I take my shitposts very seriously.

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  • People who report this under the “Breaks Community Rules” umbrella term – I’d love to know which rules the post is breaking.

    I have an overwhelmingly negative opinion on AI-generated trash, but there are no rules against posting it, I have no plans to implement such rules, and I certainly wouldn’t apply them retroactively. As long as the slop does not violate instance-wide or community rules, I will let downvotes speak.




  • Cybersecurity engineers and pentesters don’t need Kali or Parrot. You don’t need Proxmox to use LXC and KVM. You don’t need OpenMediaVault to have Samba and NFS shares. You don’t need Clonezilla to make use of the OCS toolkit. You don’t need LMDE to have a Debian OS with Cinnamon and nonfree drivers installed, or Endeavour to have Arch with KDE Plasma.

    But it’s sure as shit good to have everything packed together and preconfigured by professionals.



  • There are five different file pickers on my system and I never know which application uses which one, or if my bookmarks will appear in them, or if the dialog will respect theming or display icons from a light theme on a dark background. Speaking of theming, it’s a shitshow. QT and GTK apps never look even similar, and the existence of Adwaita isn’t helping. If you want a flatpak app to use your preferred cursor, you have to manually grant it access to additional paths, then it’s a 50/50 chance. There is massive feature fragmentation between Wayland compositors, especially with GNOME, the “user-friendly one” dragging its feet (pun intended). We didn’t even have a functional on-screen keyboard until recently in Plasma. Xorg wasn’t any better – you had to choose between high input latency (compositor on) or massive screen tearing (compositor off), and it was a maintenance nightmare. But let’s not forget about audio either: the first time I tried to switch to Linux ~2016, I could never get PulseAudio to work reliably.

    These are only the issues I’ve personally come across. I’m sure others could add to the list. Having a preference of desktops is fine and I would never deprive you of that right, but saying that the Linux desktop experience across the board is “easier to use and more functional” than everything else, and especially claiming it has “been for a long time”, is untrue, and fucking stupid. That’s why you’re getting downvoted.

    And don’t you think I didn’t notice how you never actually presented any arguments for your claims.


  • There are five different file pickers on my system and I never know which application uses which one, or if my bookmarks will appear in them, or if the dialog will respect theming or display icons from a light theme on a dark background. Speaking of theming, it’s a shitshow. QT and GTK apps never look even similar, and the existence of Adwaita isn’t helping. If you want a flatpak app to use your preferred cursor, you have to manually grant it access to additional paths. There is massive feature fragmentation between Wayland compositors, especially with GNOME, the “user-friendly one” dragging its feet (pun intended). We didn’t even have a functional on-screen keyboard until




  • That’s why it’s one step above. The user is given an option to read the PKGBUILD (or a diff with the cached copy if it exists), but beyond that, it’s still unverified arbitrary code from an external source (the project’s actual source, binaries, or packages from another repository). Packages in the official Arch repos are verified by the downstream packagers. For AUR packages, it’s up to the community to moderate itself, and the user to determine whether the package is trustworthy, and I’m willing to bet that not many people do it. I certainly don’t vet everything I install.




  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldKudos to Nvidia
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    14 days ago

    Not the right place to ask. Try the official forums of your distro, or one of the many Linux communities on Lemmy.

    4k60/444

    Is that HDR? I can tell you right now that HDR is still experimental on all Wayland compositors (Plasma seems to be the farthest along, but still not reliable), and will never be implemented in X11.