I discovered this channel was when searching for an explainer on Wayland vs. X (and also for an explainer on XWayland).
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  660. I've been running SDXL directly through IPython and the HuggingFace API on a 6700XT. Takes about a minute per image, which I find perfectly reasonable. And, more importantly, power consumption is so low: using a kill-a-watt, I've never seen total wall power exceed ~450W.
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  661. ​ @malcaniscsm5184 Garuda ships with PyTorch-ROCm??
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  662.  @JuanExplorador  Imagine it's just Pat doing it on his own. He's depressed as Hell by all the layoffs, reorgs and project-killing he's been forced to do, so he's trying to ease his conscience and replenish his soul by personally resurrecting ZLUDA. Yes, I realize I'm literally writing corporate fanfiction. Please don't take it seriously.
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  663. Pre-commit is 🐐ed in my experience. The only issue I've had is when I've forgotten to install it 😅, but you can actually enforce it (and even do autofixes) through CI. To ​ @hubertnnn 's point, you do have to properly vet your hooks, but ones I rely on have been rock solid and well-maintained.
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  664. On the one hand, yeah—this is one step towards a future where corporate and government laptops run Linux. On the other, I'll be very happy to disable this feature on my 50kg battlestation that lives in my basement and has zero information on it more sensitive than my wedding photos.
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  665. I have a Hugo-based blog that gets rebuilt through a GitHub Action. It always uses the latest versions of everything, and that's very much by choice. It's also nice, though, that a failed build will keep the content stale instead of taking down the site completely.
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  666. You can also launch KDE (or GNOME or, in my case, Sway) directly from Gaming Mode as a "non-Steam game." I believe it has to be a DE/WM that supports Wayland, even though it's technically running in an XWayland container (gamescope). Possibly it's not rootfull?
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  667.  @Deinorius  XWayland doesn't work in all cases, especially for multi-window applications. Explicitly for SimTower (also, say, Photoshop 7.0 which I have legally and used for over a decade), XWayland + WINE doesn't have support for menus in window decorations.
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  668.  @Deinorius  I mean applications that would open as multiple windows. Sometimes this would be floating toolbars, other times it would be things like "preview" windows that could be put on another monitor. Note: this was the default mode for GIMP until recently.
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  669.  @Deinorius  If you have GIMP installed on your system right now, you can still switch back to the old mode by unchecking the Windows → Single-Window Mode option in the image menu bar.
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  670. Brodie, are you having the issue where menu dropdowns and right-click context menus refuse to render? Tenacity, LibreOffice and a few other applications are completely unusable for me, and since Alpha 5, I've been splitting way more time between COSMIC (which I do daily) and my Pantheon fallback. I'm glad they're rolling out accessibility features, and the new changes to workspace have been a godsend, but I'd honestly prefer a less feature rich MVP that was a lot more stable and bug-free, so I hope they're not incurring too much tech debt.
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  671.  @l-const  If the issue is still there when COSMIC hits Beta, I might just go ahead and do a full system wipe and reinstall. It's been about 2-1/2 years, so I'll totally buy that there's some misconfigured cruft somewhere.
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  672.  @hermdude  Oh, interesting. That's an avenue I could explore. Not stacking—I'm almost always using tiling—but I can definitely mess around with the "focus follows" settings and see if I have the issue when an application is the only one active.
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  673.  @mmstick  Thanks! Looking forward to seeing if that fixes it when it gets merged. I also want to be clear: I'm a yuuge COSMIC Stan. I love what y'all are building enough to daily drive it, warts and all. So I really hope it doesn't sound like I'm just relentlessly complaining.
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  674. Looks like HX 370 mini-PCs are on the market now, though they're about double the price point of a high-end console.
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