but what actually happens is that the amount of memory needed to run programs exceeds the amount of physical RAM, but swap is still available, so the OOM killer doesn’t give a shit.

Stop giving technical advice, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

it I didn’t make me feel compelled to go harm some Windows users or anything like that, but your mileage may vary

I’m happy to let the conversation take its course, but I take exception to this. You damn well know that’s not what I meant.

Except electric cars are hell expensive and linux is free.

That was literally my point. Some people bought electric cars because the could, not because they wanted to effect any social change.

But other FOSS software (like the ActivityPub protocol) can for sure make a very sizeable dent in the amount of doomscrolling in one’s life.

Is activity pub only used on Linux desktop apps? Can’t a Mac or windows user participate in mastodon? Fediverse use and Linux are separate issues.

This false equivalence between Linux itself and the path of our collective salvation from social media, corporate manipulation, etc, etc is a big problem for Linux, because Linux is just a tool.

btrfs is widely praised… and also a product of Facebook. Google has poured Fons of money into FOSS development. Should we shun these tools?

Especially now, with a sizable influx of users to Linux, articles like the one Op posted create a completely false us v them narrative that just isn’t there.

You want to fight the evil social media? Drop them.

Look, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are treading into virtue signalling territory and your article has the superior tone of those who bought electric cars in the late 2010s to lord it over the rest of us.

Using Linux is not going to stop your doom-scrolling, nor is using Linux by itself telling the big corpos anything at all. Stop conflating using Linux with “sticking it to Facebook”.

Linux is a tool, and it is a tool that allows freedom of its use. That’s it.

You didn’t really include any details about your current VPN setups, your subnets, your routing rules, etc for anyone to give you a useful answer.

1. A tool used by a state employer only wouldn’t need e2ee, since they hold all the servers.
2. The French government has long been trying to make encryption in use by its citizens inspectable by them (the French government)

Not really. Think of FIM like tripwire but for more than just userland files accessible at run level 3.

“tippon” is just a local POSIX mapping to whatever uid assigned that user, typically the first user beyond system users in Linux or Unix is 1000. So using “tippon” instead of uid=1000 won’t make a difference.

I switched to using Radicale a year ago, and I use my android contacts app to add and maintain that info. CardDAV has enough fields for me to add.

Cinnamon, maybe… But KDE plasma? You must be joking. How do you get KDE plasma down to 300 to 500 mb memory use?

There’s a good reason xfce is the de of choice for low-resource systems like raspberry pi.

It does.

I had to isolate part of a frame from a 70s Italian cartoon to make a giant vinyl sticker and it worked amazingly. Cleaned up the image and pulled it right from the background. I was also able to desaturate the colours well too.

Well, hobbyist projects are surely not the only pillar of the open source systems

Your hunch is correct, they are, because the differentiator between open source and walled garden projects is freedom, and freedom will spontaneously generate projects based on an unfulfilled need. A paid market by itself will not.

In my early days of programming (late 80s), I was copying code from books and magazines. Then came windows and mac, and these were far less friendly to devs, and became more and more so.

Most of these tools were born of need and want, not because any infrastructure existed to pay them. Look at the list of apps in frdroid; most are very obviously solving a problem unique to the dev.

And there is one more thing to account for: for all the apps and scripts you see in a public code repo, there are many times more than that living on someone’s HDD that will never see the public eye.

The point you’ve ignored in your article is that this is simply the split free market creates. We’ve had this issue since the invention of transmissible ideas.

I had some friction with Jessie to stretch and a little again from bookworm to Trixie. Nothing I couldn’t solve, but there are still a few edge cases that aren’t handled.

I believe the joke is that Nintendo are aggressively litigious.

it’s the future

No doubt about that. It’s been “the future” for more than a decade. But even 5 years ago, Wayland was a complete dumpster fire if you strayed outside average use. So yeah, I’ve heard this before.

Of course, I had to turn that protection off because Steam is still X and my controllers back paddles popped up a permission dialog

I understand that this is a real sticking point with some use cases, I hope this is resolved soon. I’m definitely fuzzy on the workings of portals, compositors, input, etc.

Am I doing a good job convincing you?

This is the overwhelming response to my questions about Wayland, and it’s weird. Wayland isn’t a fancy new car I need to use to stay relevant. I work in terminals and a browser, Xfce is fine.

As I mentioned in another response, I am not trying to use the newest coolest thing, I work every day in Linux and I need my setup to be stable and predictable.

And no one needs to convince me, when xfce is finally discontinued or unusable, I’ll have to find a similar Wayland alternative. Nothing compels me to switch yet.

I am not trying to suggest that the old way is better, we have needed to move on from x11 years ago.

That is a good point, fair enough. I don’t really need this, so it doesn’t cross my radar.

Thanks for the response!

it’s hard to imagine needing to explain why Wayland has been better

I don’t really understand what you mean here, sounds like you’re describing a vibe, but that’s valid.

I have a multi-monitor setup with xfce and while it’s nothing to write home about, it works. Of course, I don’t need HDR. I guess my use case isn’t very demanding that way.

I have a wayland/gnome tablet because touchscreen, and I don’t see an appreciable difference in startup time, bit I have no empirical data on this.

I appreciate your response.

I am happy that keyboard and other I/o are being treated as separate from a security perspective.

Xorg fans

I am not as impressed by this comment snippet.

I am not a “fan” of xorg, and you should absolutely stop looking at it this way. This isn’t a matter of having a favourite car manufacturer. I am not commenting to convince everyone that xorg is “better”.

I simply use xorg. I have work to do, I use Linux to do it. My most stable and predictable configuration is using xfce, it just stays out of the way. I don’t care about ricing. I don’t GAF about GPU accelerated terminal emulators, especially when they bonk trying to connect to Solaris tty. I don’t care about HDR. If you do care about these things, that’s great, I’m not trying to diminish that.

I have been using Linux for almost 30 years, professionally for almost 25. I have been through Mir. I have somehow made it through alsa transition to pulseaudio, which sucked. I have been through Unity, the ffmpeg debacle, systemd, ndis wrappers, netplan, etc. Some of these new tooling options are better than previous ones, some aren’t. They effectively get the job done, and that’s the bottom line.

Never in my Linux experience have I seen such a sudden push to not only move everyone to new tooling, but to cast everyone using the old tools as somehow “refusing to move on”, especially in the last 2 or 3 years.

There will come a time when you will see your current tooling will be left behind and you’ll be in my situation. Have some grace about it.

And stop calling me an xorg “fan”.

and with more features.

Look, if you’re gonna tell x11 folks to provide examples of how Wayland is not meeting their needs, you need to meet the same bar and give a few examples of what these features are.

This is honestly what is holding me back from going all in on wayland… I don’t see any benefit.

Typically this is achieved in x11 with x forwarding. Performance won’t be great.

However: you may want to investigate using a hypervisor and a VM for each seat, and a dedicated GPU for each seat. To share GPU between seats, you will need a GPU and motherboard that support sr-iov, which is hard to find, hard to use, and expensive.

I built a hyper-converged box like this and I can tell you the GPU isn’t the obstacle, it’s peripherals. Mice, keyboard, video output, that is what people want to be flexible.