Quoting: Purple Library GuyBig deal. Those are mature apps where I don't care about the version. Not like they're using old Libreoffice or GIMP or something.

Well, for me, the Celluloid downgrade is kind of a big deal! The patch to support multiple scripts inside of folders only landed a few months ago and hasn't hit stable yet. That means mpvacious won't work on the older version of Celluloid. And I still need to do the work for the Celluloid flatpak to make it work.

Edit: It has hit stable now: https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid/releases/tag/v0.27

Maybe I should hurry up and do the quick patches for the Celluloid Flatpak.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczBut there is no Wayland support even still for Cinnamon and Xfce (Mint's main desktops) it looks like? Whereas Ubuntu and others do have it nicely now.

I believe MATE and XFCE are far closer to a complete Wayland session than Cinnamon is. MATE has had a Wayland session for a while, and XFCE is close. Cinnamon might have more manpower than XFCE, but they said they wouldn't have a stable Wayland session before 2026, and that sounds reasonable.

The decision to fork older versions of these base desktop programs makes sense, but I don't like it. It doesn't matter much because you can still install newer versions via Flatpak.

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Lethal Company has been a surprising amount of fun, and it's been slow going, but I've been getting better at it. It's a great game to play with friends.

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It's nice to see Mint continue to make progress with Wayland and finally ship a modern kernel. That's the biggest problem with Mint; that its default ISO doesn't support new hardware and gives new users a bad experience as a result, especially with AMD GPUs they were told are better than NVIDIA GPUs by all their proselyting Linux friends.

On that note, I really wish Mint shipped KDE as an option. XFCE, MATE, and Cinnamon are all still firmly on X11 even if they are all making fantastic progress with their Wayland versions (and actually, I think MATE + XFCE are much further ahead than Cinnamon in that respect). Without that, you miss very important features like fractional scaling when you have multiple monitors, or (less important) trackpad gestures you can use in Firefox on your laptop.

KDE has the most advanced support for Wayland on Linux right now, and I think Mint and KDE can find a lot of common ground aside from that, so focusing on shipping a KDE session makes sense to me. Especially because, while Wayland is very competitive with X11 in mature compositors like Mutter and KWin, all that stuff needs to be implemented anew in Cinnamon and it's a ton of work. KDE can be overwhelming in some ways to new users (it certainly was for me), though, so that's probably one of the reasons.

But Cinnamon the desktop is something unique that really is Mint's identity. It's as friendly as GNOME while being more familiar. It'd be nice to see a fully-functioning Wayland version of Cinnamon in the future.

Mint is clearly moving forward and embracing more modern technologies (their support for Flatpak is evidence enough of that), but I worry their (carefully-considered) pace might be too slow if the ecosystem moves on before them. I don't think they'll be too far behind, though.

QuoteUnverified Flatpaks disabled by default (and clearly marked if enabled).

It would be nice if the search results contained a note like "15 Unverified Flatpak packages were removed from these results." at the top/bottom. If anyone is familiar with Google's DMCA notices, that's what I'm looking to as prior art.

Overall I think it's the right thing to do.

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On the one hand it surprises me that Linux isn't as popular in China as in, say, Germany, Brazil or India. But it also makes a lot of sense: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

If you look at the "Linux market share on Steam, another way to look at it" section, you can see the Linux (English only) share madly distances itself from Linux Overall share soon after the Steam Deck releases. Which is still not available in China, as far as I know.

Still handily beating macOS.

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Quoting: Maelrane

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualRust just compiles to C in the end.

Ahem, no, it does not. It uses LLVM or Cranelift, but C is not an intermediate format. You can get a C memory layout with #[repr(C)] but that's about it.

I think I got confused after learning gcc (or llvm) was a dependency of rustc.

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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThere's no reason you can't use GNOME's calculator on KDE. I mean, it's what I do. I use Solanum, Amberol, Bottles, Evolution, Folaite, Loupe, Lutris, Errands, GNOME Boxes, and Remmina on KDE. GNOME applications look pretty good on KDE with only slight weirdness in some cases. Nautilus is probably the most pronounced instance of this, but it looks nowhere near as bad as Dolphin looks on GNOME.

The DE is more than the UI, if I need to use the core apps of another DE, makes sense to just switch to another DE (IMO your situation is exception). The only GTK app I really need on KDE is GIMP, and yeah... doesn't look good.

I use GIMP (Beta) from flathub-beta and it looks fine.

To me, the only things that matter in a DE are:

* The UX
* Features (e.g. xwayland self-scaling apps)

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualGod, I hope this is the panacea I've been hoping it will be.

Quoting: MohandevirDoes that mean that Gamescope will run on Nvidia GPU?

It has for a long time.

It runs with Gamescope-Bazzite or ChimeraOS? Meaning I could build a Steam Machine based on Nvidia GPU? Bazzite doesn't recommend it yet.

No idea. It works on my NVIDIA 2xxx GPU on Arch, and that's about all I can say. It's worked since they added the GBM backend IIRC.

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Celeste is 90% off and very cheap: https://store.steampowered.com/app/504230/Celeste/?snr=1_4_600__104_14

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God, I hope this is the panacea I've been hoping it will be.

Quoting: MohandevirDoes that mean that Gamescope will run on Nvidia GPU?

It has for a long time.

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