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by zxzax 5y ago
It's not hypothetical, I've seen the odd comment like that on various forums and github, etc. You can say you aren't going to support an obscure setup without judging people for having it.
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by zxzax 5y ago
The main problem for me is the old "fish rots from the head down" effect -- when the rude and entitled behavior comes directly from the top, it's no surprise when everyone else starts acting like that and gets at each other&#
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by zxzax 5y ago
>his decisions seem to have worked out amazingly well. As someone who regularly deals with bugs and inconsistencies in Linux, I wouldn't say so. For me personally, I just want to be able to fix the issues, and would rather not spend
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by zxzax 5y ago
If anyone gets ousted from the process, they probably deserve it, for wasting more maintainer time. Nobody is immune from that, not you, not me, not the maintainers, not the BDFL. Expecting the BDFL to be able to have full control and to re
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by zxzax 5y ago
I wish people would not use the phrase "CADT" like this, it's not relevant, and it's insulting and ableist. Nobody wants to maintain legacy software for free in their spare time. That's all it is. It has nothing to
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by zxzax 5y ago
What is the confusion? People on Windows 98 are able to send emails too.
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by zxzax 5y ago
That has nothing to do with Linux at all, you can just as easily get some weird requests from people trying to run your game at 640x480 on Windows 98 or some other strange thing like that. The usual response here (from any vendor, not just
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by zxzax 5y ago
The point with those laptops is, you use the keyboard when it makes sense, and you use the touchscreen when that makes sense. I think you're confusing "touch-first" with "having any support for touchscreens at all,"
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by zxzax 5y ago
The sales seem to be increasing, I wouldn't say it's a gimmick. Also touch support is not just for touchscreens, most laptops now have multi-touch touchpads where you can do gestures. Making a program support those already puts it
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't think so, the studies I've seen actually show the number of touchscreen devices is growing, and desktop PCs are shrinking.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Touchscreen laptops and convertible laptops are becoming increasingly common, they can't just ignore this market segment.
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by zxzax 5y ago
It does the same thing it does for audio: routes and multiplexes streams. Video devices in Linux the same problem as audio devices where multiple applications can't have them open at the same time. Pushing the video through a daemon al
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by zxzax 5y ago
That would need UI similar to Qubes that would have to be built and integrated probably on the IDE side. Purposefully, flatpaks don't typically ship a whole OS like Qubes VMs do, so the gap has to be filled somewhere.
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by zxzax 5y ago
It really depends on what you're trying to do. Doing some things on some distros is still not possible without having the setuid bit.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Flatpak handles all that too, all these tools are using the same Linux security primitives. There is really not any difference between them from a security perspective. Technically flatpak is based around bubblewrap for some of the low leve
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by zxzax 5y ago
It's not papering over it if you look at the rest of the paragraph. The problem is that the IDEs just aren't made to work with this kind of sandboxing and need to be changed significantly. I agree it would be cool if someone event
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by zxzax 5y ago
Firejail can easily suffer from some of the same issues, if it's not configured properly. Some of the issues listed here are not specific to Flatpak, and need to be addressed with any sandboxing mechanism.
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by zxzax 5y ago
There is no such thing as "zero repercussions way out" here, and it seems to make no sense to even want that in this context. Either the bugs are real and they get fixed, or they don't and now the project looks bad; if for wh
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by zxzax 5y ago
You can use kdialog or zenity to run a standalone file chooser from the command line. For applications that want to integrate an external chooser, they can use the flatpak file chooser portal. Of course the caveat with these is, your applic
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by zxzax 5y ago
Please stop making these insulting comments calling me apologist, this is rude and unhelpful; you're a better person than this. I've respected your kernel expertise for a long time and it's disappointing to be treated this wa
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by zxzax 5y ago
If the crashes are intentional panics caused because of detection of a memory safety issue, more crashes there are actually good; in a C program they would be silent buffer overflows or memory corruption that don't manifest until later
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by zxzax 5y ago
You will get an error for that upon submit. The application can then buffer the submissions somewhere else and wait for a few completions to finish.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>Any argument against global menus are really unfounded I disagree, for an example: global menus do not work well at all with focus-follows-mouse. It's not really possible to design a good system that has both. I've seen variou
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by zxzax 5y ago
>not worth having it, nothing is gained. I agree, I've seen lots of open source projects get stuck and suffer from this issue where it's hard to get certain things done, it's hardly anything new, that's why I tend to
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by zxzax 5y ago
Haha nice, I just noticed that :) I think supporting someone else to help work on it and even just offering to help test and review a PR is a great and useful thing to do.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Bug fixes in GNOME are driven by volunteers, so if no one shows up to fix them after years, they are probably low priority and don't affect many people compared to the effort that it takes to fix them. Sorry, I don't know what els
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by zxzax 5y ago
If you're looking for an excuse to work on io_uring, please consider helping get it implemented and tested in your favorite event loop or I/O abstraction library. Here's some open issues and PRs: https://github.com
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by zxzax 5y ago
Yes, check the documentation for the IOSQE_IO_LINK flag to see exactly how this works.
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by zxzax 5y ago
I've been using vanilla GNOME on debian and it's fine to me. But, I am personally not really picky when it comes to GUIs. From what I understand with Ubuntu and Pop!_OS, those distros are somewhat interested in creating their own
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by zxzax 5y ago
The recent changes were informed by some extensive testing, it wasn't any particular group that was guiding it: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/15/shell-ux-change...

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