Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: SilverCodeIt is a Qt5 problem though that the KDE devs are waiting to be fixed upstream.

That's not good news - Qt5 is officially EOL, and won't get updates except for paying customers. So unless there is a consensus on a community-updated Qt5, don't hold your breath.

5.15.2 released in Nov 2020 was the end; they tell everyone to move to Qt6 instead:
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.15_Release#Qt_5.15_release_plan

While the commercial release is up to 5.15.8 as of yesterday:
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.15_Release#Release_Plan

Note how they even list known security issues in the old 5.15.x releases... FWIW, this type of scenario was one of the original motivations for the GNOME project to start, way back when. KDE came first, but relied on (not fully open) Qt.

And one of the driving reasons for Gnome to still exist. Qt has passed through more hands than my sister. Ha!

But seriously, Qt/Trolltech has bounced between a bunch of different owners. Was amusing when the Nokia N900 was based mostly around GTK, then Nokia bought Trolltech, and the N9 was partially Qt, and was going in that direction, but MS's Trojan Horse killed that off and Qt was bought up by someone else...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeDamnit! I just ordered a Pangolin for my brother...

Aren't there any controls on importing exotic pets where you live?

This reminds me of my quest to own a Monkey. Apparently people are all concerned about it biting off someone's face... it isn't like dogs aren't always doing the same thing. At least a Monkey I could train to fling poo at solicitors and Jehova's Witnesses. Ha, my brain wanted to type 'Heaven's Gate followers.'

I think we have an 'no exotic pets' law. Lame, I know.

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Quoting: clatterfordslimNever been a fan of Dolphin, like Nautilus it's too locked down. So whenever trying a new OS, I install Nemo.
Nemo has all the features that is missing in other file managers. Moving and copying files to home folder folders, plus external or other drives that Nemo lists on right click of said file. Caja in Mate has not got this feature. Caja only sends file to desktop or home folder, not the individual folders. Duplication of files, making links to, extracting compressed files, open as root, preview of thumbnail when choosing a picture to upload from Pictures or wherever the picture is? These are all what I like about Nemo. Linux Mint Team really done a brilliant job with their file manager.

I always set Nemo to run as default and with a few gsetting commands in Terminal, can get Nemo to function as the original default file manager did or does. I use Manjaro XFCE for gaming and have Nemo set as default on there. I use Linux Mint XFCE Ulyssa as my Daily OS and that is running Nemo too, as I do not like Thunar. Have KDE Manjaro the community edition in Virtualbox and have set Nemo as default, all the screen effects are working flawlessly, going to be installing it on my old 2008 Windows 8 ready, that never saw Windows 32GB of Ram ASUS gaming machine, now used as a media PC, as Manjaro KDE is the best I've ever used through out the KDE family from Kubuntu to Neon. KDE Manjaro just does what it's to supposed to do, which all the other KDE desktops should do without breaking. Maybe because Neon and Kubuntu are heavily with Ubuntu I don't know? As Distro Tube said on YouTube and I highly agree, Canonical are concentrating to much on Snaps, which most people including myself do not like.

Pretty sure most of all those features are in Nautilus. Dolphin, as is the rest of KDE, the layout is kind of all over the place.

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Damnit! I just ordered a Pangolin for my brother...

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: slaapliedjeI still remember when you could put in multiple resolutions into your XFree86 config file and then change between the resolutions with some shortcut keys (like control+alt+number?).

It was Ctrl+Alt+[+|-]; pretty useful on CRT displays, but most digital flat panels don't handle anything other than native resolution all that well.

They do... you just have to use divisions of the native resolution. So if have a panel that does 1920x1080, you could do 1280x720 and 960x540 and they look fine. Others will be fuzzy and not look great. For something like the Amiga V4SA, using the 540p or 720p on most widescreen monitors is probably preferable to 1080p, just due to the AmigaOS not handling high DPI very well.

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Quoting: brokeassben

Quotecertain areas seemingly at random fail to load

Yeah, I get that as well. Also video occasionally just doesn't load and requires a refresh of the page. In an attempt to de-Google my life, I've switched fully to Firefox and it's been a MOSTLY good experience.

Weirdly I have this issue running Steam on macOS with my m1 Max. Like the web engine blocks sections of the download until you refresh... something I would expect computers from the 90s to do...

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Quoting: LoftyIs it possible with Wayland to create virtual monitors ? and therefore custom resolutions / aspect-ratios for games to see and utilize ?

I still remember when you could put in multiple resolutions into your XFree86 config file and then change between the resolutions with some shortcut keys (like control+alt+number?). That was useful on occasion, but went away many years ago.

Granted, for one who remembers XFree86 and some of it's niceties like multiple resolution support... there is the terrible issues of having to figure out modelines for optimal monitor usage...

Still one feature that is so very cool that I've never seen any other computer be capable of, is the different resolutions that the Amiga could have per workspace... I know there are some hardware bits that need to be implemented for that to actually work, and there are less reasons to do it these days than when the Amiga first released, but man was it an awesome feature...

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Quoting: Grifter

Quoting: Solitarythe question is what/why was it 24GB big before and how they managed to save 14GB.

A bit late to the party, but obviously it's because they removed emacs (:

How dare they remove emacs! How are we supposed to edit files?

Ha, you now that think about it.. being good at emacs vs vi.. is kind of like the equivalent of one using sorcery for magic vs divinity based magic. They can get the same results, but people will look at you like you are mad if you try to suggest the other one..

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Quoting: LinasWhile 20G minimum for an installed Windows 10 system may be somewhat true-ish, in practical terms is complete nonsense. I had updates fail on Windows 10 because I only had 40G of free space. The thing needed at least 60G to successfully complete!

I am sure there will be people who will figure out how to cram Windows into Steam Deck, but that's not going to be standard practice, that I am sure of.

Haha, I had bought some dual-boot tablet with windows and Android on it. Sure enough, you cannot update Windows without more storage.

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Quoting: t3gHaving access to the AUR in Manjaro is handy as I have leveraged these packages for gaming:

AntiMicroX
Arx Liberatis
Devilution X
DosBox Staging
System76 keyboard configurator for Launch
libstrangle
MangoHud
vkbasalt

I am guessing that means you have the Launch keyboard? How is it? I thought it seemed a bit pricey for what it is... and no ten key...

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