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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

In theory I agree, but installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora (especially with secure boot) is poorly documented and a pain in the ass.

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Quoting: BrandonGeneI hope this reverses the trend of open source devs using Discord as their development hangout places. A support forum is one thing (though still way worse than a real forum for documentation), but the actual development happening via Discord is terrible. "Think you've found a bug? Come tell us on Discord before opening a issue here!" - nope.

Yeah I think that's a horrible idea too. You shoot yourself in the foot, bevause whereas a forum will slowly grow to contain public internet searchable answers, Discord cannot be indexed at all (or even searched well at all tbh)

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Always good to see Linux Mint chugging along. I was just thinking though, does anybody know how far along the folks at Linux Mint are with the Wayland migration?

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Quoting: LoftyThere still isn't an onscreen keyboard that rivals 'Onboard' or anything close under KDE / Wayland. In fact, im not sure there even is a fully functioning onscreen keyboard under Wayland KDE-Plasma right now :huh:

the last i read about it was here (last post 6 days ago):

https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-6-and-wayland-no-on-screen-keyboard-working/17799/53 [External Link]

where the workaround requiring GDK_BACKEND=x11 & adding it to environment variables. Seemingly not working on Fedora. Look at the first post in that thread and see who the kinds of people are effected by the forced switch to Wayland. People are still struggling with this all the way back to the beginning of Wayland's inception. Sure there are workarounds to some extent but it's not a very user friendly solution, when you are telling regular folks to switch to Linux.

I guess valve might use xwayland on SteamOS for the onscreen keyboard ? will that cover every feature of a regular keyboard idk.

Not yet, but ghey're working hard on it: see https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues [External Link] at Accessibility.

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I'm kind off dissapointed in the discourse here tbh (like with a lot of Fedora stuff among other things). Black and white thinking and bad faith takes are more common on GoL comment sections nowadays, which unfortunately makes the whole place less welcoming imo.

Personally, I think people are being quite harsh and unconstructive when they write of the distro after this decision, especially when they are still in the process of finding a solution. Critisizing them for making a SIG is really confusing to me, why would it be a bad thing to bring a attention to it?

We're talking about FOSS software here, most people are doing this work in their free time and nobody's perfect, and I can imagine that people get frustrated. If we look at the forum discussion, the moderator was trying to move the discussion back to something constructive. That's not the same as "toxic positivity" imo.

I have been using Fedora for years now, and it is generally quite stable, I think they're doing a pretty good job, especially considering they're at the leading edge of package versions.

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I agree with ssj17vegata on the AI thing. It is an interesting reason to switch distro because of the reasons mentioned. Another reason is that this is about how contributers choose to program the code: it has zero impact on your user experience, it is not like they are inclusing an LLM in the distro itself. Besides that, I personally find LLMs very usefull and I see many developers around me who can leverage it effectively to make quality code faster/more easily. Not everyone uses it to vibe code you know. People are very black and white on AI, especially in the FOSS space, but it has it's advantages too.

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That said, I do question why KDE installed Dolphin as a Flatpak rather than baking it into the OS image. In my opinion, the file manager is best installed as a native package.

As far as I understand it, one of the goals is to improve the quality of KDE Flatpaks, so it might be on purpose

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Thank you @Eike for mentioning Wero! I was just about to post how it is a shame we don't have a European-wide "Ideal"-like system but apperantly, we are getting one for at least a few countries. Let's hope they expand it to most if not all Euro countries. Amazing!

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I think I am slowly seeing a more logistical or exponential growth instead of linear growth for the first time, but it is too early to say based just on the graph. Anecdotally, it does line up though. Let's hope it is the case.

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Eh? Microsoft doesn't own Unity?

My bad, you are right: Microsoft doesn't own Unity. They are always so prominently displayed on dotnet documentation I figured they were. Still funny that a game engine that prominently features C# as it's main language is less up-to-date than one where it is not the main one.

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