This surely has more to do with upstream Qt, but I wish they can give way to people make things for KDE with Rust/Zig/C3/Whathaveyounow. Like, you know, besides the C++/QML combo (and the PyQt bindings thing).

That and overlooked apps like Falkon that have so much potential but could get some more love.

I so wish they can bring back the one-wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop thing. I’ve been missing it since the KDE 4.x days, but now seeing the dynamic virtual desktops thing in GNOME makes me wish KDE had it as an option (like, you could chosse between dynamic virtual desktops or fixed virtual desktops).

I just don’t like ssdm or logind non-integration with kde.

As if I didn’t had enough reasons to love Gentoo.

I still wonder if the systemd imposition on the new login manager is absolute and can’t be circumvented in any way, i.e. GNOME is allegedly dependent on systemd but you can circumvent it by using logind instead of the full systemd install

I want to know what it is that specific reason you need PS?

Looking forward for the external monitor support. The fact they have got this far is amazing.

That’s the part that confuses me, because allegedly GNOME has a hard dependency on systemd yet in Gentoo you can install GNOME without having to install nor use sytemd. I hope this new KDE login manager can work the same or a similar way, though

I don’t want to move to systemd, I’m happy with OpenRC. And I hope this move doesn’t force systemd on those of us using Linux and KDE.

That being said some devs (Gentoo devs?) cherry-picked some tiny parts from systemd and made packages for those parts so that when you want to install something with a hard dependency on systemd but you’re using another init system (like Gentoo’s default OpenRC) you will be fine without actually installing the whole systemd thing.

Maybe the FreeBSD folks can think of something similar, but I don’t know. Last time I looked when there was no official efforts from KDE to bring it to FreeBSD they bitched about it because it was “bloat”.

“A Windows themed Linux distribution” can’t really be “Windows themed” without some closed-source blobs and maybe even some backdoors sparkled here and there

I’m pretty sure people who use MMB do know that it uses one of the two clipboards in Linux. Hence the reason they use it.

That being said, I find baffling that they are not setting this as an optional feature but just outright disabling it.

Sounds like it’s time to get an IDE adaptor and try to recover something from my old drives

Us nerds using Linux with our old machines raging against the system slowly gaining market-share.

I swear the majority of us nerds using Linux have pretty new and powerful machines - sadly that hasn’t ever been my case, though, but in online forums, Lemmy, Reddit, and what have you it feels like people interacting have pretty cool hardware.

I saw like the first couple minutes of that video, but if I recall correctly the <(thing) bit creates a temporary file in /proc so you can use it right away with your command, in the example you gave, with ls

I agree with some comments at HN about that proposing an alternative is kinda pointless. D-Bus, contrary to the X situation, can be fixed.

This made me remember that one time several years ago when I was wondering if there was any way to change that font and learned there was some sort of service that allowed you to do that in boot time, but the downside was that there was some sort of what it’s known at frontend web development as “FOUT” (flash of unstyled text) and you could avoid that by converting your .pcf font to C code and patch it into the kernel code, but at that point I gave up.

Uhm, what?

Wayland has been in the works for more than a decade. Granted, there’s some people having issues with it, with propietary hardware (nVidia) and not-so-common setups like two monitors, but it happens that they are the most noisy. For the rest of us it’s been great, stable, and feels snappier than X.

If you want to talk about shoehorning stuff into Debian, talk about systemd.

Slim, stripped of unneeded documentation and files (including National Language Support; CRUX only supports the native language the programs were written in, which is english in most cases)

I’m positive about cutting unnecessary stuff, but imho that’s a bit too much (I mean for us non native english speakers, or at least those not learning english)

Because choices, freedom… that kind of stuff. And I say this as a now long time KDE user who used to use GNOME in the beginning.

That being said, what made me flee to KDE was realizing that its devs somehow think they know their users better than their users know themselves so they decided to develop a software metaphor with a utterly specific way to do things. Not that it’s a bad thing per se, they can do whatever they want if they don’t hurt anything or anyone else - but I wish people coming into the Linux and FOSS world could have that as a kind of warning when the distro they choose to begin their journey happens to ship GNOME as default.

Everyone seems to poke on the vim vs emacs/gnome vs kde/systemd vs everyone else but it seems to me the most toxic feud in the foss world has been x11 vs wayland. People had throwed shit at it because of their own specific issues and its “slow” development pace without realizing it’s a titanic endeavour and the hate and toxicity brings absolutely nothing positive to the table nor the development of Linux & FOSS in general.