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  • The History of X11

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  • I don't disagree, but this video is absolutely worth the watch. I've read a fair bit on X history but there's a lot in here I didn't know specifics of or didn't know about at all.

  • Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

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  • Kernel-level anti-cheat drivers for games, mainly.

  • Mozilla Firefox 122 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

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  • Motherfuckers!

  • My First Month of Linux

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  • So you ditched and unethical mega corp that runs ads for a wanna be unethical mega corp that also mines your data and you’re happy about it? Oh boy the illusion.

    What data mining is Canonical doing, exactly?

  • (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

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  • I don't really have a least favorite distribution. I mean, I guess between Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Manjaro, and Gentoo, the least appealing choices to me are Manjaro and Gentoo. Manjaro is just Arch but worse, because the packages are old and likely to cause incompatibilities with AUR packages that need really up-to-date system packages, and I...don't trust the maintainers to have configured everything better than I could have myself. Just based on history.

    Debian has ancient packages. That's the only reason. I'd just end up using Flatpak packages or compiling from source.

    Any other distribution I could use, including Gentoo, but Arch is the sweet spot for me.

  • What does Ubuntu do when LTS is supported for 12 years, but PHP is not?

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  • That would be the logical conclusion, but I believe Debian uses the old version for years after it's unsupported and might backport security fixes depending on how severe they are. Either way, I personally wouldn't trust Debian or Ubuntu to properly fix security issues with a program (or in this case, programming language) that they do not actively develop or maintain themselves.

  • 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives

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  • It's good to see you guys on Lemmy :)

    I tested it a bit a few days ago, but I'll see if I can give it a more rigorous go today. The ones I've found Mojeek to be weak in are bug strings that programs I'm working with spit out. Although I think I've had more luck in the past few months.

  • 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives

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  • Kagi is the only search engine I use which has really good results and no junk links. ...and you have to pay for it, of course. It's a meta search engine but they use their own indexes for news results and Teclis, which indexes small commercial sites with fewer than 5 trackers. One of the cool features it added recently was an icon for identifying paywalled articles.

    I'd like to recommend Mojeek, my default search engine, but it still has a way to go. If you're just looking for an "answer engine" rather than a general search engine...I guess an LLM probably isn't a bad place to start?

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • I've been getting stutters for a long time. I've kind of come to accept it as part of the Proton / NVIDIA experience :) Though the stuttering has finally receded to almost nothing since running KDE Wayland. It's actually a lot worse on X11 for me.

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • Hm, odd. I'm playing Rocket League with Proton fine with no flickering. I'm using KDE. Proton 8 shouldn't have any of the Wine Wayland stuff yet...

    And yeah, I had a massive flickering problem for my entire monitor on 535, but the problem is now localized to XWayland programs on 545, so it's an improvement for me.

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • I'd completely forgotten about that. I do that for Signal already. Thanks for the tip! Bitwarden finally doesn't lag (that was annoying the hell out of me) but Freetube is still a stuttery mess. FreeTube is an Electron-based program, so no idea...

    (I just remembered I could startup Thunderbird with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 too)

    It's mainly just Steam that's horrible...really, the worst one of the lot by far. Massive flickering in the client. Games themselves work fine though.

  • COSMIC: The Road to Alpha

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  • I recognize this is an odd comment to make, but I'm glad to see this screenshot tool supports capturing a window in Wayland. My next question is, can the screenshot tool be invoked from the command-line or via a script?

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • Gaming still works fine for me on 545. It's just that every other XWayland program flickers endlessly. Thunderbird, Freetube, Bitwarden...

    God I hope NVK is the driver I'm using happily by the end of this year.

  • Recent GNOME design work – Form and Function

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  • So if GNOME does something everyone else is not doing, they're "fucking up", but if they follow what someone else has done that you like, they're just creating a "cheap copy"? How do they win?

  • I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

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  • Is not it true with Windows? Plug and play? And while I did not study this, I strongly suspect that it is more true for Windows than for Linux.

    I don't use Windows much, but recently I booted it up and found my graphics tablet didn't work. I needed to install a driver from Wacom, then reboot. It got very confused about whether my tablet or my monitor was the primary monitor, and moving between screens was somehow worse than Linux. On Linux, the tablet driver worked out of the box, but I had to adjust display scaling for both my monitors to co-exist peacefully. I also had to switch from GNOME to KDE and switch to Wayland on my NVIDIA card to get Krita to work properly (interface was split across both monitors and couldn't resize it). GNOME's multi-monitor handling was bad, regardless of whether I used Wayland or X11. Multi-monitor handling on KDE was better than Windows...in the end.

    I'm not really sure which of these is worse.

  • Debian 12: how do I get Gnome Files to display preview thumbnails/icons for large video files? Right now it just shows generic icons

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  • Cheers!

  • Debian 12: how do I get Gnome Files to display preview thumbnails/icons for large video files? Right now it just shows generic icons

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  • On Arch, I use ffmpegthumbnailer to accomplish this.

    Kickass Women isn't going to see this comment because this user is from lemmy.world, which has blocked my instance.

  • Linux reaches new high 3.82%

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  • So you'd think, but why else would Adobe bother developing a web version of Photoshop? Good to know, though.

    Obviously it defeats piracy, but that argument doesn't make sense if Adobe is still shipping a native version of Photoshop.

  • Linux reaches new high 3.82%

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  • Stable or development branch?