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I wish I could live with Plasma, I really do, Dolphin is SOOOOOO good (and no its not just because of the name!) But I just never had any luck with it, I know they say so much of it is down to your hardware, that one mans Linux Mint is another mans KrashDE Plasma but its been that way across 3 different builds and between AMD and Nvidia, Nvidia was especially bad on Plasma for me.
 
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Trans Fat 41g said:
Yeah the foot team got rid of Javascript cursor rendering recently from the latest versions of the foot desktop.

It's still utterly disgusting that this was a fleeting thought in some committees mind: "hey what if we used a javascript engine for the cursor?".
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Wait, what? Gnome used javascript to draw the cursor on the desktop? How fucking retarded are gnome devs? I mean, I feel like even speds would think that was a dumb idea.
 
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How would you change it?
 
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Precision Anal Strike said:
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How would you change it?
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Remove heretical /bin->/usr/bin/ links. If this change wasn't malicious, why was it made by the same criminals behind systemd?

Their article justifying this attack on tradition and good design is really something else, especially the list of 'myths'.
Myth #1: Fedora is the first OS to implement the /usr merge
Fact: Solaris, owned by Larry Ellison, an enemy of free software, has implemented the /usr merge in parts 15 years ago, and completed it in Solaris 11. Fedora is following suit here, it is not the pioneer.
Myth #2: Fedora is the only Linux distribution to implement the /usr merge
Fact: Our threats are forcing other distributions to implement this.
Myth #5: Adopting the /usr merge in your distribution means additional work for your distribution's package maintainers
Fact: When we have inflicted this change, not adopting the change will mean more work for you, fuck you.
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Geno Dolphin said:
I wish I could live with Plasma, I really do, Dolphin is SOOOOOO good (and no its not just because of the name!) But I just never had any luck with it, I know they say so much of it is down to your hardware, that one mans Linux Mint is another mans KrashDE Plasma but its been that way across 3 different builds and between AMD and Nvidia, Nvidia was especially bad on Plasma for me.
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I assume most of it boils down to packaging issues.

Debian, Kubuntu and Fedora have all had super crashy releases whereas openSuSE Leap's KDE has always been rock solid in my experience.
 

We need more menches like this in the linux world.

Geno Dolphin said:
I wish I could live with Plasma, I really do, Dolphin is SOOOOOO good (and no its not just because of the name!) But I just never had any luck with it, I know they say so much of it is down to your hardware, that one mans Linux Mint is another mans KrashDE Plasma but its been that way across 3 different builds and between AMD and Nvidia, Nvidia was especially bad on Plasma for me.
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I just avoid plasma. I've given it chanced it never worked well for me. If i needed to go desktop environment. Xfce, mate, cinammom if I want some thing more modern.

I even prefered gnome. Though the ones i listed above are better imo. Just do some minor theming if you want a modern look on them.

Really though, since diving into tiling window managers going back to a desktop has sucked. So i doubt I will be trying one out again any time soon.
 
std::string said:
I assume most of it boils down to packaging issues.
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The lack of consistency in all the distros I've tried has been driving me crazy. I hope in another year the baseline improves.

Right now scaling is fucked in every distro I've tried except for Nobara, but that one looks like a weekend project.
 
still picking away at the migrating LM to LMDE project. I dot the apt lists for clean installs for both and compared the to and Linux mint Ubuntu has 265 packages that LMDE doesn't have https://pastebin.com/gEWh4AqE
trying to figure out which ones need to be removed or otherwise dealt with to ensure an upgrade is successful, should i just try uninstalling all of them?
I found a script for converting a Ubuntu install to a Debian one that I'm trying to modify, but apt upgrade fails with errors and the vm loses internet connectivity https://github.com/alexmyczko/autoexec.bat/blob/master/config.sys/ubuntu-deluxe
 

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If you want to keep to traditional unix conventions, then just do what freebsd does. Have all user installed applications go into /usr/local/bin and config into /usr/local/etc and keep /sbin for tools needed to be statically linked to restore a system and have /bin be other applications installed by the bistro /opt is for stuff you manually install outside of package management.

If you don't care about unix traditions, go down the macOS path.
 
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Geno Dolphin said:
I wish I could live with Plasma, I really do, Dolphin is SOOOOOO good (and no its not just because of the name!) But I just never had any luck with it, I know they say so much of it is down to your hardware, that one mans Linux Mint is another mans KrashDE Plasma but its been that way across 3 different builds and between AMD and Nvidia, Nvidia was especially bad on Plasma for me.
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What's stopping you from using Dolphin on whatever DE you're on now?
I also started out on Plasma, but it didn't play well with my Nvidia card (random full second freezes loading windows). Moved to Xfce, where I remained.
 
Currently rolling back my system to Linux Mint 21.3 from 22 in the hopes that it fixes the problem I had with the system crashing on sleep - I can wait before doing the upgrade to 22 again
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
The lack of consistency in all the distros I've tried has been driving me crazy. I hope in another year the baseline improves.

Right now scaling is fucked in every distro I've tried except for Nobara, but that one looks like a weekend project.
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From what ive heard if you care about fractional scaling you want to go with wayland.

So its more an x11 problem than a distro problem.

Personally i never really worry about scaling, i don't use multiple monitors, etc. So i don't need something using wayland. But if you care about that i would recommend looking into that.
 
khaine said:
If you want to keep to traditional unix conventions, then just do what freebsd does. Have all user installed applications go into /usr/local/bin and config into /usr/local/etc and keep /sbin for tools needed to be statically linked to restore a system and have /bin be other applications installed by the bistro /opt is for stuff you manually install outside of package management.

If you don't care about unix traditions, go down the macOS path.
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How many installers actually still make separate partitions for /usr? Debian's doesn't. It doesn't even make a separate /home partition anymore.
I am asking because I don't know. My modern linux experience is very limited since I don't distro surf.

Having a /sbin and /bin was so you had the tools you needed fix a fucked up system before risking mounting /usr and /home. Having a separate /sbin and /usr/sbin is pointless if everything is on the same partition now
 
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How many installers actually still make separate partitions for /usr? Debian's doesn't. It doesn't even make a separate /home partition anymore.
I am asking because I don't know. My modern linux experience is very limited since I don't distro surf.

Having a /sbin and /bin was so you had the tools you needed fix a fucked up system before risking mounting /usr and /home. Having a separate /sbin and /usr/sbin is pointless if everything is on the same partition now
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Depending on the file system you don’t need separate partitions. ZFS can create separate mount points in the one zroot

I believe the Debian installer gives you the option to split those things into different partitions
 
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Jump said:
How many installers actually still make separate partitions for /usr? Debian's doesn't. It doesn't even make a separate /home partition anymore.
I am asking because I don't know. My modern linux experience is very limited since I don't distro surf.

Having a /sbin and /bin was so you had the tools you needed fix a fucked up system before risking mounting /usr and /home. Having a separate /sbin and /usr/sbin is pointless if everything is on the same partition now
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Some of us don't use installers and just untar to install Linux. The biggest problems are retards who don't care to differentiate, trying to call into something like /usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 directly in their script when its traditionally /sbin/fsck.ext4. There's also new retardation that refers to /usr/etc.
 
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