Tauri is the electron alternative we already have. This does look like a good framework, just not the same as electron.

Bottles should make it really simple. You might run into the occasional problem with the installers, but they usually have workarounds.

Looks like it allows that using ollama

Edit: according a couple issues, the flag that allows this is being ignored…

I really like ProtonVPN with the unlimited plan. Comes with their premium email, drive, and password manager for $8-12 a month (depending on what plan length you buy)

The company that makes it seems invested in crypto, but what does radicle itself have to do with it?

I wouldn’t expect a blog post to explain what it is, as they’re generally designed for people aware of the project. I doubt they’re the ones that posted it here. Instead of clicking links, I just went to the main site and very quickly understood what it was.

Things on the Linux GUI land are so messed up that we even got this.

I don’t understand what you mean by this. This project is using a library provided by a major DE, if anything this shows the opposite of your point.

There aren’t distribution “sponsored” IDEs (like Visual Studio or Xcode)

Both GNOME and KDE have a text editor that supports LSP’s and plugins, similar to VS Code. I also don’t know anybody who still uses Visual Studio or Xcode, outside a specific situations where they’re needed, which isn’t a positive in my book.

userland API documentation

Linux has XDG Desktop Portals, protocols that all DEs and compositors can implement and can be used by any app.

I disagree in this case. The majority of Firefox forks make it clear they’re a fork, giving credit to Mozilla. Midori seems to hide that they’re a fork while adding very little to the browser. Their website also takes donations while having a fake phone number and broken contact button. Hard not to see that as suspicious.

Edit: the dev was also completely ok with Firedragon switching to their codebase because they did so resepectfully.

I still disagree with what the dev did, but I get the struggle.

The creator of Floorp posted a reponse to this: https://blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-11/

TLDR posted by the creator: creator:

To put it simply, the current Floorp, including forks, will end the moment I stop maintaining it, so to prevent that from happening, I have prohibited forks. The idea is to solve the user’s concern about code transparency by tightening the license when returning to open source, and to create a sustainable Floorp by giving them the choice of paying money or helping with the coding.

Unfortunately a lot of this seems in reponse to Midori, a seemingly hostile fork with a pretty suspcious website.

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Midori and Firedragon are both based off Floorp.

Good sidebars and PWA’s, two things Firefox will probably never add sadly.

It’s extremely noob friendly. You really don’t need any prior knowledge to start using this.

This is a desktop application, not something you need to host.

they aren’t related products, and I’ve personally only heard of this gleam.

My bad, I was referring to the new Linux implementation which is using Vulkan, which was not clear. The MacOS implementation only supports Metal, as MacOS does not support Vulkan natively. I assume the Vulkan implementation will also be what is used for the Windows build.

It’s not fundamentally incompatible, they just haven’t written the code to make it compatible yet. GPU frameworks need a lot of OS specific code, so it will take some time for them to make it run perfectly on Linux.

vulkan is a graphics api, not a framework. their framework is using vulkan.

Those are some neat features. I hadn’t heard of them when I was using Vim. Parsing the compiler output to go straight to the error is very cool. I definitely think plugin support will bring a lot of people to Helix. I don’t currently have any features I’m waiting on, but I’m sure I’ll find some plugins to make it even better once they’re available.

Ah I see. I usually only move the cursor when in command mode, so that might be why I haven’t noticed it. That’s unfortunately an issue I’ve noticed in a lot of editors. In fact, because Zed is so fast, the auto completion is super obnoxious atm and constantly flashes at you while you type.