I’m sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.

You got a pro managing it?

\sigh

Spaces before a full stop? Really?

Last.

Because Russia has invaded another country and is currently committing a genocide. Christ 🤦‍♀️

You absolutely were using it in that sense.

There is literally nowhere on planet earth where humans live in any large number where you will not find Nazis.

Claiming that Ukraine is rife with it in any meaningful sense is very much a Russian talking point, and even one of the defenses given by Russia in starting their war/genocide.

Stop repeating Russian propaganda.

Honestly, what is it with lemmy.ml and people who love Russia?

I’m well aware that liberal is an international term.

However, it is used very differently in the US to everywhere else. In the US, liberal is used to pretty much mean “left wing” or “relating to the Democrat party”.

People in the US wouldn’t describe an expansion in gun rights as something the libs would want, for example.

Nor would people in the US agree that liberal people want more freedoms for businesses.

But those are parts of liberal ideology elsewhere.

And I said fuck off with your Ukraine Nazi bullshit. Stop parroting Russian propaganda, gimboid.

Always is with Phoronix comments.

You find everything there from “Gnome is satanist” all the way up to pro-genocide crap.

I really don’t know what it is about the site that brings out the craziest souch.

You literally said “like it’s rape”

Like: similar to; the same as

Tantamount: being almost the same as something, usually something bad.

So yes, you were definitely putting words in my mouth that snaps installing when the user goes to install a .deb is tantamount to raping someone.

Clearly an attempt at discrediting my completely reasonable complaint with one of the most absurd false equivalences I’ve ever heard in my life.

I didn’t say it was tantamount to rape. Don’t try to make out that I’m saying anything like that. You know I’m not. Stop the absurdity.

Ubuntu would forcibly install the snap version of programs even when you specifically use the terminal to install the deb.

If you want your PC to do that then again, whatever, I genuinely don’t care. If your workflow and distro works for you then I’m happy for you. You have your PC however you want it. If your workflow works best with Canonical second-guessing you, then continue with it. Use what works for you.

I just like my PC doing what I tell it to do, not what I specifically told it not to do.

It is insanity that you’re trying to make my criticism of that sound like I’m saying what Canonical is doing is the equivalent or rape. Have a word with yourself.

The Snap “hate” makes perfect sense. It performs worse, each app is mounted as it’s own fs which clutters my file manager, they cause all kinds of issues (e.g with Steam), the sandboxing only works on one distro, there’s a proprietary element to them, they’re controlled by one organisation that’s somewhat questionable, and they undermine the actual packaging standard that seemingly everybody else has adopted.

It’s perfectly reasonable not to want them, and it’s very reasonable not to want them forcibly installed without consent when you’re trying to install something else.

If you like them, fair enough. But I’ve explained why I don’t, and you liking them does not invalidate all the people that don’t like them.

Even using apt to install things has lead to some things actually being installed as Snaps, unfortunately.

And Snaps work outside of Ubuntu…

My point is, Ubuntu goes out of their way to make installing stuff as anything other than a Snap a hindrance.

Their new storefront, which was originally a community creation that allowed for the installation of debs and snaps, initially had deb support ripped out of it when Ubuntu started using it. Only after backlash did they reluctantly add it back. You certainly can’t install Flatpaks through it (unless someone has a fork).

Why would I use a system that so aggressively pushes a packaging format I don’t want to use and suppresses ones that I do?

Doesn’t actually seem like a bad release at all.

But I’m pretty married to Flatpaks at this point so no thanks, I’m good.

E: not sure who I’ve hurt the feelings of, Snap fans (are they out there?) or Flatpak haters. Either way, nobody important.

I have a Fedora Workstation (i.e. Gnome) desktop, a Fedora Workstation laptop, a Windows 10 laptop I’m forced to use for work.

My wife doesn’t have a PC (well I guess she has a Steam Deck, actually, but it only ever goes into desktop mode in order to install/update Stardew Valley mods).

My daughter has my old laptop, with Mint on it.

No issues so far.

My dad did have a laptop with ElementaryOS on it, but since he bought an iPad the laptop has just been gathering dust.

The number was not small. It was 10+ SKUs… which also happened to be most of the most popular ones.

Intel claimed multiple times to have fixed the issue, only for it to have not been fixed. Maybe it really is fixed this time, but who knows?

Also, stuff is often in warehouses for months. You could very easily still get an affected CPU. And intel has been very clear that they will not replace faulty CPUs. If you get a faulty CPU, you’re on your own.

It’s not worth the risk.

This is all on top of Intel having worse CPUs on a worse platform with zero upgrade path even if you ignore a lot of them being faulty, which you obviously shouldn’t.

Looking through the gitlab, it seems the backport of this hold gesture to GTK3 was rejected for good reason. Seems very unfair to imply it was done out of sheer spite.

It would break a lot, require a new API, and devs reworking a lot of programs.

It’s also completely reasonable just from the POV of not accepting major new features in GTK3 when GTK4 exists.

Devs likely expect GTK3 to be feature-stable, given GTK4 has been out a while and GTK5 work starting soon. It’s at the tail-end of its life.

If somebody wanted a major new feature in Python, for example, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Python team gave it the go-ahead for Python 3 but not Python 2. GTK3 is done, they’re only really doing bug fixes now.

Nobody expects new features to be added to Plasma 5 or Gnome 45.

It’s 100% the right decision not to keep adding features to an old widget toolkit that has been superceded by GTK4 and is almost EoL.

That issue aside… good. Seems like a nice feature.

You will never convince an Nvidia fan that Nvidia has ever done anything badly.

Debian, Fedora, EndeavourOS (arch).

Nvidia’s issues on Linux are very well documented… even by the inventor of Linux himself. I didn’t realise I had to bring receipts.

As for what do I mean by nightmare, I already said. It would break after updates, I had constant flickering, stuttering, and artefacts. No it wasn’t a hardware issue. They’re Nvidia driver issues.

To me, that’s a nightmare. I need my machine to function, and with Nvidia, it couldn’t.

Except, as I and others are telling you, it doesn’t “just work”.

A crying-laughing emoji is not a counter-argument.