Mactan

why is it always

use-after-free

snap

well there’s your problem

electron/cef apps doing cross process rendering can’t display sooo

now to wait out the years for old game launchers and wine to follow suit, and years more for proton to get it…

sadly dwarfed by YouTube videos that are outdated as soon as they are produced, and web guides nobody maintains. worse, AI scrapers only know this outdated information and happily hallucinate based on it it is EXHAUSTING having users cheer and celebrate the placebo of all the made up bullshit that does nothing in their config or worse breaks everything in unpredictable ways

man

must be between the ages of 13 and 65 let’s go ahead and set it to retirement age

no actually the library thing is always a factor it’s exhausting to get in a pile of irrelevant packaging issues reported for some distro that doesn’t fulfill required dependencies . those issues need to go to the packager instead. or they just have to accept using 3 year old applications

in this decade my worst Linux experience has been attempting to digitally sign a document what a wasteland of decrepit and poorly documented tools

I don’t think I’ve ever had a debian major upgrade go well. always easier to reinstall, but the stakes are so low on my own devices

looking forward to it, sddm is the only thing I have left that depends on xorg directly

releasing 24.04 as an LTS at the tail end of 2025 is kinda funny

“it’s not for desktop use”

virtmanager and boxes for qemu/kvm have freed me from the accursed Oracle product and it’s dkms modules

security or ease , pick one

will it work? probably. will you have to downgrade more often than any other GPU vendor? also probably

Unfortunately, due to GNOME Foundation issues, this work never fully materialized.

classic

why would var have such a restraint? reminds me of overly complex tutorials tricking people into elaborate partitioning schemes

this from the people that stonewalled server side decorations in wayland

the few times Ive seen perms really go awry was from new users running sudo on everything, even wine. definitely took a fair bit of cleanup