I think this is a sane choice for now, but this really should be a warning shot to the likes of Valve (to be clear, Valve is great for Linux overall, and I’m extremely appreciative of that), that 32-bit needs to go, and Valve cannot expect every single distro out there to maintain 32-bit support forever just for them.

Sooner or later they’re going to have to bundle a 32-to-64-bit translation layer, like they’re already doing with Proton, and also with their x86-to-ARM stuff they’re working on.

These maintainers are spending their own time and often money expecting nothing in return. If they don’t want to continue supporting 32-bit, they are fully within their right to do so.

I understand the fear of having to move distro, but some of the hate I’ve seen levied towards the Fedora maintainers over this is really vile. They don’t owe you a damn thing.

Considering they’re an enterprise player, and so well-known, that actually seems surprisingly low to me, especially since that’s revenue not profit.

I"ve been experimenting with both Cosmos [I’m assuming you mean Cosmic, System76’s upcoming DE?] and XFCE Wayland.

So the only Wayland implementations you’ve tried are ones in Alpha or Beta?

Tbh that seems like an unfair comparison. You’re comparing alpha and beta software to production-ready software, and complaining about it not being as stable.

Wayland is a lot more mature on Gnome or Plasma. I started using Wayland on Gnome in 2019, and aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card a number of years ago, the only issue I’ve ever had was screen sharing on discord, which was ‘Discord are pathologically against updating their electron version’ issue, not a Wayland issue.

FFS, what is with this toxicity?

They aren’t bad choices. They are choices that you don’t like, but plenty of others do.

It sort of feels like an Apple product, in that sense. Very well-made, but god forbid you don’t want to do things exactly as they say you should

No it doesn’t, because Gnome is completely customisable, and the devs encourage that through the extensions platform.

If you don’t like Gnome, that’s ok. You don’t need to moan about it online and say it’s shit. I don’t like mushrooms. I don’t moan about it, I don’t say meals are bad for including them, and I don’t tell people they’re wrong for liking them.

You can disable version checking and have them run if you want to, although that’s probably not advisable.

They were vertical during all of Gnome 3, then changed to horizontal.

Great news.

What? The last major change to the gnome workflow was going from vertical to horizontal workspaces, and that was several years ago.

Gnome programs, and Gnome itself, is pretty great.

You don’t have to shit on a project just because you don’t use their stuff or like something else.

I’m glad they’re bringing some posts that are also on .ml to here. It’s an incredibly toxic instance with mods/admins that will harass and ban people a shitload, particularly if they’re not aggressively pro-tankie.

I received a 12 month ban across all of lemmy.ml for saying it’s probably a wise thing that sanctioned, state-affiliated Russian companies aren’t allowed employees in maintainer roles for the Linux kernel. The mods there are fucking psychos.

Decentralisation is one of the good parts of Lemmy. I like that I can opt out of lemmy.ml idiocy without entirety alienating myself.

I swear some people want Linux to be exactly how it was in 2003, forever.

They listed Flatpaks first, then Snaps second.

I imagine they did it to avoid listing 10 different packaging formats, only to have comments saying “omg you forgot about XYZ package type”

I don’t like Snaps either, but it’s undeniable there’s a lot of Ubuntu users out there, and most of them use Snaps.

True. The best laptops are the ones that let you set a charge limit in the BIOS.

For what it’s worth, though, the exact same happens to UPSes

If you only need a basic server, laptops are AMAZING.

• Full x86 software support
• On the rare occurrence you need to directly interface with it (as opposed to through a webgui on another machine) you have a built-in keyboard and monitor.
• They have a god-damned built-in UPS

I’ve been using Wayland since 2018 and not had any issues aside from when I briefly tested with an Nvidia card.

Wayland is more than ready for 99% of people, and has been for a while. Whenever I use Xorg it feels janky.

E: I also had issues with screen sharing, actually. I forgot about that because I rarely have to do it.

While this is true, it’s absurd to think that IBM in the 1930s/1940s is anything like IBM or RedHat (which btw is ran completely independently from IBM) now.

Based on this line of thinking, all German companies that have existed since that time are Nazi. Ford is nazi. Etc.

The leadership of IBM, and even moreso RedHat is completely different in 2025 than during/preceding WW2.

I’m an opensource and free from corporate shit software lover. Try to avoid everything related to corpo (Redhat, Ubuntu…)

RedHat contributes more to the Linux desktop than anybody. It is impossible to avoid their work, they do so much.

Fedora is also community operated. Although there’s a bit of an informal understanding between RedHat and Fedora to work together.

Why not just… not watch?

Why tell everyone that you don’t like videos or what this person on YouTube is doing with their time?