I’ll make sure it is updated, no worries

This is going into the wiki and you know it

Not a personal preference

In the new instance rule, the only exception allowed has been xcancel

It’s outside of our control

To add to this, all kinds of fitness trackers are still trackers, and they will sell your data.

I don’t have much knowledge of privacy-respecting alternatives, but this post on the GrapheneOS forum covers that for those interested.

Eventually, I’m sure we’ll cover hardware privacy more extensively in this community, as it deserves its own guide.

We do have to be strict about this, as this rule comes from the instance and we must comply with that.

Still, avoiding traditional social media in general is a thing I support, so for me this rule is great. And I believe it also aligns with the view of a community who cares about privacy, as X/Twitter does like users data a lot.

A privacy report on X/Twitter here

Just researched into it, and while I dislike the situation, is not something I see bad enough to delete proton from this post

I’m quite happy with proton and while I don’t think they are the silver bullet of privacy, they’re still about the best “private suite” of apps you can get with little to no effort

I’ll check and correct my post when I get home

Thanks!

I somehow tripped writing this, I also use aegis woops, but I did use authy In the past

My browser recommendation was based on how easy it is to just download librewolf compared to messing with user agent

I’m outdated in that proton situation, I’ll look into that

I vote positive on the wiki, we can discuss it in DMs

Take a read

Good feature. I use signal daily, so this is a nice little improvement!

Was just checking back on here, good choice, if it doesn’t get bad, no further fragmentation :)

If it does get bad, this can always be reverted

NVK is great overall, for gaming eeeeh, no, sadly. I think it’s getting improvements for vulkan gaming

But 555 beta is already much better than 550 on wayland

There was no sync at all in the last drivers, now we have good sync, it should be nice smooth experience once everything updates

It’s honestly sad, almost to the point where defederating from them would be better

But I’m sure we’d be loosing good people from hexbear too

Some will use the built in note editor, some the built in music player, some the built in video player, and now some will use matrix

Mint isn’t overly bloated, or even “bloated”, these apps are useful for a decent part of the demographic, and having them preinstalled lowers the friction a new user feels when installing a new OS

Gnome isn’t bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome’s experience is great.

Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more “bloated” than what you’d expect, but still, ubuntu isn’t half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes

And ubuntu server rocks

Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases

Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen’t from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying “I use arch btw”)

Fedora 40 with kde plasma 6 dropped a day or two ago, and they did remove x11, you have to get it from the repo in case you want it, otherwise, it only comes and is planned for wayland, which I believe is great, for once it does seem like the year of wayland

Your work app may be electron based (which is a bit too common nowadays), and until they update to electron 29, wayland won’t probably work.

(or until they add xwayland video bridge, but the former option is better than the latter.

I don’t know how you messed that up, usually the switch is as easy as it can be, and the issue comes when using it, for its lack of explicit sync, causing apps to flicker, and frame pacing in games to be plain bad

This is being fixed in the next two months thankfully

Edit: Taking about Nvidia wayland support here, AMD and Intel are great