lengau

joined 1 year ago
[–] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago

They officially publish the snap, the flatpak and a deb in an apt repo.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Put them in a blender together and you'll get one that lets in only the right folks and one that lets in only the wrong ones.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Content note: shilling

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[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

This (well, with alt) has been a standard thing in x11 for decades. KDE kept it (with meta) when it added a Wayland backend to kwin.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

The first desktop that I used on Linux was GNOME, probably either 2.0 or 2.2. It was a bit clunky, but it was fine. I distro hopped for a while and discovered Mandrake 9 and thought the desktop was great. This was when I discovered desktop environments. I hopped over to Fedora Core when it was first released and was unhappy with the desktop again.

So I started desktop hopping on Fedora. I tried XFCE, Fluxbox, Openbox, and several others. They were cool, and the KDE experience on Fedora Core 1 was not great. At some point I switched to Gentoo and used the KDE experience there. When Ubuntu came around, I found that while the install experience was good, the desktop was kinda clunky. I ended up sticking with Gentoo. When Kubuntu 5.04 came out, though, I switched over. And I've been using some combination of Kubuntu and KDE Neon ever since.

If GNOME had been my only option, I probably would have gone back to Windows. Initially because I found it clunky (and tbh kinda ugly), but more recently because every time I've used GNOME in the last decade or so, it feels like it's lost features I used heavily. Meanwhile KDE has taken a different approach to configurability of trying to cut down configuration options by figuring out what a better option that everyone can agree on looks like. It's still very configurable, but it has nowhere near as many knobs as it had in the KDE 3.5 days. You know what, though? I cannot think of a single lost configuration option in Plasma that I miss.

So I am strongly in the KDE Korner between these two, and much more weakly favour KDE Plasma vs. other desktops.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Not sure why you specify binary-based OS's. Following Gentoo's upgrade guide also gets you potentially whatever they want on your systemp

[–] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago

Yes! In fact, Chromium was originally a fork of WebKit, as WebKit was a fork of KHTML. In both cases the codebases have diverged quite significantly though.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The core of Safari (WebKit) is open source. If it weren't they'd be violating the GPL license of KHTML.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Building a new OS isn't going to make RISC-V boards faster. The primary limiting factor here is the actual hardware.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Kubuntu, because it's the most solid distro I've used that meets my needs.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

The memory isn't really doable with this SOC, but the storage is just an SD card slot on the motherboard. (I saw this and spoke to the CEO at this year's Ubuntu Summit.)

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

I started on 24.04, but I updated to 24.10 to get Plasma 6. I quite like snaps (enough so that I publish the snaps of several tools)

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