The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
Interconnect those baby steps, by having the governments
That IMO would increase the odds of success. And once the first steps are done, further steps will be easier.
I did use the first LMDE for some time, and I loved it, it’s a great distro. I don’t recall why I went for the Ubuntu-based Mint later on, I think it was the PPAs?
From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.
*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.
I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.
The difference between both links is huge - one shows 7%, another 73%. Since I have no idea which is more reliable, nor I think this difference is due to time (the FF link is from 2022), let’s go with your link instead.
73% Wayland means 27% X11. It’s still a lot; not a big problem in KDE’s case, since its developers are rather emphatic on still maintaining the X11 session. Can’t say the same about GNOME.
And the guy in question is, simply put, a nutjob.
I don’t even disagree with the idea of ditching X11. My criticism is timing; statistics like this show 90% X usage, either instead or alongside Wayland; it’s clear most users still use X11, in one form or another. It’s like making a street cars only when most people still use horse chariots.
For someone who has not used Gnome in 14+ years you sure seem to know a lot about it…
I ditched GNOME in 3.0 times. And I still gave it a second try, a third, even a fourth. And my system has GNOME (and KDE, and Xfce…) applications, so certain patterns are visible even in everyday usage. And I fuck around with virtual machines to find out about random stuff, including DEs that I ditched (like GNOME and KDE) or I never used directly in my machine (like Elementary).
So don’t assume “ditched it = ignorant about it”.
X11 has effectively already been deprecated for years, seeing little to no development on it.
O rly. And the point still stands: GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready.
Unless you want to claim Wayland reached parity with X11, and there’s totally no reason people might want to stick with X11 instead.
And still, there are SEVERAL Long Term Support distros out there that will support X11 for the coming years.
This does not address what I said.
Please stop pretending that stuff will start breaking. It will not.
That is not what I said.
*Yawn* Given that
It’s safe to disregard you as meaningless noise, so I ain’t wasting my time further with you.
[inb4 people discussing the semantics of “ditch”]
Odds are they’re doing the same thing only in theory. In practice, the picture changes - typically the KDE devs are far more willing to maintain old and marginal features and/or support benefiting only a small chunk of the userbase. While the GNOME devs are way more likely to ditch it, babble something about their design vision, then try to convince the user “ackshyually you don’t need it”.
(A major exception is perhaps accessibility, mentioned in the text. It isn’t just the Wayland devs worried about it, but also the KDE and GNOME devs. In this regard props to all three.)
As typical, GNOME has a tendency to drop support to older software before the newer one is ready. I’m glad that I dumped it in 3.0 times.
I don’t use KDE but thumbs up to them. Wayland did not reach feature parity with X11 yet; and while it’s good to encourage migration, users should be allowed to use the old tool when it makes sense for them.
Got it - thanks for the info.
X11: even regardless of whatever non-Linux takes the forker holds, forking X11 seems to be such a bad idea. The X11→Wayland migration is being painful, and now we see the light at the end of the tunnel might as well improve Wayland instead. Cue to the next piece of news (Ubuntu and Manjaro ditching X11).
I wonder if Denmark ditching Microsoft is directly related to Schleswig-Holstein doing it. Specially given they’re neighbours.
Google ditching Android: may I be honest? I think smartphones are wrong the grounds up. They should be more like miniature PCs; in this case, meaning “if you’re able to run an OS in a PC, you should be able to run it in a phone, and vice versa”. But of course hardware vendors give no fucks, right? PC-isation of smartphones means people replacing parts too, and noooo, you can’t have people not ditching their whole phone after few years!
If I got it right, this is like Synaptic but across multiple package managers, right? It sounds useful, I’m going to give it a try.
EDIT: in Linux Mint, I couldn’t install it through the command sudo pip3 install bauh; I think the system is throwing a hissy fit for trying to install stuff outside a sandboxed environment. Downloading the AppImage works fine.
It looks off in Cinnamon, as it relies on the Qt styles installed. It works great though - specially for AppImage and Flatpak applications.
I wish it had a deborphan-like filter, allowing you to see only packages that do not depend on other packages. That would be a godsend for system cleaning.
I’m glad to see GoboLinux resurrected. I didn’t use it much, but I really like to see distros doing different stuff, like questioning even the need for the standard file hierarchy.
I hope it works for you!
In the worst hypothesis, if tmsu doesn’t work for your needs, then @deegeese@sopuli.xyz’s idea (parallel directory tree with symlinks) sounds solid. Or even flattening the directory tree that you already use, like:
University
| - ...
| - 2024.2 Lie algebra
| - 2024.2 Operator algebra
| - 2024.2 TA activities
| - 2025.1 Mathematical Algorithms
| - 2025.1 Diophantine equations
| - 2025.1 TA activities
This way if you want to find e.g. all dirs with TA, you just Ctrl+F “TA activities” and it’ll show you both “./2024.2 TA activities” and “./2025.1 TA activities”.
I had a similar problem and I solved it through a tagging tool, tmsu The tool works through the terminal but it has a virtual file system, so you can access your files from a GUI file manager. I recommend you to check it out, it might solve your problem.
At least Mint has an OEM install; on the first boot after installing the system, it asks you to create a user (plus language, layout etc.). I never used it though, but I expect other distros to have a similar feature.
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Correctly highlight when a programmer is being assumptive as a brick, even when assumptions are one of the biggest sins in programming. Done, you’ve triggered a lot of programmers.
Relevant detail: this potential removal of the driver does NOT affect normal CD-R / DVD-R functionality. It’ll only prevent you from using them as if they were rewritable media.