sxan

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

You could even say it self-optimized and saved fuel by not decelerating!

[–] sxan@midwest.social 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)
if (launch) {
   landOnMoon()
}

What's so hard, Japan?!? Sheesh.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's... that's one heck of a lot of redundant organs. No muscle, so you couldn't move, but you'd never have to worry about liver failure. And with that many brains all over, I'm sure you'd be able to levitate.

I love it.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 20 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Funny they don't also post the median salary.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Eh. I didn't personally find that the upheaval added much, and it interfered with my muscle memory working with FHS systems... which are everything else. It didn't add, like, BeOS-levels of drastic benefit in exchange for being so divergent. And it obviously never caught on anywhere else.

Just my experience.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Gobolinux enters the room.

Gobo's been around and doing its alternative thing, successfully, for 20 years, so no. It's not a problem.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Me too, mostly, but popping into a forum to ask questions is a thing. I stopped using bspwm largely because the one responsive person in the Matrix channel was a first-class self-righteous turd; that alone wouldn't have been so bae, but none of the admins called them on it, and, well, herbstluftwm turned out to be better software anyway. The hlwm community has avoided being toxic mainly by not existing, AFAICT.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hyprland is one of the ones I tried, and it may be closest to what I'm looking for. I've heard the community is extremely toxic, though. Software projects having "conmunities" is a relatively recent thing, for me, so it's not a big deal, but what's been your experience?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sure it works fine; the question is about how disk space usage compares.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fingerprint scanner support in Linux is abysmal. It's so bad, Dell's Linux line (anemic, but at least they try... half-heartedly) just stopped including the hardware.

I've always chalked it up to proprietary shenanigans, like the Broadcom fuckers (fuck you, Broadcom[1]).

BTW, Broadcom: may you rot in hell; you're on my "perpetual ban" list. I hate you so much, I'll write companies that use your chips just to tell them I'm not buying their product just because they use a Broadcom chip.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago (6 children)

How is the state of tilig WMs? Last time I ried Wayland, mixing and matching WMs and status bars was really flakey, with font scaling and rendering issues. There are certain things I will no longer compromise on in a WM, and if I wanted to be forced to use a specific desktop to get a working graphical environment (functioning scaling, for instance), I'd use a Mac.

Herbstluftwm hasn't been ported - is there a similar configuration file-less tiling WM? On X, I could also settle for bspwm; both WMs are completely configurable on the command line. How about bars? I'm using polybar right now, but there are a dozen to choose from under X, any of which I can use with whichever WM (and have it function properly).

Again, mere months ago, trying to get font scaling to work properly with the same scaling in all applications was messed up. Under X, if I set a font and size in any program (that supports font selection), I get the same apparent font size - because programs get fonts from X and the same code does all font rendering which makes everything consistent. How is that on Wayland, now, because that was a major deal-breaker last a couple of months ago.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You are right, and I understood that, but the methodology he uses - and therefore the conclusions - is wrong. He tests two virgin installs, adds some applications, and reaches a conclusion. It's like saying that I watched a baby be born and live until she was five, and so I've proven humans live forever. I also want him to confirn that no Flatpack was used for any packages on the Workstation 36 machine; I can't speak for Fedora, but on Arch AUR there are some packages that depend on Flatpack and will install it because that's the only way upstream releases it. So you can easily unintentionally end up with Flatpack on your Arch box if you're not careful.

Let's see a real-world, used desktop comparison with multiple package upgrade cycles after a year.

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