I don’t use either but IMO people are far too worried about bloat, it’s not some monster that’ll drag you down. Unless you’re extremely space constrained some extra packages on disk won’t make any difference. And even on the slimmest install there’ll be stuff you never use anyway.

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I agree, only release schedule really matters, package managers are easy to learn… I don’t think the AUR is that special either, I’ve always found everything I needed no matter the distro, but maybe I don’t have exotic requirements.

I’m fine with most distros, though I don’t bother with the fast rolling ones anymore, I did for a few years but I don’t see the point for me. I’m happy with Fedora or an Ubuntu derivative and major updates are one command which is trouble free unless you’ve changed something in a non-standard way.

Now using Pop 24.04 as it’s on a stable base and I code COSMIC stuff, oh and they update kernel/nvidia/mesa on a regular basis (I use hybrid Gfx, Intel iGPU and NV offload). I’ll probably stick with PopOS or Fedora COSMIC spin/copr moving forward.

Use case for me is coding and gaming.

My fondest memory is checking the newsgroups for new posts every morning on one of the campus HP-UX terminals. Lesser fond memory is everyone creating personal home pages with animated UNDER CONSTRUCTION gifs everywhere.

Or erhmm, a girl having to come up with an explanation because her husband had run the finger command from their home country on her account and seen that she was logged in from my location after midnight.

Assumptions are assumptions. The server is written in Rust, the idea is to be flexible with control and the optional UI. It has a big focus on Enterprise and things that were difficult with YAST are easier with Agama, such as unattended installation and using Ansible. For a simpler use case you can boot it up on your headless server and connect to https://agama.local/ in a web browser and continue the installation.

Oh, I didn’t even realize it was there. It’s just a button in the sidebar. One can right click on the sidebar, click customize to toggle it.

Relying on is perhaps too strong, but I enjoy operations like sort getting faster and I don’t know how they’ve written cp but there’s a cp alternative using async IO with io_uring that’s almost twice as fast, I’m sure it’d interest people if such optimizations made it into coreutils.

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Search/create issues: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-settings/issues

Streaming, the new cable - but worse.

No. It’s one dude.

I run 24.05 Alpha, I just did “sudo apt install gnome-session”, I can choose between COSMIC and GNOME in the COSMIC greeter every time I login. You can probably do the same with Plasma.

Haven’t needed to login to GNOME since last year though.

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All Operating systems get more complex release by release, including the applications and all the different hardware platforms and peripherals. So there will be problems.

The “It just works” catchphrase came from Steve Jobs back in 2003. It didn’t exactly mean things were perfect but that regular people/non experts should not have to struggle with technical mumbo jumbo to use a computer.

It’s way more configurable/flexible than the very rigid GNOME while still being less complex than Plasma, so it falls in a sweet spot between those two extremes.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

I would suggest avoidig pure rolling distros then. Also bear in mind that usually the performance difference between distros is not really big enough to make a difference for most things.

I would consider something like Mint. But what I did on my new laptop was that I installed PopOS 24.04 Alpha and used gnome-session (“sudo apt install gnome-session”) on it, though I’ve switched over to COSMIC now as I’m writing apps for it and it works for my games. It’ll get regular kernel+mesa updates but the base os will remain “LTS stable”.

You could also go the Fedora (KDE or GNOME spins) route, it has a regular update schedule, this might be a great option for you.

They have shape tools on the roadmap for this free image manipulation app, until then we’ll have to use the two-step method of stroking a circular selection or use a more dedicated drawing app.

In any case GIMP 3.0 is a huge rewrite under the hood and seems to be attracting more contributors now, which is a good sign.

but the work hasn’t began for it yet.

This is completely untrue. The work has not only begun but the microphone driver is now working in development. Before it can be enabled they need to tweak various userland parameters and configurations that are different between each mac model.

He didn’t step down from Asahi, just from the Linux kernel maintainers. Another person took over the Linux kernel Maintainer role for Asahi. It gives Hector one thing less to worry about.

EDIT: As of Feb 13th he has resigned from Asahi. No mention of his alter ego Asahi Lina, she’s still listed as a member? As Hector is an incredibly talented and productive individual it’ll be a big blow to the project.

Yeah as far as I understand, it’s available with the xdg-desktop-portal Global Shortcuts for any application to implement. It’s available for both sandboxed and regular applications to implement.