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If somebody was willing to do this, xorg would still be maintained.

xorg is actually legitimately so terrible to work on that nobody is interested in doing this who actually knows how xorg works.

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/624

^ global shortcuts was moved to portals (as it should be, portals are a much more sane way of handling this) but is in pretty much all compositors (except wlroots, but that’s also being worked on and not in won’tfix)

I don’t know what you’re talking about with copy-paste, that has worked for a millenia

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

^ window positioning (although still being worked on, definitely not in the category of won’tfix)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/124

^ screencopy (screen recording)

Literally none of these things are as described won’tfix for security reasons. Also, wayland is a core set of protocols, you’re meant to use the ext block for things that aren’t essential for basic functioning (such as screenshotting), that doesn’t mean they don’t work or aren’t implemented properly, they’re done separately because they AREN’T core to functioning, there are certain compositors that don’t want the ability to take screenshots, for example.

None of those were actually true, can you list an actual example?

Seems like FUD to me.

What features are you talking about?

People say this all the time but can never give any actual examples.

You’re right, my bad, I misremembered!

Manjaro

I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux

for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.

Y’know how it’s not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips… this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.

the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, there’s no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.

But if what you’re looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros

If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite

If you’re a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos

If you don’t care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.

Yes except element call is a frontend for voip and p2p

there’s a graphical indicator if they send something unencrypted, and there’s no way to turn an encrypted chat into an unencrypted chat on matrix. Plus they start encrypted by default, I honestly don’t even know how to make an unencrypted chat, I don’t think there’s any good way to other than using a client that doesn’t have encryption.

this is not a real problem.

How is it more secure than matrix? I can’t even self-host it.

No they don’t, it’s just confusingly worded

Element X is a matrix client that will eventually replace Element for android/ios

Matrix 2.0 is the server suite, some of the changes in matrix 2.0 are necessary for element x to work.

They didn’t though? Source?

What about arch is it that you want?

I do a ton of distro research because I try to convert people to linux a lot so I might be able to help you with that.

https://bazzite.gg/ this is probably what you want, make sure to install the nvidia version.

I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux

for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.

Y’know how it’s not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips… this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.

the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, there’s no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.

But if what you’re looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros

If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite

If you’re a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos

If you don’t care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.

Make sure to go for an immutable distro with kde if you’re a windows user, you’ll never have to do any maintenance, I highly recommend fedora kinoite

That’s the arch of immutables, fedora kinoite is a much better example

Libreoffice is fine unless you’re doing something niche, so yes

If you go immutable then I really don’t think it is unless you need niche software

I saw nothing but toxicity, I feel like all the decent people left after the exodus, although it was politics that I saw primarily

bindntr=CTRL,C,exec,hyprctl dispatch closewindow alacrittyclipboard & hyprctl activewindow | rg -q "class: Wfica" && alacritty -qq --config-file ~/.config/alacritty/alacrittyclipboard.toml --class 'alacrittyclipboard' --title 'Office365 Desktop - Nexus (SSL/TLS Secured, 256 bit)' -e sh -c 'sleep .03 && xclip -o | wl-copy ; wl-paste | xclip -i'
windowrulev2 = float,class:(alacrittyclipboard)
windowrulev2 = stayfocused,class:(alacrittyclipboard)
windowrulev2 = noborder,class:(alacrittyclipboard)
windowrulev2 = noanim,class:(alacrittyclipboard)
windowrulev2 = noblur,class:(alacrittyclipboard)
windowrulev2 = opacity 0,class:(alacrittyclipboard)
windowrulev2 = maxsize 1 1,class:(alacrittyclipboard)

Fixes the fucking clipboard in citrix, no, I cannot figure out a better solution.

the move to aquamarine with hyprland mostly resolved this… but not completely and i’m going to have to write a new duct tape solution for that.

If you’re wondering why I launch alacritty… it doesn’t work without alacritty, wayland needs the window to be in focus, if alacritty isn’t there there’s no in focus window and it doesn’t update the clipboard.

I recently visited reddit after not being on since the exodus, reddit has gotten so much worse, you are really just wrong about this

I use opencalc, stick to FOSS software as much as humanly possible.