Gnome 46? And they won’t update it for at least another year?

Jeez, we’re almost at Gnome 50…

It’s also unclear if they’re comparing it to the cost of the index with or without the Lighthouses.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

• Laptop OEMs seem to go with fingerprint readers that have no Linux support.

• A number of distros out of the box have some IMO dumb things you need to change.

E.g. Fedora insisting on having their own Flatpak repository that isn’t as well-stocked or updated as Flathub, and missing audio/video codecs (I realise this is due to licensing concerns, but other distros get around it).

• I’d like Linux to feel more like an ecosystem. If I could sync my DE’s settings, installed apps, etc as trivially as I can sync my Firefox bookmarks/settings/extensions then I’d be happy. Frankly I’m amazed that Gnome and KDE haven’t attempted this.

Yes, I know I can manually and painstakingly do a lot of this with Syncthing. It’s not the same. It’s a lot more time/effort and you need the knowledge to set it up.

Because it’s more testing, more work, more resources spent, all for something that package maintainers will usually do for free anyway.

Bullshit.

I don’t know how you could possibly look at Gnome and think they’re trying to be the same as every other OS.

They’re seemingly the only one with the balls to move away from the WinUX way of doing things.

One dev without any go-ahead from Gnome did.

And let’s not forget System76 employees, as well as System76 themselves, have done the exact same thing.

I’ve been using Wayland for years (2019), and I’ve not had any problems aside from Discord screen sharing, which was fixed a while back.

That’s on AMD hardware, mind.

Whenever I’ve used X11 since, it’s felt janky and not smooth. Random bugs, tearing, issues with multi monitor, issues with trackpads, etc.

Fedora is IBM.

Sure, Fedora has lots of ties to RedHat, but so?

Ubuntu is Canonical.

Between the two, I know which has done more for Linux and open standards, and I know which is more likely to send your data to Amazon and put ads in your start menu…

I don’t like System76’s past actions with regards to Gnome, or their spreading of misinformation about Gnome, but shitting on Cosmic in response seems just as petty.

If you don’t like it, don’t use it.

Linux users, united?

People in this community will cry over what init system or desktop environment somebody else uses.

British, not English.

I’ve been using it since 2016 and the only issue I’ve had (which has been fixed for a while now) was screen sharing in Discord.

It’s true that there are a couple of things missing or unstandardised as of now, but there’s also plenty missing from X11, so it’s swings and roundabouts.

There aren’t many distros that don’t have it by default.

Debian, a distro literally memed about for moving slowly, has defaulted to Wayland since 2019.

I didn’t say it’s not a thing, I said it’s not something you really have to worry about with modern displays.

I’d definitely worry about burn-in if you have Teams open for nine hours a day and the taskbar on.

And yet, the testing seems to show that’s not an issue.

I’ve not had a single phone that’s suffered burn in.

Regardless, I’d trust someone who reviews displays for a living over my own anecdote.

There are aftermarket mods to upgrade to a 1080p OLED (which you probably don’t want to do anyway because 1080p is much harder to run)

But you can’t drop the SD OLED’s display into the LCD model, no.

Even then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.

Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it’s still barely perceptible even when you’re trying to look for it by taking a picture of the screen then applying filters to make it more visible. In real world usage its effectively impossible.

With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don’t need to worry about.

Developers can do whatever the hell they like with their own software and shouldn’t let themselves be beholden to Nvidia.

Nvidia is being dragged kicking and screaming into using something that everyone else decided was the standard years ago, and that’s a good thing.

Once again dominated by stardew valley for me