Flatpak will probably be the official default format for non-open software in the future.
Great news. Should there be someday a community version with KDE, I will definitely give it a try. Anyway, I wish them success,
Heroic Game Launcher ist awesome. Use it for both, my Epic and GOG libraries.
Wenn’s gut verstaubar sein soll, würde ich dir ein Faltschloss von einer Markenfirma, wie ABUS, empfehlen. Die meisten Billigmarken taugen überhaupt nichts und werden weder Bolzenschneider noch eine einfache Metallsäge aufhalten. Ich persönlich würde das Bordo 6000 empfehlen.
Mekuro will be interesting when they integrate email in it. And Elisa is already a great music player that I use for my local collection.
Mit einer Akkuflex bekommst du jedes Schloss geknackt, selbst mein hochwertiges Bügelschloss von Abus. Darum parke ich meinen E-Scooter nur an Plätzen mit genug Menschen und habe noch zusätzlich eine Alarmanlage fest an Lenker montiert, die auf Erschütterungen reagiert (auch von Abus). Und ab einem bestimmten Kaufpreis sollte man immer eine Versicherung abschließen, die im Falle eines Diebstahls einspringt. Meine Haftpflicht + Teilkasko kostet mich nur um die 30 - 40 Euro im Jahr.
Linux Mint. People praise it as the perfect Window replacement yet when I tried it for a week, it didn’t do anything better than default KDE Plasma Desktop. And since the devs haven’t even started to work on Wayland support, the Distro will soon fall way behind.
For buying or donating (maybe even subscriptions). Both open source and proprietary software. They’re working on it.
Seems like Canonical wants to push snaps now really hard. I hope that Flathub soon implements its payment structure, before companies flock to the Canonical store.
Big yikes. In that case, I wouldn’t recommend Mint to beginners at all. Alone, the whole Sandbox concept of Flatpak needs Wayland to work properly. Wayland is the future, regardless if you like it or not.
Security (Future Topic): Security is mentioned as a potential future topic, with Linux Mint considered more privacy-oriented than Windows 11. Discussions about security are acknowledged.
Is Wayland support finally actively worked on, or is it still postponed?
The sad truth is that telemetry is only unbiased when it is on by default and not opt-in (Not that I advocate for that). Don’t know where I read it, but last month I saw an article about how Gnomes opt-in telemetry data showed that Fedora is the number one distro for Gnome users and Ubuntu was somewhere between 3rd or 4th place. That’s obviously not true, but it was true for the people who activated the telemetry.
But back to the topic. As long as the KDE devs give me the choice to keep single click selection, I don’t really care what the default is. A lot of people will never learn about it and miss out in my opinion, but whatever 🤷.
I mean, their telemetry is opt in and in most distros you don’t even get asked if you want to help them with it. If anything, most people aren’t even aware that Telemetry exists, if they haven’t looked at the specific section in the settings menu.
There is a + over the top left corner of the icon that you can click for selection without opening. Pretty easy to use if you get the hang of it.
edit: Or you just click the right mouse button over the file you want to select.
Big mistake in my opinion. Coming from Windows, it took me only one day to get comfortable with single click and now I don’t want to miss it anymore.
People that didn’t grow up mentally and continue their Xbox vs. PlayStation trash talk from their childhood.
Na ja CDU halt. Finde es aber lustig, wie allergisch hier die Leute auf Fahrradhelme reagieren. Habe selber mal erlebt, wie eine etwas ältere Dame, mit nur 15 km/h unterwegs, mit dem Kopf aufgeschlagen ist, weil ein mit dummer Fußgänger plötzlich im Weg gesprungen ist und sie kollidiert sind. Hatte wohl bleibende Schäden davon erlitten. Aber muss halt jeder für sich entscheiden, ob man so eitel ist, dass man dauerhaften/schweren Schaden im Falle eines Unfalls riskiert.
For now, it’s Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I’m really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can’t provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.
No idea if Ubuntu does some things better for gaming, but I just use the Steam Flatpak (+ the “steam-devices” package for much better controller support) and the Heroic Game Launcher Flatpak. Everything works fine on my end. I’m currently using an AMD card, but will probably switch to an Intel Arc in the near future (since they have better performance for 3d rendering in Blender, and I’m fed up with Nvidia’s prices).