I like Wayland, and generally support it.

But I honestly feel it's too soon for something like RHEL to outright drop Xorg entirely. There could be a whole heap of legacy enterprise applications which don't place nicely with Xwayland.

Luckily however, RHEL10 is a ways off and RHEL9 has quite a bit of life left in it.

Although personally, I am slowly moving my business systems out of the RHEL ecosystem and into the Debian / BSD ecosystem :smile:

Quoting: RenardDesMersI was shopping for a new monitor for black Friday and was debating with myself about how useful would HDR and Freesync features be since Wayland can't support those yet and I don't really know when they'll get decent support.
Hopefully the wayland folks remember about the gamers when prioritizing the missing features.

If you're on AMD, freesync works just fine under Wayland. It was one of (many) reasons I switched my system over to Wayland. :smile:

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Quoting: [email protected]Wow hitting version 1.0, you know what that means, someone somewhere has just written the first bit of code for the next Linux sound system to fix its short comings!

Um, if that's your email in your username, you might want to change that, else be flooded with spam! :wink:

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Tbh, I think we have enough "high end" Linux laptops at this point. What we need is some regular budget laptops that people who don't want to spend £1,000+ on a laptop can buy.

The kind of laptop where someone just trying to find a cheap laptop can buy it. That way we could gain some more Linux users, since it could be cheaper than the Windows laptop thanks to the lack of the license fee. :grin:

Quoting: rea987That numpad looks ugly and unnecessary. They should have gone to ROG Strix G15/16 route.

Disagree. It's nice to see a numpad. They are essential when you use your keyboard for any sort of serious numerical input, since you can rapidly input numbers with just one hand.

The touchpad style numpad I saw when googling the other laptop looks horrible for a lot of numerical input. It looks likely to be error prone since you can't "feel" where the keys are. I bet if you rapidly enter mathematical sums repeatedly to reach a final result you've inputted a few incorrect numbers with that and got the wrong answer.

However, on a proper numpad the number five has a notch, so you always know where your hand is, much like how the "j" key has a notch on a qwerty board, so you always know where your hands are.

Sorry, but for me a real numpad is essential. :unsure:

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: InstallIt looks sleek, I like the red lights on the keyboard.

It is nice, but I would change that to purple.

Don't forget to also take your laptop to the purple library when using it :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: BlackBloodRumYou can install a nice, easy to use distro, that sets everything up for you, but has limited customizability. This is great for those that "just want it to work".

Short of ChromeOS, I don't think there are actually any distros like this. Even Mint, which is about as "everything set up" as Linux gets, still has the command line readily available and perfectly functional. You can tinker with it fine if you want--if that was what you wanted, you probably would have picked another distro, but it doesn't in any way hinder you.

That is true, which is why I said limited. There are a few things you simply couldn't change easily, without basically pulling the distro to pieces. For example, do you want to change/remove systemd? Or, changing what packages are depended on by other packages. (for example, banishing my arch nemesis, gnome-keyring, by recompiling things to not depend on it) :happy:

So, while you do retain lots of customization options, some fundamental parts of the OS simply couldn't be changed easily by the end-user.

But that's fine, because for 99% of normal users on that distro, neither of those truly matter, and they probably don't want to change it anyway. :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI'm looking forward to watching it compile, the new USE flags, and possible configuration changes that may (or may not) be necessary when upgrading from P5 to P6. etc. :grin:

I'm not even joking, half the fun for me on Linux is the tweaking/tuning and generally messing around with it. :unsure: :woot:

You know, I'm glad we have Linux users like you who tinker, and mess with bleeding edge stuff, finding all the pain points so people like me can use it all trouble-free a couple years later.

I consider it one of Linux's best features: The ability to adapt to the user, to find the right distro.

You can can get a distro that lets you go right to the core and tinker the smallest of details. This is great for the devs, nerds and geeks.

You can install a distro which mostly sets everything up for you, but will let you tinker. This is great for the geeks and users who want a bit more control, or new users that want to learn.

You can install a nice, easy to use distro, that sets everything up for you, but has limited customizability. This is great for those that "just want it to work".

You can stick it on a server, and run your business or website from it, and just leave it running for years (please apply updates)

Or you can go and stick an immutable Linux on it, for that system that absolutely can't fail. Perfect for the relative that might try to break it or people who want to be able to instantly fix it with minimal fuss.

There's something for everyone! :grin:

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I'm looking forward to watching it compile, the new USE flags, and possible configuration changes that may (or may not) be necessary when upgrading from P5 to P6. etc. :grin:

I'm not even joking, half the fun for me on Linux is the tweaking/tuning and generally messing around with it. :unsure: :woot:

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI'm using uBlock Origin (sorry!), and all those buttons are still fully visible and functional.

No need to be sorry, I advise everyone to use blockers, although there's actually no need for them on here :). The one single "advert" we have is a direct sponsorship from Thunderbird and like that's basically our only real third-party thing but even that is a plain image link directly hosted. Block away!

That's fair :smile: - It was never anything personal anyway. The way you do your ads are perfectly acceptable to me, since they seem neither intrusive nor annoying.

However, I just have it enabled for all websites, rather than selecting which ones to block, and I block all Javascript scripts by default (I allow Javascript on GOL, naturally).

Honestly, I think if more websites made less-intrusive ads in general, that is, skip all the flashy stuff, don't make it so the whole page is littered with them, etc. More people would be willing to go without the adblocker. But most ads are just plain annoying and cause more trouble than they're worth.

And you get the likes of say, Youtube, who stick a multi-minute non-skippable ad at the beginning of the video, only to be followed by another non-skippable ad, and then finally a skippable ad, a couple of minutes of video playback and then abruptly interrupt the video with another non-skippable ad and so on, it's no surprise people seek ways to block them, since it's plain anti-user. (Although personally, these days I just download YouTube videos and watch them offline since they're mostly music videos anyway. Don't worry, it's all legal, I have a license to do so from the international pirates association :wink:.)

/end minor rant about ads.

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I just want to say one thing to PulseAudio:

Good riddance. I never want to see, nor deal with you again. :angry:

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Minux(By the way Liam, can't like this article, is the feature disabled?)

No, it's probably browser plugins blocking it. We have this come up now and then, because a whole bunch of privacy / adblockers seems to wipe away anything "like" related, I think it mostly comes from people believing it's tied to social networks and stuff but all our stuff is 100% built-in.

I'm using uBlock Origin (sorry!), and all those buttons are still fully visible and functional.

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I'll give it a few years until I can get GPU's that can use it without tanking performance, at least at reasonable price. :grin: (No, 1k+ for a new GPU each year is not a reasonable price.)

I know of one game which could use it, CP77. But I bet performance would tank on my old and cheap AMD 6700XT. Although, it's good enough to play the game on ultra without needing to enable FSR, which is the main thing for me :tongue:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Purple Library Guyat this point the only feature I can think of in Windows that I miss when I'm not at work is the way it's really easy to change file names.

Windows makes it even easier than selecting a file and hitting F2? Or (at least in Thunar [External Link], Xfce's file manager) selecting multiple files and hitting F2 to rename them all using anything from simple replacement to regular expressions and audio tags. If it was any easier, I bet I'd be doing it accidentally all the time. :grin:

In the Windows file manager, if you click on a file and kind of hold the button down, it puts a cursor on the filename and you can change it. So, pretty easy. In Mate I haven't noticed anything except right-click the file and pick rename from a list of actions, which is a bit clunkier. Testing . . . oh, the F2 thing seems to work in Mate's file manager too, I'll have to remember that.

KDE can do that with dolphin :smile:

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