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They’ve let their site certificates expire a few times and told their users to set their clocks back to get around the issueand they’ve accidentally ddosed the aur a couple of times with their package management tools.

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Although not my first distro, I feel a lot of nostalgia for SimplyMepis

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If you keep using these tools then you get what you deserve

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I started with Corel Linux, moved to Mandrake and then began an 18 year distro-hopping journey. To keep it interesting, I rolled a d100 on distrowatch.com and installed whatever I landed on. About 6 years ago I landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed and haven’t hopped since if you don’t count a brief dalliance with endeavour on my laptop.

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KDE Plasma because I can bend it to my workflow. When I try Xfce and especially Gnome, I feel I have to bend to their workflows.

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you can still get to it by searching for it in KRunner

Newish user migrating to Linux

I have been using Arch Linux with i3wm for around 5 years for work, on my ThinkPad. I am fairly comfortable with pacman and setting up a distro. I have previously tried Mint, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Elementary, and MX Linux, all for the same use case (Work: where I need a browser, Slack, and a MongoDB GUI)....

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Although there is a live image to try it in a VM, but you can’t use it to install

I thought they had the net installer but I’ve never tried the live isos so I could be wrong.

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Although I don’t use them, the Jetbrains products should be near the top of the list.

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Yes you can but you often see the terminal used when helping people online. This is because it works across desktop environments and mostly across distros, however it does give the impression that the terminal is needed.

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The openSUSE Wiki says not to use ventoy as it can cause boot issues.

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What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

That’s not necessarily true any more. There are distros built without the GNU tools.

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This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix

This snap-laden Ubuntu remix

ftfy

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In addition to what’s already been said, Canonical have a history of starting grandiose projects and then abandoning them a few years later. See Mir, Unity, and Ubuntu Touch for examples.

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Alpine Linux is often recommended in similar circumstances. I’ve never tried it so can’t say how it is. Of course you could use Debian with a light WM.

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Is this an April Fool? I trust nothing posted on 1 April!

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Well then, it’s an interesting proposal because it would be nice to see a major player default to KDE. I don’t see it happening though.

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According to vim --help:

-y Easy mode (like “evim”, modeless)

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Put such things into your home dir which does not change when distro hopping. home dir will always stay there no matter what.

Unless you’ve put it on the same partition as root

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The first distro I tried was Red Hat 5 back in the late 1990s but I never got a GUI working so I guess the first one I used properly would have been Mandrake iirc. These days it’s Tumbleweed.

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The same risks apply to any software proprietary or open source which is why Microsoft have the following in their licence agreement:

  1. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.The software is licensed “as-is.” You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this agreement cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, Microsoft excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. FOR AUSTRALIA ONLY: You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in these terms is intended to affect those rights.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You can’t recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.

Knowing that and knowing that themes can have code is two different things though. I wasn’t particularly surprised as I thought (maybe wrongly) that global themes just installed all the other bits which would require code.

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A theme is software and software has bugs. While this one had a pretty dramatic effect, you take basically the same risk with every program you run. This, along with hardware and user errors are why backups are so important; they change a disaster to an inconvenience.

/ Preach mode off

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Breeze, for example, contains a lot of code. For instance

Can you tell excel sheets which were created using a pirated version of MS Office?

My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...

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Never pay for software for your job unless you’re self employed. That’s the employers responsibility.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet (www.phoronix.com)

The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn’t yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.

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Also went back to x11 because of vscode flickering and redrawing badly. I’m not sure whether it’s an nvidia problem, a vscode problem, or a kwin-wayland problem though.

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That seems to have worked. Thanks.

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So I’ve updated my desktop and Plasma, Nvidia, and Wayland is actually usable 🫨 but I had to reapply a few settings.

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In the month or so it’s been on my laptop, it’s been stable as in reliable but it’s definitely not stable in the more traditional sense - unchanging.

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Yeah, it’s definitely like Trigger’s Broom

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The default Plasma Panel does most of what Latte Dock did.

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