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by md8z 5y ago
I honestly do not see what is so remarkable about it. It just never seemed to me like a unique vision but instead an effort to adapt some existing X11 tools to a mobile workflow. Which is a fine thing to do if you like those tools, but that
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by md8z 5y ago
I looked into sxmo and I think it falls clearly into the "clever hack" category and not in the "actually usable" category. There is only so far you can get on a touchscreen device without actually programming any of the
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, that isn't even most software out of the examples you gave. I think snap and flatpak have almost all of those. For Rust and Python I think you can use rustup and pyenv. All of that would be preferable t
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by md8z 5y ago
If you install them to your home directory, no. If they install to system directories (/usr, /lib, /etc, /var) then they could cause issues. I personally would not run any installer script that asks to use sudo or otherw
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by md8z 5y ago
That's a shame because I do think they are doing a lot of things right as far as being an open source company goes. The software people who work there don't seem to have anything to do with any questionable financial decisions, bu
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by md8z 5y ago
"I’m at the point now where the greatest usability issue I run into is performance" As someone who has used the latest iOS and Android, I can't agree. The performance of the Pinephone is indeed really terrible, but the usabil
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't have any comments on the Purism customer support because I haven't bought their phone, but as a Pinephone owner it's good to have them around. Purism has been investing a lot more in the software side of things. They
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by md8z 5y ago
Those special features all have a maintenance cost, and if no one is around to pay it then their usefulness will diminish until they reach the threshold where it's not worth it anymore. Not sure why any filtering algorithm would be con
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by md8z 5y ago
Yes to all of the above. Although namespacing is not enough, the packages need to be built in a specific way so that they don't put files in any system locations. This isn't anything specific to Ubuntu, this is just how Debian wor
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by md8z 5y ago
I mean low end in the category of high DPI laptops. I think that would be considered mid range in the category of all laptops, that was my take from looking at prices recently anyway. There are high end laptops that are around the same size
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by md8z 5y ago
Those laptops I think would fall in that same category of displays, where the PPI is around 120-180. It's not enough of an enhancement to make the text crisp and not pixelated, and it makes everything look bad unless the apps native to
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by md8z 5y ago
"Sometimes when I copy things they don't paste, and I need to switch back to the original window for the copy to register." I have honestly never had that problem in years of using GNOME Wayland, but I experienced it many tim
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by md8z 5y ago
If you replace the version of python that the upgrade process expects, then yeah, you'll probably run into problems. The upgrade process can't possibly support every single version of any given package, that would defeat the entir
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand how you can expect a distro developer to account for every single possible third party repository and package that is out there. That's multiple orders of magnitude more packages that they would have to support
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by md8z 5y ago
"still missing crucial features such as fractional and consistent scaling" This has very little to do with Wayland and mostly has to do with the apps and the toolkits. I haven't really seen many Linux native apps that are abl
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by md8z 5y ago
Wayland is a lot better than X. The problem with any of these low level enhancements is that they take a long time to plumb through the entire system. I wish it wasn't so, but it is.
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by md8z 5y ago
The general sentiment I see is that if a feature is only used effectively by a small handful of users then it's probably going to risk getting removed. That's just numbers, it doesn't make a difference whether it's &quot
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by md8z 5y ago
I just tried it and it disabled the fades. Maybe you made a typo in the setting? Most GNOME apps are not going to have animations hardcoded, they typically use standard widgets like GtkStack or GtkRevealer that handle the animations automat
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by md8z 5y ago
I hope you can find some peace, but please understand that for many other people that type of thing is extremely draining and exhausting. It's really stressful to come home after a long day of putting out fires at work just to see more
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by md8z 5y ago
"The notion that PulseAudio's introduction wasn't highly disruptive to end users is completely ahistorical." I never said it wasn't, there were plenty of bugs in PulseAudio. Please make sure not to argue straw men.
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by md8z 5y ago
Indeed, the author of that comment seems to be confusing OSSv4 with Cameron Grant's newpcm, which was a separate thing. It was developed around the same time as ALSA but didn't have a new userspace API like ALSA and OSSv4 did.
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't have an account on Lobsters so I can't comment there, but that comment is pretty awful and includes some revisionist history nonsense. The author seriously has their timeline mixed up and doesn't seem to be aware of w