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@ Communist @lemmy.ml

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I'm an anarchocommunist, all states are evil.

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Feel free to AMA about picking a pet/reptiles in general, I have a lot of recommendations for that!

  • Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?

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  • I keep seeing people say this, and nobody ever gives any sensible reasons for why they believe this.

    Do you honestly think X11 has a better design than wayland? Do you think every single app should have permissions to screen record without you knowing, to keylog without you knowing? That mixed refresh rates (without hacks) should be impossible, that mixed display scaling should be impossible, etc? X11 just seems fundamentally broken from the ground up, I have no idea what of x11's design is better in any way.

    I'll grant you there's some implementation issues right now, but design is absolutely not a place where x11 wins. There is not a single X11 developer who would agree with you that the design of X11 is better than wayland, not even one.

  • Is there an advantage of using doas over sudo

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  • No, but it's cleaner and designed for my usecase, and no real work to setup for me, all I had to do was add an alias

  • Is there an advantage of using doas over sudo

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  • I just use doas because sudo has a bunch of features i don't care about or use, and doas does everything i need while being significantly smaller.

  • Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged!

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  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • It's less buggy for me, for sure.

    I think there's a reason plasma decided to switch to it by default, do you have any evidence that it's more buggy?

  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • I don't think you're correct, immutability is great for long-term maintenance and makes everything, especially updating, much easier for new people.

    Non-immutable distros will often have conflicts, or when a dist upgrade happens, issues occur, immutable distros largely sidestep those issues, and I believe kinoite is the simplest, most reliable option for someone unfamiliar with performing these upgrades.

    The moment there's a dependency issue or conflict, they will have problems.

    Fedora is not a flavor of the month project, it has just as much history as mint/ubuntu, and there's a reason they're shifting to atomic. Furthermore wayland is better for the vast majority of people right now, imagine you bother to switch to the linux desktop and then in a few months everything completely changes because wayland happened, it'll look like linux is absolutely insane from the perspective of someone who hasn't immersed themselves into the nature of this transition.

  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • Not if you include laptops and people without dedicated gpu's at all!

    And either way, we're not far from all of the issues being resolved nvidia side, and they're few and far between at this point. That's just the last problem left, and it only affects xwayland apps.

  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • Kinoite is extremely stable due to it's immutability, if we mean stable to mean "unbreaking" rather than not updated.

    Wayland is also the better choice for new people unless they have nvidia, in which case, it will be the better choice once explicit sync is supported in xwayland and nvk is the default.

  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • I would highly recommend fedora kinoite, it's immutable so the system doesn't break without you trying very hard, well configured out of the box, and uses flatpak for apps so the system can be stable and the apps can be updated regularly!

  • I'm facing segfaults with waybar and have come up with a ridiculous solution, is there a better way of doing this?

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  • Nah I just noticed it crashed anyway and didn't assume it was a flaw in my methodology but rather that i ran out of waybars queue'd

  • I'm facing segfaults with waybar and have come up with a ridiculous solution, is there a better way of doing this?

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  • Yeah I noticed it wasn't actually working and for some reason assumed that it was because it crashed so many times that I ran out of waybars, so I added a million after that, and you're totally right, I know better than that, thanks!

  • I'm facing segfaults with waybar and have come up with a ridiculous solution, is there a better way of doing this?

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  • ...that does indeed look very similar, but my solution makes it so that if waybar crashes it doesn't even matter, which I quite like, even if the segfault has been fixed.

  • I'm facing segfaults with waybar and have come up with a ridiculous solution, is there a better way of doing this?

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  • Thank you!

  • openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet

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    Can you help me install macchanger on a macOS 12.7.4?

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  • openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet

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  • openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet

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  • What do you need xsetwacom for that isn't working with the native settings manager?

  • Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.

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  • I'm not lying and why would I? Your only remaining argument is that I must be lying?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+update+broken+manjaro

    see the countless results for yourself.

    Again this is a distro that shipped an update to steam that uninstalled your DE, why are you surprised it's a buggy mess?

  • Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.

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  • Fedora is all about being different nowadays, they’re pushing all kinds of bleeding edge stuff and it’s become an extremely opinionated distro. Which is fine if you vibe with what they’re doing but makes it more complicated than “just use Fedora”.

    It is as simple as "just use fedora, or mint, or debian, or endeavoros, or arch" because guaranteed one of those will be better for your usecase than manjaro.

    I’m only going to say it one more time, Manjaro isn’t Arch and doesn’t have the same goals. If you want Arch, use Arch. It’s not a zero-sum game, Arch doesn’t lose anything by Manjaro existing, on the contrary, we all benefit from more distro diversity.

    Actually, we do, manjaro is worse than one of those distros for every usecase, meaning manjaro just makes the ecosystem worse by existing, rather than better.

    I understand manjaro isn't arch, but even if you don't want arch, there's something better in ONE of those distros for you, every time. Manjaro isn't the best at anything and it is the worst at a lot of things.