Quoting: The_AquabatI also use chromium pa, some little annoying thing is that every time I launch it , I get a message of chromium missing Google API dev keys. Do you know a way of getting rid of those messages?

I remember seeing that message, and I don't see that message any more, so I guess I did something to make it go away. (It's my mostly-watching-Netflix-in-bed laptop that uses chromium rather than my main rig). Hang on, I'll see if I can remember.

The PPA lists an elaborate song-and-dance to get API keys, and I definitely didn't do that. Maybe I just turned off whichever service needed the API keys? Sorry, I can't remember. If anything jogs my memory I'll post it.

Edit: it was possibly Google Sync that I turned off.

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Quoting: eldakingSure, but will any default programs be removed by that - like say, the calculator? (I legit don't know what would happen to installed snaps)

And will the Ubuntu repositories contain non-snap alternatives for stuff? If they stop maintaining stuff in the repos because they now use snaps, it becomes impractical to use the distro without it. (While, presumably, other distros could still have those normally... at least for now)

That command will get rid of the bit that loads the snaps as well as the snaps themselves. It will give a list of the snaps that are removed so that (assuming you want the applications) you can install them from the package manager (for the calculator and what-have-you) or find a PPA (for chromium).

They want to get real-world usage of snaps (which is why they're included by default), but you won't be missing out (at least for the foreseeable future) by not using snaps. Chromium is an unusual one in that they no longer carry a non-snap version. I forget exactly where I read it but their reasoning was that chromium usage isn't that high (so the test wouldn't inconvenience too many people) and that a browser is exactly the kind of thing that you'd want to be run in a sandbox. That decision doesn't affect me, personally, since I use chromium from a PPA anyway for the hardware video decoding.

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Quoting: eldakingI'll wait a bit anyway and probably will update to 20.04 if it isn't too obnoxious to avoid snaps for most things, or if at least it works well.

sudo apt purge snapd will get rid of snaps entirely. Easy enough.

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Oh, that's interesting. I already own the game and some of the DLCs and...

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No. Just no.

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Yep, that explanation is good. Non-redirected would probably be clearer, but unredirected is the terminology we're stuck with. I think I first saw it in Compiz, so 2006 or so.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyNo - before any "Social Justice Warriors" put their 5¢ in

Don't do that.

The existence of "Social Justice Warriors" is an entirely made-up bogeyman from terrible people hoping to dupe others into not calling out their terrible behaviour. Anyone actually using the term is either one of those terrible people or someone that they've duped. Don't be either.

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Quoting: eldakingBeing a gamer is not about playing games.

That's exactly what it's about.

Toxic people on the Internet latched onto "gamer" to describe themselves because "troll" and "incel" had negative connotations, and they thought that they'd be able to shield themselves from criticism by claiming to be part of a larger, better group. I'd prefer to think they were wrong in that assessment.

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Quoting: Projectile VomitI look forward to seeing this feature on my next laptop. It is nice to see companies giving Linux some love.

This isn't coming from Asus, this is users trying to reverse-engineer the hardware they've bought so that it actually works properly.

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The previous maintainer of KWin, Martin Flöser, has written a blog post about the fork, for those that are interested.

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An experimental branch that tests things out before they get polished and moved upstream would be great. This, though, sounds like someone just got grumpy that their "revolutionary" Wayland ideas weren't immediately accepted by Kwin. I hope it turns into the former even though it's starting out as the latter.

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