The overall uutils suite is faster then GNU Coreutils already and will only get better

just did a quick benchmark.

uutils cat is 2x slower.

This is the unknown-linux-gnu release, the musl one is likely slower but didn’t check.

# do an ls to list files in the current working directory
ls .

That’s the real location of the certs, but once again they usually make a symlink in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

One library that is problematic is p11-kit, this one usually comes with a different path to the certs hardcoded and does not respect env variables unless it is compiled with a specific flag which no distro uses.

So I had to do this hack to fix that library.

Most distros have /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt, sometimes it is a symlink but that location is there in ubuntu, alpine, fedora and arch.

edit: Also you can usually change this location with an env variable.

You want me to track the progress of 4 bugs in Sway? Such a powerful argument.

4 bugs discovered in less than 48 hours of use.

How about don’t use Sway?

I don’t, I’m on i3wm as result.

For tiler lovers, Niri and Hyprland are both great.

Tried hyprland as well, it is useless.

Hyprland is such a meme, that the config file doesn’t allow chaining multiple actions to a single keybind, you have to instead repeat the same keybind several times in the config lmao.

Also in hyprland you cannot move a floating window between displays using the move left and right commands, this is because the action does not move the window in that direction but rather to the left or right side of the display, meaning the window gets stuck at the border between the two displays and does not move anymore 😹

Also this whole disaster that I was a victim of, the documentation was insanely outdated and someone had to repeat the dev about the issue: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-wiki/issues/242

Even more hilarious. Looks like you found an even crappier Wayland compositor than Sway.

It works lol

My issue is not if an app works on X11 or wayland, but the terrible implementations that wayland that lack even the most basic features.

My point is that everybody else is happy leaving you behind

And once again doesn’t remove the fact that wayland still sucks 😆

I have had corrupt filesystem errors with BTRFS on both of my computers due to power outages and one hard shutdown (had to)

When did this happen? what error did you get?

Btrfs will explicitly go read only when it detects corruption, which is a good thing, with EXT4 you don’t know what is going on until it is too late.

fwiw the only time I managed to get info from an user that had “issues” with btrfs, I discovered that what had happened is that they moved the partition that had snapshots, and if you don’t know it, this is catastrophic because this unlinks all the snapshots and suddenly everything would take many times more storage.

Used ext4 for YEARS (I am old) and never had these issues with such frequency

The short time I’ve used EXT4 running into bad superblock errors was something that happened almost every week, but in the end I was always able to repair the disk and recover everything.

I’m from Venezuela, power failures are common here.

especially if you ever do a hard-shutdown, prone to power-outages, etc. It will scramble your system files.

Btrfs is made precisely so that a power outages don’t do that! and you don’t end up like ext4 with bad superblock nonsense.

Been using Btrfs for over 3 years at this point, 0 issues and over 400 unsafe shutdowns: https://imgur.com/a/AKXFdKb

In fact it was able to detect when my previous ssd was dying, I thought Btrfs was spewing nonsense until the next day when smartctl began to report issues as well lol.

There are lots of issues with Wayland. They will be fixed

Remind me 2030 if these issues I have get fixed:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8000

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8001

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8002

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191 I later learned the reason sway is using capabilities is to fix performance issues, which yeah still has several…

One issue the wayland proponents fail to notice is that the ecosystem itself is fragmented, you have several DEs/WM with their own implementations and bugs that will likely never be fixed.

I’m an i3wm user, my only option to switch to is sway, doesn’t matter if some of the issues I have are fixed in kwin or mutter, it has to be fixed in sway.

But most Linux desktop users use Wayland already.

Most desktop users use windows, and they are happy with that, why don’t you stop using linux and move to windows?

Everyday there are more and more apps that are Wayland only. Before 2030, that list will include all GNOME and most GTK apps. Are people really going to give up all these applications because of some obscure advantage they perceive in X11?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/12to11-git

people writing these articles do not realize that they are already in the minority and have already been left behind.

Doesn’t remove the fact that wayland still sucks 😆

So… why not create a secure script repository? On a central website you would create an account for a project and submit a script. On the other side we would provide a binary client that will download and execute the script (we can call it grunt from get and run it). So as a user you would run for example grunt rustup and it would get and execute the script created by rustup project. I imagine it shouldn’t be that difficult to add a tiny package to the major distros.

https://github.com/pkgforge/soar

However instead of running scripts on your machine, soar runs them in CI and stores the binaries for you to download.

If you have binary that is hardcoded to look for some files/libs in a certain path, you can overwrite that path with sed directly lol. You just need to make sure to keep the string length the same.

sed -i s|/usr|././|g will change /usr for the current working dir for example.

All the issues bazzite has with the Steam flatpak are solved by this AppImage

They have a Glfw build, it is a lot smaller and faster but they don’t want to support it.

Unfortunately they decided to use the slow bloated mess that is GTK4.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/5592#discussioncomment-13186436

it allows the same packages to run on any Linux kernel (any Linux distro). That is pretty useful.

flatpak itself depends on namespaces, so saying that it works on any kernel is quite a stretch.

Can flatpak do this? This is a GIMP3 appimage running on ubuntu 10.04 without any container:

The kernel is so old that even the appimage runtime itself complains of missing functions and has to fallback to a workaround.

UPDATE: flatpak can’t work because bubblewrap itself can’t:

PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS is only available since kernel 3.5