no flatpak. chill.

but, he doesn’t like it, so it’s a scam. it’s not enough just to not buy it, he has to bitch about it and save the world from this evil, malignant company selling extremely customizable Linux laptops with versatile expansion options.

the alternative to gstreamer. both were precursors to pipewire, which aims to meet both use cases.

absofuckinglutely.

Always welcome. Sharing the good things is a part of the fun.

this might be ringing in late, but consider a large USB disk with Ventoy on it. you can just drop multiple ISOs on it, and then select which one you want you boot from right at boot time.

this will give you the ability to easily try multiple distros without too much commitment.

Categorical imperative works for me, usually - as it does for everyone.

tsk tsk, extremist.

Wayland can run fullscreen apps, and react to mouse movements just fine.

issue is, so many things have been called transphobic, from mere personal opinions to accidents to actual transphobia, i just can’t trust a blanket “foo is transphobic” comment.

that makes sense.

not familiar with the specific app you’re using. am I reading that right, that you’re throttling on power, current and temp?

if so, there’s not much you can do. but if it’s just temp throttling, you can get better fans/cooling.

if you’re already satisfied with fans/cooling, then yes, you’re pretty much using it to it’s max.

to be clear: throttling on power and current means you’re getting as much as you can out of the hardware you have (without over clocking or similar). although, make sure your CPU governor is ‘performance’.

throttling on temperature alone means you’re not getting the most out of you’re hardware that is technically possible, it means you’re hitting the thermal TDP of the system. for some systems (laptops, generally), there’s not much you can do there. but for others, you can tinker with cooling.

it’s often the people saying “don’t listen to all the drama” that are making drama.

chill out. the guy has relevant concerns, and they matter deeply to him. …and they matter deeply to us, the users of Linux. Rust in the kernel is a good step forward, but processes need to be in place not just for code, but for people who will be dealing with a new language in their formerly-c-only environment.

win hearts and minds, don’t just kick the nest and blame the hornets if they sting you. recognize needs, even of those who are stubborn, and address them.

the things I wanted to do required a non-standard dock (latte?), but made activities so much nicer.

my dock only had icons on it that reflected the current activity, my backgrounds were different, all the tools for the specific activity that I was doing were immediately available, but weren’t cluttering up the dock when I switched to other activities.

activities really are sweet, I’m sad to hear KDE is backpedaling on them.

That said, I’ve been using Gnome because the blended workflow of interacting with desktops, searching for applications, and working with open applications in the overview is just as sweet as it comes.