Ah, and please add the stock -Suy process to the pain points. It alters the local database even when downloads haven’t fully finished yet (as it is out-of-the-box at least), so if downloads fail mid-ways you have to remember to not dare installing any particular package before a full upgrade still. If you forget, you’re toast.

Seconding that. I’ve just read through the website. Got interested. Then my eyes went to the top panel again finally, I’ve read “GitHub”, and my thoughts are “Huh? But this mismatches the rest of the page, especially with the AI stance and some push for simplicity combined with competence.”. Went back here to write about it.

/me a ~10 year old ArchLinux user (using Arch for this long, my Earth age nobody cares about including me anyway). I’m thinking if I wanna actually try this for real. I currently have manually written packages that define the OS dependencies and configuration, and I don’t like the mutability of everything, the default update handling of no-longer-dependencies, the .pacnew… I still like and appreciate Arch obviously, but the pain points connect.

A magic fairy flew by and dropped this link here: https://www.gog.com/

Just saying! The world of truly owned games awaits you. (Well, second to fully open-source ones where you’d have the same rights as the developers.)

Among Ubuntu-Debian-ArchLinux, with whom I have actual hands-on and long-term experience, I’d rather recommend Arch if you can survive its installation process. Otherwise I’d think about Cachy or Ubuntu - based again on my limited experience in Linux, even if spanning 15 years and really liking it.

To directly answer the question: within the last 3 or 6 months (I’m not sure precisely), they banned multiple youtubers that were placing ads to work for Russian Alabuga and it’s drone production. It’s an example of using their weight, in this case even something good.

On the other hand, I mostly actually agree with you. While I do think that they are picking their battles, I also think which battles they go into is usually not in your or mine interests. Instead, the battles are frequently in the interests of the richest google investors (think 10M+) and the US government, as of late. The Alabuga case above is a good and noteworthy exception.

I disagree. While it would be correct in some way, it would be a different political movement.

With “let’s introduce Linux”, it’s easy to stop mid-way and too early. For example, at 1 hour per week for 1 semester once during the whole school.

With “ban Windows [from school computers and as mandatory software]”, the political agenda is clear and the technical goal is clear. And the benefit is clear, too.

That actually makes a lot of sense, if you remove concepts such as “but Windows is already customary here” from your head. From scratch, you’d never want to do this.

If such a petition exists for the Netherlands or EU-wide, I’d sign and subscribe/support.

What is the AI isage disclosure for this project?

Indeed. For those who are relatively new to IT: it’s a reference Embrace, Extend and Extinguish, a strategy known and legally confirmed to be used by Microsoft.

I don’t have real knowledge, but I could imagine both. E.g. nvidia may not want to raise an official ticket and then get a public decline. That could be a story that you can refer to. They may, at least for now, want to go the proprietary way, as if it’s a Windows installer (lol).

Sounds interesting! And welcome to Lemmy if you’re a new user indeed! (Otherwise, cheers.) Few personal thoughts below.

Atomically upgradable images and the added security sound interesting to me. I’m not specialized enough to say whether that’s really going to help for my threat model, personally. I mean, in /boot I currently only have the Linux images. Verifying those seems sufficient, because the actual system is only decrypted afterwards when I enter my password.

I must also say, accepting a concept is harder for me if the proposed line of thought is “GNOME OS is to be loved, and %project_name% is a bit like that”. Because personally, I remember Gnome since version 2 and I dislike what they’ve done with the system since. I only use gnome-disks from the entirety of them. From KDE I use more (kate), and from XFCE I use way way more. And I also dislike how GNOME pushed systemd onto all of us as a hard requirement. Not that systemd is necessarily bad, but the push for it didn’t feel right.

Yup, that’s simply a deal breaker. [For me].

If it’s for you, too, you could maybe even mark the post with [SOLVED] or “Update:…”. If you wish. No obligation.

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“Frame” is AI slop. I think it was explained that the whole or most of the project is written by Claude Code. https://github.com/isene/frame#license

How many bugs there are and for how long it’s going to be maintained, anyone can guess themselves.

Interesting, checked it now. Phoenix: https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/

It’s Wayland though (and partially Xorg)? I mean, the protocol that the client has to speak with gamescope is wayland (or, somewhat indirectly, Xorg).

I’m curious about your statement … (on the bugs in kanata)

I’m on Linux, and I get hit by this bug a lot: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/discussions/422

The official work-around is to use an additional F24 key press-release sequence: https://jtroo.github.io/config.html#tap-hold but that works poorly for me. Some apps are messed up slightly because of this (editors such as kate which stops understanding Ctrl Z properly), some work smooth, and some even break entirely to the point of becoming unusable (terminals such as raw tty3 or xfce4-terminal).

I’m curious about your statement

Adding to the comments about VIA and QMK, you can also use something on the computer itself to do ergonomics tricks and making F7 usable again.

I’m in particular using kanata, which then works on everything from notebook keyboards to custom ones. I’m not 100% happy with it and in fact considering to write my own software for this, but it’s good-enough for basic usage. It might be good-enough for you. kmonad is less buggy but has fewer features (definitely enough for F7 though).

Personally, I was surprised that you get as much help – and frequently even more – in channels that are like 1% of the corresponding reddit ones.

I think the reason is that total numbers mean little, and your ratio of reading-to-responding matters the most. If you’re surrounded by people who like to help each other, then they can easily process and actually read all new posts, and reply to newbies. If you’re surrounded by people who just like to skim through and not dive in to the actual question/post, you get brainless upvotes/downvotes and of course frustration.

For me, lemmy is not flawless, but it’s pretty good.

UPDATE: be careful to not over-read simply “Local” news, but stay on the topics that interest you though. Otherwise, you may get overwhelmed by bots or propaganda, which also exists here. E.g. you read your stuff and then suddenly encounter “Russia Today” and such? Block both the author and the channel immediately. I’d recommend that at least - your choice ofc.

Maybe some AI crawlers started to honestly report Linux instead of Windows as they possibly did before? Otherwise such a quick spike is hard to explain (unbelievable). Or did I miss any big news lately?

//I’m on Linux in the last 15 years and I don’t even care that much about what unrelated to me people use, although I always do help fellow Linux-ers when I encounter them in the wild.