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Distro News - Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa', Ubuntu MATE and other flavours released
23 April 2020 at 11:19 pm UTC Likes: 4

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.

Distro News - Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa', Ubuntu MATE and other flavours released
23 April 2020 at 9:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

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.

Paradox are giving away Cities: Skylines - Parklife DLC free until April 26
21 April 2020 at 3:14 pm UTC Likes: 4

Oh, that's interesting. I already own the game and some of the DLCs and...
Quoteanyone who signs up for their newsletter
No. Just no.

GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland
21 April 2020 at 11:36 am UTC Likes: 1

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.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux
21 April 2020 at 11:24 am UTC Likes: 3

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.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux
19 April 2020 at 5:37 pm UTC Likes: 10

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.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux
19 April 2020 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 3

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.

KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland
17 April 2020 at 10:05 am UTC Likes: 3

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

KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland
16 April 2020 at 11:42 am UTC Likes: 4

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.

Humble 2K's Game Together Bundle went live with a few Linux games
14 April 2020 at 9:32 pm UTC Likes: 4

QuoteBorderlands: The Handsome Collection (Borderlands 2 + The Pre-Sequel and a bunch of DLC) all of which support Linux there.

I wouldn't really call it support any more. It's been a year since they broke cross-platform play. They briefly fixed it for Mac, but that's broken again and they only plan to fix that: not Linux.