afaik in the past yes, now some places are phasing them out and going app only. Your link is only for one area.

they laugh.

All the old people are fucked and have to fumble with (from their pov) alien technology (a smartphone).

At least thats what I’ve heard from the family of friends that live in Germany.

Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?

Yes

I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).

you can do that on any distro. Should be easy to install.

Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines

Thats why after 3years of debian/kubuntu I switched to arch. But that doesn’t mean anything. Just do kubuntu for now and if you have troube installing something ask the community and they will help you get it installed.

And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey.

The best tip for me was to read: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian (Since Kubuntu is Debian based, this still applies)

Try parallel connections in iperf:

iperf3 -c your.homelab.ip -P 8

If speeds improve with multiple connections: TCP window size is likely the issue.

I see plenty of posts here, on the kde matrix, on the kde forums, on the bugtracker asking for non existing features.

I have no clue about the exact percentages, their motivations or feelings, so it’s hard to conclude anything.

Personally, I more often ask for nonexistent features (and i feel no barriers there) than turning off something that is on by default - which is a good sign I guess?

If this defaulted to off, then it would actually be useless.

Would just be the other way around with what posts you see online. Instead of OP you’d see “how can I find my newly installed apps” and the same “ahem” screenshot reply.

There is a setting, but I was equally annoyed that it is on by default.

Even more surprising - when I launched the new app miltiple times, it was still marked as new.

The original ‘28 Days Later’ is less widely available due to licensing issues, so many have turned to pirate sites instead.

Piracy is a service issue.

On the budget side there is:

raspberry pi + usb RAID enclosure that can spin down the harddrive (I used icybox in the past)

Instead of a pi, it is also interesting to look at mini PCs like N97 or N100 which are super cheap nowadays, about the same as a rpi5 if you consider whats included / what addons you’d have to buy for the pi. Mini PC have more RAM, a build in nvme, a way beefier CPU. But their power efficiency is way worse.

Depends on how much horsepower you need or how energy efficient you want to be.

ydotool works too

I havent used either in a while

I know it is not a gui, but until you find one:

it worked quite well to paste the documentation to chatgpt and ask it to make happen exactly what you want.

The one I installed, obviously.

I use archlinux with KDE and I had to tinker with it for hours if not days for it to properly have an automatic on screen keyboard that is not complete bullcrap. But since then it works. Even on LUKS decrypt during boot.

Do donations really come in all at 1 or 2 given dates per year?

I would assume non-recurring donors average out over the months. Maybe there is a bit more in holiday season.

But if I donate 200$ in May, are there no other people in the world that donate 200$ in June and then others still in July etc.?

edit:

I could not find any donation stats/charts for gnome. But assuming they are similar to KDE, it looks pretty managable to me. There seems to be a solid baseline of about 4k per month and then some months have huge extras. It does not seem very complicated to budget that.

2025: https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/

2024 looks way more wild. But that is when they introduced the donation popup by the end of the year.

2024:

The license says (paraphrased) that you need to keep the original license file, which has the authors name. Even if you re-license it, you leave the old license there without touching it and put your new license next to it.

They did not follow that clause and deleted the original license and the original attribution.

A thanks does not necessarily imply credit.

Battleforge is another good example. It took about 10 years for the community to reverse engineer the server and host their revived version. https://www.skylords.eu/

There is a lot of legal troubles for manga piracy recently. Lots of manga and chapters got taken down. So this is probably the reason (but maybe not).

idk about you (and how many 800x600 games you have), but I have to edit the run command for a quarter of my games anyway, since they don’t interpret my setup correctly and look like shit or are simply unplayable. So I copy paste my default gamescope command and viola, chefs kiss, everything works.

I think fullscreen worked differently on xorg vs wayland. I am on plasma 6 on a rolling distro and I like wayland a lot, especially when mixing monitor sizes and resolutions.

I’m impressed with your tech support skills!

requires a very deep dive

On the contrary, in my opinion it was very intuitive. AI is also more helpful than with freecad when I ask it “how to do _ in blender/freecad?”