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I’m kinda under the impression that he doesn’t really do that anymore

Huh, I hadn’t considered that but that makes a ton of sense! thanks for sharing your perspective with me :)

You’re very welcome! ☺️

That seems like more of a risk with products manufactured by domestic companies.

Security/privacy from both would be a win, but it’s not unreasonable for folks to be skeptical of a Chinese manufactured CPU for much the same reasons you’re expressing skepticism of USA made CPUs. There’s no doubt china would love to have the same sort of arrangements that the US does with US chip makers. Though I would also say this would have to be a big bet on RiscV by the CCP, RISC isn’t exactly ubiquitous or relevant in the same way amd or Intel are. That could change, but it’d be a bet on the future relevance of RISC

An apt post title, lovely use of color!

It’s worth knowing that the new versions of FreeCAD are apparently way better, but that those improvements haven’t made it into the stable release yet (I think…). Also there’s a fork maintained by a company that apparently makes some improvements but has some tradeoffs like cloud saves or something

There was a ton of useful info in this video, if you’re considering free cad it’s probably worth checking out :)

https://youtu.be/p8Pk1ayx6LQ

Well that’s super obnoxious

If you’re looking for something Foss the closest things I know are FreeCAD, and apparently there’s a blender addon that adds parametric cad functionality. I’ve found FreeCAD frustrating, but I’ve not tried the blender addon/extension or whatever

Fuckin dope!

I was curious so I took a look, the new icon theme looks lovely

I haven’t used Inkscape much for a while but it’s always cool to see a project you’ve used a lot thriving!

Void is an option that seems like a good fit, but you’d need to figure out if it supports your hardware well since the hardware is so new. Its a stable rolling release that uses runit which seems like a lot of peoples favorite alternative init system.

Fedora is maybe also worth considering but it uses systemd. Not sure if it has minimal packages, but I’m pretty sure fedora has official Framework support, including for the 16, and strikes a really good balance between having current packages and cutting edge hardware support, and being stable.

Also, sorry people are ignoring what you said you want and are telling you what you should want instead 😅 not helpful y’all.

My impression is that Debian unstable/testing is generally considered much more stable than arch, I assume that extends to devuan. But I think they also share packages, which means packages have been patched a ton, which it sounds like you don’t want (I assume that’s what you meant by “mininal packages”)

Void Linux! It’s a very simple, completely independently distro without a dependence on a corporate funded project. It uses runit in place of systemd (I don’t mind systemd but it seems a lot of people just like runit better for being smaller, neater, and very reliable, which is cool)

It has a “stable rolling release” update model and provides vanilla packages. And the package manager xbps can install pre-compiled binaries or function more like portage or BSDs ports system for building from source (full disclosure, I’ve never used any of those nor the functionality in xbps so I don’t understand it super well). Oh and the community is helpful, and the documentation is pretty strong and doesn’t always just give you commands to run blindly (as someone who is trying to get more confident in the terminal I find that helpful)

The project has a very “less is more” philosophy which I really appreciate.

My one disappointment is that there isn’t a package kit implementation for xbps so I can’t use the graphical software store provided by my desktop environment :(

Someone mentioned that it wasn’t being maintained anymore, but if I try void again I’ll have to take a look at that. Though its definitely not the same as a traditional app store interface like gnome software (flawed though it may be) where you can see the icon, screenshots, even reviews, and I would definitely really miss that functionality when browsing for something. And given I use gnome it may be hard to make it look at home on my desktop

I was really enjoying learning how to try and set up void, but I really like having access to a graphical app store thats easy to browse 😢 someday I’ll have to revisit it

A gtk app for YouTube and/or twitch intended for media PCs would be neat, with controller/remote support and ui optimization for air mice.

I don’t like the ux of kodi very much and trying to get it to play YouTube has been a nightmare 😅 a simple app with a decent user interface would be very welcome

That sucks, I’m really sorry man :(

As someone who much prefers gnome for my desktop this shit is so frustrating. I’m kinda just waiting and watching to see if they ruin another thing I like about it :(

Its fucking exhausting

No one thinks it’ll succeed? Obviously you and I exist in very different parts of the linux sphere, cause I’m pretty sure X11 is all but dead as a project and its kinda just a question of how long it takes for Wayland to be feature complete enough to reach a critical mass of adoption. And its kinda feeling like we’re currently on the cusp of being there with the major DEs moving towards discontinuing X11 support 😅

What a fun AMA topic lol. I dont have a question, I’m just glad youre here, spreading the good gospel of your goofy internet standard