Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Cley_FayeWhen a friend came to me about PopOS telling me "now I can switch between the integrated GPU or the Nvidia one in one click!" I put my ubuntu laptop in his face, clicked on "nvidia-prime" in the menu, where I had that exact same feature.

tbh your attitude seemed a little condescending towards your enthusiastic friend. If they found a solution to a problem on linux no matter how inelegant it was then that's a good thing, because they are more likely to stay on linux.

That said i wonder in the past just how many excited newcomers got bummed out by the well known "smart ass know it all" linux user and went back to windows or migrated to Mac?

(or console if they were interested in linux gaming).

Thankfully a lot of that elitism has died down now.

That friend was already a linux user. He wasn't "dipping his toes" in linux through popOS as its first adventure, so I doubt I've driven him off.

Please don't think that internet memes and caricatures are that common. If anything, I'm happy to help. Showing someone that software and features aren't distribution specific does not sound like a bad thing to me, and if it was someone just trying to move away from windows/macos, my first reaction would not have been "YOU DID IT WRONG IDIOT". In fact, I would never say that. The point was comparing distributions, and the futility of specific distros that embed the *same* software with different settings.

But I guess rationale discussion between people is a thing of the past, and if I said something not utterly positive about their choice, I'm obviously mocking them and trying to push them down the pit of idiots that obviously exist, right?

Thankfully, neither he nor I reacted this way.

I stand by my point that *changing your whole OS* for a glittering title bar or a two-step process becoming a one-step process is not that interesting given the alternatives. If you think that's some elitist behavior, then so be it.

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Quoting: ChloeWolfieGirlSo weird to see backlash over features like this, I don't use these kinds of tools, but this is a feature that'd at least make me interested.

There's many reasons for the backlash. While some people just jump on the "AI bad" side of the discourse, there is also the issue of the validity of the summary (an extremely weak point of LLM-based reviews that most people gloss over), and the issue of putting a very large summary in front of the actual reviews. Some people enjoy writing these and try to make these interesting; there is less enjoyment for them if they try to write something insightful just to feed a machine that will output bullet points.

I know *I* will not bother too much with game reviews on Steam from now on for that reason.

The new default settings to have this collapsed mostly avoid this issue, and people that still wants it regardless can open it once (the extension remembers the last state). It can make a good difference, because some people just assumed that this was a new integral part of the review system and stopped there without questions.

Quoting: ChloeWolfieGirlHowever Amazon also has an AI thing that summarizes reviews, and I find it really useful.

How do you know if the review summary matches the reviews? That's the issue with AI summaries. They can be good if you're familiar with the topic at hand (a summary at the end of a meeting you've taken part in). They are terrible if you're not (like the non-proofread summary of a meeting the reader have not taken part in).

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My opinion on "distributions for gaming" is pretty "old man yells at cloud"ish.

If you have a relatively stable base distro, let's say Ubuntu (there's arguments to be had there too…), why bother switching to a different one that might or might not be based on your base, just because some stuff is preinstalled?

I get the "it's more streamlined" argument for some pieces of software, but as far as distribution goes, my main goal is pick one on which I can do whatever. When I hear "this is preinstalled on this distro" or "that is pre-configure on that distro", all I hear is that you could just run a script (let's make it a graphic-based executable that you one-click download somewhere…) to get to the same state, plus keeping your known base under it. Plus plus keeping whatever support you provide to open source projects and services less spread out.

When a friend came to me about PopOS telling me "now I can switch between the integrated GPU or the Nvidia one in one click!" I put my ubuntu laptop in his face, clicked on "nvidia-prime" in the menu, where I had that exact same feature.

Sorry, sorry, I'm rambling. But I'm quite annoyed at the plethora of "new distro" that are basically another one in a trench coat with a pretty hat. That's spreading resources, and large open source software are not exactly rolling in free resources, as far as I know.

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Quoting: doragasuToo late, today I switched to LibreWolf after literally DECADES of loyalty, and everything is working great, I'm not going back unless things change A LOT.

There is a fundamental problem with depending on a *Firefox* fork to alleviate potential Firefox issues.
If the upstream (Firefox) starts messing up with a lot of features that used to work fine but are now entangled with unwanted bloat, each fork have to do more work to untangle the mess. And, when the upstream codebase inevitably starts to deviate too much, maintaining the fork gets exponentially tedious. It's not like LibreWolf's devs said "I want no AI and tracking" and poof, it's done.

If the worst happen and the cleaned up Firefox forks have to completely separate from the upstream, then any future improvement (and that would include spec conformance and fixes) will have to be manually cleared again and backported from a source tree that's more and more distinct over time. I have no idea about the resources available to LibreWolf, but that would end up meaning maintaining the whole thing instead of a fork. That's a big task.

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I'm not totally agreeing with the direction Mozilla is taking Firefox. And by that I mean I'm opposed to many of the decisions that plagued the software in the last half decade.

This is another one. The "AI everywhere" thing is problematic for a lot of reasons, some listed here:

- privacy issue with third party
- trust in the software itself
- normalizing uses that may or may not have short and long-term negative impact on people
- diverting funding for small-ish projects (I'm sure integrating AI everywhere is far from free in term of dev time)
- aggressive "be all end all" approach
- intrusiveness

With that said. If Mozilla is bent on adding these features, AND they keep maintaining Firefox as a browser (you know, the thing it should be), keep it as compliant as possible with evolving specs, etc., while having a clear, proven to work "AI kill switch" on the side, sure, why not.

I still fear that this will lead to less resources allocated to actually useful stuff, and that it is part of normalizing the mindset of "we can't do anything without AI", but currently the alternative is "go back to chrome" or "use forks that don't have the resources to keep things clean", so I'll take the kill switch.

…until some other, more sane alternative gets seriously worked on. If the FSF decided to publish and maintain a free, working browser, I'd up my donations I guess. Or to anyone else for that matter; a working, up-to-date browser is kind of a big thing these days.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeAh, I guess it is yet again time to update, log into wayland, be disappointed, log back into X11, and hope next month brings undocumented but welcome improvements :D

What problems are you facing on wayland?

Basically:

- CLI programs running in terminal can't access the clipboard (no, I'm not talking about copy/pasting from the terminal emulator). Some have specific workaround and implementation around it, some don't.
- No screen capture. Every time anything try to do a screen grab (OBS, browser for screen sharing, etc.) the KDE popup to select the output to share (part of their portal stuff) is displayed, then freeze immediately. Permission is never granted, and sharing never work. Same thing with different techniques, including pipewire video capture.
- Last time I checked, the protocol itself gave no simple way to find a window position relative to the desktop, making it difficult for program that simulate input. This might be resolved though, but since the software I use combine sending inputs and video it can't capture, that's hard to tell
- until the previous previous version (that's like, two months ago or something), *any* transparency effect would crash the application doing it, whether it was Firefox or Plasma itself. And by that I mean hovering the mouse over the clock in the taskbar would freeze the whole desktop. This was fixed recently.

Basically, a big show stopper (no screen grab), a major inconvenience (I extensively use an external device to pump inputs in specific windows), a minor inconvenience (there are workarounds for applications like VIM to properly handle different copy/paste buffers, although they change some workflow).

And worth mentioning, all of this works flawlessly on X11, so that's where I stay.

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Ah, I guess it is yet again time to update, log into wayland, be disappointed, log back into X11, and hope next month brings undocumented but welcome improvements :D

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I didn't keep up with project zomboid for, like, ten years, but I'm a bit confused by the title. I thought the game already had multiplayer.

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Dang. And they tried to double down on it before walking back. Bad move.

I hope we reach some equilibrium soon. I'm not 100% against AIgen for specific use cases (or dare I say, new use cases?), I'm also all in favor of keeping creativity to the humans, and all this needs discussions. But doing something you *know* will put you in hot water, then putting up a straight faced lie, is not the way forward.

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Censorship is censorship, no matter how some people think they have the high ground.
Disturbing content in fictional media should not be regulated the same way we protect actual people, because those "in power" that decides where the line lays will change, and their decision is extremely dubious. I'm more annoyed by extreme violence, gore, and torture than nudity, but it seems that only the later is deemed horrible enough to warrant censorship.

As long as it's all fictional content, let it exist. If it can't find its public, then it will fail. But I am the one making the decision, not some random bureaucrat/employee somewhere. This kind of issue keeps happening repeatedly, and keep coming from countries that are usually against "nanny states", but quick to accept it when a boob is visible. The hypocrisy of it is stupid.

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