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yes and the reason for that was the massive security risks to users systems that Deepin refused to resolve. ALSO their community packager utilized workarounds to bypass the RPM packaging mechanisms to install “restricted” assets.

yeah, don’t use this distro AT ALL. I’d trust RedStarOS over this and friggin RedStarOS is proven to modify your files.

had no idea this existed, thanks i’ll check it out.

Descent: Freespace, The original Heavy Gear, Tribes 2, Mechwarrior 2.

Descent: Freespace especially. At the time that thing was awesome and so easy to mod. I remember someone was making a fantastic Babylon 5 mod for it that I dont’ think ever saw the light of day.

shit all you have to do is try to update/upgrade the thing and it’s like rolling the dice if it’ll bork your system or not so they’ve done an excellent job in people hating them for that one reason.

without fail whenever they roll out an update you’ll see threads on mastodon or bluesky with people saying “welp, my Ubuntu is fucked” after an update.

I mean…it’s kinda silly to go into Silksong without playing Hollow Knight yeah? Unless Silksong has something at the beginning that sort of catches you up to speed OR is like a Souls or Final Fantasy where it has nothing to do with the previous game entry.

But If I were a fan of the series I would hope the game ramped up difficulty and didn’t hold my hand for the sequel. That, in my opinion, would be a worthy purchase. I had playing sequels that kind of “reset”.

I mean…why? you said yourself there’s paid stuff that you’re not going to use so just use soulseek if you’re going to be downloading anyways.

I dont’ use any music streaming service because the artists get paid peanuts and won’t see my dime when I use them. so i’ll support them more directly. Take your money, buy your favourite artists shirt or other merch.

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yeah I don’t get it either. tiling I guess. the problem is, they’ve progressively made it worse.

There’s just something “off” about Cosmic that I can’t but my finger on. In the early alphas it was good, decent for being an alpha. But with every release, to me at least, it just feels like it’s gotten worse. slower, features that haven’t really been expanded on, etc. It just looks/feels like GNOME with the option of tiling. the options for customization, much like GNOME, are limited. no where near what you could potentially do with KDE. the thing is though if you want a DE with basic tiling then it stands out. its good for that. I mean sure you can get tiling with KDE if you use something like Krohnkite but that on it’s own is pretty janky for certain things.

I dont’ know it’s weird. I once went from early alpha using COSMIC as a daily driver to now trying it out again and immediately getting rid of it. maybe I’ll give it another swing today.

weird requirements for sure. sounds like they want an investigative journalist that also has a few years of web development under their belt which is…an odd mix to say the least.

good luck to them I guess. they’re going to get either journalists or web developers applying but doubt they’ll get they’re magical Clark Kent that takes their glasses off and then becomes Web Developer Man.

sooooo a site that says it’ll do something but in turn won’t actually do it.

companies already post ghost jobs via AI on linkedin/indeed/etc so there’s no need for this. No one, other than the Linkedin Tech Bros/Wannabe middle managers, is going to use this.

Feels like Sam is grasping at straws right now to keep his shit afloat.

yeah this isn’t WH 40K. You can’t make a “Primaris Putin” and “continuous organ transplants” are only going to top you out at a few extra years, maybe, unless this fucker has somehow struck a deal with Nurgle or Khorne or some other Warp entity.

Now if his flesh starts bubbling and his intestines are suddenly on the outside of his body and he grows a maw on his shoulder? yeah then I’d start worrying.

I did one years ago on Reddit and someone made a youtube video out of it without my permission that went semi-viral so I’m sure it’s on there somewhere. Just youtube something like “Reddit porn industry AMA”

started my career as a developer working for an adult entertainment industry company (porn) so yeah. Everything I know today is from titties and the bang bus.

he said he never heard of Nix or NixOS. that’s it. it’s a dumb article that just poorly sums up a few youtube videos of his talk.

as a consultant/freelancer dev whose entire workload for the past year has been cleaning up AI slop, no with dev it hasn’t been what I would say a smooth or even good implementation. for my wallet? been a fantastic implementation, for everyone else? not so much.

The thing is as a TOOL it’s great depending on the model. As a rubber duck? fantastic. As something that the majority of companies have utilized with vibe coding to build something end to end? no, it’s horrible. It can’t scale anything, implements exploits left right and center, and unlike junior devs doesn’t learn anything. If you don’t hold its hand during a build then it’ll quickly go off the rails. It’ll implement old APIs or libraries or whatever simply because those things have the most documentation attached to it.

An example. a few weeks ago a client wanted to set up a private git instance with Forgejo. They had Claude Code set it up for them. the problem? Claude went with Forgejo 1.20. ForgeJo is currently on 12.0. MASSIVE security hole right there. Why did Claude do that? 1.20 had more documentation as opposed to 12.0. And when I say “documentation” I could simply be referring to blog posts, articles, whatever that talked about it more than the latest version because The LLM’s will leverage that stuff when making decisions for builds. You also see it if you want something in Rust+Smithy. Majority of the time the AI will go for a very outdated version of Smithy because that’s what a lot of people talked about at one point. So you’re generating massive tech debt before even throwing something into production.

Now like I said as a tool? a problem solver for a function you can’t figure out? it’s great. the issue is like I said companies aren’t seeing it as a tool, they’re seeing it as a cost saving replacement for a living human being which it is not. It’s like replacing construction worker with a hammer attached to a drone and then wondering why your house frame keeps falling over.

in your case I’d say Fedora with a DE you can customize to your liking. Honestly just go for a KDE Fedora then you don’t have to think about it.

I’d also say CachyOS but that might be out of your ballpark. Cachy just works. yes it’s Arch based but it’s by far the best Arch based distro out there. Monthly, on the dot, updates and works with whatever DE/WM you want to throw at it. Hell during the installation it gives you a bunch of DEs/WMs to install with it and all have been customized to work with CachyOS so you don’t even have to think about it.

it’s because Youtube is a content monopoly. TikTok is a platform for short content…on youtube it’s a feature with shorts. Twitch is a platform for live streaming content…on youtube it’s a feature with, other than discoverability, the same features. Any music streaming service? again…it’s a feature on youtube. The fact I could export my playlists from any music streaming platform and import it to Youtube and listen to it ad free via an ad blocker? come on. So as opposed to using multiple platforms, with youtube you have it all in one place. So no, this will not get people to stop using it.

Premium you don’t need if you’re even the slightest bit tech savvy. but no one is ever going to stop using youtube, there’s no point. I mean I use peertube as much as possible but every now and then I’m back on youtube because of all those features in one place and some things I just can’t find on peertube.

It’s pretty much the best and only option for KDE but even then it’s very janky. COSMIC is going to be the best option for this but again, you’re then sacrificing the customization you’d get with Plasma.

And that sums up Linux DEs/WMs. If there’s something you want you’ll have to sacrifice something else. because there are NO DEs/WMs out there that will have everything you want in one package unless you build it yourself.

…unless you’re MaoMaoWM and you’re the dev who just said “fuck it, I’m including everything”

blame the devs for that. There was an git issue a year or so ago about just that. a user asked for tiling, many other users chimed in and said “yes, please” the KDE devs said “no, we personally don’t like or use tiling so you’re not going to have it either.” Which essentially sums up KDE development. IF they don’t use or like something than neither will you.

eh I’m going to take a wait and see approach.

The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt…off? like kinda leaning into GNOME “please don’t actually customize me” territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren’t there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.

That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It’s been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.