notanapple

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[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Id say just recommend Photon. It works well on both mobile and desktop. I love voyager but two very different uis is going to confuse new users.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One way is to donate to devs who are working on some specific features in the Linux kernel. The two I remember are Hector Martin who lead the Asahi Linux project and Kent Overstreet who is the main dev behind bcachefs, a new CoW FS.

But I guess this only works if there is some dev already working on a feature and is accepting donations. I wish we had community linux project or something similar which was funded by donations and hired kernel devs to work on things the community voted on.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Its about Malibal, an infamous linux/windows hardware company. The person in the video is a KDE dev (Niccolo).

If you prefer peertube: https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/fcd71cf8-37be-41ad-ab66-bb7efaf44350

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Distros ship with icons and themes system wide because apps running as root only load icons/themes that are installed system wide (you can check this by running an app as sudo).

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It depends. On older devices there isn't much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than older version.

Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was really bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah the docs are a bit misleading but they are mostly for complete linux newbies. Its basically saying that to scare away any newbies from relying on ntfs because ntfs on linux has quite a few issues (in general, not exclusive to Bazzite) and might break unexpectedly since it is reverse-engineered so it is not perfect.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bazzite does support NTFS. I use Bazzite on one of my devices with ntfs partitions and I haven't had any problems so far. Unless you mean installing Bazzite on the ntfs partition which yeah I guess it doesn't but Im not sure if any other disro has support for it.

But fair enough, immutable distros have a read-only system so making certain changes might be difficult and the usual commands might not apply. They are not impossible though, just require different commands since you have to layer those changes on top of the system. I have been able to make pretty much any changes to my Bazzite system that I would do on an ordinary distro.

Bazzite also has a really nice community that will help you with any issues and you can also ask for help in Fedora Silverblue/Kionite communities since Bazzite is just an image of Fedora (Kionite).

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Bazzite does support ntfs. I have ntfs partitions on my system and they work perfectly fine in Bazzite.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Woah that MR actually got merged damn. Couldn't believe it when I saw this, I thought the title was a clickbait or something until I checked and it was for real.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I thought Bezos was sold on space habitats (O'Neill Cylinders and the like). I remember he criticized Musk for his Mars ambitions.

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

Delta chat is based on top of email (i.e.SMTP, IMAP) so its like sending emails but in a chat format and encryption on top (and some more stuff).

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Centralization is not a good thing IMO. Im glad Fedora is bothering to maintain their own repo no matter how useless we find it.

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