PseudoSpock

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Wait what? I’m no fan of Wayland, but what you just said, I’m afraid, is all wrong.

1. Wayland, although being around for over a decade, is the newer protocol. The older protocol would be X11.
2. Pipewire is also the new kid on the block, for audio. PulseAudio would be the older one being replaced.
3. WINE is a Windows compatibility layer or wedge. It stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, if I recall.

Wayland seeks to provide a newer display standard, as I keep being told (forcefully and repeatedly) X11 is not sustainable… There’s a lot about that we don’t need to rehash here, but long story short, In with the new (Wayland), and sooner or later, out with the old (X11).

Pipewire is meant to be a replacement for PulseAudio, and near as I can tell, quite backwards compatible.

WINE is to run Windows application on Linux. Like many Linux applications right now, it is being updated to support Wayland (I believe that’s well underway already) and it already works fine with Pipewire. WINE will work on X11 and Wayland.

Lastly, what do you mean by weaker systems? X11 is weak when it comes to being security conscious. Part of Wayland’s mission is to address that by being far more secure by default. Pipewire, while maintaining backwards compatibility, is able to do more things, as well, than the original PulseAudio.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Oh my god, this. Especially on the external monitor.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

I’m sorry, I found your response confusing. Arch is a Linux distro, I know flatpak is available for it. If there’s a bug with flatpak, I would expect it to be pretty much the same across most GNU based Linux systems. My question, however, was why use flatpak on Arch Linux at all, as the AUR has pretty much everything including the kitchen sink… unless you are developing flatpaks, I guess, in which then it would make sense to me.

You don’t owe me an explanation, it just sounded odd to me to be needing flatpak when there was AUR, was all.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Flatpak on Arch? Is what you want not in the AUR?

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

It’s more incestuous than that… It’s a Motherboard with a Daughterboard. 😲

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

RDP is not a replacement for individual remote apps, btw, just saying. RDP is a full remote desktop, like VNC.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Wearing a “hat”!

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

I will never install a Linux desktop without a snapshotting root filesystem ever again. Nvidia driver updates, /boot getting too full during kernel or driver updates, a bad update of pipewire half a year ago, and more I can’t remember. Was always able to boot to previous snapshot of the OS, and address whatever it was. Some ZFS here, some BTRFS there… and my small fleet of Linux desktops are as easy to recover as any immutable OS. Better even, because snapshots allow me to pull individual items or things between states easily, too.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

All these laptops make a circle… All these laptops make a circle… ;)

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Snaps pushed me to mint on one and endeavour on the other box.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Pics or it didn’t happen.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Dude!

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

😂

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

I’m Tom Dudette, and I’ll leave the light on for ya. (guitar outro…)

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Ext4 just went through a data loss fix in the kernel, too.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Yes. Linux is good enough for everyone, whether they like it or not. :)

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Cool, but why is it part of the init system?

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

The desire to learn something beyond DOS, beyond just BBS’, beyond RIME and FIDOnet email, wanting a UNIX like operating system that was like what I had at university, to be able to natively run talk, ytalk, IRC, ICB, Gopher, FTP, and NNTP.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

XPS no longer does S3 sleep, only hybrid sleep. :(

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

And that it CAN suspend fully.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

I won’t buy a laptop without it. My earlier Dell Precision had it, but under warranty they ended up replacing it for a slightly “better” model, because the damage from the swollen battery was too hard to repair. I hate the new one. I have to make this 64gig laptop hibernate to get close to what I had with S3 sleep… but it’s nowhere near instant. I hate them for doing that to me. And this newer laptop (Precision 5550) keeps losing screws and it has stray clicks from the chassis flexing when you try to pick it up. Miss the old one. Think it was a 5540.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Sokath, his eyes open.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

I prefer to keep windows as a VM only on wintel hardware, with Linux on the bare metal. The less Microsoft can see the better.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Microsoft has pushed OEM’s to stop supporting S3 in bios, instead wanting hybrid sleep. Microsoft wants this because hybrid sleep allows waking for sending telemetry to Microsoft all the dang time, like cell phones do. I curse the day they did this.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Downvoting for the thumbnail image.