gnumdk

gnumdk , 3 months ago to linux in Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)

what are flathub issues? IMO it’s easier than putting your app in Debian…

gnumdk , 4 months ago to linux in Windows 11 vs Ubuntu vs Fedora 39 vs Arch Linux - Speed Test!

Arch package spliting is not as hard as Debian/Fedora.

But IMO, it’s because Fedora uses BTRFS with compression enabled.

gnumdk , 4 months ago to linux in Is there a downside to Flatpak?

some devs don’t want to debug last arch/ubuntu broken setup.

gnumdk , 5 months ago to linux in The overlap between package managers and automation frameworks

We use Puppet to manage Linux and Windows servers + Linux, Mac and Windows client (drives, registry/defaults/dconf, …). A package manager can’t handle this properly ;)

gnumdk , 6 months ago to linux in Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article)

On the other hand X11 is missing an important feature: security

gnumdk , 6 months ago to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future

Fuck You NVIDIA

gnumdk , 7 months ago to linux in Introducing graphics offload – GTK Development Blog

How is this article about desktop effects?

gnumdk , 7 months ago to linux in toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use?

Ubuntu, then Debian on my University computers, broken every weeks with dpkg killed while updating (students don’t care properly shutting down computers).

Since we migrated to Silverblue, it just works. We can downgrade the system at any point in time, even previous release. Apps can be individually downgraded, locked at any point in history. Totally not doable with a traditional package manager.

gnumdk , 7 months ago to linux in How to fix?

Written by an idiot who never contributed to free software.

gnumdk , 7 months ago to linux in New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks

TODO since KDE 3…

gnumdk , 7 months ago to linux in Red Hat paywall?! How the Raleigh giant divided the open source community.

The code is available as git, you just don’t have access to src.rpm.

gnumdk , 8 months ago to linux in Vanilla OS 2 Orchid—Alpha #82 Released

Looks bad in comparison with Silverblue where I can pin many previous version. Thanks to OSTree, you can downgrade to any point in the history or even switch back to an older release.

gnumdk , 8 months ago to linux in What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

Nightmare GNOME screenshot

gnumdk , 9 months ago to linux in Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

It does the update here, on Fedora

gnumdk , 9 months ago to linux in Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

It does background updates for flatpak. For system, just move to Silverblue.