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For Windows and Mac, yes. V1 was very polished when I used it back in the day, I assume V2 is the same. For Linux, fuck no. They don’t care one bit about that OS.
For Windows and Mac, yes. V1 was very polished when I used it back in the day, I assume V2 is the same. For Linux, fuck no. They don’t care one bit about that OS.
I tried it with bottles. It installed fine after manually installing dotnet 4.8, but I couldn’t get Affinity Photo itself to run, even after extensive tweaks. All I get is an exception without any description in the terminal output.
The modern keybinds might make me drop micro for nano again
I tried Silverblue a year ago on my laptop and it was quite nice. Back then I had no idehow to properly use toolbox or rpm-ostree though, so it felt quite limiting. I had to go back to Windows on my laptop because of college, but I’ll try setting up a dual boot with Silverblue once the new Fedora beta drops. If that goes well, I might even switch to atomic on my main PC.
I don’t get how you go from “Desktop distros aren’t mature enough to have every feature under the sun” to “Linux distros are shit”
Yeah people are gonna argue about everything, and the only way you can get them to stop is to take the choice away from them. Doesn’t sound like it fits into the principles of open source software, right?
Multionitor scaling and HDR are luxuries. Some distros are working to fix them, others aren’t. The good thing is though that once the code is upstream, everyone benefits from it. Even small distros that choose to run Gnome or KDE can just change a few config files to enable all the fancy things these projects provide.
Of course that doesn’t mean smaller distros are necessarily going to do that, they have the right to be different.
We have standards like pipewire, xdg portals and wayland in active development that try to cover anything a desktop OS might need. Lately there has been a huge push towards them, as the standards they replaced weren’t future proof at all.
But I take it that you are more concerned about fragmentation of these standards. I can almost guarantee that a lot if it will just whither away with time. Noone wants to maintain ancient protocols like X11 anymore. We might have another turbulent few years in this transition, but the end result will be worth it.
And I don’t get what you mean with compatibility exactly. There are lots of ways to define that, and the Linux desktop is excellent in many of them. We have xwayland for legacy applications, loads of translation layers to bring together older graphics APIs under the main vulkan drivers, WINE to run windows software, etc. You’re gonna have to be more specific there.
And why are they so shit in your opinion?
Linux runs people’s cars, phones, routers, sometimes even fridges. And don’t even get me started on servers. Linux is the most useful OS on the planet. The desktop is just another thing for it to conquer.
I never had any problems printing or scanning on Linux. Meanwhile my dad’s PC bluescreens from opening the driver UI.
How would they earn billions without getting the money from other people’s work?
Lemmy is one of the healthiest fediverse communities. It’s starting to get to the point where it can emulate the hours of infinite scrolling people do on reddit. Whether that is a good thing is debatable.
Anyone know how I can program Anarchism?
They are legally obliged to screw over their users as much as possible maximize shareholder value
I actually have some telemetry enabled on my system, cause I want the maintainers of my distro to have more data to base their decisions on. I always disable everything for proprietary software though, and I dislike opt-out systems.
I used to think open source applications were simply the inferior alternative that you choose when you don’t have the money for the real thing, but then I started to notice how Blender suddenly looked almost equivalent to the industry standard apps when update 2.8 came out. That made me question my previous position. Fast forward a few years, I now proudly use Linux and FOSS applications whenever I can.
So we're gonna spend a whole bunch of energy to capture carbon, then use even more to turn it into fuel, and then just burn it again? Yea sorry, I am not convinced.
Edit: Unless if course they propose it for grid balancing, like we talk about doing with hydrogen. In that case, I wanna know exact energy efficiency numbers and equipment cost.
Translation: Microsoft loves using code that other people wrote for free
To be fair, Windows now has better support than Gnome does natively. I wish they would finally give nautilus seamless archive integration…
The new UI and effects look stunning, but I’m concerned about the new corporate direction the project is taking