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Agreed. That does not change what I said though.

For me, “baloo” is the worst offender.

Also, great to see another btop fan. I use it a lot.

No argument.

I do not see much chance of a middle-man though and the alternative means much less adoption.

My issue is not with Kent’s strong technical opinions. I like those. Well, except that abusing other people as cover for his inability to follow the rules is not cool.

Linus can be a dick but he is typically making technical arguments at least (and usually quite good ones). Kent likes to play the “engineering” card but the drama is always about process, not technology, and he is the one being called out. So trying to pretend he is defending better engineering just makes the behaviour worse.

NVIDIA were breaking the rules (legally even). They have come around.

More big endiian in the kernel for no reason is a negative.

Not sure about the Intel engineer. Linus can be a jerk though so not assuming he was right if I do not know the situation.

And, while I like old hardware, the first x86-64 chips shipped in 2003. So, this is not exactly a Windows 11 situation.

Hardware older than that is going to struggle with modern browsers. A PC from that era would probably have less than 1 GB of RAM and perhaps a max RAM well under 4 GB (the theoretical limit). Using older software versions is probably best anyway.

Ironically, I think it may be because of Skia. So Google.

The replies here make me so mad at Kent Overstreet.

I love bcachefs and was using it on quite a few systems. When it was in the mainline kernel, interest was building. I feel like we could have been just a few months from experimental coming off and adoption skyrocketing.

Then Kent got it pulled from the kernel (so not interested in the “fighting for users” misdirection). Now, as evidenced by the comments here, most users will not touch it.

I needed it in the kernel so I have been migrating away too but it breaks my heart.

I am sure somebody will use it, maybe even more than the small number that have historically. And Kent will probably tell himself that is ok.

It sucks.

Now, I did not write a COW filesystem. So I guess I am getting what I am owed (nothing). That does not dull the sting much though.

It was quite good for a while but I feel like it has crept up again. It is over 1.5G at start for me these days.

It used to be under a gig.

It makes a difference when you only have 8G on a laptop.

Niri is a scrolling tiler. You do not even have to scroll if you really don’t want to.

Niri is absolutely the best tier for a laptop with a smaller screen. It provides all the benefits of tiling without the tiny, cramped windows that tiling tends to result in.

On other tilers, you end up using workspaces for single apps to avoid splitting the screen.

See my other post. EndeavourOS works out of the box on MacBooks before 2019. This is with vanilla EOS.

For 2019 and 2020 Intel MacBooks, there is a T2 version of EndeavourOS that includes a custom kernel that again makes everything work after a fresh install. You can just use the package manager after that and it all keeps working, even across kernel updates.

What year?

I have several Mac laptops running Linux with hardware from 2012 to 2020. I find that EndeavourOS works best and WiFi works out of the box.

It uses the wl drivers generally (NOT b43) with DKMS so the module is automatically rebuilt when you upgrade the kernel. You can just upgrade the kernel using the package manager and it “just works” when you reboot. I have been using Linux on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air systems for years and never had a problem (2012, 2013, 2017, 2020). Also iMacs back to 2008.

If you have a T2 chip system, you need a special kernel and apple an wifi/bluetooth firmware blob. In most distros you have to extract the firmware from macOS yourself but it is available in the AUR so there is a special T2 addition of EndeavourOS that makes everything work out of the box. These are the 2019 or 2020 systems I think.

Great to see them get them get back on track. PopOS has been a holding pattern for a very long time.

While this is an LTS release, they also say they will release 26.04 LTS in May (just 5 months after 24.04). So, clearly this is a bit of a final beta for that release, at least from a COSMIC desktop point of view.

They are already shipping hardware with the new COSMIC, so things are usable now. I have no doubt though that there will be a lot of improvement over the next six months before 26.04 comes out.

It will be really interesting to see where things go after 26.04 when they are not having to invest everything into just getting to the starting line. Will they continue to pour all this effort into COSMIC? It has a lot of potential.