Ask Pakistan for their professional coup-ing assistance /s

Very critical. GNOME and KDE have two very different UX paradigms.

Usually people used to Windows opt for KDE, and Mac or older Ubuntu users opt for GNOME.

The thing is though, a golden standard DE can easily be setup to act as both. XFCE is so customizable that I’ve seen both DE types setup as UNIX like or Windows like workflow.

I’m not sure if KDE or GNOME can do the same because I’m pretty sure they focus on a target audience.

What are your issues with KDE exactly? I always hated GNOME’s lack of standard window buttons and handling multiple windows in a Mac like fashion. Also the app menu which gives me flashbacks of ChromeOS.

Pretty straightforward actually, plenty of distros even ship their own USB flasher tool so that you don’t have to use rufus.

Definitely step by step instructions available and even official videos now.

There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume.

Ironically there actually is if you bother pirating content because that’s the only crowd that will share full 4k Dolby Vision + Dolby Atmos/DTS-X BluRay rips.

Aside from that though, even 4k gaming is a struggle because GPU vendors went into the deep end of frame generation, which also coincidentally is the same mistake lots of TV OEMs already made.

I bought one of these 64GB packs for less than $50 not even a year ago

I don’t know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.

Aside from the cloudflare stat tracker, probably just a false positive JS match from quick fixes.

Been on it permanently for years now. Only complaint is that I found XFS to be better than BTRFS, though most people probably wouldn’t notice.

Only other “complaint” is Fedora doesn’t have a lot of support for embedded arm devices, so you’re on your own if you want an RPM style distro on something like an Orange Pi.

Its funny because all these grand Japanese OEMs like Sony and Panasonic got undercut by Korean rivals like LG and Samsung in the 2000s, which forced Sony to move further into exclusively high priced devices and for many other OEMs to leave the US or global market.

Now TCL and HiSense are undercutting the grand Korean OEMs, which is slowly forcing them out of the low-middle end market.

I upgraded from a 20+ year old Phillips LCD to TCL’s QM8K, and the display technology for being a QLED panel is astounding. It looks 95% like a high quality OLED for a fraction of the cost.

Only downside is Google TV (Junk Android that you have to debloat a bit) and for some reason the TV can’t passthrough Dolby Atmos from app players like Kodi, even though it can do DTS-X just fine. I’m pretty sure the second issue is just a software bug, but TCL has been taking ages to respond. Pass through from an external source works perfectly fine though.

If you’re in the market, I highly recommend seeing it in person at a hardware/electronics store. The side by side comparison is insane.

If you want to ruin a concert’s day, change the thermostat a few clicks lol.

Funny thing is you can actually conduct pretty well with just your hand.

Also a good conductor is usually an astoundingly good player of multiple instruments themselves.

It’s kind of like how football (soccer) team managers are retired players that can still play better than the entire stadium wearing loafers and a suit.

Or China, or Russia, or Ukraine, or any 3rd world country, or even some 2nd world countries.

Actually it would probably be easier to name the places you won’t see a gun than places you can.

Relax, Americans aren’t used to seeing and responding to an actual oppressive regime nor have the capacity for supporting meaningful change. Plus the military structure is so well defined, there would be very little chance anyone would fragment or opt to join a “side” except for the active government. Most you would see is a bunch of useless resignations.

In true American fashion, everything you fear will just happen really half assed. If there is even a hint of a civil war, it’ll be snuffed out by your favorite 3 lettered agency long before it begins.

Why are these mainstream media journalists going out of their way to make Linux work and look harder than it is?

You don’t need to open the terminal to install software or configure anything, that’s literally the whole point of every big DE that ships well made GUI apps.

He solved his problem by switching off of Ubuntu to Fedora, I think I almost shed a tear lmao

Their dumb counter argument was AVIF, for the same reason as webp which is reduced total size since they’re a massive cloud provider and want to penny pinch costs wherever possible.

JPEG-XL also has a progressive loading algorithm that increases the quality as you download instead of classic vertical scan loading, which is sick but I don’t think any browser actually bothered to implement it yet after the Google hit job.

Hopefully will see it in action soon.

Yes I’m sure breaking a rule over POWs being displayed is certainly the issue to focus on here and not the fact that he used the military to kidnap a head of state

I really don’t want Apple to enter this market because then all the current OEMs will just be even more incentivized not to make generational advancements, and to just copy Apple’s Chinese grade quality to sell more slop because idiots will buy.

Google already threw a grenade with their subpar pixel fold and then Samsung magically swapped off snapdragon for their zflip. If Apple joins, next they’ll start using plastic for the shell and still charge $999.

People who think this won’t be a competitive product can just look to the past 20 years of Apple successfully selling stupid shit for exorbitant prices. I would even bet money it comes with an even deeper crease than current gen foldables against the “new hinge tech” hype this guy is claiming.

Okay so step one is to take GNOME and throw it into the trash where it belongs, and replace it with KDE which is a complete DE and not a bunch of plugins disguised in a trench coat of bash scripts.

Step two is to recommend a distro that targets both user quality and latest stable kernel releases for the most updated modules (Like Fedora or OpenSUSE)

Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web

Is the wrong problem because that’s what Flatpak accomplishes without creating distro dependency hell. Regressing to .run and .appimage files for everything is why windows updates suck total ass, and it would nuke one of Linux’s most killer features.

Users are already used to an appstore on mobile, I can personally guarantee you that they have no trouble getting accustomed to a desktop app installer, especially since they find it so much easier to search and click install without opening a bunch of websites. Since it shows both package manager and flatpak apps, they don’t even have to be aware of the backend system.

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The only thing holding back linux at this current point in time is honestly just vendors using it standard in consumer hardware. The dependency hell issue was resolved years ago by both huge improvements in package repos and the widespread support of Flatpak. The leftover baggage from X11 has been replaced by Wayland, which finally became viable around end of 2023. Even stuff like pulseaudio has been replaced by pipewire to handle every edge cases scenario.

I would not have said the same thing 2 years ago. The evidence is that the linux desktop user base is growing at an increasing rate. All they need is to hit a critical share (6-7%) for bigger vendors and OEMs to follow.

The good news is, as mentioned, there are a lot of vendors that are starting to do this. Valve’s steam machine by itself could be enough to add another 10 million users if they play their cards right.

My other anecdotal evidence is that I successfully changed several of my friends and family members over to Fedora just last year because I finally found it viable to throw at any former Windows user.

The only dissatisfaction I caused was one “dependent” person who couldn’t play Fortnite (the only game in their library that didn’t work), which I audaciously told it would be possible in 2026 via waydroid/lepton (valve plz dont fail me lol).

zswap and zram becoming highly critical software again trying to shove your fat 16Gb allocated application into 8Gb of RAM with room to spare:

iirc they weren’t even the first ones to discover this because there was already someone on the blackmarket selling data collected from exposed cameras and endpoints which included PII of entire police departments.