mrbigmouth502

What’s the TL;DR version of this?

This will be interesting as well. Your Linux desktop will be able to remember window positions and sizes across restarts. So if you are meticulous about an organized layout where the terminal is on the left and the browser is on the right, it will be the same even after your system restarts. Note that session survives temporary app closures, too.

It’s about freaking time.

EDIT: I just realized that KWin has already had this for a year. Then again, maybe this means it’ll actually get used now?

Even if their software stack isn’t totally FOSS, I’m still happy to see a potential challenger to Google and Apple in the smartphone space. Duopolies suck.

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Don’t comply in advance, that’s what I say. Unfortunately, that’s what systemd is doing, and what archinstall, xdg-desktop-portal, and Freedesktop.org are on the verge of doing.

For the vast majority of people who don’t live in California, including myself, California law can go fly a kite.

You raise a very good point. systemd isn’t the only thing we should be bringing attention to. Everything in the Linux ecosystem that’s pushing for age verification/attestation should have attention brought to it.

The problem with btrfs subvolumes is that you have to use btrfs. I’m good with Ext4. It’s nice and reliable.

This is one of the beautiful things about open source. If the original devs do something stupid, the community can fork.

why does it need to accommodate compatibility for archaic devices/software?

Because that’s one of Windows’ selling points. It has unusually good backwards compatibility for a mainstream operating system. Compare that to iOS, Android, MacOS, or Linux, where the infrastructure needed to run older binaries often doesn’t exist in the first place.

Linux is a weird case, because thanks to Wine, it actually runs a lot of old games better than Windows, but this doesn’t do anything to help compatibility with older Linux binaries.

I’m pissed that systemd has made a change that paves the way for age verification, and is unwilling to go back on it. The change they added may not do much on its own, but I worry about future consequences.

Since it’s rare for large organizations and projects to go back on things like this, I’m considering moving my systems over to non-systemd distros. At the very least, I hope a fork without the userdb birthDate variable hits the AUR.

It had its place in 2015. It was my introduction to Arch-based distros. Nowadays, I use EndeavourOS.

I like Flatpaks. They integrate fairly well, they can be used on a variety of different distros, you can install them without root permissions, and they’ll often “just work”, even when the same apps installed through your system’s normal repos have issues.

However, if they have one significant drawback, it’s that they’re a pig on resources. They use a lot of storage, and when you’re on a resource-constrained system, they’ll use more RAM and generally run slower than apps installed from the normal repos. (inb4 anyone says “unused RAM is wasted RAM.”)

I watched a video about those the other day. You can’t just slap Windows or whatever on one; you have to use Linux with a specific patched kernel in order to use them. Even then, there are severe graphical issues with Unity games, and you’re not getting the full performance of a PS5 since these APUs are cut down to a degree.

Here’s the video in question: https://youtu.be/_zbw_A9dIWM