trevor (he/they)

The zoom upscaling is wonderful 😻 I use it all the time and the additional clarity from the upscaling is very much appreciated!

Pedants will be quick to point out that the original sudo is also pushover licensed, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is still a downside in the Rust version as well.

This is an excellent article that breaks down common pitfalls and provides really concise rules for avoiding them. It’s a great read if you’re in to systems programming.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-11.0-1-beta1

I can’t tell if you moving the goal posts is a result of you missing the point or not, but I don’t care for your condescending attitude, so I’m not going to bother.

I’m sure companies will do the right thing when given additional tools to avoid doing so 🙂

I don’t disagree, but I’m also not focused on the GNU aspect of this. In many cases, non-GNU stuff, like MUSL is actually better (in my opinion). My issue is with non-copyleft licenses. I’ve written alternatives to various GNU utilities because I find some of their behavior to be undesirable, but I license them under the GPL because I think that the alternatives are a net negative on society.

And I think that Canonical, like any other profit-driven entity, will do anything to increase their profit, and when they think they can get away with something shitty and they believe it will make more money, they’ll do that. Pushover licenses give them the option to restrict things more than if they relied on copyleft tools.

This would be really exciting if Canonical weren’t using this in part because it helps them de-GPL their Linux distro.

Inb4 people say that it’s impossible to do anything shitty and if they did, people would just fork 😴 That isn’t how it works. Defaults matter and most people aren’t going to go out of their way to learn about this or replace their distro when they start locking it down.

Anyone know if the APFS driver is packaged for Arch and Fedora? This would be invaluable on Asahi installs.

That is 100% COSMIC jank. He chose Pop!_OS again and System76 has been annoyingly shipping a beta desktop environment on their stable distro.

I like COSMIC and System76, but this is an annoying decision by them and Linus does shitty research so he doesn’t know he’s running beta software and he’ll associate this with Linux being janky again 🙄

What are you talking about??? Helix doesn’t even need a plugin for the LSP to work. It just uses rust-analyzer. If anything, Helix has the least overhead of them all.

120Hz display works!!! Woohoo!!!

There are now 0 hardware features that I miss with Asahi Linux 🥳

lmao

Three-finger drag is such a nice feature that I miss from macOS, but apparently nobody knows what it’s used for (according to the Phoronix comments)?

Three-finger drag allows you to drag anything that you would otherwise have to double-tap and hold to drag with your trackpad. It is not a gesture.

This libinput update allows you to have three-finger drag and three-finger swipe gestures, which is something the macOS implementation cannot do.

Binary logging is some of the most asinine shit I’ve ever had to deal with on Linux (and yes, I know you can change it, but it being the default behavior is beyond absurd).

Yes. I use SteamOS and Bazzite (I have multiple TVs with different computers for this) with Steam Big Picture mode as my sole streaming interface. Here are some decent Linux apps for various streaming services:

• Jellyfin Media Player
• Crunchyroll
• Multi-launcher for proprietary crap like Netflix, Hulu, etc.. I don’t use these services because they suck, but I tested the Netflix app, and it appears like you’ll likely need a keyboard and mouse for this one, rather than keyboard/gamepad controls. I hope I’m wrong.
• YouTube with SponsorBlock and ad-blocking

Just add those as “non-steam games” and you’re mostly good to go. For some apps, like Jellyfin, you need to enable keyboard navigation (a.k.a. “gamepad controls”).

Get yourself one of these if you’d like a mostly seamless remote control experience (depending on how well each streaming app/wrapper works with keyboard/gamepad navigation). Easily the best $25 I ever spent.

Mic support for M2s just leaves one thing that I miss on Asahi: running the display at 120Hz.

The Asahi team is doing an amazing job turning Apple hardware into my favorite Linux device!

“Contributor” with the second greatest number of commits is Claude 🤡

DOA.

Don’t.

I just wrap bash snippets in bash -c '<snippet goes here>' and I have a great time with Fish that way.

I hope you’re right. Games have run like dogshit for at least the past 5 years or so, even with reasonably powerful hardware.

Unfortunately, I’m not very optimistic because of the Unreal Engine monoculture (except for a bunch of blessed indie games) in the gaining industry. It would most likely be Epic’s job to make their engine not perform like shit, which… 😬