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“This release bumps the suggested alternatives for Windows apps by more than 40 percent to a total of 240 applications. This is one of Zorin OS’s niche features, recommending users tailored alternatives to sideloading their Windows executables.”
That’s a pretty far cry from what the title of the article suggests. Clickbait.
“The beauty of the AUR is that you stop waiting for developers to ‘support’ your OS. If the community wants it to work, it works. Period.”
I take issue with this statement. The AUR can be very useful, but the packages in it are maintained by volunteers, so the onus ultimately falls on those volunteers to make sure those packages keep functioning. It’s not uncommon for packages to fall out of date with upstream, and sometimes packages even end up being abandoned.
Arch is a fast-moving system, so packages for it need to be actively maintained to remain installable and functional. Flatpak packages are often volunteer efforts as well, but Flatpak at least allows packages to use specific versions of different libraries so that they can keep functioning.
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I see. I’m generally a fan of Flatpak even though I still think it has some drawbacks. I think it’s good to have alternatives though, because I don’t want to be stuck in its ecosystem if the people behind it decide to take it in a stupid direction.
Yeah, if I were willing to comb through systemd’s source code and compile my own version, or add someone’s repo containing a modified version, assuming anyone even bothers to cover oldstable.
Right now the only Debian system I have is on Oldstable. If Debian decides to implement age verification/attestation, do you think it’s going to be backported to that version? 🤔
What’s the TL;DR version of this?
This will be interesting as well. Your Linux desktop will be able to remember window positions and sizes across restarts. So if you are meticulous about an organized layout where the terminal is on the left and the browser is on the right, it will be the same even after your system restarts. Note that session survives temporary app closures, too.
It’s about freaking time.
EDIT: I just realized that KWin has already had this for a year. Then again, maybe this means it’ll actually get used now?
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Don’t comply in advance, that’s what I say. Unfortunately, that’s what systemd is doing, and what archinstall, xdg-desktop-portal, and Freedesktop.org are on the verge of doing.
For the vast majority of people who don’t live in California, including myself, California law can go fly a kite.
You raise a very good point. systemd isn’t the only thing we should be bringing attention to. Everything in the Linux ecosystem that’s pushing for age verification/attestation should have attention brought to it.
The problem with btrfs subvolumes is that you have to use btrfs. I’m good with Ext4. It’s nice and reliable.
This is one of the beautiful things about open source. If the original devs do something stupid, the community can fork.
The whole dual control panels thing in recent versions of Windows has always annoyed me.
why does it need to accommodate compatibility for archaic devices/software?
Because that’s one of Windows’ selling points. It has unusually good backwards compatibility for a mainstream operating system. Compare that to iOS, Android, MacOS, or Linux, where the infrastructure needed to run older binaries often doesn’t exist in the first place.
Linux is a weird case, because thanks to Wine, it actually runs a lot of old games better than Windows, but this doesn’t do anything to help compatibility with older Linux binaries.
systemd
Dropped.
I’m planning to migrate my main desktop over to this distro. I was fairly happy with EndeavourOS for the last few years, but with systemd’s recent bullshit, I think it’s time I move on.
Mint has both Ubuntu-based and Debian-based editions. IMO, I don’t really see what benefit comes from using Ubuntu as a base, other than compatibility with PPAs or apps that expect Ubuntu-specific versions of libraries.