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You know what annoys me about the people defending Epic’s lawsuit? The fact that there are actually legitimate issues with Valve and somehow they’re hyper-fixated on the non-issues. If they were instead talking about CS2 gambling, lootboxes, etc, I would be in support of it. But no, it’s about how they’re a “monopoly” because they’re one of only two stores that seem to care about their customers…

What’s being recommended is LibreTranslate, which isn’t the same. LibreTranslate is server software. On Android, you can use “Translate You”. I co-maintain Dialect, which is an app for Linux. We host a server at https://lt.dialectapp.org/ , so feel free to make use of it.

You sound like you’re left handed

GTK4 apps and libadwaita apps are different though. You can theme both as well.

Regarding Wayland, I wonder why features still vary so wildly, even with projects like wlroots. Do WMs just not care enough?

Scrolling in Qt apps in general isn’t great. Still no inertial scrolling for example.

For installing Flatpaks via GUI, if you’re using GNOME, you can use Bazaar or GNOME Software and if you’re on KDE, you can use Discover. I’ll always recommend staying away from Manjaro though. Holding packages for 2 weeks breaks AUR compatibility often and as a former AUR package maintainer, I’m not a fan of that. They sometimes end up delaying important fixes too and they have a history of neglecting security. I’d definitely recommend cachyOS over Manjaro. CachyOS also has a very friendly forum if you end up needing help. For something more similar to Manjaro and closer to Arch (without all the performance patching and stuff), EndeavourOS is a great option. Ah well, basically, anything other than Manjaro.

I’d say, don’t bother. For me, I was already on Arch, as I’ve been for years, so switching package repositories isn’t a big deal and I could just as easily switch back. So when I noticed some minor performance issues with Arkham Knight on base arch, I thought “why not”. There’s also the fact that Bazzite can’t work for me because of its immutable nature. If you’re happy with how things are going right now, I don’t think there’s a reason to switch. Of course, there’s always the “why not” factor for everyone :)

But wait… If you haven’t had any issues, why bother trying something else?

To clarify, I use cachyOS packages on arch. So, I can’t give a review of the distro itself. But the packages do work really well for gaming, especially their kernel and their proton variant. I use GNOME and force Proton to use Wayland and FSR4. So far, so good.

The thing is, I game. And I’ve found CachyOS to be performing better on games than Windows. In fact, I’m running Expedition 33 with forced FSR4 on a Navi 2 GPU (which isn’t supposed to support FSR4) and it performs better than with FSR3 on Windows. That honestly surprised me. Unfortunate that FSR is becoming a requirement for so many modern games (thanks UE5). And then there’s anticheat…

Portals. Ask app devs to fix stuff

So just more potatoes?

Yeah basically. It’s just called Extensions. As I said in another comment, it’s honestly a misnomer.

You’re literally looking at a post that is a result of that effort… The human review process exists to try and reduce GNOME Shell extensions that could potentially break the shell. The link I posted details other steps as well, but of course you didn’t bother reading that. And again, it’s impossible to never break extensions because extensions are just scripts that monkey-patch the GNOME Shell process. Trying their best is all they can do.

With how Reddit and Lemmy react to GNOME, you would think GNOME killed their dog or something.

The medium post is mostly about bugs (it’s software, that happens, report them or patch them) and distribution packaging issues (they seem to use Manjaro, so makes sense). Then it talks about design inconsistencies and all, which basically every Linux desktop is worse than GNOME with. Then it uses lines of code as a metric? Then it uses memory and compares GNOME to less capable desktops and ignores that KDE’s memory usage is not too far away. I’m sure there’s a lot of legacy code everywhere though.

I don’t know what to say about Felipe’s issue since he wants a behavioral change in a library and he’s mad that the GNOME devs aren’t making that change.

That said, all these desktops rely on GNOME components, so idk why they have such an attitude specifically towards GNOME. It’s just software, don’t get too heated over it.

Of course there are extension devs who left GNOME due to the lack of a stable API. But they were all looking for something that was inherently not possible with how extensions work in GNOME. I can’t blame them, “extensions” is a misnomer in this case after all. It’s actually more like userscripts being applied on a web page in a browser.

If possible, take the time to read the link in my earlier comment, it should clear up a lot of misunderstandings about “GNOME devs intentionally breaking extensions” as most people seem to think of it as.

Given how extensions work (monkey-patching), it’s actually really impressive that most extensions haven’t really broken since GNOME 45 and the steps taken by GNOME to that end are impressive. Even the human review being discussed here is part of that, it’s exactly because an extension can literally bring down a user’s shell (also similar to how a web page can crash due to a userscript), so they’re trying to reduce the chances of that happening.

GNOME has always had a bit of a communication problem. They’re working on it. But I promise you, they’re all wonderful folks trying their best, even if they fail to convey that well sometimes.

Contrary to uninformed opinions, they do try their best: https://gjs.guide/extensions/overview/updates-and-breakage.html

I think it’s to a whole different degree in Japan though, at least from what I’ve heard. Forced drinking parties at work, for example.

This is what bothers me so much… Browsers should be improving their PWA implementation (looking at you, Firefox) and electron apps should be PWAs more often. Another decent middle ground Is Tauri. SilverBullet and Yaak are both so much lighter and better than anything else on my system.

They got another opportunity to learn with the whole Mecha Hitler deal… But clearly, they aren’t very fond of learning.

Zed with all the AI stuff turned off is surprisingly nice