I'm so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and enshittification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.
I thought that too but if you see my edits above, I tried several different app combos, and it's not consistent. I tried setting Chromium as my default browser (it opened all links and took focus correctly every time) and when I switched Firefox back to the default browser, Firefox didn't take focus from Steam even though it did originally 🤦🏻♀️
The task manager icon does indeed correctly turn orange.
Default web browser is set properly. I tried setting it to Chromium and every single app I tested with Chromium, correctly opened and took focus with Chromium. Switched back to Firefox and once again it's not always taking focus. Only this time, when I tested Steam, Firefox didn't take focus from Steam even though it did before.
This definitely seems to be an issue with Firefox + Wayland given that Chromium had no issues opening up all the links from different apps I tried.
At least the issue is now whittled down a bit more. Thanks for your help!
I'm not sure this is specifically a KDE/Plasma 5 issue though. Firefox correctly gets focus on X. But it also correctly gets focus on Wayland when opening URLs in Firefox from apps that aren't Thunderbird.So far that I've found it's only a combination of Thunderbird, Firefox and Wayland.
It's not like you can't install Endeavour and then install Majaro's pamac anyway. Hell, I use Arch but still have pamac installed. Sometimes I just want a gui package manager.
I've been using Linux for about a decade now. Windows for even longer before that. We still have some Windows laptops in our house. Even a decade ago when I first started trying Linux out, it was far more plug and play than Windows and still is.The overwhelming majority of the time drivers are provided by the Linux kernel - install your distro and everything just works.Windows I always have to go to various websites, download files for various devices and then install them.Even when I need something specific on Linux, one store (in my case Arch repositories, including AUR), I can use one interface and download and install anything in one step - I skip the looking for the manufacturers website, going to the website, finding the software download, downloading it and then going through the installation process on Windows.
Linux has some things that are more difficult, but overall is infinitely easier to use.
some guy that used to watch Star Trek as a kid wants to feel like they live in the future while piggybacking on someone else’s work.
I don't think they care about their own nostalgia. I think they ant to use other people's dreams to make a lot of money. I'm also sure some of them genuinely just ant to push the technological envelope just cause they can, ethics be damned. But ultimately, it's just money.
I would love nothing more than the utopian future Trek promised but greed is killing it.
If the computer is part of the means of production for everyone, then sure,everyone owns the computer. If the computer is your personal computer, then no, it's your computer.
Capitalists argue this because it gives them the appearance of a moral high ground.
Enshittification shows how untrue this - capitalism by its very nature will always devolve into worse and worse offerings because it's reliant on squeezing out ever more profit.
Capitalism will only ever puh out the bare minimum of technological advancement. And keeping people in indentured labour (aka employees) to the capitalist system so that they either have no time to come up with innovations themselves or they own the intellectual property of any indentured workers means that the overwhelming majority of innovation is monopolised by capitalism too. Which also contributes to the appearance of pushing advancement.
I read the entirety of that and while I agree on many points, I find other points reductive and simplistic takes on what is actually a complicated root issue - capitalism and it driving of centralisation, profiteering and, of course, enshittification (which people have become more aware of in recent years and which is an ongoing and worsening issue just by itself).
I'm so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and enshittification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.