I doubt it does yet. Xwayland smooths out things considerably for now. But definitely not perfect considering mouse spasming and the ms solitaire effect.

Don’t think that will take quite as long considering QT can and does. Just lots of testing for regressions etc now that distro are defaulting more and more to Wayland.

All this still seems to take forever though lol. I’ve used GIMP since before 1.0. KDE and GNOME since at least 1.X and blender since it was a fresh shareware port of the original Irix software.

Yep that pretty much goes for everything. And not everyone wants to have to deal with that. Me I’m okay. I’ve got KDE looking and functioning exactly how I want. But I think it’s safe to say that if you are recommending something for someone starting out or not sure what they’re doing there’s a reason mint and GNOME get mentioned a lot.

Even if I’m personally frustrated with the gtk hassle and issues. Finally, after nearly 20 years. GIMP 3.0, the version that upgrades GIMP from GTK 2.0 to 3.0 will be out next year. And with gtk 4.0 being released in 2020. Soon to be 5 years ago. Things are looking good for GIMP 4.0 by 2050. Our grandchildren will probably love it. And gtk 6 or 7 should be out a few years before that. I kidd, I kidd. Maybe.

Yep that’s a pretty fair statement.

Yeah. They have very similar goals aesthetically. And if that’s something you like, under Linux it’s the best place to find it. Also IIRC deepin was at one time trying to be Mac like. Been a few years since I tried it though. And last time they seemed to be moving away a bit.

As a rule you can. You may have found an exception on one small point. Those are almost inescapable. That may have been more of a window manager issue than the desktop presentation. Which used to be more flexible. You could run different WM in the past with whatever presentation layer on top. Unfortunately today mutter is tightly tied to GNOME as kwin is to KDE.

But it isn’t a fight or a war. Use what works for you. Whether it’s LXQT, XFCE, KDE, GNOME, Hyperland, i3, Deepin. They’re all great.

Quick edit to mention that Simplicity can also be a feature. I fought with GNOME a lot to get it to work how I wanted. But it was always the extensions that broke. The underlying layers were always simple and solid. For me KDE overall works better. But I’m not going to deny it can be very trying sometimes loading a custom theme and something brakes. For my current pet peeve certain distributions enabling the global desktop menu by default. And Katie has no clear succinct way of finding and disabling that without editing a config file. It’s certainly not for everyone and something like hyperland even fewer people. Even if it looks sick as hell. The progress on Cosmic looks great so far too.

Traditionally Mac OS allowed for very little actual customization of The interface. Next To None really. This is also GNOMEs General stance on customization as well. You can get add-on that will allow you to customize a few things here or there. However they won’t be officially supported and will likely break with the next minor version update.

Contrast that with something like KDE which can easily made out of the box to resemble any desktop interface of any operating system that has ever existed.

Mastodon and miskey are interface’s to the same open public protocol.

Bluesky is another, largely private, twitter like microblog. That can, but may never in a significant sense allow something close to what the fediverse does.

Evan Prodromou and the Social Web Working Group (SocialWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are the creators of ActivityPub

Not desalines or any ML controlled group. All they did was create a Reddit like interface to the platform. After being driven from Reddit for their intolerance.

I sometimes post from Mastodon to servers running this and other software. In fact the reason I’m on world. Is specifically due to its relation to mastodon.social. one of the bigger Mastodon instances I use. It’s got nothing to do with a software. If Rud and the other admins decided tomorrow to migrate the database to a different backend. I don’t think there would be much outrage or many people would care. In fact I’m certainly probably will in the future. As soon as a back end is available that provides significantly better Community / magazine moderating tools. Since I will significantly whiten the load on server administrators. Since things can be done at the community level instead of at the server all the time.

Just gonna put this out there. The devs push their stance plenty. Within their scope to do it from their echo chamber. Other than stopping development there’s little they could currently do to impact growth in any way. And there have been issues with their development focus that have negatively impacted growth. Recalcitrance to focus much on moderation tools for instance. As well as at least reported issues difficulty contributing to the project by others. Though that at least is hearsay.

The album it’s off of is a lot of fun. Though extremely hard to find these days. You might be able to look up the tracklist and find most of them floating around on YouTube somewhere. But I looked at their listing for the album proper and I think they had maybe one out of 13 tracks from the album.

Different genera covers are always a fun rabbit hole to go down. One of my go to favorites are psychobilly covers of anything.

Also to add to your cover collection.

Mary Lou Lord and Semisonic - sugar sugar

A few things. Communism isn’t Marxist leninism. Communism isn’t authoritarian. And it’s not just Stalin and Mao. It’s literally everywhere Marxist leninism has ever been attempted. Communism is a classless stateless society. Therefore a Marxist leninist government will never become communist. Because they are defined by their class separation of those with political power and those without, and the strong overbearing presence of the state.

There’s nothing objectionable to Communism whatsoever. And no one should have any qualms about defending it ever. What we should question is why one group of authoritarians the Marxist leninist desire to be so closely tied to it. And another group of authoritarians the capitalists demand everyone be afraid of it.

While they are and will continue to be a scam. It is at least a step up from a guy dancing around in a spandex suit like the announcement was

To the shaming wheel with you. 😛

I bet if we just follow the tip out into the bay there is probably a fishnado.

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Might actually be the sort of architecture RCE could get behind.

It was in the course of executing his duty. John Roberts says you can’t prosecute him for that. And if he marches them into ovens this time you can’t prosecute him for that either. The dream of Nixon and Roger Ailes has finally come to fruition. As Nixon said…

Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal", by definition.

The coup has already occurred. And everyone collectively yawned.

Unfortunately 1,300 still “so far”. People are ready to give him another crack at it.🤮

After all the fud and opposition they’ve pushed against it over the years. It’s nice to see them finally do things to help it.

Quick edit to add that it couldn’t come at a better time now that there are companies like system 76 out there. Making Linux compatible systems that ship with Linux that you can actually recommend to someone who is a novice to pick up. They may be on a more expensive side. But what’s your privacy worth?