It’s a kernel compile parameter but most Linux distros have it turned off by default 😔

The only time I’ve ever seen it turned on was on my raspberry pi

I don’t love the way niri handles workspaces across multiple monitors so far but my problems with it are also minor enough that I’m pretty sure I can fix it myself with a script or IPC program if it really starts to bother me

I hate to break it to you but Mario Odyssey is 8 years old and RDR2 is 7 years old. Those definitely don’t qualify as “now” games on a timeline. Elden Ring gets a pass because of the DLC but it’s also 4 years old.

That being said, there are plenty of good games that came out this year. Most of them aren’t AAA though.

I couldn’t have picked better timing to switch to niri if I tried.

I misread it, seems like it’s just the Omarchy theming system it has integration with. My point mostly still stands though, going out of the way to support Omarchy’s system is still a red flag.

For those unfamiliar, the creator of omarchy is a pretty open white supremacist and transphobe among many other things. This blog post does a pretty good job of outlining everything:

https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance (He also created Ruby on Rails, hence the article title, the focus of the article is mostly on that but it gives a detailed background on DHH as well)

GTK 4

Omarchy

Built-in AI integration

I think I’ll pass…

COSMIC is early on enough that you’d probably be better off opening an issue on their GitHub, this is very likely a bug

Kirigami is built on top of Qt by KDE

I think the problem is that roads not designed for bikes in Europe are also old enough to have not been originally designed for cars, so things usually end up working out to some degree.

In the US (especially for infrastructure built from scratch in the 1900s onward, i.e. most of the US except for some parts of the east coast) most roads and town layouts were designed specifically around cars and travelling at car speeds, and are explicitly hostile to anyone who isn’t travelling in the biggest truck you’ve ever seen in your life. Blame oil/motor companies for bribing politicians throughout the 1900s (and honestly still today)

To be clear this was not a recommendation lol I completely agree with you

If you want to do both at the same time without knowing which side any given task will fall under use NixOS

That’s exactly my point. Giving away the exact town you live in to strangers on the Internet is not good advice to give people generically.

Maybe I could see country or even general region, but town?? Why would I want to publicly give away my location like that?

My town has $20 million of debt in our education department alone that we didn’t know about until this year after a board of education administration change 😭 so I think 10,000 might not make too much of a difference to them. That being said I’d probably donate to a local foodbank

nixpkgs is still kicking off their build pipeline, they’ll be here in 4 days

The name “tapeworm” also predates the invention of tape. From what I can tell (Google search results) tape used to refer to any long, thin strip of material instead of just the sticky kind.

Generation proxmox?

That’s the thing though. If I’m going to need to be on-call tech support then Linux isn’t actually a better option then Windows. Sure it would be more private and less sucky but if the computer doesn’t actually work then that doesn’t mean anything. I’m willing to make ad-hoc workarounds to my own problems because I’m a software developer and don’t mind falling down a rabbit hole to get something like push-to-talk working with a custom pipewire script. My friends who want to play games and relax when they get home from work are understandably not willing to go through that hassle.

I’d love for Linux to be ready for daily driving but for most people I know it just isn’t. Maybe when Wayland desktops are more mature but I’m not going to make people choose between functioning shortcuts (X11) and functioning monitors (Wayland).

I could never get any of my friends on Linux (maybe I’ll be able to now that Windows 10 is dying) but I was able to get everyone on prism instantly because it’s just a better launcher than the official one in every possible way (it’s also on Windows and MacOS)

If it’s only for them then they shouldn’t mind getting their Wayland protocol veto privilege taken away 🤷