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pimeys, (edited ) in I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec

Yep. I switched from xorg/i3 years ago, and it was already super snappy back then compared to the previous setup. Today everything works with Wayland, and I don’t really need to think about it anymore.

But, ymmv. I avoid Nvidia’s products, which helps a lot for the stability.

lightnegative, in Fedora 40 Change Proposal: Systemd Security Hardening

Damn security guys are trying to justify their existence again.

My Fedora is single user and the system handily comes with one called ‘root’

IAm_A_Complete_Idiot, (edited )

This is good for precisely the single user case - potentially malicious services on your system can’t view things they otherwise would be able to, or access resources they don’t need. Even if it’s under the same user.

maryjayjay, (edited )

Can’t tell whether you are joking or not

milkjug, (edited ) in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?

Absolutely, Pop!_OS is literally made to just work™. I would recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone looking to get into Linux. The out-of-the-box experience is probably second-to-none.

NightFantom, in I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec

Got any links to resources you used / recommend for this / further reading?

WeLoveCastingSpellz, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.

Nobara! For gaming it is just incredible. But if you have an old GPU any distro is ok I suppose, maybe Mint?

mintycactus, in Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
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  • mustbe3to20signs,

    I think this is because of a recent German court ruling making DNT legally binding in Germany.

    Rotkehle,

    good call

    Rotkehle,

    in Germany there’s a (somewhat) new law that makes it mandatory for all websites to ask you if it can store cookies on your harddrive. since then every time you visit a new page or on a new installation you have to click through three pop-ups, it’s sooooo annoying to navigate the internet since then. so yeah this feature is more then welcome here ^^

    kurcatovium,

    I think it’s the same for whole EU. I’m forced to click even though I’m not from Germany.

    moitoi,

    Gdpr thing

    Gutless2615,

    Nope it’s the e privacy directive, a common mistake is to blame the GDPR for that though.

    jonne,

    I’m not in the EU and those banners are still everywhere.

    Rotkehle,

    okay. my bad it’s apparently EU wide. so then it doesn’t make sense for Firefox to only do that in Germany.

    Pantherina,

    And the thing is afaik in the EU websites cant save anything nonessential unless you actively opt-in. In other countries its opt-out. So blocking cookie banners while not strictly cleaning or blocking may be harmful for privacy

    napoleonsdumbcousin, (edited )

    I read in another article that it is just supposed to be a first test of the feature before the global rollout.

    Vincent,

    As I understand it, the blocker has website-specific rules to automatically click the right buttons. For the first release, they've probably primarily tested those with German websites. I assume that if it works well there and they've ironed out most bugs, we can see it roll out more widely.

    makingStuffForFun,
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    What is that all about? Geo fencing privacy enhancements?

    Are they trying to keep Google happy or something.

    dr_jekell,
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    Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

    Mon0,

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  • lemmyvore,

    I think (and hope) tha the logical conclusion of the DNT lawsuit v LinkedIn will be that DNT will be deemed necessary and sufficient, and that this setting will replace all the cookie banners. But even if that comes to pass it will be years before all the banners will be gone.

    Rotkehle,

    okay that makes sense.

    donio, (edited ) in Can I mod my Thinkpad Keyboard to work in another laptop?

    There is a fairly compact Thinkpad USB keyboard which would be much easier to connect if you can make it fit somehow. It has the trackpoint but no trackpad.

    Pantherina,

    Oh that looks like my T430’s. Damn old tbh. And it is veery loud, even though better than the Clevo’s

    stellarforce, in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?

    Yes. I switched to PopOS a few months ago from Arch seeking a "just works" OS for gaming. It's been great for me.

    db2, in I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec

    One of the advantages Wayland has is not having kludges 42 levels deep. But of course Y-Windows had that advantage also.

    donio,

    not having kludges 42 levels deep

    There are already almost a hundred extension protocols and you need dozens of them to implement just barebones desktop functionality. If you look under the surface the Wayland ecosystem is arguably already more complex than X11 ever was and it’s only going to get worse.

    Dirk,
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    “iT’S oNlY ThE aVAiLablE pRotOcOlS! YOu DOn’T nEED to iMPlEMeNt aLL Of ThEm”

    Also: “X11 Is deAD aNd waYlAnD iS THe fUtURE!”

    0x4E4F,

    Meeh, I still use X 🤷.

    Dirk, (edited )
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    On my computer I also use X with my perfect Openbox setup.

    I tried Hyprland and labwc but both failed miserably. None of my main tasks worked properly. I could not screen record (yes, I’ve read all the tutorials and tried to do it but OBS simply did not find any screens or windows to record) and Kdenlive just flickers with white and black bars and areas (it actually crashed so hard that it destroyed my config and I need to re-setup it under X11). YouTube had noticeably worse performance and video quality. Also: Gaming was basically impossible (not starting at all or extremely worse performance - and yes, I’ve read the tutorials on this, too).

    All of this may be due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my computer. But I’m not going to replace perfectly fine working hardware just because my display manager does not support it properly (which is entirely Nvidias fault, but still) so I stick with X11 until my graphics card needs to be replaced.

    On my laptop I run Hyprland without any issues except one, but on my laptop I don’t do screen recording or watch 4K videos or do video editing or do gaming. For this use case it’s very well suited.

    Wayland may be ready for certain environments/tasks, but in my opinion X11 is just much more compatible with anything.

    Herbstzeitlose, in Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

    Just post the actual patch notes instead of this blogspam.

    Vincent, (edited )

    We can do that when it's actually released; blogspam tries to publish on the expected release date before the actual release so it can scoop up the clicks. Release notes should be posted here later: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/

    Strit,
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    I agree. I’d love a quick TL:DR or rundown.

    makingStuffForFun,
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    Well, German users get a full new privacy feature re cookies, yet only for them. Why the hell are Mozilla geo fencing privacy improvements?

    Dirk,
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    Privacy features lower ad revenue. This is not what they want.

    dr_jekell,
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    Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

    magikmw,

    There’s no release notes yet and it’s not available for download on the main release channel. Title is clickbait.

    mintycactus, in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?
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  • bitcrafter,

    Yeah, this is a really nice feature; on the couple of rare occasions where an update completely borked things I was able to go from unbootable to everything back up and running in half an hour.

    AlmightySnoo, (edited ) in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?
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    In addition to all the responses here, one thing you could also do when you have a question about a distro is to just fire up a VM using for example VirtualBox and try the distro to see for yourself. Or even better, make a live USB and boot from it.

    HamBrick, in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?

    TL;DR yes, popOS is perfect for that

    My personal getting started advice is as follows

    • use kali Linux in a virtual machine because haha funny 1337 haxor
    • install mint/popOS/ubuntu on either a virtual machin, a spare laptop, or dual boot if you have a spare drive
    • I used mint for school and random tinkering and just gradually got more familiar with the random things I wanted to do or fix
    • this was last year so I’m no where near qualified to talk like a guru of ancient wisdom, take all of this with a grain of salt or possibly just burn it
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  • elbarto777,

    That’s not similar at all…!

    CaptDust, (edited ) in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?

    I like pop_os a lot, it’s a high quality distro they’ve assembled. Even on fedora I’ll use the pop shell extension, good QOL upgrade for gnome. So, yes. Great for browsing.

    experimentmapass, in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?

    @hungry_potato Tromjaro definetely.

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