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

@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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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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@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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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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 @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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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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@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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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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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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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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 @malcaniscsm5184 Garuda ships with PyTorch-ROCm??
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@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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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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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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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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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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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@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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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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