so that’s just a broken app
technically, yes. but at the end of the day, in the real world, that app would work fine on ~all but ~1 desktop compositor
wayland doesn’t require SSDs, because it’s not just meant for desktop computing. in the context of desktop computing, it’s been a standard for decades now to have a title bar on a window, so it does make sense that apps would assume they can get one without having their own drawing code or relying on a third-party library!
I don’t have a personal Microsoft account, and have no desire to create one more account, but am required by my organisation to use 1 Windows-only software for 2 hours every week. As such, I run that in a Windows VM on my computer, and this doesn’t seem like it’d be worth the effort of making a MS account
it’s listed on the project’s readme!
i think they’re talking about the proper old visual studio, a full-blown IDE!
I think more and more browsers are spoofing their UA to pretend that you’re using windows, for fingerprinting resistance
well, the point of flatpak is to have bundled dependencies so they run predictably no matter the distro
if one of your software’s dependency gets updated, and your software isn’t, you may run into issues - like a function from the library you’re using getting removed, or its behaviour changing slightly. and some distros may also apply patches to some of their library that breaks stuff too!
often, with complex libraries, even when you check the version number, you may have behavioural differences between distros depending on the compile flags used (i.e. some features being disabled, etc.)
so, while in theory portable builds work, for them to be practical, they most often are statically linked (all the dependencies get built into the executable - no relying on system libraries). and that comes with a huge size penalty, even when compared to flatpaks, as those do have some shared dependencies between flatpaks! you can for example request to depend on a specific version of the freedesktop SDK, which will provide you with a bunch of standard linux tools, and that’ll only get installed once for every package you have that uses it
“AI” today mostly refers to LLMs, and whichever LLM you’re using, you’ll likely face the same issues (wrong answers creeping in, tending towards mediocrity in its answers, etc.) - those seem to be things you have to live with if you want to use LLMs. if you know you can’t deal with it, another rebrand won’t help anything
it sure seems like it though
i mean, they’ll never replace system package manager, but for desktop applications, flatpak is honestly quite good
wow is me, i am le surprised
iirc, postgresql renames itself in htop to show its current status and which database it’s operating on
there are tons of webring still going these days!
if you’re using fcitx to manage input methods, you can enable the unicode module, which lets you bind a shortcut to input unicode characters using a search box. it’s quite handy, though most people don’t use fcitx as it’s not needed for simple appending input methods, like the US QWERTY keyboard