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1d ago
I did not see this coming. I thought the “recent” new driver NTFS3 is the ultimate driver. You can bet phoronix will do performance comparisons once it is available in mainstream. Is performance the only reason or are there other technical reasons for creating this new driver?
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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3d ago
It wasn’t like that before Ai. And since rise of Ai, the quality went down and not only for bounties. So this is not a problem with bounties. Now that the quality of reports went up and is not much of an issue anymore, we can assume it will not an issue anymore with bounties coming back.
In short, bounties are not the cause of the low quality reports.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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3d ago
bounty also encourages good reports. So your argumentation is that the bounty program is the reason why reports were bad lately? I don’t think that is the reason and bringing it back will not make it that worse again.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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3d ago
Does that mean the bug bounty program will come back?
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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3d ago
Oh… :D But you were right.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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3d ago
Sleep doesn’t work well in some environments, like right now my current one using AMD+AMD hardware on EndeavourOS. Therefore I do boot. And couldn’t care less for 10 seconds faster or slower boot times.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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3d ago
I think you don’t understand what LFS is. It is not a distribution you move on to, you build it from the ground up yourself following instructions and understanding how it works. Gentoo does all of that for you, you just have a ready to go distribution where you compile applications from source; you can even use binary builds to avoid compiling complicated and big apps.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 11, 2026
What is “The Year of the Linux Desktop” exactly? How do we measure this exactly and what does that even mean? (I use that phrase for memes usually.)
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 08, 2026
No, that is not what it was about. I know, don’t run sudo yay, but rather just yay and wait for password request. What it was is about a configuration to not ask password anymore, a passwordless package manger.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 08, 2026
Hey, I didn’t meant this to be removed or anything; was just sharing my personal opinion. Everyone can do whatever they want, as long as they are aware of consequences and get teached about it. I’m just a bit paranoid, that’s all.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 08, 2026
I don't feel safe doing so. Would a script be able to run escalated rights without asking me a password? Is it somewhere displayed that such a process is started (notification in example or at least in the terminal a message?). And even for applications I am directly starting, I want it be explicit to require a password, that I am always aware its escalated root rights the app has now.
I can understand your view of convenience and I am "guilty" of some convenience stuff too. But this goes a bit too far for my taste.
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Apr 08, 2026
You mean you have a package manager for your system without a password? Why would anyone want that?
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 08, 2026
I sometimes prefer Flatpak over AUR, because I do not trust everyone on the AUR to run scripts with root rights on my system. At least Flatpaks are a bit sandboxed (even if the sandbox is an illusion) and the programs don't install and run with root rights. Sometimes the Flatpak is from the original developer and the script in AUR is not. Or the AUR script is not updated well and often enough, unlike day one Flatpak updates. But Flatpaks do not integrate well in your system and applications can look out of place too. There is a lot to consider, besides what you already mentioned.
I use both, prefer the AUR in optimal cases.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 08, 2026
Why do you have both paru AND yay installed at the same time? As someone who likes Rust, I maybe should have switched to paru too. But I just can’t justify the change, because yay comes preinstalled and works just fine, and paru seems to not offer anything worthwhile the change.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 08, 2026
I use yay, as it comes by default with EndeavourOS. It’s basically an AUR helper that uses pacman and works quite the same.
Flatpak is a different package manager and has nothing to do with your system packages. They are not exclusive, I use both. So what you basically asking isn’t which package manager people use, but rather which package format.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 06, 2026
Linux is the only sanctuary left
Acktually there is still some Free and Open Source BSD variants. And for the lols we also have GNU Hurd. So even a world without Linux, does not mean we have to use Windows. (I don’t even count MacOS.)
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 06, 2026
I agree with you. The only thing I could see “Linux being a trap” would be, for people who expect Windows replacement without the Microsoft bullshit. So in one way this “could” be interpreted as a trap for those. But that is if I try to stretch it to justify calling it a trap.
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Apr 06, 2026
What people don’t realize is, that every year is the Year of Linux Desktop. We just beat the previous year. It’s like having a new world record every year.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 06, 2026
Congratz on liberating your computer and yourself.
Just a little advice on using the AUR: It is an user driven repository of software, meaning anyone can upload stuff to it. Usually you are adviced to read the AUR script before installing it (most don’t, especially newcomers). So you should be very careful and only install from trusted AUR scripts. Maybe install from Flatpak instead from AUR if you can, but that depends on many factors.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Apr 04, 2026
Maybe I should not have said it in the way I did. I should have said “usually people switch…”. From what I see, performance is not the main attraction for “most” people who changes it. I wonder how much of difference it makes and how people measure it.
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Apr 03, 2026
That is speculation. And as said, its not the decision of systemd to implement that, it is a decision of the operating system / distribution. I live outside the areas of those laws. What the next logical step is, is open to interpretation and that is not what I am discussing here.
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Mar 21, 2026
I feel like this comment was a sarcastic joke and people didn’t pick it up.^^ Especially after the Hurd line, this has to be a joke.
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Mar 21, 2026
What amazes me is, that a formal official plan (this) is just done recently a few months ago. How was there no official plan before? I don’t understand…
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Mar 15, 2026
I’m sure the mainstream doesn’t care or even know what problems a subset of people have. I am not saying it is not a problem for those who have, but don’t pretend as if the name is an issue in widespread adoption. In fact, changing the name would only lead to a little adoption, but split the user base and make it even more confusing. Lot of people wouldn’t want to use the old name or the new fork, because everywhere and every article talks about how bad the name was. Therefore many people would just distance themselves from the project, without really understanding the issue or even caring.
Let alone all the references in history, web and tutorials on YouTube which is only written for name “GIMP”. Changing the name of the main project would be a terrible idea. However I propose anyone who have a problem with it to simply fork it, and do a name and brand change. Without much other work, so it is not far behind to original project. This way people having a problem could just use that instead and everyone is happy.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Mar 09, 2026
I desperately didn’t watch his video on his own channel, and waited for someone I trust to react to it. I just watched Gardner Bryant’s reaction to it: On Invidious inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=W680f2iPu5o or YouTube directly youtu.be/W680f2iPu5o .
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Mar 09, 2026
Yes, Linux based operating systems have still many issues. So does any other operating system. No one said a Linux based operating system is perfect. In fact, Windows has more issues than Linux, that is why people switch.
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Mar 09, 2026
I have two different views and explanation what could have happened. Choose one. :D
The only benefit of doubt I can give Linus with this choice is, because its praised and recommended a lot. And that Linus is tackling this from a end user perspective who is searching the web and ChatGPT recommendation, coming of fresh from Windows without Linux experience. We all know Linus has Linux experience, but he might go the unexperienced route as a guide. And none of the websites doing these recommendations talk about the transitional phase PopOS is in right now.
But if I assume “bad” intentions, then he very well have made a risky choice by choice. Because he knows the other two will have good experience and then almost nothing controversial would happen = boring video, no interactions in the comment. He might have chose PopOS to boos his channel, not because he really really want to try PopOS again after he got burned so hard last time…
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Mar 09, 2026
Off course he picks PopOS, because it bite him before. And off course PopOS is currently under a huge desktop environment change.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Mar 03, 2026
Pure black background makes it unreadable for me. When I encountered this on websites, i use the Firefox function to turn it into a black on white background theme, so my eyes don’t hurt reading longer text. Same logic applies to the terminal, especially when programming. I think pure black as a background shouldn’t be default. However I do actually appreciate darker tones as background, but its never pure black. It depends on the combination of colors for text (and on the rest of the system theme).
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Mar 03, 2026
In what way is this E3?
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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Feb 19, 2026
Just wanted to share an alias I have in use and found it useful again. It’s a simple wrapper around xargs, which I always forget how to use properly, so I set up an alias for. All it does is operate on each line on stdout.
The arguments are interpreted as the command to execute. The only thing to remember is using the {} as a placeholder for the input line. Look in the examples to understand how its used.
# Pipe each line and execute a command. The "{}" will be replaced by the line.
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# Example:
# cat url.txt | foreach echo download {} to directory
# ls -1 | foreach echo {}
# find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -name 'M*' | foreach grep "USB" {}
alias foreach='xargs -d "\n" -I{}'
Useful for quickly operating on each line of a file (in example to download from list of urls) or do something with any stdout output line by line. Without remembering or typing a for loop in terminal.
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