Video decoding/encoding should work fine, better than Nvidia as fewer things support nvdec (the vaapi wrapper is enough though).

I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.

Thats not relevant because Cosmic isn’t either.

My view is that if the goal was to effectively make good software they wouldn’t start from scratch.

If they used wlroots the desktop would be usable today with a good feature set.

If they used Qt or GTK they would have feature rich well supported software. (GTK4 could have been an improvement for them, it’s designed around being minimal and having platform libraries implement design choices)

They didn’t take a practical approach imo. You could argue its a long term investment but because of it it’s probably years off of feature parity. The only upside today is… it’s written in Rust.

The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.

Bit old, but I used a Windows Media Center remote, still see new ones for cheap. Then use lirc with an IR receiver.

A distro has thousands of independent sources. No your distro doesn’t audit them all, barely any.

In simple usage OpenGL can perform identical to Vulkan. A compositor with little complex rendering won’t change.

This isn’t doable without a custom kernel module. One existed but I remember it not being liked.

MPRIS controls media playback generally. Usually a keyboard shortcut or some UI in your DE activates it.

Prey is barely functional on modern systems. They never had a PS5 update and it barely hits 30fps there. The PC version is quite buggy and crashes for many.

I try to replay it every once in a while and just give up. It’s unfortunate.

bootc is a RH open source project…

And RHEL is hardly closed source.

btrfs is objectively slower than ext4. It is CoW and maintains more complex metadata.

Only situations it wins is when lots of copies are made at once. Not a super common workflow compared to writes imo.

Excellent news :)

Which part, I know Safari added support recently but I’m not sure about other components.

webp is 13 years old. I’ve only heard of Apple not supporting it.

I see others mention some chat apps, weird but ok.

GPG errors are fatal unless you manually configure the repo to ignore them with an obscure command.

> ostree show flathub:runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64/6.6
commit a7443e846cf67d007fcecda5c9dc27844001cfb8929064395cfc25c6d71d9474
Parent:  23107550082daf3b2892a4a0db2543838578ca882340a756b988bc5c1614540c
ContentChecksum:  607ba9475d32a24c51509bc7919f5a93d401f8f7198c30ad93ad74051d966c41
Date:  2024-01-30 13:55:08 +0000

    build of org.kde.Sdk, Tue Jan 30 11:23:00 UTC 2024 (5998d2f3ef21414d14f066ab91fa44e5aef65b90)

    Name: org.kde.Platform
    Arch: x86_64
    Branch: 6.6
    Built with: Flatpak 1.14.4

Found 1 signature:

  Signature made Tue 30 Jan 2024 12:21:18 PM CST using RSA key ID 562702E9E3ED7EE8
  Good signature from "Flathub Repo Signing Key <flathub@flathub.org>"
  Primary key ID 4184DD4D907A7CAE
  Key expires Mon 14 Jun 2027 08:19:40 AM CDT
  Primary key expires Mon 14 Jun 2027 08:18:56 AM CDT

There is no such thing as a “package”. It is a repository of binary data with references to data in it (ala git). The whole repo and all data is gpg signed.

The GPG key is literally in the repo file https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo