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[Mez']

Adoption (or not) of Pipewire over Pulseaudio might be linked to your usage as well.

For example, on my laptop I never output sound to another...

[Mez']

Also Charlie68
I see sandboxing leading to different issues (theming, save locations or thumbnails). Issue I don't have otherwise. I'm not obsessed...

[Mez']

Wow, that's a thing? For real?...

[Mez']

Are there big fundamental differences between Arch and Manjaro or EndeavourOS once the system has been installed?
On a day-to-day basis, regarding...

[Mez']

And yet there are more laptops sold than desktops.
Most of these laptops are 16:9 or 16:10, and a good proportion are 13-14". Any vertical...

[Mez']

Meritocracy great rainbow wonderful unicorn amazing job.

Now you can automate him (her?)....

[Mez']

One of the reasons I left Windows 15 years ago (fully for my personal use) is because of bundled packages and how much of a hassle it was to manage them...

[Mez']

Seems like the right mindset to me indeed (if it works as expected obviously).

Either menubar or hamburger menu depending on what the user...

[Mez']

That's just Pareto.
Going for snap is the 20% effort for 80%* reward given Ubuntu(-based) market penetration.
If you want to tackle a 1-2%...

[Mez']

Exactly. I only buy Linux compatible games though, to reward editors for taking Linux into account in the initial development. Not those who expect Proton...

[Mez']

It will be interesting to see how it fares as a wayland compositor. It will also definitely be useful for UBPorts, and XFCE or Budgie could join in the...

[Mez']

Indeed, and you can "apt-mark hold snapd" to prevent it from installing as an unwanted dependency. I don't like the concept of snaps and flatpacks...

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I strongly disagree with that. On the contrary, they've always taken user feedback into account and tried (successfully or not) to take pragmatic decisions...

[Mez']

Or maybe Linux (i.e. each separate Linux distro as an OS) is just better than Windows/MacOS and we use it because of that and independently of the respective...

[Mez']

Nemo was created (and I suppose is still maintained) by the Cinnamon team.
I saw you mention wayfire somewhere in a forum a few weeks ago so I went...

[Mez']

Oh, it's not just morals, it's facts as mentioned.
As much as you believe in it to the point of becoming aggressive about it, you are wrong on...

[Mez']

This comment is factually as much as morally wrong. I will disregard it entirely.
I hope it will be taken care of by moderation....

[Mez']

Apparently, the Crucial P5 I bought should fare similarly to the WD black SN750.
Also, it's kind of weird that the 980 1 Tb is far behind the WD...

[Mez']

I have 4 different (SATA 2.5") SSDs of 4 different brands, I use them even for storage now, and 1 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD in my new laptop.
The oldest...

[Mez']

99% of users probably use more featured and popular external apps. Especially on the most popular distros that are not so Gnome dependant.

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