We are all so entitled.

That’s exactly my issue with GIMP. We are all so entitled, even GIMP devs.

You don’t want to include a feature to draw an editable circle/square/polygon? Fine, but then don’t get superdefensive nor “counterattack” when people ask you about this feature. All in all, pretty much every other image manipulation program has it, so it’s understandable people wonder why GIMP doesn’t have it. I for one still can’t wrap my head around why this is a no-no for some people. It doesn’t make any sense.

When I was majoring as graphic designer I used to use GIMP for a bunch of stuff, even played with python-fu and saved me some time I never would have saved with Photoshop or some shit like that, but even back then they always answered to everything some variation of “we are short on resources”. Well at that time Krita (which was even called Kpaint) had even less resources than GIMP and look at them now.

Friendly self-reminder to never open the comment section on Phoronix ever again.

I’m “stuck” with an Apple Thunderbold Display. Can’t deny it’s great, sturdy, integrated mic, camera, usb ports and ethernet are actually a great thing to have and everything in it looks great despite it being “old” - but I have a super annoying issue where at like 70% of the times I turn on the computer the display won’t turn on - I have to restart the PC with the REISUB thing, then turn it on, then press f9/f10 like wanting to go to the boot/bios screen, then turn the PC off, then turn it on again - it’s until that time the display turns on. All I just know about this is that this is most probably due to the Titan Ridge driver in the Thunderbolt adapter my PC has, an HP Elitedesk 800 g4.

So I was looking forward to this and, if they ever have success/luck and I have money, potentially getting a Mac Mini M4 new/second hand to replace the PC. But maybe I should be looking forward to another monitor brand that offers the same features and quality.

You know, besides the funny/cute/interesting videos that made it to its home page that I save to show them to my mother, the only other reason I haven’t deleted Reddit yet is the r/forhire sub.

Of course, not a Linkedin alternative per se, but it seems to me there have been people that has found full time jobs thanks to that sub. I’ve had the chance to get some small gigs and earn some extra bucks working for great people (and being scammed by awful people in other “similar” subs, but that’s another story).

I was bummed when I got here and found out there are some similar communities here but with almost no subscriptors and no posts whatsoever.

Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.

I love Gentoo precisely because of Portage, but I think the most badass package install/uninstall syntax has to be that of (the defunct?) Sorcerer Linux:

Sorcerer’s tool terminology is based upon magic words. For example:

• a tool to download, compile, and install software is called a “spell”
• to install a package is “cast”
• to remove a package is “dispel”
• a set of available spells is called a “grimoire”

Just stumbled upon this:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/adobe-premiere-pro-vs-kdenlive-video-editor/

It seems like you’re thinking about “customization” as “customizable look and feel”, but “desktop customization” goes way beyond than that.

What’s ridiculous is that people expect one software to behave the same as other software when the FOSS software does not imply in any way that it is a clone of a proprietary software

Well, that was exactly my point.

I edited several videos for work precisely 2-5 years ago and it was really good. That surprised me in the good sense because last time I tried it before that was like in 2010 and was rather funky, but so was my crappy laptop. And there’s been a while since that and since KDE brought it to attention and the fundraising and you name it and it seems it has improven even more. Maybe with time it can be another famous representative from KDE targeted towards content creation as now it is Krita.

That being said, I just can’t take any “review” from a “normie” about FOSS stuff seriously because most of the time they come from a propietary software mindset.

Take for example reviews about Inkscape or GIMP and you’ll find most of them mentioning “they’re not as usable as Photoshop/Illustrator”. So people expect any alternative to work exactly as their non-foss counterpart, which is absolutely ridiculous.

They should just talk wayland directly. Using GTK just for desktop integration is not what GTK is for. The friction will only increase over time.

I recall reading a comment from (allegedly) a Gnome dev on Reddit a few years ago saying that Mozilla should port Firefox directly to Wayland (?) so to make it toolkit-agnostic.

I don’t know if that is actually a possibility, but that would be great. You can’t use Firefox if you don’t have GTK installed, not even an appimage of it - but apparently you can get stuff like Inkscape running without it just fine:

https://github.com/srevinsaju/Firefox-Appimage/issues/15

Can confirm, just got phishing mail “from Codeberg” containing the n word in its subject (?)

I know at some point in history there was talk about going to C++ but Linus brushed it off because he didn’t liked it. This time he thinks otherwise.

So trying to get Linux into another language is no new talk.

And Zig is becoming a thing. I do not know if it will be ever suitable for such task, but it seems like moving on from C or complementing C’s kernel development with Rust, Zig or whatever comes with the future is just a matter of time.

It will not happen overnight as a fork will not happen overnight so the only way forward seems to be patience.

I know. I’m pointing to the thing that this article states - that GTK will drop X11. Won’t make things easy for them if they want to keep X11 compatibility.

I wonder what is going to be the stance of Xfce and co about this.

Oh no, don’t thank me - thank Lawnchair devs! Their launcher is actually great (well at least for me it is, hope that it is for you too).

I’m seeing a “Gestures” section in Lawnchair which has the following:

• Double tap
• Swipe up
• Swipe down
• Home button
• Back button

Each one of them has the following options:

• Do nothing
• Rest mode
• Open notifications panel
• Open app drawer
• Open app finder
• Open search
• Open app (this one seems to be the one you are asking for)

Not sure if this are the exact names they show up in english, though

Turns off the system

I like Fossify’s, but I won’t recommend it - it has no predictive text and no symbols on its main keyboard, the first which is a huge deal for almost everyone. Not sure if they’re working on those or if it will never get those features, because if it had those two it would be the perfect keyboard because it’s so great in every other sense.

sudo init 0 because yolo

Not sure if my memory is failing already but I no longer see those “Update portage before anything else” messages.

When something tries to overwrite stuff in /etc and you have to etc-update your shit… that’s when things get real