You are wrong!!!

Jokes aside..

I used Fedora Workstation for years. I am now running Bazzite Gnome (because I do like the super button workflow a lot).

I ended up with bazzite because I really had issues with multimedia, codecs, mesa and so on. I would love a plain silverblue with that included.

Even after switching ffmpeg, mesa and installing pulse plugins and orher things, I encountered issues with formats and codecs.

For me that situation is what makes fedora quite a pain. I have the philosophy if it does not run out of the box it does not run well and never will.

Bazzite or generally ublue with codecs is a treat. As is bluebuild (took me like 30 minutes to make a Fedora immutable with codecs and Cosmic Desktop to try out without any prior knowledge on how it works).

And as I found out, homebrew actually can bring me most of the libs and compilers I need for development, so I do not need them on a system level.

I do not like some decisions bazzite makes (I'd like a more ootb experience - who needs that ugly minimize animation they added in gnome, really), but its the best I have for now.

I will probably in time make my own bluebuild for gnome. But there I need some more tweaking for autoupdates and things like that (I do not care about making updates manually... I am lazy).

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One of my favorites back in the days. I find that a remake with better visuals should actually not look like a y2k release but at least 2015. This does not.

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Quoting: hell0And the return of that api can only be changed with root access to the device.

And that will never be true either. Because what API it calls is a browsers / apps decision. It can always return yes and never ask the OS. So getting a portable version of a browser always saysing yes is done half asleep by kids.

It is not a sane implementation. It is plain stupid.

Because it does nothing. And it does not put any responsibility to the device owner. The responsibility is there already. It just puts more information to companies, and more control to big tech, and less freedom to people.

Politics is always about power. Do not let nice words mince your thoughts. It is never about you. me or any people. It is just about power and influence, by any means necessary to get this power.

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As a parent, this is not thought through and completely unnecessary.

My kids use mostly family devices. So they would have my age verification or that of my wife.

To add injury to failure, I would not provide my kids with an account actually telling their age. In an age where information is power, I would not put their information out there. Or as late and little as possible. Especially considering the many data breaches.

This has nothing to do with parenting. This will not improve anything or secure anything. Nothing will but you. Parenting stays the same job. Watch your children, watch their actions and try to keep them as secure as possible.

The only one looking at what kids do should be the parents trying to protect them. Not OS and application developers trying to exploit them.

Age verifications change nothing. Parenting does. And parents need to take the time and be responsible to actually do their job.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI haven't used CUPS in years...

That's not actually true ;-). Gnome and KDE use avahi and cups-browsed for auto discovery and register the printers automatically with cups. So you are using cups, even if you don't realize it.

The difference is, you often get "bad" settings that way, and if you want to change the defaults, you have to have some way of configuring it and the printing system actually remembering the printers and settings instead of re-configuring it on every printing job you do.

My printer is a hp m183fw and discovered automatically, which has .. strange automatic settings (letter instead of A4 even if A4 is the devices default, always grayscale, wants the feeder as default and not the paper holder ...). It's probably the driver cups uses by default which has those settings as default which are bad "for me".

For scanning, gnome shows 3 scanner devices (it has just two scan options, flatbed and sheet feed) with weird names, one does not work (which is about right for not existing). KDE shows them properly.

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I switched to boosteroid lately, since I am still on a 250 euro mini pc until steam machine releases.. if its any good.

Probably its for me being from europe that Boosteroid actually does work better for me, almost flawless where I often had lag issues and disconnects with GFN.

Only had one or two times issues with the client more or less locking up.

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Quoting: JarmerAbsolutely love what S76 is doing with Cosmic. 🥰

Right now, a lot of people say "pick gnome or plasma" when installing distros and I can see a future a few years out where cosmic replaces gnome in that sentence.

I was actually thinking of trying out cosmic again but the github issue where the games aren't capturing the mouse and letting it go to second monitors is a deal breaker. So I'll patiently wait for epoch 2 / 3 / whatever.

I am really still missing some features. As the whole printing / scanning / cups implementation (that said, the gnome implementation is pretty bad too, KDE does a really good job there). Which I do understand why they didn't do yet. Cups being cups, and well.. who prints and scans stuff nowdays?. Except for me, of course.

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I really like the glass look. Looking forward ro it, even when I still need a proper atomic image to use it on top of ublue or bazzite (origami I don't like browsers installed on the system, you are more or less stuck with zen unless you layer).

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Quoting: Cley_FayeIt was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

Me too. For me the steam machine looks like some kind of on-desk box I've been looking for. Depending on the price, I have to get that pitch through my finance minister (my wife).

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That information is the same as used as the age verification on vending machines selling cigarettes. It's a good way to verify age without sending official documents around to some 3rd party entities.

That said, having a young stepson, I found the parental controls pretty okay in steam.

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