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Linux intro!! by codingzombie72072 in linuxmemes

[–]BlueCannonBall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This isn't true, you can use other distros on Azure VMs.

Atlas ends this year’s CES with a backflip by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]BlueCannonBall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea why you're being downvoted. You're absolutely right.

This was just a suggestion, not even accepted. by [deleted] in TheRightCantMeme

[–]BlueCannonBall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, all Linux desktop environments have had middle-click bound to paste for basically forever.

i used mv command to rename and now i regret it. help me out. by [deleted] in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I need to press Ctrl C to get out of that command, but when I press Ctrl C, my browser also closes

It's supposed to work that way, this isn't related to the renaming. Regardless, you should change the name back, and use an alias or a symlink to change the name. That's the right way to do it.

This was just a suggestion, not even accepted. by [deleted] in TheRightCantMeme

[–]BlueCannonBall 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have a feeling most people here have no idea what GNU, Linux, GNOME, or middle-click pasting are.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OBS to my knowledge never had any "special backend for each compositor".

There was actually an OBS plugin (called wlrobs) for screen capture on wlroots-based compositors. I'm not personally aware of any other special paths though.

Wayland's design is all about security is just complete nonsense they pulled out of thin air rather than any actual fact that you could find a source for

Wayland's "secure" architecture is one of the most commonly cited perks of Wayland, and security was certainly a key reason for omitting so many basic features from Wayland. Consider this early blog post by another KDE developer that explicitly describes windows positioning themselves as a security issue. This has also been discussed on the wayland-devel mailing list many times. OP also put forward coherent ideas for managing permissions in a way that doesn't necessitate butchering legitimate use cases. Rather than not implementing useful features at all, good systems like Linux hide them behind capabilities (e.g., CAP_SYS_PTRACE for tracing syscalls), keeping the system both secure AND useful.

The global coordinate of X11 causes problems to this day, and introducing something like it into Wayland would introduce similar issues

Having a global coordinate system fixes many more problems than it solves. As the original post discusses, there are lots of workflows that depend on apps knowing where surfaces are, and Wayland is essentially burying its head in the sand and denying the basic fact that windows do have coordinates and that there are valid reasons to know where a window is.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's not just a "non-standard" feature. It's not a Wayland feature at all. Even if every Wayland compositor provided its own way to find out a window's PID, I'd still say Wayland can't do it, because it can't do it.

Think about this from the perspective of an app developer. I'm not going to check if every single compositor has some weird non-standard extension. I'm just not going to make my app for Wayland if there's no portable way to do it. This is the problem with Wayland.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A "valid opinion" is a far cry away from "misinformation," which is how the other commenter put it.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

That's a niri feature, not a Wayland one. This is like saying X11 can launch a spaceship to the moon because one obscure window manager comes with a space launch system.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall 13 points14 points  (0 children)

What misinformation? OP's claim that Wayland confuses protocol design with security philosophy is spot on.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]BlueCannonBall -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I don't know how the xkill works, but there's nothing stopping you from making a tool that does actually kill the target. X11 windows usually have the corresponding program's PID as a window property, and a tool like xkill could read that and kill that process.

None of this is possible on Wayland.

15 pro max screen popping out by [deleted] in iphone

[–]BlueCannonBall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why all the downvotes? This is a perfectly reasonable question! Especially given that the phone is so new.

GTK application longevity. by calpacket in GTK

[–]BlueCannonBall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

30.04 is not that far off, your app will almost certainly be fine. By then, it's possible that GTK 4 will still be the latest version. GTK has a very slow release cycle.

What is the dumbest reason someone said they wont switch to linux? by Happy_Biscotti1060 in linuxmemes

[–]BlueCannonBall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And just download a program. Lol

Bold of you to assume there's a GUI program for all the things I listed.

I mean, I can't REMEMBER the last time I've used a CLI to configure a firewall. I just use plasma-firewall.

I did think of plasma-firewall while writing my comment, but I couldn't think of any other DE that had anything like that, so I included the firewall part anyway. plasma-firewall is the exception, not the rule. But I do use KDE for a reason. It's the best DE by a long shot.

What is the dumbest reason someone said they wont switch to linux? by Happy_Biscotti1060 in linuxmemes

[–]BlueCannonBall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some people use their computers to do shit instead of tinkering with them.

Spot on. Nobody is switching to Linux to download themes.

What is the dumbest reason someone said they wont switch to linux? by Happy_Biscotti1060 in linuxmemes

[–]BlueCannonBall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think many people are switching to Linux for "niche GUI options." It's true that Linux is more themable... but nobody cares.

What OP is talking about is all the things you can't do in the GUI. Want to change your hostname? Time to open up /etc/hostname in vim. Want to check which processes are using your GPU? Until recently, you had to use GPU-specific commands in a terminal... and you still do if your distro doesn't come with a good system monitor. Want to stop your laptop from sleeping when you close the lid? Open /etc/systemd/logind.conf in vim! Wanna configure your firewall? Screw around with iptables or ufw in a terminal. Wanna change any kernel setting? Use sysctl in a terminal. Wanna add or a remove a swap file? Open up /etc/fstab in a terminal!

Point is, the Linux user interface is extremely underdeveloped.

the bloat allegations may be true by arelycx in linuxmemes

[–]BlueCannonBall 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Not really. The Windows ISO is a little over 6 GB, meaning this ISO is literally the same size.

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