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Question: is systemd-homed ready for everyday use yet?
  • I need windows for a few things at university but use Linux most of the time. I only have one ssd in my laptop and its 1 tb. Full disk encryption isn't an option because of that so I encrypt only my home folder on my Linux partition. There's not much I can do for Windows unfortunately.

  • Sign for “whites-only” moms and tots group in Metro Vancouver sparks outrage
  • The reason why is because historically in Canada people who weren't white were treated way worse by white people and even though things have improved today, the effects of that mistreatment still affects many people today.

  • Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly
  • What's a natural monopoly? Valve currently has the freedom to implement anything they want within an extent because they're so popular. If they decided they wanted to charge devs 35% would people stop using it? Probably not. Steam's monopoly is as bad as any other for the same reason any other monopoly is bad.

  • So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
  • I assumed you were on KDE since the dev who wrote the blog post was talking about KDE Wayland but are you on gnome? Gnome"s fractional scaling implementation isn't as good as KDE's.

  • So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
  • In display settings check the box to allow x11 apps to scale themselves instead of the compositor. Your cursor will still be blurry but the app content itself will be fine. A few apps like steam won't scale without some kind of launch flag though.

  • So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
  • It does for me. For some reason my touchpad has really high scroll sensitivity with libinput. It's borderline unusable. The only desktop environment that exposes the ability to change this sensitivity is plasma Wayland. AFAIK there's technical reasons it can't be done on xorg without hacky workarounds. This is the killer feature for me.

    In addition both plasma and gnome only have 1:1 touchpad gestures on their Wayland sessions. Obviously I could use third party tools for trackpad gestures under x11 but those aren't 1:1.

    Also while I'm aware that fractional scaling on Wayland is a mess and hacky but I still find the fractional scaling implementation on KDE Wayland to be the best, followed by KDE on xorg. I need fractional scaling for things to be appropriate sizes on my laptop screen.

    For my desktop I still use x11 because of nvidia but I would definitely benefit from the multi monitor improvements under Wayland since I have two monitors of differing refresh rates and it causes issues.

  • GODOT ussage this week
  • Tbh that's a pretty horrible example. It was a rushed product full of graphical glitches, including rapidly flashing lights. This is true especially on the switch. Idk if it's improved since launch but shit was rough early on.

  • Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.
  • Look, it comes down to the fact that as far as I know, the vast majority of KDE developers are volunteers with their own lives. There was a given explanation for why it hasn't been fixed, it was complicated code that was hard to maintain. Its not as simple as someone writing code to reimplement the feature, the feature also needs to be maintained which is a lot of work for a project with so few resources compared to proprietary projects that can afford to pay hundreds of full time developers.

    People requesting that feature to come back are just kind of rude about it, skipping out on basic manners. Personally if I were a KDE developer I wouldn't want to work on a feature after all that.

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