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Damn, the incantation failed.

Time to bring out the billy goat.

At that point, people were curious and decided to go deeper into the engine. Low and behold, it’s a game engine, based entirely on telemetry technology.

Little me had this. I got my feeling of success from this thing. Believe it or not, but getting one of these installs to work on a consumer i386 wasn’t easy. It was uphill, both ways, bla bla bla they had just introduced python as this hip new systems language that they used in the installer - which was the style at the time, and still is, apparently. The circle of life I guess. In any case, my system drive couldn’t be the slave. It had to be the master. What’s that, nurse? Is it nap time? ZzZzZzZzZz…

…well of course they did, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft.

Your mom is easy… said the deep-pocketed founding member of the Rust Foundation.

This is why Russophobia is dumb. They can hardly organise in diaspora because people become sceptical and paranoid, in effect helping Putin to cut off the oxygen of any dissent movement.

You should help Russians in your town or city. You should help them organise, get funding and to basically form a clear Russian identity outside the Russian nationalist propaganda engine.

This is not only important, but crucial to save Ukraine, because pressure must be applied - on both sides of the border.

Been using it for the last couple of weeks… because I am your king, king of the nerds, and also I run NixOS, because I’ve abandoned all prospects of having an actual life.

That being said, it’s still buggy, still unstable, still lacking features… but, my god it is nimble and quick. Like my CPU and memory usage dropped substantially when I moved from Plasma. The keyboard workflow will maybe be a bit grading at first, as there’s no Alt+Tab.

But… you use Super+up/down to move between workspaces, and Super+Left/Right to move between windows in a workspace - or windows inside a tab stack, and you can put any window inside a tab stack. Take that, Microsoft.

Tiling is a mode you can turn on for all workspaces, or per workspace, but you can also float whatever window to be outside the tiles. Closing all windows on a workspace and moving to another one will automatically destruct that workspace, and the workspaces below will be pushed up.

All in all, it’s a pretty great experience and I can’t wait to see everything hit alpha, as System76 is really pulling out all the stops for this one. The first fully Rust based DE is going to shake the Linux DE world, mark my words.

Listen, some of you mfs don’t need a standing desk, you need a running desk, that gets up and runs the second your brain turns on autopilot.

Focus! Or the screen runs away.

This person, nay, this legend, has reached across language barriers and opened up entire new worlds to people who suffer from lacking or outdated documentation.

If you or your loved ones are afflicted by bad documentation, please voice your grievances to whatever ticket or email chain deserves to be told their documentation is absolute ass.

Yes, I can read the code API, now delete that old ass mess. If you don’t want to communicate it, let someone else have those search engine results.

Ffs.

This is what corporate speech control looks like, kids. Not even once.

Hopefully rpm-ostree is just the beginning. When SuSE Mint, Zorin, etc have some form of ostree tooling, then it’s over for you bitches, and by it being over for you bitches, i mean the need to do a full system reinstall will be over because you bitches can just rebase.

It truly will be the evolution of distro hopping, codifying a “of fuck, GO BACK” function by way of image handling, rather than barfing your operating system file system hierarchy on to your root partition like some caveman.

The future… is OCI images and layering, like in containers, because cloud native containers is the way - for the desktop… no, seriously. Stop laughing.

The RISC-V is an extensible ISA, so yes. All those vendor extensions are optional, when fabricating the processor, which can be replaced by other extensions over time.

Both Intel and AMD have had vendor extensions in the designs that they no longer use, even ones that have been “retracted” (i.e whatever in the heck Intel is doing with their AVX extensions).

But yeah, currently, there are a lot of proprietary extensions, which could still be declared as open hardware as well. So yeah.

Find the make and model of your system and search for it with “Linux”. This is a really easy way to avoid big problems, and finding a suitable distro for said system. It sucks installing a system, only to find out a certain boot flag needs to be turned off, or some kernel has a patch your system doesn’t like. Avoiding all that or even going into the situation prepared is much less stressful.

It also helps to know that with the freedom of Linux, there is a lot of difference in how systems are built, and that is a benefit and not a drawback.

Primeagen?

I’d say that there are some differences, but whereas Plasma 3 to Plasma 4 design-wise broke the mold, going from 4 to 5 was seemingly less of a major version milestone and more of a major version touch up.

I’ve used both, a long time ago, and I might be off base here when comparing Plasma.4 with 5, but what’s also good about the transition from 5 to 6 is something called skeumorphism, i.e continuously developing a design language rather than making ground breaking changes. Plasma 6.1 hits a little higher mark, but considering all the UI work KDE has gone through the last year, it’s time to reap the rewards and hard work of the community.

That being said, backend wise, a ton of new stuff has come and even gone. The last years there’s even been an attempt to rewrite a lot of old stuff into modern code, in preparation for Wayland support in somecases- which was a doozy. Wayland is not an easy protocol to implement - or so I’ve heard.

We lost the cubic desktop, and got it back again, it’s been a wild ride. Kudos to the Plasma team for finally starting to catch up to GNOME in the UX department and that their efforts have been fruitful. I’ll be trying out Plasma 6.1 as my daily driver once it is released as stable.

The sponsor of this war is VODKA! Here in Russia, we feed it to babies, to make new orcs!

Oracle is horrible and deserves to lose Java.

Good ol Phoronix. A great news aggregator… fuck the haters. “Oh no, their benchmarks are dubious.” All benchmarks are dubious.