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For Arch the simple solution is make a snapshot with Timeshift. It can auto-snapshot daily or weekly/monthly, use yesterdays backup working system, wait for the updated fix, the solution to the problem usually comes in an update in a few days or within the week. (I usually just fix my system *but don't often have problems* but this solution is for people that want an easy hassle-free way to continue using Arch with minimal fuss.) 🙂
I am running Fedora 40 on desktop and notebook with Hyprland and Budgie environments. Zero audio issues. Zero issues. Fedora 39 was fine too. I can understand how others could have various issues, but I have not experienced these (yet).
Why not make your own Arch spin? It's really just a matter of sorting out your package list. If it's in an ISO form then you can have different spins at different stages. You don't have to update arch, you can set the downgrade to keep what you want still. You can give my Arch spin a try if you like. Time for me to make a video about it and post the download link.
Personnally, when I first moved to linux, I ended up using Vivaldi as a replacement for Opera GX. While it doesn't have all of the gaming related features, it has alot of customability, a similar layout due to being created by people who used to be involved with Opera and it even has a mail client. The main reason I stopped using Vivaldi is due to personal issues with the chromium project, but since both Opera GX and Vivaldi are chromium-based, I do think that if you like the workflow of an Opera browser, you should try Vivaldi
The only thing you really need to know about the gnome project is that they removed the ability to pick solid color backgrounds because "it was too hard to maintain". If you're a desktop gui project, and maintaining the ability to render nothing is too hard for you? yeah......
Thanks for making video petition for OperaGX for Linux. I post a message in forums about this like 1-2 years ago; lots of Linux people want a browser but some are concerned about Opera being owned by a Chinese company that share data, so there is privacy concerns. Though I like the Browser look; I figured if they have Opera for Linux they would just have to make a few mods to release a Opera GX variant.
I haven't had a ton of experience with GNOME developers but the ones I have had interactions with have been great (Guido Gunther in particular). For me though, almost all interactions with their designers feels like they're treating me like a child who doesn't know what I'm talking about.
I tried VanillaOS out having never used GNOME 3+ before, and holy crap, what a piece of garbage it is. I have never been so angry at a desktop. TWM seems like it'd be a more sensible choice. I liked the classic menu of Gnome2 and Mate, but this is just utter dogshit.
Zellij is incredible , I had a loooong time issue with janky flickers on the screen when i run tmux as soon as i changed to zellij issue gone. then just getting impressed withthe floating windows mouse too...the layouts all amazing
No kidding. I've often thought of going to Slackware, but there are still a few things that I can't figure out. I'm thinking of going to NixOS very soon.
People, do not forget how and why gnome was started. Gnome was started because of the Qt licence back then. Gnome was started to be as Windows 95 like as possible (there is a reason why Miguel ended up at Microsoft). From the very start gnome was very very hostile against everyone not 'on their side'. And while KDE was busy creating programs to make life better, gnome usurped independent gtk apps and made them 'gnome apps'. Gnome 1.4 was at least usable - you just had to deal with a totally overblown CORBA system. It went downhill from there.
Spot on and agree on all counts...but if you really want to express it right you say "Nome" instead of "Guhnome". Nothing sets a Gnome shill into a REEEEE fit like saying how it's spelled.
Probably because things didn't break like they did in Ubuntu when I first started using it. Also, I really do like Pacman. It's still one of my favorite Package Managers.
Why then all of my bug reports were perfectly accepted, and most of my merge requests fixing bugs were also accepted, but yours are often not? Both in GNOME and in Debian BTW. Well, *maybe*, as you yourself said, the issue is *you*? Oh, and that Felipe Contreras guy, his merge request description starts with, direct quote, "I know you don't care about breaking user experience". Such a nice way to start a merge request! I'm sure GNOME devs accusing him of aggressive and confrontational behavior were completely unjustified! /sarcasm While I agree that some GNOME decisions are very questionable, and they sometimes get defensive about it, I also think that they get way, WAY more hate than they deserve. And your video is sadly not an exception here.
No, the hate is justified. Felipe's original merge request wasn't like that, and it wasn't me. They suck. I think it would be better if people like Christian didn't have gatekeeping status. I just sent a bug report a couple of days ago with Plasma and it was accepted. Some of the Gnome Devs are straight-up snowflakes.
Personally I love the gnome aesthetic, and how minlimist it is as I value that. My issue is how the devs handle things, and how it's there way or the highway. As much as I love how GNOME is, the fact they refuse to work well with other prohibits progress. It makes me so happy that def main(jr_dev): makes extensive bug reports but the gnome devs are being dicks about it. We can't progress linux if the devs refuse to play nice especially about important things such as bug reports or even what others have to say. I love linux and I want it to progress and for anyone and everyone who uses it including myself to contribute in anyway they can, and gnome feels like they are against these principles of mine. After seeing this video I will give KDE a try, use it for awhile to see if I like it. Good video and thanks for all the contrutions you have made IE bug reports!
I have been an intermittent Linux user since before GNOME's inception. GNOME has always been something which I wish would just stop existing. Aside from the fact that the software itself is garbage, the developers have a level of elitism which is completely unjustified and undeserved. They have a monumentally insulting view of users as technically illiterate orphans who should just shut up and eat their gruel and be grateful for it.
I supported Gnome at version 1.0 then the core dumps turned me off for good. Congrats on catching up. KDE and XFCE are superior. Gnome should never have been the default of any distribution.
I caught-up awhile ago, but I just felt like it was the right time to make a video about it. I'm hoping the Gatekeeping will stop and maybe Fedora and Ubuntu will go a different direction.
Nice show case. I can't see myself using the new Ubuntu LTS. I'm running 22.04 on 2 machines because of Nvidia compatibility with OBS on Arch. I have 4 old cards that I bought cheap for video editing. One day the video encoding part stopped working after an update. Only Ubuntu shipped the right combination of Driver and OBS version that I needed to keep running. Snaps is one thing I can't stand or flatpak. Firefox with snaps did at first run widevine, now it can't seem to find it and just errors all the time. Online banking is also a pain in Firefox Snaps, as it asks for an OTP every time I login.
I think submitting bug reports is always the best answer. I think that these "gatekeepers" we so often see in the open-source world like the perks associated with being a maintainer but they don't like the responsibility that comes with it. It's really that simple. Raising awareness is the only way to peer pressure them into doing what they signed up to do. So, thank you for making this video.
The way GNOME developers act is so hostile to the Linux community. Things like new protocols that all other desktops want are being stonewalled by GNOME. Their egos are huge. And most of what they do is spending 11 years discussing something before doing anything.
Whine whine whine from the person who doesn't produce anything better and offer it for free. Kids today! You sit there moaning about the quality of their coders but you didn't even pay attention to the steps in your own bug reports, 🤮 Toxic personality.
How do you know if I paid attention to the steps to reproduce an error in my own bug reports? If memory serves me correctly, I literally said that I gave them the exact steps to reproduce the error. I am a better developer than Christian, no doubt about it but this wasn't a measuring contest. It was all about the attitudes of these people. Again, you can't see that after all this, but I'm the one with the toxic personality. Get real.
I don't care for the modern gnome desktop, its like it was designed for tablets during the windows 8 era or whatever I'm still using Mate, i love it lol, it looks like it was designed for pcs during the windows 2000 era, which is peak for me :) I can only stand it with linux mint's improvements though, the default mate menu sucks, the mint menu is the best, all of mint's additions are top tier and make it great 2nd place would be kde plasma, plasma's default menu and desktop is a nice close second but i still prefer linux mint's mate menu
I used Gnome 2 and I would probably use Mate but I can never keep the Desktop icons from showing which I could with Gnome 2. I can't stand looking at all those folders in my desktop. I'm using Plasma and I might checkout Wayfire shortly.
@@the_jr_dev you can turn off the system ones, and just not save regular ones to the desktop folder. Might be a way to hide them all regardless but I haven't tried
@@IntangirVoluntaryist Yeah, I have a few times and never had any luck hiding all of them. It drives me nuts to have shit cluttering up my desktop. I have a pretty nice neovim setup that I like to use to highlight my wallpapers and theming and it just doesn't look great when I see the folders in the background.
@@the_jr_dev sure enough, there is a 'desktop settings' app in linux MINT, that lets you turn off the system desktop options. this isn't part of the default mate install unfortunately. It has other really nice settings like easily switching your window manager, i use marco cause its quick and light (with no compositing) to avoid other clutter youd just have not store things in the ~/Desktop directory. a few things put icons there by default but only shortcuts so you can safely delete/move them i cared so little about my desktop though i just noticed im still using the default linux mint desktop 3 years into this latest install lol. its GREEN! lol hahahaha
100% agree, Gnome 46 showed very minor improvements. I don't really care about the errors you posted per say, but the Gnome folks are not behaving like an adults.
Looking at that exchange is just icky. "Somebody made me mad so now I don't want to fix something I'm supposed to care about fixing." That's just childish AF. It should be embarrassing to be so unprofessional. If a person doesn't already know that, I don't know what combination of words you could put together to help them understand.
Spoken like a real weak person. A.) You obviously listen to a word I actually said, B.) I promise I have thicker skin than most. It wasn't that he rejected my issue and C.) Why am I supposed to care? What law is there that says I have to contribute to the Gnome project? I'm naming and shaming this pud whacker for his Gatekeeping practices.
GNOME looks simple like MacOS, but it's over simplicity is the reason i am KDE user... KDE is just powerful and practical, heck you can customize it like GNOME....
The problem with the comparison between what you refer to as “macOS” isn’t the simplicity. As a Mac user I can tell you that KDE has more in common with MacOS than gnome does. Your comparison is merely cosmetic and the truth is that macOS and KDE have a similar amount of stability where as gnome is usually just trash.
@WhimsicalArtisan yeah, so much about gnome is either harder, more cumbersome, or less discoverable than in other desktops, if not outright impossible.
Shit, maybe a tiling window manager would be something useful for me to mess around with once I get a bit more experience with Linux. I love navigating around the computer with only the keys.
Hyprland seems like it'll be pretty nice to establish a workflow, and customizing it seems significantly easier than most others. Between the level of default modification to the appearance and behavior and the plethora of add-ons out there that extend its functionality, Hyprland an absolute gem. You can even omit the tiling behavior from specific applications. So if you're like me like having your terminal transparent or like being able to move around a note-taking application while your browser or e-reader remains stationary, Hyprland doesn't necessarily interfere. Just change one line in the config and problem solved. (That's probably a function of other tiling WMs as well tbf, but I could never tolerate them long enough to learn how to utilize it. Another testament to how much Hyprland distinguishes itself from the crowd. I actually _despise_ tiling WMs, for the record. Hyprland is just cool like that.) Wayfire is still my favorite compositor overall though. It's got all the workflow benefits I had on a fully-customized GNOME except the devs aren't going to break it every time they push an update. But most importantly: *CUBE.* XFCe, Mint, Cinnamon, LXQt and more are currently working towards migration away from X11, but right now GNOME and KDE are your only options for a full working desktop environment under Wayland. If that alone doesn't tell you Wayland is good to go, I don't know what will. The _only_ significant problem I've had with either GNOME or KDE has been regarding Discord screensharing. That required installing another program just to establish access to other windows via XWayland and rerouting the application's audio output through my microphone input, but I did get it working. Building up a system yourself starting with a minimal installation, installing a greeter and a compositor, and configuring everything to run properly under Wayland... Yeah, that's difficult. But you can't honestly say "Wayland isn't ready" just because you didn't bother educating yourself. If you just want to install an OS and start using it right away, take GNOME or KDE for a test drive. But if you're willing to learn, find a compositor you like and work with it. There are solutions for almost every problem you could face. Few are handled directly through Wayland. Some are handled through the compositor itself. Some through portals. Some via application-specific workarounds, like Discord. (Multi-million dollar company can't pay one or two devs to update their application to add Wayland support and switch from pulse to Pipewire. <.<) Worst case scenario, you'll have to use a different program that's designed to work under Wayland.
What I meant was that up until recently, Wayland has just been a hobby for people. You quote Gnome adopting it? Well, they have the shittiest Devs in existence, so maybe that isn't a good example. Plasma, OK, maybe but tbf Plasma 6 is still unusable. I have no doubt that will change. Now, I've been following the Wayland progress a little and it's probably not ready for stable production, but I think many people can use it as their daily driver. Thanks for your thoughts.
@@the_jr_dev My only point there was that almost every widely used desktop environment is currently working on or has already implemented support for Wayland to some degree.
My problem with Hyprland is that the creator has been banned from the Freedesktop Organization because the Hyprland community is way too toxic and it seems as if we have controversy monthly with Hyprland. I typically don't get into politics, but the Hyprland people went way past the line. The last KDE controversy was in 2008 (before I was born) because so much changed in the KDE 3 -> KDE 4 update, like the Windows 7 -> 8 update.
What is the SUPER+H binding calling? Must be new but I cant see it in the github example, I used to have a script in bspwm that parsed my binds and showed something similar with rofi, its a useful reminder for things you don't use as often.
@@the_jr_dev I can see what it does, I meant what does it look like in the config? For instance the fullscreen one looks like: `bind = $mainMod, F, fullscreen`
