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by vetinari 2y ago
Snap is a dead-end; but as usual, it takes some time until Canonical realizes that. If you want to easily distribute commercial applications, use flatpak. You could even have your own flatpak repo for your own products, if you wanted (it is
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by vetinari 2y ago
Debian has relatively short support. Centos 7 was released in 2014 and the support ends next week. Debian 10 was released in 2019 and the support also ends next week.
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by vetinari 2y ago
So basically we don't need a car, just a faster horse. Looking at systemd just as an init system is shortsighted. Consider it service manager, that manages lifecycle of services, and starting them at init time is just one of many other
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by vetinari 2y ago
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." (― William Gibson)
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by vetinari 2y ago
If it is an ordeal, maybe you are doing something wrong? Maybe your app sole entry point should not be a systray icon, especially, since users might not have systray at all (intentionally). You will have similar issue with Android, and how
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by vetinari 2y ago
Windows 11 (as of 23H2) doesn't allow small icons. Windows 11 (22H2) didn't allow title on and no grouping either; that was added back in 23H2.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Well, when windows users demand "windows, but gratis and without the annoyances", linux isn't it. You have to do some minor adjustment; just like you had to do with iPhone. It doesn't have task panel by default either.
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by vetinari 2y ago
This is really a non-factor, that has lim(0) impact on Gnome adoption. Mac never emulated this windows feature and it never hurt its adoption. If anything, it helped, because it wasn't associated with annoyances that the new users were
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by vetinari 2y ago
Look at the issue from other way: if you want this feature, you have a virtually every other OS to choose from. Those, who specifically do not want this feature, do not have such a luxury. They can choose this environment.
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by vetinari 2y ago
Why? It is an emulation of a feature from other OS; why it should be indictment of Gnome? Gnome is perfectly usable without it. This widget is only for those, who are so used to windows-ism and cannot let it go. Similarly, there is dash-to-
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by vetinari 2y ago
That doesn't matter; ARM's argument is, that the Nuvia IP is bound to Nuvia's license and cannot be used with a different license (which Qualcomm has, without limitation to server).
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by vetinari 2y ago
That's fine; but their reason is their problem. They are not entitled to free labor of other people.
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by vetinari 2y ago
It can be very device dependent, or even on which mode the device is in dependent. For example, I have JBL headphones, that work perfectly in the A2DP mode; but switch to HFC for the mic, they will work for a few minutes, then drop off and
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by vetinari 2y ago
That's also how you make windows ship with three different USB stacks and their weird interaction.
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by vetinari 2y ago
That someone updating the drivers is exactly the same person who makes the change in the subsystem that they depend on. They cannot break what is already in the kernel, but they can break what's outside; it is after all an internal API
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by vetinari 2y ago
> Take upgrading your Python 2 code to Python 3 as an example. You need to put a lot of efforts while gaining nothing. Just the python's 3 string/binary distinction and explicit conversion squashed an entire category of bugs.
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by vetinari 2y ago
The linux kernel team understandably does not want to maintain overcomplicated shims, keep multiple versions of the same subsystem and debug opaque problems so some can keep their precious binaries secret. You keep the binaries, you get to
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by vetinari 2y ago
Apple laptops do not natively support UEFI either; the virtualization sw does. Booting via UEFI on arm is also supported by alma, fedora and ubuntu server.
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by vetinari 2y ago
It is not. By subscribing you uniquely identify yourself, with your real-world identity. Is is not necessary to use tracking cookies, when you log-in with your credentials.
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by vetinari 2y ago
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by vetinari 2y ago
At the time, it was part of the Windows Hardware Certification requirements. SFLC has details here: https://softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confi...
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by vetinari 2y ago
Not sure whether intentional or not, but I read that as "those people with ambitions have no backs to ride on".
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by vetinari 2y ago
Why it is a heavy burden for a citizen? (I'm not an US citizen, but even I have SSN).
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by vetinari 2y ago
It should; it does on the gnome install: https://youtu.be/Vpkz89gN9zk
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by vetinari 2y ago
Oh, mac has the same issue and for the same reason: the same programs will create the same garbage. ~/Library also isn't something that is used to be; it was good idea, but mostly ignored. Basically similar idea as XDG_(CONFIG|CAC
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by vetinari 2y ago
Oh, Gnome 3.38. I'm not sure that version even supported dark mode, only dark themes. I won't comment on aging of Debian ;). Btw, what version of Firefox are you using? Debian comes with ESR, so chances are, that firefox' &qu
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by vetinari 2y ago
Technically, yes, but that won't stop random cop stopping you and haggling you, when he sees one. The Austrian ones can be pretty arrogant and you don't want to ruin your day for that.
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by vetinari 2y ago
It has also lot of consequences, which are not obvious to people from other countries. For example, no dashcams in D-A-CH.
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by vetinari 2y ago
When you set dark mode in the current gnome (with support for dark mode), the following will be set: org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark' Valid values are “default”, “prefer-dark”, “prefer-light”.
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by vetinari 2y ago
This will get you 99%, but there are exceptions. I.e. Firefox is linked against GTK, but paints its own widgets with custom theming anyways. Telegram is linked against Qt, but has it's own theming/dark mode too.

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