Hmm, I think I agree with this.
Certainly I'd love a universal GUI/CLI package manager with optional sandboxing. I don't use nix, but it seems like the closest solution out there right now
Its not so much the UX that I take issue with, but the complexity of what's going on under the hood.
The way I see it, either the base image of an atomic/immutable distro is suitable for you, or it isn't. Once you start getting into the territory of layering new tools/drivers/whatever on top, you're reintroducing the statefulness that the atomicity was supposed to eliminate.
This is cool, and I'm interested to see where this goes. But to me the whole sysext thing is actually a compelling argument for why Linux power users (i.e. most Linux users on lemmy) aren't suited to immutable distros.
When something as fundamental as git requires multiple obscure commands to install, you've got to think twice about the target audience.
Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.
Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...
Was trying to install guix on top of fedora silverblue. It's kinda working, but not exactly stable...
The Koru is a 416-foot masterpiece with three towering masts, each standing 230 feet tall, that harness kinetic energy to propel the vessel. The yacht is so massive that, for it to leave the shipyard after completion, a historic bridge in Rotterdam had to be dismantled. Bezos even offered to fund the dismantling and reconstruction of the 95-year-old De Hef bridge but later abandoned the plan amid public outcry. Eventually, Koru was towed away without her masts, which were later assembled.
The tone of this article is astonishing. "He even offered to pay to vandalise a historic building", how selfless..
I always thought that people using searx etc over duckduckgo were just gluttons for punishment. Having gone an entire morning without search, maybe now is the time to dive down that rabbit hole...
There's a common thread between a lot of the missteps listed here and Embeacer group's recent troubles. The idea that you could fund 230 Spiderman 2's for the same price as buying 1 Activision-Blizzard-King really drove the point home to me.
The problem (in my obviously uneducated opinion) is that when you spend so much money in acquisition, especially of established companies, you're neither funding nor rewarding innovation. You spend $70B on ABK and some randos in suits get a huge payout that they invest in oil or crypto or whatever. Spend $70B on talent and early career devs and you could unleash a tidal wave of creativity and experimentation.
By default, XWayland apps are now allowed to listen for non-alphanumeric keypresses, and shortcuts using modifier keys. This lets any global shortcut features they may have work with no user intervention required, while still not allowing arbitrary listening for alphanumeric keypresses which could potentially be used maliciously
This is... very smart actually. Any reason this is limited to Xwayland? (Is that XDG portal a thing yet?)
At the end there's a little jab towards Wayland:
Today, the Wayland enthusiasts like to talk about how they are modernizing the Linux graphics stack. But Linux is a Unix, and in Unix, everything is meant to be a file. So any Wayland evangelists out there, tell us: where in the file system can I find the files describing a window on the screen under the Wayland protocol? What file holds the coordinates of the window, its place in the Z-order, its colour depth, its contents?
As far as I'm aware nobody has even considered extending the file metaphor to the graphics stack, and it sounds a bit ridiculous to me.
It also reminds me of this talk that suggests maybe trying to express everything as a file might not be the best idea...
It's a bit repetitive, but it's not too bad.
Eventually valve will probably push a SteamOS update out with plasma 6. But it'll be up to then when to do it.
No apologies necessary! I was partly kicking the hornets nest to see if an interesting discussion fell out...
That blog post is absolutely brilliant! It does a great job of stating what a user should want from a system: easy and deterministic re-deployment. If atomic ends up being the best too for that job, I'll come back. But for now I'm happy with Debian, a separate home partition, and a strong preference for flatpak over apt.