I can see where you’re coming from because of outdated libraries and flatpak sandboxing not really being a thing (it’s an illusion, really) but you can’t deny that this is the direction we’re moving in, and we need to get flatpak sandboxing and permissions right, to ensure a proper base level of security.

For those unaware:

• Many flatpaks use older, outdated, or end-of-life libraries

• Flatpak permissions are messed up because most applications ask to bypass the sandbox at install-time

It’s not every day that you see actually useful applications of AI, but this might be one.

I get where you’re coming from but I wish apps on GNOME could look uniform even without everyone kneeling to libadwaita, and we could just get uniform theming on all DEs.

GNOME.

Specifically their decisions on CSD over SSD (client and server side decorations)

I haven’t really had any other dogmatic issues with projects.

I found this today:

https://github.com/Cudiph/cwcwm?tab=readme-ov-file

The issue with that approach for the desktop is everyone will just move to other OS-es.

When Microsoft does it, you live with it cuz you have no choice.

This might be the first time that I genuinely like how a Catppuccin colour scheme turned out.

Well done! It looks… well… awesome.

(Great, now I’m stuck dreaming of AwesomeWM on Wayland again)

Yeah, I’ve had a developer tell me that they’ve done most of the beta milestone already. There will be an Alpha 6, however, so the absolute earliest we could see Beta 1 is end of February, assuming Alpha 6 releases end of January, and they move into Beta after that with no delays.

It’s a normal atomic/immutable distro

Cool, but PLEASE just use kickstart.nvim

It’s all you need

Link: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim

It was so obviously satire and yet I kept on trying to convince myself it isn’t, but by the last part, I was basically convinced it was, especially by the “Satire” label.

Personally I’d just recommend either Alpaca or GPT4All, both of which are on Flathub and much easier to set up (or at least GPT4All is; I haven’t tested Alpaca yet).

LXDE is dead.

LXQT is working on it, and I believe are already shipping some initial version: https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/

XFCE 4.20 introduced initial Wayland Support: https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800

Cinnamon has an experimental Wayland Session: https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-0-desktop-environment-arrives-with-initial-wayland-support

Budgie, as per the article, will be Wayland-only from Budgie 10.10, to be released in Q1 2025.

So I’d say the Wayland transition will be complete for all in either 2025 or 2026 at the latest.

Do it for yourself.

I once undertook a project for personal use that I knew could be useful to many people (it was for a game).

People were getting interested in using it even in its earliest, experimental, pre-alpha, prototype, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, stage.

But then the unthinkable happened: I quit the game because the dev was irresponsible and was largely perceived to be unserious and lazy, when this game is his main source of income as far as the community knows.

So I of course lost interest in the project as well and abandoned it.

If I was doing this for myself, it wouldn’t matter at all, but some people were interested in it, some were using it, and even as recently as last month I had people message me asking if the project was ready or how to use it. (the project was started in Jan 2024, I quit in Feb 2024)

The point is that if you’re doing it for yourself and you quit, it wouldn’t matter, but it can almost feel as if you’re letting people down when you do it for someone else rather than yourself. So do it for you. That way, you won’t have people’s expectations weighing you down. If you can’t work on it this week, it doesn’t matter. If you can’t do this feature for xyz reasons, or because you don’t want to, it doesn’t matter. Because you’re doing it for you.

Or at least that’s my take on it.

Made it Worse

Made it Worse

Made it Worse

I’d recommend yt-dlp for downloads.

If you want to stream, you can use yt-dlp in combination with mpv,

OR

You can just install FreeTube if you want SponsorBlock as well.

+1 to this but also, If you’re on Linux, I’d recommend Freetube.

It’s on Flathub and allows you to use SponsorBlock.

Doesn’t happen to me

Now that you mentioned it, I’ve had VERY similar issues on an old machine which had some cooling issues (it’s a laptop, what did you expect?). So I’d wager you’re right.

Really? I must not have heard about that, I’m sorry.

When I said “very alpha”, I meant that it still very much contained bugs and lacked features, as in it is still in Alpha.

When I’m talking about bugs, the main ones I’ve encountered are the ones I’ve seen on Brodie Robertson’s COSMIC streams.

The only unfixed bug I’ve encountered is terminal font rendering on COSMIC Terminal being very weird and different compared to all other terminals I’ve tried, specifically Alacritty, Kitty and Foot. I’ve seen a bug report about “Black bars about content” but nothing mentioned about how, for example, Hack size 14 on all those 3 terminals looks bigger than Hack size 18 on COSMIC Terminal.

I was wondering if that would be fixed with Alpha 5?

But other than that, I only had 1 bug until recently, that seemed to have been fixed with Alpha 4 (keybindings fell back to default ones for a few minutes of logins on cold boot; idk what caused it but it’s been gone since I went to Alpha 4.

So… is there a timeline for releases I could follow? I’ve been looking at the issue tracker for Epoch 1, and I’m even asking questions about and tracking individual features like Startup Applications and especially Pinned Workspaces.

Apologies but do you happen to know where I could find more info on Pinned Workspaces and maybe how to automatically implement them as replacement for Static Workspaces until that feature arrives in the Epoch 2 cycle?

Many thanks for reading and I would greatly appreciate a response.

And of course thanks for making what is now my daily driver Desktop.

And Happy New Year!