Nefyedardu

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I think GNOME being minimalist with extensions is a good thing, but I disagree with what GNOME considers basic functionality or not. Two things that stick out:

  • an app launcher. Literally every other desktop on the planet has one, how this isn't considered basic functionality is beyond me. Give your grandparents a vanilla GNOME computer and tell them to get to Facebook and you will see how necessary this is in real time. Default should be dash-to-dock with intelligent autohide so you only see it when you need it. This would fulfill GNOME's hangups about it while also improving usability, so I fail to see a downside.
  • tray icons. GNOME treats background processes like bugs to be squashed. Let's just get real here for a second: sometimes you want programs to run in the background and sometimes you want to be able to see what they are doing in real time. I want my email clients to tell me when I get emails, I wan't my Nextcloud to tell me when there are sync issues, and I want Discord to tell me if I get DMs. This should be considered basic functionality.
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well I hate to disagree with all the doomers here, but I don't think flatpaks are the devil. Flatpaks are as good as the person shipping them, there are not many flatpaks that actually have official dev support so a lot of these programs are packaged by volunteers in their spare time. So no, they may not have the best default settings.

That said, I run flatpaks almost exclusively on Kinoite I've never had an issue with flatpak theming or my cursor changing. Some applications are very obviously made for GNOME or KDE explicitly but flatpak doesn't have anything to do with that. Of course if you are running a WM rice or something with very specific theming then that's another story. You can customize a Linux desktop in countless ways, you can't really expect these applications to keep up with that by default (flatpak or not). It's the same concept as something like Discord or Steam, it will look the same for everybody but you can theme it if you put some effort in.

IDEs are another issue, the whole concept of an IDE is antithetical to a sandbox in the first place so it's simply not a very good use case of flatpak. Flatpak isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, that's why even the Fedora immutable desktops give you additional options like rpm-ostree, podman, buildah and toolbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So far as I know, Red Hat did not violate GPL. Oracle didn't do anything wrong and neither did Red Hat. As I said, there's no "good guys bad guys" here just companies trying to make more money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are there any plans for tray icon and desktop notification support? Those features are the only reason I would run a desktop email client, without them I'll just use a browser. I know Birdtray exists but I can't get it to work with flatpak Thunderbird.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oracle's OEL is the reason all of this happened in the first place, lol. I don't think there are any good guys or bad guys in all this, just corporations doing what corporations do: make money. Oracle and SUSE smell blood in the water and are trying to capitalize as much as they can. I don't blame them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

SLES is OpenSUSE's own competing product to RHEL. There's also Ubuntu Server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My company was starting to use OEL extensively over the past few months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

lol "competition". Oracle doesn't contribute 1/10th that Red Hat does to open source. This whole controversy is BECAUSE of Oracle copying Red Hat's homework with OEL. Now they are pissed because they can't have a free lunch anymore at Red Hat's expense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If it's opt-in and the data is viewable by the user, what exactly is the problem? If privacy-conscious people don't have to use it and it helps devs to prioritize their work, than everyone wins right? GNOME and KDE have the exact same thing and you can see exactly what gets sent. The text files are in plain site in .local. I personally opt-in to all Linux telemetry because I want Linux desktop to be as good as it can be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I switched to Wayland for VRR and (future) HDR support and I don't really notice any downsides. I mean changing your display server will be 99% transparent for most users. There are some features like PTT on Discord which don't work (I believe because of Discord, not Wayland) but I've never used it anyway. Hell I use X KDE on the Steam Deck and Wayland KDE on my desktop and I would hazard to say that Wayland even seems less buggy at this point...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

People always say to avoid gaming headphones, but gaming headphones are often the only ones made with built-in external mics. If I'm gaming, I need at least a decent mic. Internal headphone mics aint going to cut it, they are omnidirectional and have terrible quality.

Sure you can get the perfect set up with some high quality headphones and a separate recording setup but there are issues with this. Boom mics are the highest quality of course but they take up a ton of space and are unsightly. You need to get the perfect length of boom and hold it close to your face at all times... it's necessary for content creation but not practical for everyday playing. There are "mod mics" you can attach to the side of your headphones, but there is only one company that makes them (Antlion) and both of their products in this line are terrible. I've had nothing but issues and they are not cheap.

So in the end I settled for the Sony Inzone headphones and they are fine. They are ugly as sin and the sound quality is obviously lacking, but it's way better than most in the category. You can connect via Bluetooth but the dongle works OOTB on Linux. The headphones are poor without a firmware update, and that needs a Windows VM and it's a bit tricky. The update will disable the USB device at points, so you will need to re-enable the USB passthrough when this happens. Pretty easy to do with GNOME-Boxes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's crazy how different XVI is from VI. Absolute polar opposites in design. VI just inundates you with interesting side-content and tons of side characters. There are so many different ways you can play that game.

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