It’s kinda weird that this is mofe or less just a fancy, but regular keyboard/touchpad combo. Would’ve been neat if they reused those modular ketboard modules from their laptops.
Speaking of those, I’m still waiting to see those ortho keyboard modules. I like their laptops in theory, but I can’t switch back to a regular keyboard anymore.
The whole setup actually consists of three parts:
Basically, it’s less about using specific lights, as long as they’re remote controllable. Home Assistant is where the real magic happens. I’ve also set it up so that lights automatically turn on/off based on motion.
Yup. Personally I just don’t like having multiple light sources emitting differently colored lights. I’ve even configured almost all lights in my house to synchronize both their strength and color with the sun.
Bright and energizing light during the day, warm and cozy during the night. Even if it doesn’t do anything, it’s still just neat to be in.
It’s hard to tell because the actual crime that has been commited here is saving this comic as JPEG instead of a PNG.
Ultimately I’m not very confident, but I think I agree. The text and layout look very human to me and it’s looks all pretty human to me. There are some inconsistencies in the ports and the linework on the inner age between the three laptops on the left, but I think that’s just the artist doing some touch-ups on it after already having copied the laptop across the panels.
gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora
And that’s exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.
If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there’s no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don’t think that leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.
Yup. People need to understand that “stable” is not a synonym for bug-free.
As you said, DEs in particularly move so fast that the rare bug that makes it through and is subsequently quickly fixed is much less problematic than sometimes years of missing features and longstanding bugs that don’t get backported.
I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.
Particularly for gaming, I’d say a rolling release distro is much better because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you’d see in something slower moving.
Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.
Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.
Agree, there’s no way this is the whole story. Someone is hiding something. If that isn’t the FSFE then I’m guessing that the payment processor set the whole thing up as a flimsy reason for kicking them out with a “justified” cause. As to why, who knows.
I’d say most of that is just outdated opinions based on a time when archinstall wasn’t yet included in the live ISO and using it was also more frowned upon and seen as a “cheat”. Thankfully we mostly got over that second part.
I’m actually enjoying catppuccin as well, really nice theme.
Funnily enough, I actually do use true black as my wallpaper and only have a fixed taskbar on my second non-OLED monitor in order to prevent any amount of degradation when im just using a browser on that second monitor.
If you don’t have the OLED yet, I’d wait a bit for it. Thanks to their intense contrasts, having a true black background can quickly cause eye strains, even more so with even just light astigmatism.
It’s kinda why OLED-Themes on phones haven’t taken over either, and the effect isn’t even as pronounced there as it is on a big monitor.
Never done this myself, but I believe gamescope should be able to do that? It should be able to run as the primary Wayland compositor and with the right flag you can expose Wayland to the client.
Oh yeah, Mint is also pretty special. It’s pretty good for non-gaming “it just works” purposes, but recommending it blind for gaming is just straight up evil: No Gnome. No KDE. Just three niche DEs that are still mostly stuck on X11. Meaning, that if you want to properly make use any recent monitor features (as in, decade old features) your only option is to switch to another distro.
It’s a surefire way to get someone to switch back to Windows.
Either that, or it’s Debian with its ancient drivers and libraries. Maybe even both.
Pretty good take. IMO, it’s also quite ironic that the FSF is pushing the same flawed logic that politicians do when they want to outlaw secure encryption, just for a different (noble) goal.
My assumption is that it probably uses the same mechanism that most other SSDs already have where it always saves the data with internal encryption and simply overwrites the encryption key when a wipe is requested.
This same mechanism already allows SSDs to be formatted quickly while still being secure without having to zero out everything, which would cause a lot of additional wear.
The additional complete wiping would just be the cherry on top.
Not sure why exactly, but if I had to guess it’s probably a lack of marketing people in the FOSS world in general.
Recently I’ve only really seen recently the End of 10 campaign from the KDE folks gaining a bit of traction, but even that’s more vaguely pointing in the direction of Linux than anything.
From what I gather, the only thing they’ve got going for them is that they’re actually contacting key people to try out the distro, as well as timing that campaign to coincide with the EOL of Win10.
But yeah, so annoying to see when there’s so many better alternatives by better people out there.
As for the latter, I haven’t confirmed this myself, but I’ve been hearing that there’s a lot of curling into bash going on, so yeah.
Very much appreciated and actually the kind if open-source news I’d like to see more of.
Many smaller projects like these often don’t have much of a visible online presence, so it’s nice hearing from the actual devs about the state of the project beyond what’s written into changelogs.