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That won't affect Cinnamon, right?
I think sooner or later the developers of other GTK desktops are gonna have to put their big boy pants on and disavow the RH GTK completely. Probably should've happened already. There's too much retardation on that side of Linux and it already causes issues with the sane desktops and programs.
 
Anyways it always made me laugh how wayland was so poorly managed. 17 years later and there are still features you would expect to be a priority since wayland breaks them (Global hotkeys is the big one.) that are still missing. A normal user should not have to figure out how to run OBS in xwayland in order to get usable global hotkeys. Hopefully XLibre is actually good.
Global Hotkeys not working on OBS like it does on X11 out of the box is intended IIRC, it's not considered to be a regression and so it won't ever be fixed. Whenever you see something like this on Wayland you should just assume it's yet another vital security feature that's super important, because that's always what it is. - But tbf unless I am mistaken there actually is a readymade solution for this called Global Shortcuts. It's a standardized API that's part of the XDG Desktop Portal project intended for applications to be able to request and use global shortcuts on Wayland. It works by opening up a permissive "portal" to said application which can then be used for hotkeys.

Only problem is it doesn't work on OBS yet because they have yet to implement it. OBS team has said it's "planned" and it's stayed like that for years, and there is no indication they are working on it despite X11 being dropped left and right. So, in this case you can blame both Wayland for the endless security bullshit done at the behest of RedHat and their enterprise customers and the OBS team for not adopting the appropriate way to ask for an exception despite "planning" to do so for years. - In the meantime, you can use this script if you use KDE. Seems very simple, though I have no use for it personally.


Nicco supporting Hector Martin and retweeting a post about wanting "Healthier porn for minors".
Also, yes Nicco is a faggot, ever since I saw him wear a feminist shirt I knew he was a creep because men who feel the need to grandstand abt that, esp by wearing some dumb Etsy shirt always are. That's why I was surprised he didn't call PewDiePie Alt-Right in his video covering him. I guess not getting dislike bombed matters more to him than calling out literal nathzees, for shame. I also get the impression that he is not a major contributor to KDE. He mostly just plays one on TV as an angle to get clicks. - I had no idea he defended minors watching porn, why is he interested in them doing that? None of this noncery surprises me, but good catch for sure.
 
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I don't know if you meant it but great post. GNOME is an exercise in total fucking stupidity. The GNOME devs always choose the worst outcome in every decision they make. They're either evil and/or stupid, but they have to be at least one.
GNOME is fucking garbage and this is a perfect example of their Microsoft-like attempt to create a monopoly and force it down everyone's throats.
 
I think sooner or later the developers of other GTK desktops are gonna have to put their big boy pants on and disavow the RH GTK completely. Probably should've happened already. There's too much retardation on that side of Linux and it already causes issues with the sane desktops and programs.
It's not like the qt based desktops aren't also slowly moving over to wayland. KDE is obviously heading it. But lxqt is starting the move itself. Last I heard it's still considered experimental though.
 
But lxqt is starting the move itself. Last I heard it's still considered experimental though.
Its still experimental but its past the alpha stage that Xfce and Mate are currently stuck in.
Last time I tried it out a few months back it was mostly usable as a daily driver, although very buggy on Wayland. I couldn't change scaling on my HiDPI display for example.
Some things didn't work right (some crucial) but otherwise their Wayland efforts are going nicely, and they seem to be fixing a lot of these Wayland bugs recently too.
Give it a year and I reckon it will be fully usable on Wayland.
 
Its still experimental but its past the alpha stage that Xfce and Mate are currently stuck in.
Last time I tried it out a few months back it was mostly usable as a daily driver, although very buggy on Wayland. I couldn't change scaling on my HiDPI display for example.
Some things didn't work right (some crucial) but otherwise their Wayland efforts are going nicely, and they seem to be fixing a lot of these Wayland bugs recently too.
Give it a year and I reckon it will be fully usable on Wayland.
Yeah. I tried their wayland version right after they released it. It was still very much alpha at that point. Even so overall things did seem to work. For sure not everything, and I wouldn't have been happy actually using it at that point. I was going in knowing it wasn't close to ready yet. So I wasn't surprised when I ran into some issues, and weird behavior with certain things.

One thing I do like about the way they've chosen to do things. Was they allow you to actually swap out other compositors. I don't know if they've stuck with it or not. Since I haven't been following too close since then. But I think it's a good idea.
 
Ahh, the good old days, when the women at tech conferences were, you know, women.
Sad to say, that (top 0.001% Turkish woman) cut herself off from the future of the human race by choosing to not have children while she still could. Grandparent (and horny BSD enthusiasts everywhere) cry
She did have a funny exchange with disgusting fat anti-GamerGate (noone's all bad) cunt Randi Lee Harper though. Where she basically told Harper to behave in a more womanly way and be kinder to Linux lusers.
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You know freebsd just uses things ported over from Linux for the most part? Uses desktops, and applications built around Linux, basically except the kernel itself, the the things tied into it, and the userland.
No glibc, gnu utils and gcc is a win in my opinion.
Freebsd just feels like you took Linux, and went back 10 years + in progress and usability.
Couldn't tell you, haven't use Linux properly since 2012. And it's my first time using FreeBSD.
Also a weird thing to bring up x11 and Wayland. Freebsd is also using x11, and Wayland.
Don't think too hard about it, it's just a poor attempt at a joke. I should've added a new line before it.
 
Last time I used NixOS I went through all the trouble to set up all my stuff and learn the language, I had a git and everything. Nix was the only distro I hopped to that wasn't objectively worse than what I already used, and now that I know more, I think it could be better. Problem is I have my setup scripts already written for Arch, and if I needed to, I could very easily replicate a system too. I never really need to do that though; I prefer to have each computer be totally different. It just felt tedious having to rewrite it all for Nix and I ended up ditching before I finished it. Changing your flow is really annoying, and I suspect that is the reason many Linux nerds don't bother with NixOS. It's just too different. Kind of a shame tbh.


EDIT: I decided to finally try daily driving it again due to your post and I was met with this bullshit on the front page:

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*sigh* And the favicon too... It's all so tiresome. At least they didn't use the tranny / brown colors & the autism awareness colors do fit the distro.
Late reply, but as someone working a devops adjacent job, NixOS seemed like such a cool thing to sink my teeth into, and I reckoned it would look great on my resume as well. Then the tranny takeover happened, which lead to near continuous drama in the community, including the creator of NixOS himself getting booted from the project, and it ended completely deflating any motivation I had. On one hand I feel like I'm being petty and a couple of terminally online trannies shouldn't affect me, but on the other hand the sheer amount of drama I keep reading about and the numerous contributors quitting the project or getting bullied off it really just makes me want to not engage with it at all. Shit sucks man :(
 
On one hand I feel like I'm being petty and a couple of terminally online trannies shouldn't affect me, but on the other hand the sheer amount of drama I keep reading about and the numerous contributors quitting the project or getting bullied off it really just makes me want to not engage with it at all. Shit sucks man :(
Yeah, I have realized this too as I started writing patches for stuff, only to look up what type of maintainer culture there is and NOPE'd the fuck out of contributing anything. I have had too many bad experiences trying to contribute small QoL stuff w/ maintainers acting like I need to view it like petitioning Mount Olympus or some shit. - But enough people giving up is what gives them the power to do this, though. It's why we need to look out for projects like that X12 guy who just straight up says if you are a culture warrior faggot you will be booted from the project. We are not celebrating men sucking dicks, we are selling burgers. Get the fuck out of here with that rainbow puke or w/e other autistic political slapfight. Have those in your own time. The goal should be to find projects like that and then only contribute to those.

Yeah it stinks because if you are into open source you want to work on a lot of things, but give trannies an inch and they will dilate all over the entire world. Remember how they all freaked the fuck out when PewDiePie made his Linux video? It was all about how it might open up the door to undesirables in Linux. In other words, they are petrified that normal people are going to show up in their little safe space because they do not have the numbers nor the skills to maintain their little fiefdoms if Linux moves past being a niche. If enough people move into Linux and these people continue to act like this there will be way more forks and uproar so let's hope that continues.
 
I want to contribute sometimes, but Github has annoying spam filters. Its a nuisance to make a new account. I've had a github account before, but I deleted it due to inactivity. I'd tried to contribute some cool packages to Void once, one maintainer even liked them, but the trannies have specific packaging requirements so they dropped it. Its a moot point now since I can just run it under WINE without compiling it.

There is another distro called Chimera Linux, that's an interesting mesh of BSD/NIX but the faggots running it are the most insufferable people ever.
 
On the second attempt, I've finally got a VM with GPU-passthrough working. The first attempt ended with me getting weird memory errors that I was unable to find any answers to. So I decide to give up and just install the regular Nvidia drivers, to at least use it for some AI stuff. However, those drivers also didn't work and gave similar memory errors. Googling this error gave me the solution. Apparently my second PCIe-slot is fucky and requires the kernel parameter "pci=realloc" in order for the GPU in that slot to work properly. Now both the proprietary Nvidia drivers and the VFIO drivers work perfectly. Could have saved me a weekend of work but at least it's over now. Goodbye bare metal Windows, your only purpose now is Fortnite.
 
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I think I have cancer. For the last ~month/a half I can't stop thinking about NVMe. I've been using my W541 forever and it feels great, but for some reason something triggered my tism and now I keep thinking about upgrading to a machine that has both Libreboot and NVMe. Worst part is I can't even articulate why I want to do it. I think the consumerism brainrot is getting to me.
 
Is there a reason to use Ubuntu server over Debian and vice versa for a home server? Have used both in personal and professional contexts but apart from package release timing is there an actual difference? Constantly see people preferring one over the other with no reasonable articulation of why outside of the aforementioned.
 
Is there a reason to use Ubuntu server over Debian and vice versa for a home server? Have used both in personal and professional contexts but apart from package release timing is there an actual difference? Constantly see people preferring one over the other with no reasonable articulation of why outside of the aforementioned.
Debian server didn't support my Intel Arc A310 for video decoding and Ubuntu did, I would've had to mess with unstable kernels to get it to work in Debian.

Debian is probably more stable if you ensure all your hardware is compatible
 
Constantly see people preferring one over the other with no reasonable articulation of why outside of the aforementioned.
Debian packages have a bigger install base (eg. on ARM, Armbian and Raspbian both use unaltered Debian packages; this is just one such case that I know best) and their production process does not involve profit or corporate influence in the same way Ubuntu does.

I would've had to mess with unstable kernels
Mint-brain bit you here, most like. Debian-backports tracks the latest LTS kernels. You don't need to touch unstable for this unless you need the latest and greatest.

And building your own kernel, especially if you need one, couldn't be more trivial in Debian and its progeny. "make deb-pkg" in the kernel git. cp /boot/config to .config and "make oldconfig" first so it matches your distro config. Then just "dpkg -i *.deb" (probably want to be more fussy about it than that, I do recall some unnecessary packages being built, but whatever).
 
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Two big stories in FOSS just dropped. Heads up to any systemd hating GNOME users, after gutting X11 the GNOME team has once again decided what's best for you. This time it's how you shouldn't actually want to use anything other than systemd on your own computer:


Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd​

GNOME is about to gain a few strong dependencies on systemd, and this will make running GNOME harder in environments that don’t have systemd available. [...] The hacks in GDM are gone, and the login screen’s session is managed by systemd. This means that the builtin service manager will now be completely unused and untested. Moreover: we’d like to implement a session save/restore feature, but the builtin service manager interferes with that. For this reason, the code is being removed.

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And this is coming from someone who is fine with systemd. I use a lot of stuff from it which all varies in quality. It hasn't led me astray yet, so I am just waiting for the time it really does to finally kick it to the curb. But a DE deciding to basically marry itself to any init* is so fucking dumb. And it seems to be mostly because of laziness too. Were the anti-systemd conspiratards right all along?


According to this Android fork they have recieved information suggesting that Google might be closing up Android:
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This could be a schizopost, tbf. I mean didn't the maintainer of this project have some spat with Louis Rossman where he acted like a complete paranoid scizhophrenic? He sounded like a lolcow obsessing about his haders behind every corner. - So take it with a grain of salt and all that, if true it's massive, though.

 
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