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nils , 8 months ago

But even with an immutable distro you don’t have to reboot. The updated image just gets downloaded in the background and booted into when you restart. There is no harm in still being booted from the old image id you don’t specifically need anything only included in the new one. Nothing forces you to reboot.

nils OP , 8 months ago

It’s Fedora. Moving out the legacy cruft and focusing development on modern technologies is precisely what makes it great imo.

nils OP , 8 months ago

Xorg is still available in RHEL 9 to my knowledge

nils OP , 8 months ago

Me too. I’m glad to see them adopting wlroots and focusing on porting components like the panel first. This way we can run the DE on compositors like labwc and the Xfce developers don’t need to waste resources on reinventing the wheel by writing a compositor from scratch.

nils , 8 months ago

I personally use Bitwarden for my 2FA needs. As others mentioned you can self host the server but personally I have no reason not to trust their SaaS solution, especially now that they offer EU hosted servers. If all you want is a basic authenticator app that does only one thing give FreeOTP a try, it’s made my RedHat. You can then sync the applications state.

nils , 8 months ago

That is true. But that’d be the case for any online/cloud 2FA service. So you could either have a local 2FA app just for Bitwarden or set up less secure but more convenient email 2FA.

nils , 8 months ago

I would love to see Apple go down the route of actually supporting modern OpenGL and Vulkan on their hardware. The hardware is amazing but forcing software to rely on Metal just holding it back especially when it comes to games.

nils , 8 months ago

Macs have a big user base, if you like it or not.

Apple supporting Vulkan or not supporting it will not change a thing about that.

Developers support platforms where the users are. Having good support for Vulkan on Macs would make their life easier.

I fail to see how that’s a bad thing. Apple not supporting Vulkan won’t drive the average user to install Linux as they don’t know what it even is.

nils , 9 months ago

I can only recommend you to look into using Flatpak to install graphical applications. It avoids the whole dependency or permission issues because it ships apps in their own well tested little sandbox. From a end user perspective its somewhat similar to how applications are bundled on macOS.

nils , 9 months ago

Exactly. Trying to install the latest version of a bunch of apps on a base like Debian is bound to give you dependency issues if you try to install the native version.

nils , 9 months ago

Considering the clashes system76 had with the GNOME team this seems to be going in a similar direction. Having a clearly defined way of theming applications instead of having themes just inject random css is the way to go in my opinion. I’m really excited to finally try Cosmic DE myself!

nils , 9 months ago

I remember reading about Lacros over a year ago and then never since. I pressumed this was dead but apparently not. But I think this is a move in the right direction. Having the browser and desktop shell being the same component and only being able to update them as one piece seems like a very strange idea to me.

nils OP , 9 months ago

At least Brave forks Chromium and they have a bunch of patches they apply to the codebase. I mean yeah, they still contribute to the Chromium monopoly but calling them just a rebrand is a bit unfair in my opinion