WorseDoughnut 🍩

SteamLink not allowing me to stream just my desktop (rather than a specific game) on Wayland is really the only thing keeping me on X11 at the moment. I use that feature almost nightly to keep watching something from my PC while I cook dinner

Endeavour is a great example for gui only users for sure.

It’s essentially just a remote desktop app, so yeah kinda. Depending on your screen resolution it’ll be either be more or less annoying to click on smaller UI elements, but it’s certainly possible.

I keep my Bluetooth headphones connected to the PC, and there’s maybe a split second delay. Otherwise it’s perfect, because you can still navigate your PC with the touch screen as a mouse, and it even nicely supports my 3 monitors at once.

Still holding out for desktop streaming via SteamLink to work on Wayland. I use it almost nightly to mirror my screen to my phone so I can watch what’s on my PC while cooking dinner via my phone.

lol totally fair

Sure, but that’s not the only benefit to having full control over the entire tiling interface. I enjoy building out the features and visuals I want in python. It’s fun to have that level of control.

Yeah I also use KDE on my desktop, though I have my laptop running QTile because the tile hotkeys are much more convinient than navigating with the trackpad.

Ever considered trying out a tiling window manager?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Illicit-NVIDIA-Change

Any clue if this one addresses the impending 6.6 Kernel changes in response to how Nvidia was breaking the license?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6AlbG2ZoKs

They were already scanning every message and DM for data tracking and whatnot to sell anyway, the only difference now is they’re using it for TOS violations.

Privacy-wise nothing has changed, but actual consequences for actually bad things like racism / transphobia / csam / etc. is good. The only real issue is what if they decide that sharing a music file is piracy and now your account is penalized? What about uploading an NES ROM to a friend via a DM? Or sharing a link to an anime piracy website?

It’s the kind of thing that has to be a balance between making sure users aren’t doing stuff that is strictly against Discord’s rules, but also about making a good-faith attempt to limit things that can get Discord themselves in trouble from companies who are becoming more and more aware that Discord has been used as a piracy-safe haven for quite some time now. (Like how they’re limiting their “using discord upload URLs like your own CDN” issue last month.)

“highly configurable” and “very little effort to start using” don’t blend together […] Arch because they’re the standard for “highly configurable” but they really demand some effort to start using them.

Then they should just use Endeavour, it’s literally just arch with some nice QOL packages to start.

My exact solution to this on Endeavour was to just stop using flatpaks lol.

Literally everything I used from flathub was also either on the AUR or trivial to install manually from the host GitHub.

I don’t think they meant the hacked and released source code, I think they meant the kernel modules that Nvidia actually opensourced in may of '22

Not sure if you just misread the commands or not, but that’s a pretty different usecase than what they’re describing.

How does Amberol hold up with libraries in the high thousands? So many nice looking music played keep struggling with my music folders.

Really makes me miss Winamp sometimes.

I have never had to babysit an update on Endeavour. It’s extremely user friendly, especially if they’re already used to using the dumpster-fire that is Manjaro…

Yeah, honestly without memeing, if it ever does happen it would probably be the causes of “the year of the linux desktop”.

Pretty sure this is exactly what the “immutable OS” is for, like what’s found in Fedora Silverblue (and less notably in the SteamDeck).

It essentially lets you break whatever you want in userland, but it mounts the root filesystem in read-only, and literally re-images the entire machine each update w/ the added bonus of halting and rolling back the update if any errors are detected during the update. All of which occurs “magically” behind the scenes upon shutdown, so it requires essentially little to no user interaction to manage core updates.

Also all graphical software is limited to flatpaks, so you really take out a lot of the user confusion about installing on Linux and dealing with system-specific weirdness.

Hey cut OP some slack, they just learned those words from the older kids at school.