Relying on is perhaps too strong, but I enjoy operations like sort getting faster and I don’t know how they’ve written cp but there’s a cp alternative using async IO with io_uring that’s almost twice as fast, I’m sure it’d interest people if such optimizations made it into coreutils.

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No. It’s one dude.

All Operating systems get more complex release by release, including the applications and all the different hardware platforms and peripherals. So there will be problems.

The “It just works” catchphrase came from Steve Jobs back in 2003. It didn’t exactly mean things were perfect but that regular people/non experts should not have to struggle with technical mumbo jumbo to use a computer.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

I would suggest avoidig pure rolling distros then. Also bear in mind that usually the performance difference between distros is not really big enough to make a difference for most things.

I would consider something like Mint. But what I did on my new laptop was that I installed PopOS 24.04 Alpha and used gnome-session (“sudo apt install gnome-session”) on it, though I’ve switched over to COSMIC now as I’m writing apps for it and it works for my games. It’ll get regular kernel+mesa updates but the base os will remain “LTS stable”.

You could also go the Fedora (KDE or GNOME spins) route, it has a regular update schedule, this might be a great option for you.

They have shape tools on the roadmap for this free image manipulation app, until then we’ll have to use the two-step method of stroking a circular selection or use a more dedicated drawing app.

In any case GIMP 3.0 is a huge rewrite under the hood and seems to be attracting more contributors now, which is a good sign.

but the work hasn’t began for it yet.

This is completely untrue. The work has not only begun but the microphone driver is now working in development. Before it can be enabled they need to tweak various userland parameters and configurations that are different between each mac model.

He didn’t step down from Asahi, just from the Linux kernel maintainers. Another person took over the Linux kernel Maintainer role for Asahi. It gives Hector one thing less to worry about.

EDIT: As of Feb 13th he has resigned from Asahi. No mention of his alter ego Asahi Lina, she’s still listed as a member? As Hector is an incredibly talented and productive individual it’ll be a big blow to the project.

Yeah as far as I understand, it’s available with the xdg-desktop-portal Global Shortcuts for any application to implement. It’s available for both sandboxed and regular applications to implement.

NVidia 570 series drivers with Multi screen G-Sync (VRR) for Linux Gamers

Well, I settled on a Ubuntu derivative so I guess it’s in the family. It could just as easily have been Fedora though.

My laptop gets shut down every night, booted every morning. If I suspend it sometimes spontaneously wakes later, but boot is so fast anyway so it’s fine.

My server gets updated and rebooted weekly. I don’t bother checking CVE bulletins, I just upgrade weekly.

I have Intel iGPU and Nvidia dGPU on my laptop, it works perfectly with Prime offload. I never need to switch, it uses Intel for desktop/VA-API and offload for games. No issues, at all on my distribution.

Anyway, every thread have your kind of unhelpful comment. The thing is some people have Nvidia, some have AMD and AMD also have bugs. Let’s try to make everyone happy, not everyone have piles of money to throw after new hardware.

Yes, it’s because it keeps track on object lifetimes and data access when sharing objects, even across threads. It means that once things compiles a whole category of common and often difficult to debug errors are gone. It means much less time debugging and fewer issues once in the hands of the end user. There can still be bugs but it’s more about logical errors than difficult memory issues.

As a C++ dev for 20 years, I love Rust. Humans are fallible, even if endeavouring to use safe patterns. Might as well just let the compiler use some CPU cycles on that.

The GNU Image Manipulation Program introduced optional single-window mode in version 2.8, which was released on May 3, 2012. It was made default starting with version 2.10, which was released on April 27, 2018.

Here’s what warrants a major version bump: GIMP 3.0.

I always end up with SF Pro Display for my desktop. For terminal I’m happy with several mentioned here.

Yes I encountered that when I used Tumbleweed on my laptop, the solution was to run “sudo prime-select boot offload”. It set up my laptop to use iGPU for desktop environment and NV offload for gaming. I made it part of my update script. No idea why that wasn’t handled better.

But generally I’m done with rolling distros, I now use an Ubuntu derivative that still keeps kernel and mesa quite up to date, I enjoy a stable environment.

It’s a temporary thing and it’s likly Kent will just spend the time too continue development and prepare patches for next cycle instead. The ambition is to take it out of Experimental status sometime in the next year so there’s at least motivation to figure out these things. During the delay testers of this FS can still submit bug reports.

It is default XWayland and will only fallback to Wayland if no XWayland found.

It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.