I really think Cosmic is the ideal desktop, at least from the idea what they want to do. But I don’t want rely on it as its not proven yet (I mean with first release). Maybe in a few years from now.

I have my gripes with Gnome, so won’t go into it now. Not very healthy doing that. :D I do think if you use Gnome as intended and without (or almost none) extensions, and use Gnome Apps for the most part, and don’t need to customize each and every corner, AND embrace the Gnome way of doing things, then I agree it is probably the best DE. But these are lot of ifs and buts. I don’t know if most people fall into this category, I certainly don’t.

And on top of it is how Gnome… well I said I won’t go into it now. :D I’m sure you are familiar with all of this.

No need to change the identity of having many options and customization in KDE. This is why we have a choice of multiple desktop environments (and window managers too). If there was no XFCE or Gnome as an alternative, or even the upcoming COSMIC desktop, then I would agree to slim down KDE.

I used Gnome 2, Unity and Gnome 3 all for multiple years and have experience in XFCE as well. Really KDE is not much more buggy than Gnome 3 in example. In fact, I had lot of problems in Gnome 3 such as always breaking extensions and other limitations as well, why I switched to KDE in the first place. I was about to go back to tiling window managers, but KDE works good. I encountered with every desktop environment and window manager problems like these. So to me KDE is not really worse.

This does not apply here, because this is not my workflow where I rely on a bug. Its literally how the system should work. Sorry, but this time this is total out of place comic reference. Edit: In example I do not do anything differently. It just did not save the value, which I set manually back every time. Its not a different workflow.

there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness

Oh no, please don’t! This release finally fixed the monitor brightness issue I had. It finally saves the brightness value and restores it after reboot. I had to set it manually after each boot before! Whatever regression you have, this fixed an issue for me. :D

Agreed. Often typing out URL is just faster, but it depends on the URL. Also it depends on the situation and how good you are at it. In example to use the camera, I just hit one app and hold it to scan in a second. Compare this to click browser app, new tab, click url area and start typing. Maybe you make a typo or you did not, but read carefully three times so you don’t land on a wrong site. Maybe its cold days and you don’t like typing right now. Also helpful for people who have difficulties in typing for whatever reason. But if you were already holding the phone with the browser, then its less of a deal.

Also there is this surprise effect (as you already mentioned), which makes people curious too. It has error correction as well. So if there is a missing dot in the “i”, then you don’t need to try lowercase L or whatever.

Note, I am not a heavy phone user and didn’t buy one in years. So my view is limited and I have no idea how the current market is working. So don’t take my replies as “he knows better”, but more like “what he thinks”.

Fdroid can’t be installed by any Android? Its a shop that is installed once like Android store and then it manages and updates all apps from that store. Google is in a similar position like Steam, where the monopoly is only about market share. But the platform is still open.

You also open the phones to potential scammer to have identical looking website and instruct users to install app that steal identity.

Yes, but that is not Googles fault or task. Every shop has to make sure its secure and is outside of Googles responsibility. So this point is completely irrelevant for the discussions about being a monopoly. It’s like saying Steam is responsible for virus and identity theft because someone installed an application on another launcher, just because Steam is seen as a monopoly (I don’t agree Steam being a monopoly, just tried to explain what I mean with context to Android).

How? Android always allowed for side loading applications, even entire shops.

This is about Proton, not about a programming language. Besides that, C# is actually cross platform.

Actually *nix isn’t a Regular Expression, because the star operator * requires a preceding character or object to apply to. This is a wildcard for the shell style globbing, where a single star doesn’t require a second object.

I want to use Glim too, because the binary Blobs in Ventoy are bugging me a lot. But Glim is a bit limited still: README

My experience has been that the safest filesystem to use is FAT32 (surprisingly!), though it will mean that ISO images greater than 4GB won’t be supported. Other filesystems supported by GRUB2 also work, such as ext3/ext4, NTFS and exFAT, but the boot of the distributions must also support it, which isn’t the case for many with NTFS (Ubuntu does, Fedora doesn’t) and exFAT (Ubuntu doesn’t, Fedora does). So FAT32 stays the safe bet.

Those are two completely different programs. balencaEtcher is for flashing an ISO to the USB stick. Basically its like installing an operating system on your hard drive, but it installs it on the USB drive. It will make it bootable. If you want a different OS, you have to completely flash the drive and replace whats there.

Ventoy will also make the USB stick bootable, but it will not flash an operating system onto it. It’s more like a general launcher of ISO files. This means, you only install Ventoy once and then can drag and drop ISO files to a folder. If you boot Ventoy from USB stick, it will show a list of all available ISO files. Choose one and it boots into the distribution, like you would have flashed it with balencaEtcher.

The advantage of Ventoy is clear: Easy replaceable ISO files and having many to choose from withing a single installation. Filenames of ISOs doesn’t matter and they can be placed in sub directories in the ISO folder I think. Ventoy will just list all available ISOs you can choose and boot into. The disadvantage is, that some distributions or hardware might not work well with Ventoy, but that’s not my experience so far.

Here is a little bonus to have in mind: You can convert newline characters to null, then grep with option null, and at last convert null characters back to newline. Now I don’t think its useful in this case, but its good to know; therefore its a bonus information:

ps aux | tr '\n' '\0' | \grep --null-data ^root | tr '\0' '\n'

If I do ps aux | grep root, then the newline is preserved. So I’m not sure what exactly the problem is. There is a user option for ps, but it does not work with aux, ps --user root . You can ps ax --user root, but I’m not sure if this output is what you want.

Btw if you grep, then I recommend using ^user , so it only matches the beginning of each line (the actual username), as ps aux | \grep ^root (notice the backslash). Do you have an alias for grep? Try \grep instead. The backslash in front of the command will use the actual command and ignore your alias.

Redditors maybe?

I see. Well then my bad for misunderstanding this. To me moderators are Reddit staff working for free. But I see that the word “staff” was used literally.

See you in the oblivion. xD

In other news, grass is green.

I didn’t saw this news. My news only tell me that the rice bag fall over. It happens over and over again. Predictable, like Reddit.

Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.

More power by having less power. I stopped reading here. Yeah, The Verge never disappoints. Edit: My bad. The Verge was correct this time. Guess if I read the article then I would understand.

grep by default uses Basic Regular Expressions. This means the ( and ) lose their special meaning and are matched literally. Either use a backslash version \( to have a group, or use Extended Regular Expressions with -E "(IN|OUT)" . In man grep under REGULAR EXPRESSIONS are some differences noted.

Nice. I assume it make sense, because the skins are all the same, just different styling for colors and images. Good to know (for future recommendations).

Audacious has a classic Winamp skin: https://store.kde.org/p/1008329/ (Note, I don’t use this program and cannot assist further.)