Spectacle8011

Spectacle8011 , 26 days ago to linux in Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager

Eminently logical.

Spectacle8011 , 29 days ago to linux in Discovering the Freedom of Linux: My 25-year Journey Away from Windows

I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.

Flathub even has hardware decoding with the drivers they distribute. However, Flatpak applications need to specifically opt in to ffmpeg-full rather than the normal ffmpeg package, which has support for patent-encumbered codecs.

Fedora Flatpaks, on the other hand, have no such codec support.

Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.

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Spectacle8011 , 29 days ago to linux in VLC Player

If I cared one wit about either of them, I’d put money on VLC. If only because Star Citizen won’t make it before the heat death of the universe.

Spectacle8011 , 29 days ago to linux in VLC Player

VLC 4.0 will be released with a massive change in the interface…eventually.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

Yes.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux?

MakeMKV. It’s better than anything else.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

It might be because one of my monitors is actually a graphics tablet. GNOME’s scaling just didn’t work in either session such that all three monitors were scaled correctly, but KDE’s Wayland session was able to handle it properly. Or at least, the least bad.

I also use Wayland because X11 had some lag when operating the desktop normally (I guess the pros call it “frame-pacing issues”?), whereas only XWayland programs will flicker for my NVIDIA GPU. And games aren’t part of that category. I don’t use a lot of XWayland applications anymore, so I actually haven’t seen the flickering for a while. The Steam client is the absolute worst, but… I’ve been doing my gaming on Windows lately 😬

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

I have three monitors and a NVIDIA GPU. I’ve only been able to get them to work properly on Wayland.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

My understanding is that AccessKit is an entirely separate thing to the portal.

Unfortunately, for several things, your choices are X, which is broken by design and few developers QA their software for anymore, or Wayland, which works pretty well in many areas, but where several important (or even basic) features are quagmired by bike shedding. But things are improving really quickly, and part of that is everyone shifting focus to Wayland.

I recently tried to navigate my GNOME desktop via screen reader and did not enjoy the experience. If I ever need it, I hope it works properly by that point…

At least for me, X is a worse experience on every computer I own (including the NVIDIA one), which is why I use Wayland. Neither is problem-free. I’m fortunate enough not to depend on accessibility features; perhaps my opinion would be different then.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

GNOME is working on a new Accessibility Toolkit for all desktops, funded by the $1M from STF. It’s intended to make accessibility better on Wayland.

Watch thisweek.gnome.org for updates on accessibility; there’s usually one. Here’s a very recent article about how it’s going from LWN: lwn.net/Articles/971541/

“At this point, some of you might be thinking ‘show me the code’”, he said. The audience murmured its agreement. Rather than linking to all of the repositories, he provided links to the prototypes for Orca and GTK AccessKit integration. Campbell said these would be the best way to start exploring the stack.

If all goes well, Newton would not merely provide a better version of existing functionality, it would open up new possibilities. Campbell was running out of time, but he quickly described scenarios of allowing accessible remote-desktop sessions even when the remote machine had no assistive technologies running. He also said it might be possible to provide accessible screenshots and screencasts using Newton, because the accessibility trees could just be bundled with the image or pushed along with the screencast.

The conclusion, he said, was that the project could provide “the overhaul that I think that accessibility in free desktop environments has needed for a little while now”. Even more, “we can advance the state-of-the-art not just compared to what we already have in free desktops like GNOME”, but even compared to proprietary platforms.

He gave thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund for funding his work through GNOME, and to the GNOME Foundation for coordinating the work.

There was not much time for questions, but I managed to sneak one in to ask about the timeline for this work to be available to users. Campbell said that he was unsure, but it was unlikely it would be ready in time for GNOME 47 later this year. It might be ready in time for GNOME 48, but “I can’t make any promises”. He pointed out that his current contract ends in June, and plans to make as much progress as possible before it ends. Beyond that, “we’ll see what happens”.

Also: github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in Wayland usage has overtaken X11

Here’s a smaller sample size (2417 people at the time of writing) but all you need to do is fill in your details on the website: www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics/

X is at 66% and Wayland is at 33% for GamingOnLinux.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in Opinions on KDE Plasma 6

It’s pretty good! I wish System Settings was less confusing/overwhelming and it had more graphics tablet options, though.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in KDE Plasma needs stability

Yeah, let’s not mention Gnome breaking every peace of itself every update

This is not my experience.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features

GIMP has been releasing two versions for several years. First, the Stable release, which is the 2.10.x series. Second, the development release, which is the 2.99.x series, which is where the GTK3 work has been done. The work from the development release will culminate in the Stable release reaching 3.0. GIMP will continue to support 2.10.x for some time after 3.0 becomes stable, but eventually they will stop supporting it.

Most of the work right now is focused on the development release and getting GIMP 3.0 stable and ready for release, but they’re still doing a little more work to tide users over until 3.0 is out. If you’re curious how work on 3.0 is going: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/milestones/27#tab-i…

GTK3 brings Wayland support among other features and yes, it looks nicer. GTK3 is still maintained while GTK2 has been obsoleted, which means bug fixes are still landing. Once they’re at GTK3, that makes it much easier to move to GTK4, which brings even better Wayland support (i.e. color management will actually be possible) and a much better UI in my opinion.

Spectacle8011 , 1 month ago to linux in GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features

GIMP’s GTK3 port was finished several months ago. What remains to be done for GIMP 3.0 is bug-fixing and porting to the new Plug-in API.

The best way to upgrade to GTK4 is to upgrade to GTK3 first. There was some talk about working on GTK4 soon after GIMP 3.0 is out, but whether that will happen or not is uncertain.