The times I’ve tried to look into it their fanbase seemed a bit toxic, they are really keen in that you have to read the fucking manual and that every possible question possible about (Free|Open)BSD is already solved in it. And they hold a very weird grudge against Linux because it’s more popular.

Probably FreeBSD devs are cool people and it seems this latest years they have been doing great amounts of work on making FreeBSD available and enjoyable for most people bringing the hot stuff, but on the OpenBSD side of things if Linus Freaking Torvalds tells Theo de Raadt is a “difficult person”…

When Python 3.something hit they did a massive overhaul on emerge’s resolution algorythm so it helped a lot when resolving stuff - and now you almost never need to use revdep.rebuild or things like that, I frankly forgot when it was the last time I used it, probably it has been years. Plus now things like binaries for heavy packages, portage hooks and stuff like that makes things a lot easier for people coming in. I’m really not sure why people still bitch on it or why some people seem to need every package they install available right away… but at least for me it’s been great all this years.

but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

Do you mean all the tears of people bitching on Gentoo because it is allegedly difficult to install were in vain?

Though on a serious note, I unironically wanted Gentoo/BSD to keep existing so I could move to it. I like FreeBSD (but not its users) or DragonflyBSD but pkg/pkgsrc can’t hold a candle to Portage in terms of letting you fine tune your install.

This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.

Looking forward for the external monitor support. The fact they have got this far is amazing.

That’s the part that confuses me, because allegedly GNOME has a hard dependency on systemd yet in Gentoo you can install GNOME without having to install nor use sytemd. I hope this new KDE login manager can work the same or a similar way, though

I don’t want to move to systemd, I’m happy with OpenRC. And I hope this move doesn’t force systemd on those of us using Linux and KDE.

That being said some devs (Gentoo devs?) cherry-picked some tiny parts from systemd and made packages for those parts so that when you want to install something with a hard dependency on systemd but you’re using another init system (like Gentoo’s default OpenRC) you will be fine without actually installing the whole systemd thing.

Maybe the FreeBSD folks can think of something similar, but I don’t know. Last time I looked when there was no official efforts from KDE to bring it to FreeBSD they bitched about it because it was “bloat”.

“A Windows themed Linux distribution” can’t really be “Windows themed” without some closed-source blobs and maybe even some backdoors sparkled here and there

I’m pretty sure people who use MMB do know that it uses one of the two clipboards in Linux. Hence the reason they use it.

That being said, I find baffling that they are not setting this as an optional feature but just outright disabling it.

X gOoD wAyLaNd bAd

Sounds like it’s time to get an IDE adaptor and try to recover something from my old drives

Us nerds using Linux with our old machines raging against the system slowly gaining market-share.

I swear the majority of us nerds using Linux have pretty new and powerful machines - sadly that hasn’t ever been my case, though, but in online forums, Lemmy, Reddit, and what have you it feels like people interacting have pretty cool hardware.

I saw like the first couple minutes of that video, but if I recall correctly the <(thing) bit creates a temporary file in /proc so you can use it right away with your command, in the example you gave, with ls

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.

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.

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”.

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.