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He’s of Italian descent.

One of the ones he bought is sold on Apple’s website, so I don’t think so.

The virtual desktops functionality is miles above any other DE, specifically. The settings are really simple, and the options in the right click context menus are really well featured.

The fact that the website hasn’t been updated since 2020 and still has an open CVE shines the light on Flatpak’s attention to security.

Regarding point 3, if that’s true, then why are all of the most-dowloaded packages on Flathub mislabelled as ‘sandboxed’ when they have full write access to a user’s home directory? That isn’t a sandbox.

Flatpak currently has a 7.2 vulnerability that has gone unaddressed since 2017. The maximum vulnerability rating is a 9, so this is quite major.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=16613&product_id=&version_id=&page=1&hasexp=0&opdos=0&opec=0&opov=0&opcsrf=0&opgpriv=0&opsqli=0&opxss=0&opdirt=0&opmemc=0&ophttprs=0&opbyp=0&opfileinc=0&opginf=0&cvssscoremin=3&cvssscoremax=0&year=0&month=0&cweid=0&order=1&trc=9&sha=14fe55bfe41eaaaaca8e742bde18bc6938f88a3e

I really hope this isn’t just another Budgie DE which uses core GNOME tech. Reassuring to see the new Rust code.

Absolutely Fedora. I found NixOS to be over-engineered.

Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.

I don’t like using X, but Wayland isn’t ready for power users yet. I don’t think people generally would notice the difference.

I used it for a year a year or so ago and changed for some reason. Recently did a fresh install and I am seriously unable to think why I left it.

It’s insanely fast, performant, resource-friendly and much more community driven than other distros with the void-packages repository on GitHub. Oh, and it doesn’t have systemd so my install boots in 3 seconds flat, compared to the 22 seconds for Fedora 38.

Enlightenment has a fantastic feature set and some very interesting ways of using a Linux desktop.

But…the themes are just so 2005. It’s hard to look past that, or at least make it a little bit 2015 at the least.

Fedora 30 - 36 were phenomenal releases and I mostly used them, recommended them elsewhere.

I had to start using the Spins because the default GNOME desktop is just becoming unusable. Stripping functionality to make it prettier, not fixing longstanding issues.

Then Fedora had that kerfuffle with the licensing issues with codecs, and I couldn’t play a certain type of HEVC video that the vast majority of my video library is encoded in.

Then, more recently, I had issues with Python in their repos. That was the last straw. I’ll definitely check it out again in a few years to see if they’ve fixed a lot of these problems, but I wouldn’t recommend the distro in its current state.

I’d recommend that you stop using Flatpak immediately, it’s a horrific security nightmare.

https://flatkill.org

For a beginner, maybe not. But I’d probably suggest it over something like Arch just because of the excellent installer, amazing community and healthy ecosystem of packages.

Void Linux. It doesn’t have the heavy SystemD, starts off with a simple XFCE environment.

Not to mention the incredibly fast XBPS package manager.

Totally agree. I’ve had an Asus motherboard and an Asus router. The mobo turned up completely dead and the router was completely ruined. Wouldn’t boot, kept flashing.

Never buying Asus hardware ever again.

This is actually brilliant news.

WebCord is a working native solution.

The Devs had also upgraded a lot of Electron stuff and security problems that the official Discord client doesn’t do, as well as fix a lot of bugs and issues that Discord haven’t bothered with.

Oh, and if you’re using KDE Plasma, it uses the Qt file picker and not the GTK one.

AppImage is a lot better than Flatpak because it isn’t a walking security nightmare (http://flatkill.org).

But yeah, I got a build working with the PR. I’m not on my computer right now, but it’s a pinned PR in the GitHub issues for the WebCord project. You go to the fork with the branch, you run a couple of quick npm commands and then you can do a build.

I did have to remove a few of the package makers because they’d set it up to do a .deb build, and I haven’t used apt in years. I vaguely think they had a Flatpak or a Snapcraft package maker in there too, but I don’t use those.

You run the make and package commands which you can find in the package.json file, then it outputs a built application for you.

I wouldn’t use the word “stuck”, Bash is a result of over 50 years of technological advancement and experience. It works on servers, remotely, is lean and powerful. It’s not that user friendly, because it doesn’t need to be.

ZSH and Fish are available on *nix systems for a little bit more sugar. I personally don’t use raw Bash because I just love what ZSH can do, but I love writing Bash scripts.

Visiting my terminally ill father in hospital after he had a fall. I asked him what that huge bruise on his neck was, if it was from the fall.

“No, it’s the cancer.” Was the thing he said, and I’ll never forget it. Crazy. Turns out the tumour was cutting off blood flow to his brain and causing him to pass out. He died a month later. Almost a year to that day now.

Love you, Dad.