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2 days agoIndeed. Sadly, corporations abused telemetry so much that it makes users automatically distrust software with it - even when it’s opt-in. As such I’m not surprised it isn’t more common, specially in the Linux ecosystem.
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They also devour my dreams.
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If we take distro defaults into account, it’s possible Arch stats overestimate GNOME market share.
Based on tecmint list, the top 3 distros are Mint, MX Linux, and Endeavour. Their defaults are:
- Mint - Cinnamon, MATE
- MX Linux - Xfce, Plasma, Fluxbox
- Endeavour - Plasma
Granted, the fourth one (Debian) does default to GNOME, but your typical Debian user is more experienced, so it’s less likely they stick to the default.
…I wish I had actual data instead of a bunch of guesses. :-/
71·2 days ago0.25 mL of lemon juice is probably too much already.
She’s doing the maths for the concentration of citric acid in lemon juice through the formula C(acid) = 10^(-pH). That works fine for a strong acid, because you can be pretty sure all that acid in the solution is dissociated, and thus lowering its pH… but citric acid is weak - and weak acids don’t dissociate properly in already acidic conditions.
This means there’s probably way more acid in that solution than the pH makes you believe, but that acid will react once you raise the pH, by mixing the lemon juice into the water.
(I don’t blame her for using the strong acid maths. It’s already enough to convey her point, plus the maths for weak acids is a bloody pain.)
I wouldn’t be surprised if other big DEs, such as KDE, start making firmer plans for dropping X11.
If going by Arch Linux statistics, KDE dropping X11 will have a bigger impact than GNOME doing it.
In this video (Odysee link), someone asks X11 users why they’re still using it in 2025. The main answers were
- DE or WM doesn’t support Wayland, or its Wayland session is currently WIP.
- [lack of] support for certain graphic tablets and their features.
- old hardware. Specially old nVidia GPUs.
- [If I got this right] Some software expects to be able to dictate window position, and Wayland doesn’t let it to.
- OpenBSD.
In the light of the above, I think GNOME’s decision to drop the X11 backend is a big “meh, who cares”. If you use GNOME you’re likely not in the first case; #2 and #3 boil down to hardware support, not something DE developers can interfere directly; I’m not sure on #4 and #5, however.
Ah, the struggles of the prolabubutariat…
1·3 days agoBefore I even read the article, let me guess:
- it keeps Google under control of everything, giving it power to kick out competitors on a whim
- it claims it’s “to protect those disgusting pieces of shit called users from causing themselves harm”
- it claims Google did nothing wrong
Now, reading the article…
- “Google has denied any wrongdoing throughout the closely watched litigation.” - that’s #3 right off the bat
- “Under the new proposal, Google would allow users to more easily download and install third-party app stores that meet new security and safety standards.” - who decides those standards? If Google itself, that’s #1
- Sameer Samat, Google’s president of Android Ecosystem, said, opens new tab on Tuesday the proposed changes maintained user safety - #2.
*Yawn*
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.
I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.
Dunno if you had the same issue as I did, where OpenRGB didn’t detect the RAM sticks, and they simply used the default colour scheme. But, just in case this helps anyone here, here’s how I fixed it in my computer. (I’ll explain how through the terminal, for my own convenience, but do note you could use grub-customiser instead. Also, note that in my case the system is installed, not running through a USB stick.)
sudo nano /etc/default/grub, Enter, type your password, Enter.GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. It’ll have a few words after it, likequiet splash; after all those words, addacpi_enforce_resources=lax. Save (Ctrl+O) then exit (Ctrl+X) the file.sudo update-grub.With that out of the way: Linux is not to blame for either issue, but Apple and mobo manufacturers respectively. Both love some vendor lock-in, and do everything they can to prevent compatibility between their own junk and competitors. (You can be pretty sure iTunes wouldn’t work with Windows if MacOS market share was higher.)