I use Logitech MX Vertical with the solaar software. It works fine.

While aosp with microg is a step into the right direction, it’s not Google free. Most android code is made by Google and streamed to aosp.

So you think people must only use software made by nice guys but you can use hardware, services, books, movies, etc. from whoever? What makes software so special?

You’re not hosting a lemmy instance but here we adding content, and therefore value, to the platform. I don’t host hyprland either, I am leeching off the entire devs work for zero dollars. Does that make it okay now?

I give more importance to qualities like open source, safety, privacy and performance other than who supports trump or not.

I’ve gone though the Degoogle journey myself but there’s just no way to run a phone without software made by jerks. And that’s one example.

You can use whatever criteria you want yo pick software, that’s fair. I don’t tend to include politics and personality into the equation myself but I’m not imposing anyone to do the same.

I agree with the sentiment of supporting nice folks, especially in the FOSS ecosystem.

What OS are you going to use on your Smartphone if you remove software from Google and Apple? What VR headset are you going to use? What telecom are you going to use? Are you only going to shop in local food markets? Lemmy’s creators are also biggots, yet here we are…

I financially support projects and people I like, but I use whatever software I enjoy using. FOSS, closed source, made by a nice guy, bad guy. If I feel my experience is good I’ll use that, if something better appears along the way I’ll move on. I don’t want to be a cop and background check the political views of whoever created all the software, hardware, services, movies, books, etc I use. I’d do nothing else with my life.

Have you tried to use only products made by nice guys or nice companies? It’s impossible.

It’s also a bit ironic to post this opinion on Lemmy, whose creators are also bigots.

Honestly I just stopped caring about developer’s personalities or political views. If you only use products made by nice guys who share your political views you won’t use anything in your life. Not even a phone.

I run Hyprland, I love it but I find it very hard to recommend to other people.

Hyprland is basically unusable out of the box (by design). You don’t have wallpaper, notifications, system menu, task bar, lock screen, screen saver, idle lock, a launcher… You have to install, configure and style all these components by yourself.

Why do it, then?

• Tiling window, obviously. It takes a while to get used to it but I can no longer live without it
• Absolute control on how your entire system looks
• Feels lightweight, smooth and honestly very nice
• Documentation is great

Personally I wish they’d invest into a meta-package “Hyprland DE” where it’d install all the components with some sane defaults. It takes a lot of time to make your system look decent, especially if you have no sense of style like myself heh. I found it to be very worth it, but I haven’t personally met anyone willing to do all this work.

This is where I feel COSMIC will shine in the future. The tiled experience with sane defaults.

Does gaming work fine in Mint? Is Wayland up and running yet?

I have a friend looking into switching to Linux. Mint feels right but I worry about the wayland migration.

That’s unfortunate :(

She stated multiple times that she has no interest in swapping layouts. ISO works for her and she wants to keep using it.

I’m on the same boat as you, pretty much. I grew up with ISO and moved to ANSI on my 20s. If you own an Happy Hacking Keyboard I’ll consider you my long lost brother!

My SO is not a techie person and doesn’t particularly benefit from ANSI. She types a lot in portuguese, our native language, and the default ANSI layout has some really bad key placements. The ~ key in particular is in a pretty bad spot considering ã is used very frequently in our language. No point in getting used to a layout that is inferior for her workflow.

Is .dev maintained by the US?

Any idea what the price point is going to be?

Honestly, I wouldn’t bother.

Linux is a small market and people who buy exclusively native linux games is even smaller. If your game works fine with Proton that’s great.

You’re a solo dev and should pick your battles. I would focus on getting steam deck verified instead, if possible.

If this was ISO I’d insta buy it! :P Thanks!

Compared to the software we were using before such as Skype, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble… The UI is amazing.

I’d happily move to Matrix but I’d lose all the servers for my hobby interests. No point in having both.

ISO is an absolute must have, unfortunately.

I’ve been using it for several years. I have a small server I use with my IRL friends and it works great.

• Near 100% availabily
• Nice sound quality
• Supports multiple servers for your multiple interests
• UI is amazing
• Works fine on every platform
• Screen sharing / streaming is easy
• Cool to see what your friends are playing
• Free plan is more than enough, you can pay for cosmetics or higher stream quality.

This is what’s so great about Linux, you can use whatever the hell you want.

Flatpaks provide some cool security functionalities like revoking network access to a specific application. Maybe you care about this, maybe you don’t.

My personal policy is to always install from the repos. Occasionally something is only available in flathub, which is fine for me. I really understand how hard is maintaining something for every single package manager and diatributions and totally respect the devs using a format that just works everywhere. If I were to release a new Linux app, I would totally use flatpak.

I use a Happy Hacking Keyboard 2 for programming, love it so much. Just rebind your caps lock to a modifier of your choice (I like control)