It’s a very clean and simple to use out of the box experience but beyond that it has no real use, it’s a good choice to give your mom or for refurbishin laptops but for personal use it has little to no point
There is a heck of a lot of opinion in this article. GNOME itself and the direction they’ve taken has been a source of endless debate.
I remember the time they took out the transparency options in GNOME Terminal for the same reasons used in this article. One person’s “bloat” is another persons much loved feature.
I mean the ideal solution here is include all of those features by default and then allow users to turn them off/remove them as they please
Personally I think pretty much everything included in gnome is pretty essential to a standard desktop experience, if you start chopping bits off and don’t have anything to replace them with you end up with a nonfunctional system as far as the average user is concerned
Gnome is mostly removing features to make maintenance easier for them. They’d rather push the narrative that there is one right way to do things and settings are unnecessary. Needless to say, this has bit them in the bum many times and will continue to do so as time goes on. Remember how adamant they were about a sidedock with no option to change it?
Konsole 1.6.6 (TDE 14.1.0, so very old-fashioned compared to what now ships with KDE), with the “Transparent, Dark Background” built-in schema and Courier New font (since I’ve been using it as my preferred monospace font for so long that other options are distracting). Title bar and other widgets adopt my dark and weird system theme as they’re supposed to do.
@lily33 Yes. There are a number I believe that fit these criteria hosted on Hugging Face I feel. Bloom is the first one that came to mind.
Ironically I asked ChatGPT this question and it responded to check out EleutherAI. I do not know anything about that group but looks like they may have helped worked on Bloom, so maybe they are worthy of consideration. Anyway here is Bloom.
@lily33 like Github, HuggingFace is a private company that can host public models. I'm pretty sure this one is fully public. But you're right that it does look like someone from HF started it so perhaps it does not meet your criteria after all. My apologies if so.
I was (am?) of the understanding though that Bloom is being researched openly such that it can be reproduced locally (and contributed to on HF)
It’s just big tech trying to get it greedy fingers on money anyway they can! I understand it costs money to run websites, but it’s getting to the point where a lot of sites and ad revenue setups are starting to have more ads then actual content, like back in the 80’s and 90’s. And do t forget about the scripts that track everything up do so they can pinpoint ads that will peel to you, at so they think, based on browsing and search history. Hell even brave is starting to put ads and trackers in its browser
Seems like it’s intended to stop things like data collection on banking sites, and it can be overridden. Very little documentation on it though, so we’ll have to see more in practice.
Debian has had the https://popcon.debian.org/ package for years and years. Users voluntarily install it to report what Debian packages they’re using, what architectures they’re on, and so forth.
Radeon 79XX drivers are integrated into the 6.X kernel. Kernels lower than that won’t really work. I don’t have a MX install any more, but I’d guess that’s the reason. You might try looking for the upgraded kernel. The nvidia drivers shouldn’t have anything to do with it.
Ahhhh fuck that’s it right there. MX’s normal distribution is Debian stable and baked onto the 5.10 kernel. I have to install MX’s AHS release for the 6.x kernel. I didn’t even think about that.
MX is fairly integrated and I’m not sure I could upgrade the kernel in place without destroying the install, assuming I even knew how to replace such a thing.
I’m too used to having all my old hardware lol. Thank you so much!
Just to clarify for anyone reading this good advice; you want to separate the root and home partition. That allows for reinstalling the OS in your root partition without losing data in your home partition.
Bringing this over from the site that shall not be named.
you probably need to update mx-packageintaller-pkglist, current version is 22.11.01mx21 if you don’t have that and it doesn’t upgrade you might want to change the repo (try MX Repo Manager) refresh and try to upgrade again, then after you update that it should be available in “Popular Applications” tab in MX Package Installer.
Dunno if it will help in your particular situation, but it might keep someone else from going to deddit in the future.
openSUSE has OBS, Fedora has COPR, and I’m pretty sure both Gentoo and NixOS have similar stuff. Do Ubuntu’s PPAs count? Flatpaks and AppImages are also similar, although they are more limited and they aren’t exactly “standard” packages.
OBS and COPR don’t even come close to the AUR in terms of ease of use. AUR is one searchable index, OBS and COPR are more like separate repositories that you have to find and add manually. There’s multiple people building the same packages and you have to figure out which one you want to rely on. You also can’t easily edit the packaging instructions and rebuild a package if it doesn’t work for you.
PPAs are fundamentally flawed. Since each repository is separate, they only care to maintain consistency internally, plus the packages of the Ubuntu version they were based on.
Adding a PPA and using its packages on your system takes your dependency tree into a “cul de sac” where only that PPA is reliable.
But of course people use multiple PPAs so what happens is that the dependency tree grows increasingly unrecoverable.
Eventually you get the dreaded “requires X but cannot be installed” errors which pretty much mean you’ve hit a dead end. You can recover your system from it (aptitude can provide solutions) but they are extremely invasive, basically come down to uninstalling and reinstalling thousands of packages to bring your tree back to a manageable state.
I admit I haven’t used Ubuntu in years, so I didn’t think they were that bad. Thanks for the info, it made me learn a dependency hell scenario I never thought about before.
Debian technically has the same issue but people who want Debian usually stick to stable + backports so it’s less frequent.
Yeah that’s why distributions which put all their community packages in one place with the same dependencies are more resilient in this respect.
Arch’s AUR is not perfect either, you can have packages that list dependencies badly or replace core packages so you can still mess up but in a different way.
NixOS seems to have hit on a very robust formula that lets packages coexist with minimal friction.
I wanted to use the up to date version of FFMPEG, had to download the binary from the website. Wanted to install some program that needed the latest version of KDE, had to install a PPA which updated a LOT of packages and at the end it would break many other apps installed from other PPAs.
At some point I realized using Arch was just much less work than worrying myself about all the dependencies that could break when you don’t stick to what’s available in their official repositories.
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