Ardor von Heersburg

Some design choices of Wayland are really weird.

That said do you know of the wlr foreign toplevel management protocol? A lot of the smaller compositors support it. But yes a lot like e.g. Mutter and I think kwin do not.

Mostly I used a self written panel/dock and for some time also wf-shell (the reference/default shell). But imho there are are lot more options because Wayfire implements a lot of Wayland protocols.
For applications like file manager I just used what I thought fit the best, mostly from the mate and xfce environments.

You mean why I switched away? Has actually nothing todo with Wayfire itself. I had it installed on a very customised Debian Sid installation and started to have less time to tinker with my system and wanted/needed something more stable and polished.

Wayfire is great. While I currently don’t use it anymore I can still recommend it. Specially if you like to experiment and tinker around.

It really is what compiz once was.

Yes and no. While some parts like the Cinnamon shell itself are available in Debian some environment tools (e.g. xed) are not available.

I don’t remember exactly whats also missing but in my personal experience the Cinnamon desktop on LMDE is way better and mor polished than on plain Debian.

Yep, LMDE is everything good from Debian coupled with the great usability and good defaults from Mint.

Honestly when you kind of know Debian than stay with it. It’s greater software. You can easily install a graphical desktop if you like to do so. Also it’s quit comfortable to have the same package manager on all you systems.

Looks very sketchy but I’m not to sure if it really is GIMP. It’s code is old and complex changing it to look like in the screenshot would be a big project on itself.

I kind of expect it. Not because of to much grows on the Linux side more because a lot of the desktop use cases are slowly dying and I think this will hit Windows harder than Linux based systems.

I agree. In my opinion Mint is one of the few distros that actually manage to make everything doable without the terminal.

Is Kali based on Debian Testing? Such issues can happen in the testing branch because sometimes only some of the dependencies from unstable get moved into it.

That’s why it’s strongly discouraged to use Testing.

I own the original PinePhone, and it’s nice to tinker with, but honestly it’s far too slow to be usable on a regular basis. Perhaps the PinePhone Pro is slightly better, but most likely still not good enough.

Couple that with the other issues described by @carzian@lemmy.ml , and it’s pretty clear why it failed.

Awesome, love it xD

On that note: GTK has its issues but the idea/concept to just use CSS for theming is just great.

While some of the arguments are true, this blog post mainly reads like an ad for hyperland and it propably is just that.

I don’t use autotools anymore for any of my private projects. It’s plain Makefiles for me simple and easy. But I usualy only target Linux.

Thats the term Stallman came up with when the first distributions (esspecially Debian) started to build up. It wasnt really popular even back than so he setteled in GNU/Linux as alternative which to this day is in the name of quit a lot distributions.

It was never the plan/intend to rename the Linux kernel itsself to either of those terms.

Interresting list, thanks.

Regarding the Firefox Wayland variable, it should be possible to add the line in ~/.profile instand. And that file can simple be opend by showing hidden files in the file manager of choice.

I‘m not sure if I like this. I use Matrix for a couple of years now and to be honest the more I use it the more I hate it.

Everything just feels slow, clunky and some basic things are quite complicated to archive and some functionality just does not work.
All that was okay for me in the beginning but it never got better.

IRC and XMPP also had their problems but I often wish them back nowadays.

Mod of Scratch 3 with a compiler, dark mode, addons, and more features.

https://turbowarp.org/

I guess it’s because US laws likes to pretend to be in force world wide … which they are not.

The first I tried was Ubuntu 10.10 but for reasons I don’t remember anymore I‘ve decided to rather install Linux Mint 10.

Used Mint for quit a while, then I had my distrohopping phase before finally setteling on plain Debian a couple of years back.