In terms of pirated versions, has anyone managed to get more modern versions of Office or Photoshop working from pirated versions? I’ve been quite curious about it for a while.

Good idea, but I couldn’t find it

I’ll just link another user’s response to a similar question, as I don’t think I could ever say it better myself: https://corndog.social/comment/3216441

There is a morally good and morally bad way to do this. Proton did it the right way. OpenAI is doing it the bad way.

The first paragraph on: https://proton.me/foundation

Proton was created to serve the world, and the non-profit Proton Foundation ensures that this can never change. As Proton’s primary shareholder, the foundation exercises its control to ensure that Proton does not deviate from our mission to build a better internet that serves the interests of all of society. Our legally binding purpose is to further the advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world.

In contrast, OpenAI seems to be leaving the nonprofit with a minority stake so watch it all collapse under corporate greed, or simply become worse, or squeezed dry after infinite growth investors get their hands on it.

Isn’t that what Explicit Sync was trying to solve? Check your Nvidia driver version, as well as your KDE Plasma version and see if they both support Explicit Sync.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Snap slowdowns have been supposedly fixed, but the only snap that updated their packaging to apply the fix was Mozilla’s Firefox (from what I’ve heard).

And there is a way to create a custom store other than Canonical’s (but it’s obscure and hidden, so I bet nobody would bother).

And snaps have better support for cli programs.

If snaps were as good as flatpaks (which I don’t think they are yet), and they were not made by Canonical (got them some extra bad rep), they could have been the dominant packaging platform. The issue is that their reputation precedes them. I don’t think Canonical can ever fix that.

TLDR: Snaps are not as bad as people make them out to be (anymore). It’s just that their reputation precedes them, and some of the solutions are there but are not in use.

I’ve been trying the same with Bazzite and ublue. Also gave it 2 days, and then left it as well, right before doing that with NixOS.

Personally, I use cal all the time.

Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I’m going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for “Shiny thing sindrome”, or the “grass is greener on the other side” stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I’d have known better.

Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.

Zig is feasible for systems programming and some, (most notably, the Primeagen in one video) claim it should have gone into the kernel instead of Rust, but I don’t know Zig so I don’t feel qualified to comment beyond that.

No, why? It’s not like it would hurt them that much. FINE THEM HARDER!!!

You can probably build a server image. I used Bluebuild, I’d recommend you check them out

All those apps are tied to Plasma, pull Plasma as a dependency, and as such, are not what you’d want to use unless you want to keep 2 DEs around. Okular is an exception, but I know for a fact that Dolphin pulls all of Plasma with it. For an Ark alternative, just use xarchiver (contrary to the name, works perfectly on Wayland). Gwenview is just an image viewer. Use ristretto or something else. COSMIC comes with its own screenshot utility as Spectacle replacement (and COSMIC Screenshot is quite good in my experience). And just replace Dolphin with COSMIC files (for a simpler experience) or Thunar (for something more powerful) and you’re good to go.

Edit: But I agree QT theming should be added. IIRC, they’ve talked to the Plasma team, but it was just too time consuming so they’ve put it of for now, but will have this done eventually. It’s a promised feature, it just probably won’t happen soon.

No Way! What??? How did they manage to…? Is the Issue Board on Github wrong? It shows tens of issues yet to fix??? Link: https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1

It’s dnf5 time!

cries in still waiting for new Anaconda installer

(for those curious, I had to use Anaconda 8 times in the last 2 days, because I was setting up (more like trying and failing to set up) a custom ublue image).

I’m hoping we get a persistent jailbreak for the PS4. The current one is not persistent, so I didn’t bother. But I have a 10.50 FW one laying around, just in case.

It’s scary how our corporate overlords watch all the distopian films and are like: Let’s turn that into a reality!

Imagine it becomes easier to run Windows x86 programs on Linux, than on Windows. And I won’t be surprised at all if performance is better.

Imagine if THAT becomes Linux’ killer feature.

A more lightweight system without the crazy system requirements, certain systems more stable and easier to get into for gaming, no ads and no spyware out of the box, no extra cruft nobody needs out of the box, and better support for x86 emulation on ARM.

Now THAT is a checklist to getting people interested.

There is also the free of charge aspect, but I’m not sure how appealing that would be, with Windows being bundled in.

Anything else I missed, feel free to let me know.

I just started using a namecheap domain that I registered a few weeks ago, and this title scared me for a minute lol