Haven’t had a vanilla install since KDE 5 came out, but the biggest thing I use far from the default install is Karousel

I guess they are thinking about the ‘Compact’ option

I wonder why they decided to make it transpile to bash instead of posix sh.

Not wanting to be pedantic and I couldn’t care less actually, but it also happens that linux is not a pure unix

It tells Portage to set every package it installs to use the flags spit out by cpuid2cpuflags, so yes, */* is kind of an expansion - it should mean like “every portage package in every category”

Wondering why they stopped replying. One would imagine they would have a strong and well defined process for security reports, but it just seems like they sad “meh”

Have had a small cheap wacom bamboo for more than 10 years. Not only the device works great in itself and it’s quite sturdy but its support on Linux has always been stellar. Absolutely no complaints whatsoever.

Insanely strong opinions about software YOU chose to use everyday. I’d move to something else with no “bloatware” instead.

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 hope they follow suit with Plasma styling. As they reckon in the original post, SVG theming is a pita. Not even talking about the very fact that you need a non-qt app to theme qt-related stuff…

CSS/QML was always the way to go.

To add on that I’d look up if there are such thing as kernel seeds for ARM. Back in the day when I got started with Gentoo I managed to find my way compiling the kernel with “pappy’s seeds”

Seems I’m alone here on this but I’m team vis

Maybe someone can get upset by reading that word?

On a serious note, though, on my first semester at graphic design a teacher once told us that some day (here in Bogotá, Colombia) a punk wearing a jacket or something with a struck though swastica waiting for the bus near the uni. Some old lady saw him and the swastica and passed out on the spot. Apparently she was a jewish migrant or something. I never even imagined such things could happen here but the point was to be aware of the things you use in your communications

Apple’s webkit (I think GNOME web is the only other one available for Linux)

iirc one of the options available for web engine in konqueror is webkit - the others being qtwebengine (chromium) and khtml, which is where Apple got webkit from.

Think about a linux installation on a removable usb drive or a CD or DVD.

You won’t install Linux directly in your hard drive or whatever but in a removable device.

With it you can boot your laptop in it and use it almost as if it was actually installed on your laptop. It will let you check for hardware compatibility and that sort of thing. Also it won’t be as smooth as if it was actually installed on your laptop but for the looks of it even that way you would notice a huge difference with whatever you have installed on your laptop right now.

There are many linux flavors to test, and maybe people around here can give you better examples, but at the tip of my tongue right now there’s ubuntu or fedora, which have great hardware support by default.

By what you just told I can’t tell if you have ever tried a live distro with it. I hope you did, or if not, that you pick a distro of your liking and try it with your laptop.

(My PC is about 7 years old and it’s still going as new, so I was shocked reading your comment - I completely forgot Windows/Mac really tax you for “old” hardware)

and they also redesigned their website to look exactly like GNOME’s

Oh. I thought this was just another case of the consequences of the GNOME-ization of GTK but that… probably they want to became part of GNOME.

I just happen to be in the complete opposite. I think it’s better because I like it and it lets me to do what I want to do without getting in the way.

The one I’ve been using for the last 17 years, Gentoo

I have always heard not to use antivirus on Linux

I’ve never heard anything like that, and if it’s true it’s really bad advice, to be honest. It’s not that you shouldnt’ use an antivirus on Linux, but an extra of security is not bad because shit happens and with its popularity increasing Linux can face security challenges in the future.

Still if you know what you’re doing you can do just fine without an antivirus.