phosphophyllite

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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
> A dream of an ultimate OS I want linux with: — Wayland — KDE and only KDE — Development SDK based on Qt (other toolkits strongly restricted, gtk and gnome gone wrong way) — Packaging based on something like APK from android or like DMG
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
> bundle all of their dependency libs Mother of God! Very popular argument. No one cares (in terms of architecture). > vulnerabilities are found in their bundled libs! Yes, god only knows how entire install base of mac and windows mac
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
It's impossible when you just need pick up one distro and get new desktop software as it releases, and it also being supported by commercial vendors. Amazing example of why linux desktop goes wrong direction is so many distros. When yo
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
1. Mac OS somehow achieved exactly this. 2. Actually no-changes and no-brainers are bad for mental health of elderly. In that age brain needs training.
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Can you just not upgrade on your own machine. Why other should suffer? Changes in life are inevitable. Let me remind you that binary distros emerged for convenience and speed – you dont need to compile bunch of stuff when internet and compu
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
How can I find "unofficial" testing image with non-free drivers?
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Will someday debian authors and die hard fans understand that old libc and old Firefox or Gimp are different and one really can mean stable and another can be just outdated? Is it possible that desktop should be developed in other manner th
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Is it possible to obtain proprietary driver for video core (in the sake of gaining extra video performance)?
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Maybe RPi developers deal with with some investors that way? (in order to attract more money)
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
WOW, if USB3 and NIC are dedicated devices (not share one usb bus) this is amazing little machine!
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Maybe censoring is not effective? Why not to embrace any content and just make police raids when someone uploads questionable content? Is censorship solves anything?
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
And? This is somehow solves fragmentation problem?
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Can linux-desktop stand more fragmentation?
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by phosphophyllite 7y ago
Compressed air effective against little dust particles. But in case of fabric pieces or hair-like things it only making things worse.
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
Probably it's "compose key" feature available on linux, allowing one to type alternative characters via key mnemonics, rather than numeric key codes like on windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
This same freedom as mining ore for car - virtual thing. You actually can go to another side of universe (as far as light cone allows). On windows you just can download the same program and use it without any compiling. And you can freely d
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
> but that misses the point of Linux Linux is kernel - I talk about good alternative for macOS/Windows, alternative desktop system, that can do much better than other two.
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
Well, at this point it's very complicated. And this is why I think snap/flatpack/etc model ("system" in system) is real solution for linux desktop. Valve's Steam client already achieved same thing: provided one
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
Bleeding edge is development branch of some app like canary builds of chrome. New version of Gimp available for all windows users at day one after release is not bleeding edge - it's just normal new release. Meaning of "bleeding e
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
MacOS model is real solution. Like really. Windows + chocolatey or macos + brew (cask) is better than any repository with dependencies on linux. Also, do not want Arch or any <distro-name> - I just want LINUX (or Desktop Linux). One p
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by phosphophyllite 8y ago
Linux desktop needs consistency and freedom (yes, open source desktop needs freedom). Freedom of updating and installing newer versions of software without waiting for maintainer/distro half of year to build new package (outdated next