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  • GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

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  • When is the last time you tried a Wayland DE? I can't speak to them all, but Plasma for one has been in really good shape for basically everything a typical user might want to do with it for around a year now.

  • GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

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  • X11 versus Wayland isn't some kind of holy war; Wayland was specifically designed as a successor protocol to the largely cobbled-together X and is objectively superior to it in most ways outside of accessibility.

  • If trump never won the electoral college in 2016, would he have been able to have another chance at becoming president (aka: 2020, 2024 elections)?

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  • I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I don't think this is right at all. Whether or not he "technically" won in 2016, the election was officially certified and he went on to serve a 4 year term. That term isn't invalidated even if electoral irregularities are discovered after the fact.

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    Systemd improves image features and adds varlink API [LWN.net]

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  • "systemd bad"

  • "I'll move to Linux if it runs every game I want" just say that you never will move

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  • Not sure what the situation is on the NVIDIA side, but Mesa's raytracing performance is... lacking. Don't get me wrong; it's amazing that it works as well as it does, but even with a high-end card it's not the best experience. I don't personally care much about RT, but if I were more into it I would probably consider setting up a Windows dual-boot.

  • Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

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  • The way I look at it is that most of my time spent fighting with the compiler is usually made up for in time saved debugging. I'm in the process of RIIRing a hobby project and so far most of the ported code just works, and I only end up needing to fix a few dumb logic mistakes before it's fully up and running.

  • Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I?

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  • I mean, you can't exactly just throw computing power at modern cryptography and expect to get results. I don't know the exact numbers off the top of my head, but I believe all the computing power on Earth right now would take on the order of at least thousands of years to brute force a good password hash (assuming a strong password), and that's assuming the attacker already has the salt. This makes it less of a budgetary constraint and much more of a practical one.

  • Gaymers - NTSYNC Linux Patches lands To Help Boost Steam Play Gaming Performance

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  • The title is incorrect. The patches have been rebased against the 6.13 tree but have not yet been accepted or merged.

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    Why do people see Adopting a Husky Personality and Culture through life inherently bad

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  • I'm not going to respond with a lot of depth because I don't think I have a good enough understanding here to be particularly helpful, but I suspect a collar would be considered as inappropriate in a school because of its strong association with BDSM practices alongside the general societal expectation that one's sexuality is kept out of the public eye. I think that notion can also apply more broadly to the situation as a whole, at least to an outside observer.

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    The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

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  • I'm not familiar with the specific install/upgrade process on Gentoo so maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with forcing new installations to use time64 and then forcing existing installs to do some kind of offline migration from a live disk a decade or so down the line? I feel like it's probably somewhat uncommon for an installation of any distro to be used continuously for that amount of time (at least in a desktop context), and if anyone could be expected to be able to handle a manual intervention like this, it's long-time Gentoo users.

    The bonus of this would be that it wouldn't be necessary to introduce a new lib* folder - the entire system either uses time64 or it doesn't. Maybe this still wouldn't be possible though depending on how source packages are distributed; like I said I dont really know Gentoo.

  • Linux middle ground?

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  • The fact remains that Arch generally requires more work to maintain an installation than a typical point-release distro. I'm speaking from experience - I had two systems running Arch for over 2 years. I switched away when each system separately had a pacman update somehow get interrupted resulting in a borked install. I was using Mint before and Fedora now, and both are a lot more hands-off at the cost of some flexibility.

    Also, just to be clear, I'm not trying to disparage Arch at all. I think it's a really cool distro that's perfect for a certain type of user; I just don't think it's great to lead people to believe it's more reliable than it is in the way that I've been seeing online for a while now.

  • Linux middle ground?

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  • I hate when people insist that Arch isn't easier to break. There was an incident a couple of years ago where a Grub update was rolled out that required that grub-mkconfig be re-run manually, and if you failed to do this the system would brick and you'd need to fix it in a recovery environment. This happened to my laptop while I was on vacation, and while I had luckily had the foresight to bring a flash drive full of ISOs, it was a real pain to fix.

    Yes, Arch offers a lot more stability than people give it credit for, but it's still less reliable than the popular point-release distros like Fedora or Ubuntu, and there's not really any way around that with a rolling-release model. As someone who is at a point in life where I don't always have the time nor energy to deal with random breakage (however infrequently), having the extra peace of mind is nice.

  • Some questions about fedora

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  • To answer some of your questions:

    1. Fedora has two major releases per year. I've only been using it long enough to do one upgrade, but it was basically seamless and the same as any normal incremental update, except it took longer to apply.
    2. I can't speak for other DEs, but the Plasma spin provides a system setting to apply updates automatically. I haven't used it myself, but it's literally just a radio button so I imagine it's pretty easy to get working.
    3. SELinux for the most part is unobtrusive, but it can definitely be a pain when trying to do more advanced things on the system. For instance, it needs to be specially configured to allow systemd-hibernate to work, and I still haven't gotten hibernate-after-sleep to work at all (though that might not be SELinux's fault, I haven't found time to follow up on it. You can also disable it, though, if it gets too much in the way.

    I can't speak to Arc support or RAID specifically, although if the data on the RAID array is vital then you NEED to have at least one backup before you even think about installing a new OS.

  • What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like? [video]

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  • "Old man yells at cloud"

  • Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement

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  • Doesn't trixie still support like a dozen arches? I think one of the more recent deprecations was MIPS BE which is functionally obsolete in 2024, at least insofar as practically no one is using it to run a modern distribution.

  • Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement

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  • Nope, doesn't have any of the hallmarks of an LLM and LLMs aren't yet clever enough to produce original humor like that.

  • The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hack

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  • Heartbleed was the result of an accidental buffer overread bug, not a backdoor.

  • Trump will not give a penny to Ukraine - Hungary PM Orban

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  • Nice opinion, tankie.