It’s pretty much undeniable that the GPL has been a massive driving force behind companies giving back to projects, and it’s similarly undeniable that MIT-licensed projects have fewer comparable contributions.
Sure, the community can stay on the open version, but it will still be companies mostly taking without giving back.
I’m on version 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 already!
I’m not saying you’re wrong on all or even most points, but just by itself this comment is basically a marketing post.
KDE is relatively smaller in scope than GNOME.
By what measure, and which parts of the projects are you taking into account?
Besides, GNOME has taken on its own hurdles like compatibility across devices,[…]
KDE has also taken on its own hurdles. By the way, compatibility across devices is one of the best examples of feature creep if you don’t need it, as most Desktop users don’t!
[…]the userbase is also different so they’re less likely to contribute towards areas like gaming for example.
Don’t see how that’s relevant to the development speed of the environments and their customizability.
What lets GNOME dominate developer wise right now[…]
Again, by what measure? Does it result in faster development of helpful features for my workflow?
[…]and outreach programs like GNOME circle.
KDE also has outreach programs, so this also doesn’t show much.
The development of KDE doesn’t seem any slower to me than Gnome. But it does support my workflow much better due to the customization options!
When using gamescope, there’s also --force-grab-cursor: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope#Cursor_doesn’t_behave_properly
I don’t understand how they’re still doing it. This is literally the reason I see most often for people turning away from Ubuntu.
They must really expect to be able to thoroughly enshittify Snaps, otherwise it can’t be worth it for them.
and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed
The performance regression? It hasn’t been fixed.
You know - when you list two points, and I refer to those two points in my response, maybe assume that I’m responding in the same order you listed?
Actually that is not too far off from being true.
No, it absolutely is very far off, unless you find actual studies & user feedback. Lets not do weird mental gymnastics to find logic in pure hyperbole. You gotta give me way more than one 1-week-old bug, and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed. Bugs are going to happen in software that is worked on.
The reason X was stable for a long time is because many new & nowadays important features (like fractional scaling) weren’t being worked on, the ecosystem was mostly frozen. There’s more churn around Wayland because it’s newer & supports more (and often structurally much better) approaches to solving its problems. Don’t want to get caught in that? Maybe don’t use a distro that is specifically known for shipping new software very quickly.
Ah yes, I forgot that all Nvidia users also use their internal Intel graphics card. How could I?
Ah, if it’s not working right for you, it obviously means it’s not working right for 60% of people.
What’s that? The situation has improved dramatically over the last two years, and many happily use Nvidia cards with Wayland without issues, me included? No, can’t be the case, you still have issues.
Maybe because it doesn’t suck anymore on 60% of graphics cards?
Oh, is that ensured mechanically? That’s really cool, do you have any links or similar? I always love learning about this kinda stuff!
Oh yeah, sorry, didn’t mean to scare people! Even if it catastrophically explodes, there’s zero chance anything can happen to you. There’s so much stuff between you and the magnet that even the worst case will just damage the machine.
Or to put it into other words - unless these machines are incredibly cool, the electricity running through the magnets will start to heat up the magnets, causing their resistance to increase, causing them to heat up even further… eventually causing them to become incredibly hot if you’re lucky, or explode if you’re unlucky.
Now, I’ve never caused an MRI magnet to quench. But it’s just as scary when it happens in a cryostat. :<
In that extremely rare case I just delete the offending characters from my long generated password or add a couple randomly.
It’s been a while since I used Windows, but back then my company blocked the Store, so I couldn’t install the Terminal through that. But it was easy to install through the released msix package - maybe you can install that through Winget?
Seems like a perfect use case for a password manager.
I’ve literally never had an issue with password generation. Usually I generate 32 character passwords with all types of characters passwords on average expect. If a page has different rules, I just check the corresponding boxes in my password manager, and I get one that works for that site.
I can’t recommend password managers enough, because you will never have this issue again.
Even then there’s rarely a good reason to use inheritance instead of composition.