There was a lot of BS advertising not long ago about it being a web browser “for gamers”, whatever that means.

Framework tried to design a version that worked with SODIMM with AMD but the performance was seriously hampered, and the plan was dropped.

I personally don’t get the hype around Cosmic - I’m not clear what makes it so exciting for people? It seems to be a reaction to the restrictive design philosophy of Gnome but not moving too far from it at the moment.

It’s likely they don’t actually have much of a problem with Gnome UX, they just want to be fully in control, rather than Gnome devs being in control of it and there having to be compromises.

Which is fair enough. Gnome DE belongs to Gnome and it’s up to them how the project is run. S76 wants to be fully in control of what they ship, so they moved.

I doubt it was made specifically to solve a Gnome or KDE user’s problem. It’s just a business decision to make them less reliant on others.

I guess people are just happy to have another major DE, and to have one built from the ground up on newer tech, without the legacy cruft that the likes of Plasma, Gnome, and Cinnamon do.

I mean some of them have been good. I actually really like the offline translation, for example. No more sending data to Google Translate servers is a genuine privacy win.

There’s also been some better screen reader support integrated because of it, and my sister loves it, she just wants it to be expanded further.

Yes, there’s also the LLM integration, which I’m… less enthused by, to say the least.

But at least it’s optional and can be tied into local models if you wish. Plus there’s the factor of new normie users testing out Firefox and going “it doesn’t have a gpt bot? Pfft I’m going back to Chrome, Firefox is so far behind” to contend with. If the market decides it wants that feature, then Mozilla can’t really ignore it.

It’s really not unless you’re a techie who’s used to naming files in away that promotes better sorting.

The date format this uses should match with the one you have set in your system, which for most people will be DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY in the US. Because that’s what the user is used to seeing.

If you think most people are used to seeing YYMMDDhhmmss then you are in a very tiny and very incorrect bubble lol

Man, fuck this article. It’s heavily implying the filesystem was dropped just because Linus and co dislike the creator, or because he’s said something that they disagree with and they want to shut him down in retaliation.

That is not the case. This guy has routinely and flagrantly not followed the established rules towards kernel development, doing things like pushing big feature updates, filled with bugs, just before the release of a new kernel, when only bug fixes are being accepted.

When he’s respectfully told he can’t do things like that, he gets angry and says he’s better than others, his work is more important, he should be an exception to the rules because he’s gifted.

You can’t run a project that way, it’d be chaos. Linus was right to kick him. He has been told if he starts complying with the rules then he can start submitting again.

The only children in this story are the BcacheFS dev, and this article author. Fuck him for presenting this as a culture war rather than “rule breaker told to leave club for repeatedly breaking club rules”.

Because one is the official storefront and one isn’t, it’s a 3rd party launcher.

Heroic is neat, I’ve used it, but it still has those quirks, extra set up time, configuration, and complexity that something like Steam simply doesn’t.

I install Steam to buy/play Steam games. I click install, it just installs. It doesn’t ask me to jump through hoops to get anticheat working, I don’t need to set custom wine prefixes or do anything daft with install scripts, it just plays, and my cloud saves work flawlessly with zero additional effort.

I’d be a lot more sympathetic towards Gog if they hadn’t told us on multiple occasions they were going to bring their storefront to Linux, only to not do it and ignore community questions regarding it.

I don’t really see how it’s overblown, either. My complaint is that Gog Galaxy doesn’t support Linux, and it doesn’t. I’m just stating things as they are.

Clearly you don’t mind the extra legwork/tinkering (nothing wrong with that btw, tinkering is cool), but I do. I work, I have kids, my time is very limited. I’ve went from being an avid tinkerer on my PC to someone who can’t stand it when my PC doesn’t ‘just work’ in the simplest, fastest, barrier-free way possible.

I have like 40 games on Gog, but I don’t buy from there anymore. I want to just play games on my PC/TV PC/Steam Deck without having to spend a while configuring everything, and that currently isn’t possible through Gog.

You could find an article and post it?

Gog frustrate me. It seems that Linux users and people who dislike DRM are natural bedfellows, yet they continue to not support Linux even after saying they’d bring Gog Galaxy to it.

Now I’m sure people will reply with “why don’t you just configure bottles, why don’t you install Wine and these 30 prefixes, why don’t you install Lutris”, but all of that has quirks, extra set up time, and extra complexity.

I don’t want to battle my PC, that’s half the reason I moved from Windows in the first place. I just want to open the launcher, click install, then click play and have it work. Steam has that going for it.

1. Just download what you want to use? You can use the old app if you want to.
2. Papers is great. If you wanted the old app to stay, maybe you should’ve helped maintain it and do the Libadwaita port?
3. If you don’t use Gnome anyway, which you decided to bring up for some reason, why do you care?

Feels like you just want to moan about work that other people are putting a lot of effort into and providing for free.

No they are not.

I think this is a sane choice for now, but this really should be a warning shot to the likes of Valve (to be clear, Valve is great for Linux overall, and I’m extremely appreciative of that), that 32-bit needs to go, and Valve cannot expect every single distro out there to maintain 32-bit support forever just for them.

Sooner or later they’re going to have to bundle a 32-to-64-bit translation layer, like they’re already doing with Proton, and also with their x86-to-ARM stuff they’re working on.

These maintainers are spending their own time and often money expecting nothing in return. If they don’t want to continue supporting 32-bit, they are fully within their right to do so.

I understand the fear of having to move distro, but some of the hate I’ve seen levied towards the Fedora maintainers over this is really vile. They don’t owe you a damn thing.

Considering they’re an enterprise player, and so well-known, that actually seems surprisingly low to me, especially since that’s revenue not profit.

I"ve been experimenting with both Cosmos [I’m assuming you mean Cosmic, System76’s upcoming DE?] and XFCE Wayland.

So the only Wayland implementations you’ve tried are ones in Alpha or Beta?

Tbh that seems like an unfair comparison. You’re comparing alpha and beta software to production-ready software, and complaining about it not being as stable.

Wayland is a lot more mature on Gnome or Plasma. I started using Wayland on Gnome in 2019, and aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card a number of years ago, the only issue I’ve ever had was screen sharing on discord, which was ‘Discord are pathologically against updating their electron version’ issue, not a Wayland issue.

FFS, what is with this toxicity?

They aren’t bad choices. They are choices that you don’t like, but plenty of others do.

It sort of feels like an Apple product, in that sense. Very well-made, but god forbid you don’t want to do things exactly as they say you should

No it doesn’t, because Gnome is completely customisable, and the devs encourage that through the extensions platform.

If you don’t like Gnome, that’s ok. You don’t need to moan about it online and say it’s shit. I don’t like mushrooms. I don’t moan about it, I don’t say meals are bad for including them, and I don’t tell people they’re wrong for liking them.

You can disable version checking and have them run if you want to, although that’s probably not advisable.

They were vertical during all of Gnome 3, then changed to horizontal.

Great news.

What? The last major change to the gnome workflow was going from vertical to horizontal workspaces, and that was several years ago.

Gnome programs, and Gnome itself, is pretty great.

You don’t have to shit on a project just because you don’t use their stuff or like something else.