I agree with some comments at HN about that proposing an alternative is kinda pointless. D-Bus, contrary to the X situation, can be fixed.

5 downvotes are absolutely nothing compared to that level of idiocy.

Some people love whatever Mac/Windows does in UI for some reason. Most popular and downloaded themes on opendesktop.org are almost always whatever that resembles Mac/Windows for this reason.

This made me remember that one time several years ago when I was wondering if there was any way to change that font and learned there was some sort of service that allowed you to do that in boot time, but the downside was that there was some sort of what it’s known at frontend web development as “FOUT” (flash of unstyled text) and you could avoid that by converting your .pcf font to C code and patch it into the kernel code, but at that point I gave up.

Pretty sure there should be some nonprofit that will gladly get and assemble them so i.e. children on remote places can have a computer.

Comments complaining how everything takes time to compile in Gentoo are kind of funny, do you really need everything to be installed asap?

That being said, Gentoo indeed is not for everyone. I’ve been using it for +15 years and am really happy with it - almost zero maintenance and it’s super stable. The crux is the time it takes to be installed and people hold a weird grudge against it just for that.

But at the same time there are more distros oferring pretty much the same, i.e. your own arch.

OpenBSD people and those who don’t like “bloat” seem to like DEs like CDE.

At my uni they go to the extreme where not only one gets around 20-30 mails DAILY but now to go check your email, which is gmail-based, it hops first into a Cloudflare human verification page that you can never pass in Falkon because it keeps looping after you check the human verification

And Ford beat the entire world into a 48h workweek

A few days ago I saw a post on c/opensource@lemmy.ml about “an alternarive to KDE Connect”, and the rationale to wanting “an alternative to KDE Connect” was that it “makes you download a lot of other software that you don’t really need”. Which it’s just the required Qt stuff. imho that’s plain ridiculous.

Given the high upvote count you can guess people just think about GTK as the default and every other toolkit as “software you don’t really need”.

I don’t think so but it seems you two are mixing Android and AOSP.

Android is owned by Google. AOSP is not.

I might be wrong on this but it seems to me they’re replacing in Android, the OS shipped with many smartphones, parts that have open licenses, i.e. parts from AOSP. Like they are replacing open parts of code with privative parts of code.

Uhm, what?

Wayland has been in the works for more than a decade. Granted, there’s some people having issues with it, with propietary hardware (nVidia) and not-so-common setups like two monitors, but it happens that they are the most noisy. For the rest of us it’s been great, stable, and feels snappier than X.

If you want to talk about shoehorning stuff into Debian, talk about systemd.

Never got into the tiling wm craze, but since I found out about Gnome’s PaperWM thought it was much better than tiled and traditional wms and wanted something like that for KDE. Even was thinking about doing it by myself until one day learned someone else did it and much better than I would

It seems pretty active to me

I’m no native english speaker either, but have seen people bitching about the supposed lack of design in KDE so I felt I needed to ask

Can’t tell if in that last part you’re talking about KDE/Plasma or about Windows 11.

I don’t even use Arch btw but feel like OpenBSD fanboys would relate more to this

Slim, stripped of unneeded documentation and files (including National Language Support; CRUX only supports the native language the programs were written in, which is english in most cases)

I’m positive about cutting unnecessary stuff, but imho that’s a bit too much (I mean for us non native english speakers, or at least those not learning english)

I have absolutely no idea how “Linux” is supposed to be pronounced. True story.

I thought for a sec this was calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world, anyone knows what happened to it? It’s been a week since the bot posted something there