And there was me thinking that was a mint problem...but it's never broken nearly badly enough to force a reinstall. It's just weird not being able to do a full upgrade unless you temporarily uninstall some packages.

Just switched from Alacritty, kitty+zsh rocks. Feels faster than alacritty, and the tutorialization of the default config is great. And it's wildly configurable.

Where the heck is the battery pack? The floor in the back seems pretty low, and no space in that tiny hood.

Also, I'm astounded DeJoy is still postmaster general after all this time.

Finally. I refuse to use overwolf.

Ahhh yeah I meant theming. My bad. And that would be easier ofc.

Ignoring the original post, I wanted to pick up on what you said right at the end.

Something I've never understood is, what impact is using iced going to have on app compatiblity? Are we going to need compatibility layers for GTK and QT, like with Cinnamon displaying QT apps, with the associated jankiness?

Check for a ~/.config/chromium folder and delete it. dnf doesn't seem to have an equivalent to apt purge chromium which would be the other thing to do (while the package is installed).

Yeah, most dead scripts have Unicode, specifically because how the hell would you write academic papers about them in this day and age otherwise? Even old Irish Ogham:

ᚅᚖᚙᚗ

The line is a convention, because ogham was originally written on the corner of a stone stela.

For anyone else who was wondering, it's major releases only, and so far it's been:

• The Luggage
• Twoflower
• Rincewind
• Weatherwax
• Vetinari

Not sure Havelock would look kindly at being left til 5th, but you can't please everyone.

Would you be willing to elaborate a little bit as to what the roadblocks are with Sublinks right now? Just curious, and the feature set/current status is not super obvious in their github.

I'm getting that with Gmail and 2 google sheets open (just as an example workload), my system says Zen uses 899 MB of memory, while Firefox uses 1261 MB. However, the way they split tasks into different processes (or at least the way my system monitor groups them) seems to be different, so I'm not sure how much of that difference is real.

Looking at the browsers task manager, they report about the same amount of memory by the browser itself, and for tab handling FF seems to grab more memory when opened, then decrease over time, whereas Zen seems to have a more consistent memory consumption. Sheets tabs use equivalent memory in both, and Gmail uses about 20% more memory in Zen. Both use an insignificant amount of CPU, of course.

Zen does feel more responsive, but it's not a dealbreaker. Good to know the customizations aren't causing catastrophic resource usage though.

Edit: My only other thing I find wierd is that its kinda hard to close tabs. You have to use the right-click menu -- even using the 'c' keyboard shortcut only selects it, and hitting it again moves to another option!

Hmmm this feels like Vivaldi built on Firefox. I like the tiling for tabs! Overall pretty good, would like to see the tab tiling separators smaller, but that's a small gripe. Looking forward to see where this goes!

I just use Zettlr (a markdown editor optimized for writing research papers). I wish it wasn't an electron app, as it's paggy as hell sometimes on Linux, but it's the best balance I've found between features, ease of use, and stability.

I've used Xournal++ and Write, both worked pretty well. Saber also looks promising.

It's going to come down to how the program handles smoothing of the pen input, which is going to differ based on how noisy your tablets data is, and on your handwriting.

Well we wouldn't want Proton, it would be 2000x less lightweight than electron! /s

It seems to me that Tauri is maybe a better direction to invest resources in than a direct electron-but-Firefox. Its lighter weight and better sandboxed, and can presumably be configured to run with a Gecko engine instead of a chromium-based webview. I have no idea its status, but geckoview does seem to exist.

Does anyone know why the only public transport option is "subway"? I don't get why they would only index subways.

Yeah...Eternity 0.2.1 doesn't work, Voyager can't even find beehaw.org in to log into it, and so I've been using Jerboa as a backup. Turns out downgrading to 0.1.2 does work, but meh.

What issues were you having with mint 22? I haven't had any specific ones yet, except for the qt5 themes app no longer being installed by default and not quite working right.

I think they mean powerful as in compute power, and since they're designed to be thin clients, the answer is no. They're universally underpowered the day they come out.

Look, I tried to solve this with Wolfram alpha, desmos, and nunerical integration in Python, but what does a subscript e even mean?? None of the methods I tried even returned a solution, which is kinda unsurprising...how do you integrate with respect to e, when e isnt a variable??

MATLAB works fine on linux for me these days. Some weird small text on hiDPI screens, but its fixable. I've only tested on Debian based distros though.

Darktable if you're ok with a steep learning curve, RawTherapee if you prefer an easier-to-use UI with a few less features.

I mostly really dont like the use of "depicts" here. Depicts means is a representation of, which is just wrong and feels a little too close to creationist. "Resembles" would be better.

For those not following the blog, here are the instructions!

I think those are actually mole crabs. Sand fleas are usually about 1/3" long everywhere I've been.

It's...not. The original press release is typically hype-y, but the part that toms hardware article really mangled is that they didnt find a way to do it, they found a new design for a device to do it.

I use zettlr -- it's pretty good! The only issues I've run into are with the table editor, and with occasional lag on large documents; the latter just comes with the territory on an Electron app. I know Nathan's working on both, though.

I'm not familiar with fwupdmgr, so I'm not sure either about it delivering bios updates. A good tool to know about for sure, though!

I don't mean use the RSS feed to actually deliver, I just mean a blog-style announcement. Of course, to be security conscious you shouldn't follow any links in that announcement to download it, but still.

I don't think I've ever gotten bios updates via apt...not sure if that's a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.

The latest blog post says it should be just a few days, which is nice!

I wasn't trying to call you out! I was more responding to Jcreazy, but I wanted to emphasize what NaN said.

As far as I know, the xapps are largely updated in line with when Mint gets updates -- Mint doesnt get super frequent updates on those either, they often get bundled with a new Cinnamon release.

Yeah. Everyone should be clear that both Mint and LMDE follow about the same release spacing as their upstream, but offset by a couple of months. Mint's upstream is Ubuntu LTS, LMDE's is Debian. Both release about every two years. Mint and LMDE cannot possibly do major version updates faster than their upstream!

The point of these distros is stability and polish. If you want the absolute newest updates, mint/LMDE is not the right distro for you, and getting the newest updates inherently sacrifices some stability.

Yeah! I only discovered them a couple of weeks ago through this community and they're fantastic.

Specifically to make something which is not mission-critical reliant on any underlying software...but that's almost impossible. Not reliant on the base operating system would be a nice start.

While it is true that the ad business model is changing as you describe, Google's strategy with respect to it is also absolutely about monopolizing the ad market.

I mean any technology solution can suffer the same fate, but you would hope that it wouldnt be an issue at the same time if they're separate tech stacks.

So all their products are breaking...

To be honest, I'm not sure if it would be more concerning for them to have just one fatal issue with their process, or two unrelated ones.

Yeah the issue is that so many companies were at the intersection of two monopolies -- either one failing has catastrophic effects, and there's no backup plan.

I mean yes they did "formally request" it, but given the power dynamic between a FOSS project and a large technology company, openSUSE is not in a position where they could possibly refuse. So is there a difference between a request and a demand?