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Presi300, in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Wayland on intel is the same as it is on AMD, and has been for years now… I don’t really get why they would say that it’s broken…

Cralder, in wayland, not even once

This gets posted like once per week and this is inaccurate as shit.

“Wayland is bad, it can’t run xorg programs”

Ok but there is an exact copy of the program that is made for Wayland. It’s the same argument that Windows users use to discredit Linux .

“Linux is bad because it can’t run programs that were made for Windows”

backhdlp, in 10 YouTube Channels Linux Users Should Explore
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

TL;DR:

  1. The Linux Cast
  2. The Linux Experiment
  3. Veronica Explains
  4. DistroTube
  5. TechHut
  6. Chris Titus Tech
  7. Nicco Loves Linux
  8. Gardiner Bryant
  9. Learn Linux TV
  10. InfinitelyGalactic
bbbhltz, in What do you think about this?
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d5b2e59d-8e47-45be-b2c7-8d633f5ca6c2.webp

Don’t like that he called some distros pointless. I would have found a better word. Lots on there that I have never used, obviously, because I am not a sadist. I couldn’t tell you what would be good for gaming or not, but flatpaks have made some things easier (or so I’ve heard, don’t quote me on that). And Fedora is a “Devil?”

Anyway. While I don’t watch this channel ever, I am aware of it as a reputable channel for things like this, so it might be trustworthy.

Why are Debian and Arch at the top? Debian is one of the grandaddies. Many distros are built on Debian—MX, Mint, Ubunu, Pop, Zorin, Neon, etc.—and there are many packages in the repos, which are divided into stable, and testing, and unstable sections. So, a Debian base can be stable or extremely up to date. The Debian community and maintainers are another reason the distro is so well-liked. Arch also has a large selection of packages, an excellent wiki, and the AUR to have access to anything missing from regular repos. Manjaro and dozens of others are based on Arch as well, meaning the community is rather large.

No need to follow rules and conventions though. There are many people, myself included, that use Alpine for their desktop because the packages are very up to date.

Papercrane, (edited )

Interesting that you said Arch has a good wiki. Maybe its just because its not common for beginners to start with Arch but when i read through the installation guide i noticed that there is no explanation on how to create a bootable usb in windows, at least the part for how to verify the signature wasnt explained for a windows user. For Linux Mint it was pretty much at the top, how to create a bootable usb in windows. I was very suprised that this guy called fedora and ubuntu the “devil” when i saw many people here use fedora.

One question though, you talked about packages and how they are sometimes different. How much had the amount of options for packages an effect on you, or anyone, while choosing your distro?

bbbhltz,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

How much had the amount of options for packages an effect on you, or anyone, while choosing your distro?

The number of packages was not something I looked at. I checked the availability of the packages I wanted, and whether or not they we’re up to date.

When I switched to the current distribution I’m using, I did not plan on using it for more than a few days. I just wanted a quick and easy way to try out an up-to-date version of a DE on a low-powered device and have the newest version of the browser I use. It worked so I put it on my main laptop and it still works

If I were going for numbers, Nix has the most I think. The AUR is up there as well. Debian is in 3rd place. But, like I said, I didn’t really think about that.

BaalInvoker, in 10 YouTube Channels Linux Users Should Explore

For those who speaks portuguese or for those who don’t mind to read subtitle to understand the video, I really recommend Diolinux

For me this is the best channel about linux and technology.

jajak98082, in Rewriting nouveau’s Website (drivers for NVIDIA)

Lmao he’s the guy who closed the vrr issue because he was so butthurt

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6b7ad878-a30f-45e1-8eb8-6d596fa71327.jpeg

spez,

I really, really hope it’s just one dev and not the entire foundation. Good thing they have got some competition now.

drwankingstein,

Typical Gnome dev: Toxic, bashing community, blaming community, calling features that community wants stupid

Also Gnome Dev: Why do we get so much flak?

InstallGentoo,

I love how they act hostile to users and developers of other projects and pretend to be surprised when the same is reciprocated to them

drwankingstein,

Right? It’s actually kind of funny how childish they are

semperverus,
@semperverus@lemmy.world avatar

Peak YandereDev energy.

TeryVeneno,

Source: “I made it up”

jajak98082,

Nice try

TeryVeneno,

Try? What you posted is not an example of toxicity. You just came here to be mean and rude and not discuss someone actually giving up their time to do something that benefits everyone. I’ll never understand why people go out of their way to be mean when there is good news.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,

Oh wow! It’s you! From the tweets!!

davidfield,
@davidfield@pebble.social avatar

@TeryVeneno @jajak98082
Amen to that, head to Twitter/X if you want to be that person 😄

drwankingstein, (edited )

Oh look, the gnome defense squad has come out.

Gnome devs insulting cosmic devs on the public gnome matrix: nitter.net/jeremy_soller/…/1577061838910390272

Gnome devs slandering S76: …gnome.org/…/system76-how-not-to-collaborate/

Gnome devs calling arch wiki contibs clowns: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4829

Gnome devs making lying about wayland consensus and calling application broken when they arent: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217

Ah yes, I for sure “made it up”

jajak98082, (edited )

I wonder how they’re going to spend the 1 million euros they recently received

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/4ec61da5-41c8-48cc-93c0-fbcb130a5327.png

danielfgom,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Immediate pay rise, lots of lunches, lots of “team retreats” to exotic locations etc

It’s not like they need to spend time thinking of new features for Gnome because all they do is look at Apple and copy that.

ForbiddenRoot, (edited )

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  • danielfgom, (edited )
    @danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

    😂😂 Well said bro!

    Your nailed it. They are experts at removing features. Hmmm, that reminds me of someone…🍏

    LoafyLemon, in Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon?

    It is entirely plug and play.

    captain_aggravated,
    @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Like there’s an Nvidia control panel that ended up on my machine by itself, that’s not going to be a problem?

    rescue_toaster,

    Not an issue. I did the same thing a while ago, switched from nvidea to amd. After i confirmed the radeon was working fine i purged all the nvidea stuff

    phx,

    Everyone that - depending on how the Nvidia stuff was installed - they may need to uninstall that first as it may have changed some libraries.

    AbidanYre, in Looking for a "couch laptop"

    The pinebooks are pretty inexpensive. I can’t speak to quality or usability though

    2xsaiko, in Bcache is amazing!: Making HDD way faster!
    @2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    I use ext4 on bcache with an SSD and 5TB HDD for my home drive. Can recommend. Gonna try the new bcachefs soon too.

    Uluganda,

    I’m using btrfs so I can add more drive on the fly. Saving myself from a headache. But I think bcachefs will make it infinitely easier.

    phx, in Should I install Linux on my smartphone?

    Phones aren’t like old laptops. They’re a different architecture entirely, and the hardware is often somewhat custom to the device. Building an image that would even boot on it would be a challenge, much less getting stuff like the touch-screen etc working

    TootSweet, in on arch btw.

    I’m with you. One day I was like “I wonder if Wayland’s mature enough to use as my daily driver now” and installed Sway on a Raspberry Pi. I used DWM before, but now Sway’s my default.

    The only issue I still have is that I wish Zoom and ffmpeg supported the wlroots-specific screen capture methods. Those are the only things lacking that are keeping me on i3/X11 on the machine I use for work.

    madasi, in The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for nearly 20 years

    I took the title from the link, which doesn’t exactly match the title on the page. That’s why one says 20 years and the other says 15 years.

    j4k3, in [Coreboot] Can I coreboot my laptop? Acer Aspire A515-47
    @j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

    When I was looking into this for current hardware it seemed impossible. I gave up after realizing even System 76 has gone proprietary with their boot loader implementation, especially with their towers which are based on commercially available hardware. It is really shitty theft of ownership bullshit IMO. Maybe check in with Leah Rowe at Libreboot and see if she has any ideas.

    nixcamic, in One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?

    Why would you put home on ext4 instead of btrfs?

    mambabasa,
    @mambabasa@slrpnk.net avatar

    I didn’t need home folder snapshots.

    nixcamic,

    Btrfs offers a lot more than just snapshots.

    mambabasa,
    @mambabasa@slrpnk.net avatar

    Like what?

    nixcamic,

    Data integrity protection, higher resiliency, less chance of being corrupted, etc.

    mambabasa,
    @mambabasa@slrpnk.net avatar

    But I heard ext4 was more stable. What are the trade offs?

    ares35, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software
    @ares35@kbin.social avatar

    do they also lock their sources behind a subscriber agreement that prohibits redistribution of source like ibm's redhat has done?

    Ganbat,

    RHL: We’re locking down our source because people are using it without contributing!

    Also RHL: Thanks for your contribution, but we’re not interested until we have someone ready to pay us for your labor.

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