It is finally upon us.
THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!
Terms and conditions apply. It could be the next year, or the year after, or not at all.
It is finally upon us.
THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!
Terms and conditions apply. It could be the next year, or the year after, or not at all.
This is the caveat for me for now.
To run locally a powerful graphics card with at least 6 GB VRAM is recommended. Otherwise generating images will take very long!
I've got decent RAM on an I9, but my graphics card, which is what matters here, isn't up to par.
Why not try it for yourself on Linux mint first by installing plasma? Plasma 5 is available on mint - I believe Fedora has plasma 6.
I use plasma 6 on my Opensuse Slowroll laptop and plasma 5 on my LMDE desktop.
Overall, I've found plasma 6 to run slightly better (I was on plasma 5 on Slowroll too for a long time).
Once you install and try plasma 5 on your current install, that will be a much less disruptive way to see how well it works for you.
After ricing, both plasma 5 and 6 are pretty similar on my setup. The cube desktop effect isn't there by default on plasma 5 of course.
They do. They did. What do you do when a 'good guy' is really a bad guy? Happens outside of software too. Someone inserts themselves into an organization while secretly working against its interests.
Here's a good summary. However, you should read a few articles - plenty have been going around, including on Lemmy.
As with all definitions, there is a gray area where people will have different boundaries on exact meanings. To you - a supplier relationship needs an explicit payment, which is a fair definition.
However, the more widely used definition that most people, including me, refer to, is not necessarily focused on the supplier, but on the supply - what we use in our toolchains is a supply - regardless of how it was obtained.
When there is an issue in a trusted supply, even if it was not a commercial relationship (a prerequisite by your definition), it is a supply-chain attack by the more widely used definition.
The article states reasons which aren't limited to what happened. I understand and agree with your sentiment about the supply chain issue being something that could happen anywhere - those were my initial thoughts too.
The reasons for shifting are related to speed, other mainstream software already having made that switch years ago (pre incident), and unfortunately... More robustness in terms of maintainers.
Open source funding and resilience should be mainstream discussions. Open source verification and security reliability should be mainstream discussions: here's a recent mastodon thread I found interesting:
https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/112202543680959859
However, people switching from x to z (I did see what you did there) is something that is going to happen considering the other factors listed in the article that I summarized above.
Linux mint Debian edition or Opensuse tumbleweed.
Slow Internet/less updates, older, more tested software, slightly wider package availability: LMDE.
Faster Internet, more updates, very new (but well tested) software, needs slightly more technical knowledge sometimes: Opensuse tumbleweed.
I personally use Opensuse Slowroll, which is a slower rolling release experimental version of Opensuse tumbleweed.
Superlior you say? Superl!
To be honest, I've never owned an apple device: only Android phones and windows (with Linux immediately installed) laptops. However, I kind of like the icon aesthetic the most out of all the ones I've tried.
The theme also grew on me during my Gnome days, so yup, these days I pretend my device is an apple from a cosmetic sense 😂
Kudos for putting together good reasons that you don't like PPA, while also acknowledging that Mozilla is trying to solve a problem.
Yours is one of the very few reasonable objections I've read IMO - when the PPA outrage first erupted, I read through how it worked. Unique ID + website unaware of interaction, but browser recognizing, then feeding it to an intermediate aggregator that anonymizes data by aggregating from multiple users without sharing their IDs, with the aim of trying to find a middle ground seems fair to me. Especially with the opt-out being so easy.
However, your points about classes clickbait encouragement, SEO feeding, and the uncertainty that this will solve the web spamminess as it is are valid concerns.