indeed, android has been a shit show for the last couple of months and its not looking good.
i was thinking that this will make rooting and by extension custom ROMs prevalent again which hopefully will take us back to the golden age of android modding, but be careful of what you wish for.
I DON'T WANNA USE STOCK ANDROID. DON'T WANNA DON'T WANNA DON'T WANNA DON'T WANNA DON'T WANNA DON'T WANNA
the ingenious thing is that they are still making buck both ways
the house always wins, remember that Microsoft owns github
do whatever you like nobody cares (no offense)
No need to make everything complicated
like an rss feed ?
great but how does the plugins for dodi and fitgirl repacks work, afaik they are not trackers but do upload on them?
i think sayonara got what you need
what cpu did you get (celeron, i3, i5, i7 or amd ???)
Security is not as huge of a problem on linux as it is on windows for sure. But EVERY SINGLE proprietary app you use can snoop on EVERYTHING. and I do not trust proprietary apps, beginners especially will use a ton of proprietary software. Remember that we're recommending to a beginner, not a linux evangelist who is willing to do anything to make linux/foss work for them.
i don't trust them either but from what i have seen most don't care
The only reason I see for a beginner not to choose KDE over xfce is if they have a laptop from the 32 bit era.
this is a bit of a stretch
the development rate is a deciding factor for sure and i agree that we shouldn't encourage using software that is considered "obsolete"
i don't agree on everything and maybe you're right i still don't get why they dropped support for kde but still support MATE
first this is not a criticism of kde. use what ever you want i just want to keep expectations within the realm of reality.
now about the security issues, afaik those problems exists because X11 not cinnamon specifically which is why cinnamon for Wayland exists ( it's gonna take WAY longer to mature than KDE), but i don't think that this is a big problem for most for now since our user base is small so there is much less malware and targeted attacks (well as long as you are not a high profile employee at a company with vast data access privileges )
the mixed dpi displays is a fair point too, i do that sometimes and i would say that i used it more than the people i know who might used it once or twice for a PowerPoint representation or something. programmers, gamers, graphical designers are peanuts compared to office work and regular users ( watching youtube, arguing on the internet etc)
i don't understand what you mean exactly by performance when talking about a DE ( responsiveness, ram and cpu usage ? ...). in terms of cpu and ram usage i'm pretty sure that kde consumes more and in terms responsiveness i would assume that kde is better but how much ( a difference between 5 s and 2 s is huge but from let's say 80 nanosecond to 60 is just for benchmarks and won't be noticed in real world usage)
what really holds us back is the lack of commercial software compatibility and at least decent alternatives compared to industry standards
oh yeah, and nvidia drivers + wifi and bluetouth
i agree that immutable distros are good for beginners and this is especially true for users who are not exactly tech savvy or don't want to mess with their systems, but i don't think the features that cinnamon misses are that important to as many users as you think there are
HDR is nice but not everyone can afford it, and mixed refresh rate displays might be important for gamers and desktop users but not as much in a laptop ( and yes i know that high refresh rates drain the battery but why would you game on battery anyway ), mixed DPI displays ??? only a small subset of users have those. yes the OP is a heavy multitasker but again he is using a laptop (but having support is nice)
however what i do agree with is that fractional scaling is awful in cinnamon and the reason i consider it a serious problem is that high res displays are now common and fractional scaling directly affects user experience
Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don't have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?
The full GTA V source code has been leaked The leak contains GTA V source code and stuff from Bully 2 and GTA VI Leaked in a discord server by a random British guy in the 360 modding community known to get sued by Rockstar multiple times
"Now i am expecting a open source version of gta to arrive soon on linux natively . Tired of playing supertuxcart."
Here is the source. Another one.
looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don't run a complaint browser ( cough...firefox )
here is an article in hacker news since i'm sure they can explain this to you better than i.
and also some github docs
wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
as the title says someone claims that he got malware from "downloadpirate" which is in the megathread should we be worried?
PS:he downloaded " W a c a t a c "
i know that's why i'm seething right now, we are hopeless since custom roms and root users are a fraction of a fraction that is people who install apk outside google
removing the ability to unlock bootloaders is just another negative