Collectives are better. Share risk, responsibility, and reward.

I’m OK with jumping through more hoops – once.

Once I told the device that I know what I’m doing, it shouldn’t be more than a pop-up per install.

Idk if that’ll make you happy. The different POSIXy shells have so many subtle differences and footguns that I personally feel best

• using nushell as a daily driver, as it’s sane and makes sense and errors out when it should
• using bash when forced to interact with things that are written in bash (I don’t know anything written in fish or ZSH)
• using Python or Rust or so for scripts living in projects that are written in that language

I can’t be bothered to look up the weird arcane sigils that make bash not shit itself when e.g. using arrays as command args or so, so I will author only the most pedestrian bash scripts where pipes are already a bit much.

See my rant about Zoom here: https://vger.to/lemmy.ml/comment/22183939

tl;dr: if there’s any issue with Zoom, you can always bet that it’s Zoom’s fault. Its bug density is just so much higher than anything else you run on a regular system.

I’m using nushell, which is also written in Rust.

It has the added advantage of error handling that actually makes sense!

Absolutely not fine, wtf are you smoking?

You didn’t read the link. Otherwise you’d know that’s mentioned.

Plasma devs are currently focusing on input devices. Ideal time to offer them to help test your device and get amazing support out of it.

Or you could sit on your ass and do nothing, which is essentially gambling that they’ll happen to support it (or your next device) when you’re forced to switch at some point in the future.

Hmm, especially GNOME devs are definitely very opinionated, but “running a Wayland session on halfway-contemporary hardware” is definitely something all DE devs want to support.

So if you give them workable information, you won’t be dismissed.

You said “no screen sharing software”.

1. That’s wrong
2. It’s pretty much impossible that you don’t know that some screen sharing software works on Wayland

Consequently, that was a lie. Or you suck at expressing yourself and meant something different than what you wrote. But as written, definitely a lie.

Fair, although I never understood why people choose Mint and so on.

Plasma is so configurable that you can just make it look and act like you want, right?

So I guess it’s getting the GNOME experience (everything is simple, no setup) but with a classic desktop paradigm?

The issue is that in the political landscape, that word has shifted away from its social meaning. “Conservatives” in the US and parts of Europe are actually reactionaries, i.e. people pushing back against the status quo wanting to “return” to some idealized past that never existed like that.

So using the word “conservative” in its original sense might not be understood by people.

People who just complain and stay in some deprecated tech (instead of reporting bugs and working with the new way) will have a rude awakening when it’s just no longer supported.

I’m not saying everyone should be a early adopter, but this timeline was more than forgiving. People who did nothing but keep using the X11 GNOME session might run into Wayland session bugs now that they could have reported years ago.

I was an early adopter years back, so I reported bugs while I could still switch back when I needed to (which ended up being once to screen share with Zoom)

If you had done this, you wouldn’t be forced into a buggy environment now.

Almost everyone uses it. We just never make posts about “our configuration works effortlessly, give us attention”

Only people with a bone to chew and shit to stir feel the need to post such things. Back in the day it was people who felt superior for debugging their steaming pile of init shell spaghetti, now it’s people who just can’t live without diving into X11 configuration files.

Liar. Proof by contradiction: Everything I use works (KDE Plasma).

• Discord
• Slack
• Teams
• even Zoom, despite being a dogshit pile of hacks

Possibly, yet against their best efforts, their shit works better now, see the end of this comment. But first:

I’ve ranted about this before, but Zoom is bone-chillingly badly written software. It’s also the only piece of software that I’ve never seen the code of, but will make comments about code quality and development practice with 100% certainty.

Zoom has broken for me in so many many completely insane and creative ways that the only explanation is that they have nobody keeping things in check and just an army of interns hacking away at things half-assedly until they “work”.

If there are 3 nice and standard ways to do things that can be easily googled, Zoom does a given thing in 2 more ass-backwards ways that make no sense and are fragile as fuck. E.g. they did screen sharing using GNOME’s screenshot API, at a time when every tutorial told you to use the dedicated cross-DE screencast API. When called out, they switched to a different GNOME API.

I think at this point they finally fixed it by actually using the API people told them to use years earlier, but who knows what other inane mistakes are still there to prevent things from working.

Another annoying part about this is how well everything is integrated.

• I can switch my playback between mobile phone, PC, and living room sound system at any time
• I can join a playback session on a Bluetooth speaker that a friend started to skip or queue songs

All of that is driven by monopoly which is bad, sure, but shit’s convenient af

I heard that he might be one at first, but newest news say exactly what the article said: no groyper, no leftist.

Which makes sense because it both sounded weird to me that a leftist would write “whoever reads this is gay lol” or that a right-winger would write “Bella chiao” or “take that, fascist”.

Why weird? This is the phrasing used for some patches in the change set, and it means the same thing as the long version.