AppImages long predate Snaps, but yes, Snaps do predate Flatpaks by a few months. There's also Nix packages, which predate all three. Of course, this all matters very little compared to the merits of all four technologies. The heavy dependence on proprietary technology for repositories makes Snap clearly unsuitable to become the universal Linux package format.
leopold
joined 1 year ago
Linux needed a universal package manager and it got three. Snap is not needed.
I believe what they meant is that Firefox Android is unable to open local HTML files, which indeed I have found to be quite annoying in the past.
Konsole doesn't require Breeze. It's themable, like most KDE applications. It does ship with a Breeze terminal color scheme, but that's just the default. Many more are available out of the box and creating new ones is easy.
I think the situation is different for their mobile hardware. IIRC the Nintendo Switch's Nvidia Tegra chip had an official Mesa driver, which made it really easy for modders to get Linux and Android working on the machine.
Well, it is already like that for x86 Macs. Once Asahi gets a solid Vulkan driver, this could also extend to the ARM Macs. Linux has been far more viable for gaming that MacOS for a while now. The lack of Vulkan and 32bit support in modern MacOS has been crippling for Wine/Proton, though it's gotten better thanks to Wine 9.0 and MoltenVK.
Yes, much like almost every of Wine release. Increasing compatibility is the focus of Wine developement. compatibility issues are bugs, so fixing bugs is the main focus
VSCode is pretty good, but honestly most of these advanced text editors are more or less interchangeable to me, especially with LSP and DAP making language servers and debugger integration editor-independent. I don't really feel strongly about any of them, in spite of the fact that as a comp sci student it's the type of software I spend the most time using. I personally use Kate the most, since it's lighter and integrates better with KDE. On my Steam Deck I use VSCodium for quick edits, because it works better in gaming mode. It's basically what (Ungoogled) Chromium is to Chrome, but for VSCode. For exams at school I use plain old VSCode since obviously I can't install Kate or VSCodium in exam sessions. The experience is all things considered pretty similar for all of these. I guess there just aren't a billion ways to design a powerful text editor with built-in debugger, terminal, file manager and kitchen sink. We've gotten the formula down by now.
I feel pretty much the same way about web browsers. On desktop at least, they're all nearly functionally identical, just that some of them have built-in functionality you have to use extensions to get in others. On mobile Firefox all the way of course, because it's the only one with extensions.
No, I just mean that they work ok and you can use them to reliably read messages, send them and some other things. They don't have all of the features the official client has. If you like me would rather not use Discord at all but reluctantly had to join a couple servers, they're plenty good enough. Otherwise, you'll probably want to use to official client. abaddon has voice support, gtkcord4 doesn't. gtkcord4 has markdown, but abaddon doesn't. Neither have screen-sharing or webcam support.
It's just the proprietary web client embedded in Electron... kinda like the official client. It does offer more privacy and solves some problems with the official client, tho. abaddon and gtkcord4 are the only usable fully foss clients afaik.
wouldn't change anything lol
presumably the default Breeze decorations