There was a period where I was testing my laptop’s hibernation so I got uptime to around 30 days.
But now, The highest uptime I can reach is around 2-3 days if I forget to turn it off and leave it either plugged in or on a high battery so it lasts until the next day.
I can see where you’re coming from because of outdated libraries and flatpak sandboxing not really being a thing (it’s an illusion, really) but you can’t deny that this is the direction we’re moving in, and we need to get flatpak sandboxing and permissions right, to ensure a proper base level of security.
For those unaware:
Many flatpaks use older, outdated, or end-of-life libraries
Flatpak permissions are messed up because most applications ask to bypass the sandbox at install-time
It’s not every day that you see actually useful applications of AI, but this might be one.
The issue with that approach for the desktop is everyone will just move to other OS-es.
When Microsoft does it, you live with it cuz you have no choice.
Yeah, I’ve had a developer tell me that they’ve done most of the beta milestone already. There will be an Alpha 6, however, so the absolute earliest we could see Beta 1 is end of February, assuming Alpha 6 releases end of January, and they move into Beta after that with no delays.
It’s a normal atomic/immutable distro
Cool, but PLEASE just use kickstart.nvim
It’s all you need
It was so obviously satire and yet I kept on trying to convince myself it isn’t, but by the last part, I was basically convinced it was, especially by the “Satire” label.
Personally I’d just recommend either Alpaca or GPT4All, both of which are on Flathub and much easier to set up (or at least GPT4All is; I haven’t tested Alpaca yet).
LXDE is dead.
LXQT is working on it, and I believe are already shipping some initial version: https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/
XFCE 4.20 introduced initial Wayland Support: https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734220800
Cinnamon has an experimental Wayland Session: https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-0-desktop-environment-arrives-with-initial-wayland-support
Budgie, as per the article, will be Wayland-only from Budgie 10.10, to be released in Q1 2025.
So I’d say the Wayland transition will be complete for all in either 2025 or 2026 at the latest.
Do it for yourself.
I once undertook a project for personal use that I knew could be useful to many people (it was for a game).
People were getting interested in using it even in its earliest, experimental, pre-alpha, prototype, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, stage.
But then the unthinkable happened: I quit the game because the dev was irresponsible and was largely perceived to be unserious and lazy, when this game is his main source of income as far as the community knows.
So I of course lost interest in the project as well and abandoned it.
If I was doing this for myself, it wouldn’t matter at all, but some people were interested in it, some were using it, and even as recently as last month I had people message me asking if the project was ready or how to use it. (the project was started in Jan 2024, I quit in Feb 2024)
The point is that if you’re doing it for yourself and you quit, it wouldn’t matter, but it can almost feel as if you’re letting people down when you do it for someone else rather than yourself. So do it for you. That way, you won’t have people’s expectations weighing you down. If you can’t work on it this week, it doesn’t matter. If you can’t do this feature for xyz reasons, or because you don’t want to, it doesn’t matter. Because you’re doing it for you.
Or at least that’s my take on it.
Now that you mentioned it, I’ve had VERY similar issues on an old machine which had some cooling issues (it’s a laptop, what did you expect?). So I’d wager you’re right.
Really? I must not have heard about that, I’m sorry.
When I said “very alpha”, I meant that it still very much contained bugs and lacked features, as in it is still in Alpha.
When I’m talking about bugs, the main ones I’ve encountered are the ones I’ve seen on Brodie Robertson’s COSMIC streams.
The only unfixed bug I’ve encountered is terminal font rendering on COSMIC Terminal being very weird and different compared to all other terminals I’ve tried, specifically Alacritty, Kitty and Foot. I’ve seen a bug report about “Black bars about content” but nothing mentioned about how, for example, Hack size 14 on all those 3 terminals looks bigger than Hack size 18 on COSMIC Terminal.
I was wondering if that would be fixed with Alpha 5?
But other than that, I only had 1 bug until recently, that seemed to have been fixed with Alpha 4 (keybindings fell back to default ones for a few minutes of logins on cold boot; idk what caused it but it’s been gone since I went to Alpha 4.
So… is there a timeline for releases I could follow? I’ve been looking at the issue tracker for Epoch 1, and I’m even asking questions about and tracking individual features like Startup Applications and especially Pinned Workspaces.
Apologies but do you happen to know where I could find more info on Pinned Workspaces and maybe how to automatically implement them as replacement for Static Workspaces until that feature arrives in the Epoch 2 cycle?
Many thanks for reading and I would greatly appreciate a response.
And of course thanks for making what is now my daily driver Desktop.
And Happy New Year!
Old one was an Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 4500U, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD.
New one is Thinkpad T14 with Ryzen 7840U, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
Afaik terminator is unmaintained but some people still use it. I’ve heard of Tilix as a good alternative but can’t tell you if that’s the case as I haven’t used either. I change terminals only if there’s a feature my current one doesn’t have.
I used alacritty (because that’s what came with the distro I used, ArcoLinux) until I switched to Wayland where alacritty font scaling was inconsistent across Xorg and Wayland sessions (and I was still switching between the two). So I went to kitty, until I was convinced to switch to foot because it seemed to open faster so I went to it. Then I switched to COSMIC which doesn’t let me remove window decorations server-side and neither kitty nor foot supported their removal client side, so I switched to alacritty which did.
I will switch to COSMIC terminal for convenience (as I use COSMIC) when they fix their font rendering (it’s like old Alacritty, only that modern Alacritty has fixed it but cosmic-term still hasn’t).
Last month, I switched from an all-AMD system to a 2+ times better all-AMD system and I couldn’t be happier! (okay, 32GB RAM and a bigger than 59W battery could’ve made me happier but I digress).
I’ve been on AMD throughout my entire Linux journey and I’ve never had any issues related to that hardware.
Regardless, the maintainers doing the Spin proposal have said they will only release the spin when COSMIC gets a full release. And COSMIC is very much Alpha quality software still.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraCOSMIC
They expect it to “reach maturity” so likely when Beta 1 is released at the earliest.
Edit: I would expect the timeline to look as follows:
End of Jan: Alpha 5
End of Feb: Alpha 6
End of Mar: Alpha 7 or Beta 1
End of Apr: Beta 1 or Beta 2
End of May: Beta 2 or Beta 3 or Release
End of Jun: Beta 3 or Release
End of Jul: Release Epoch 1 or Alpha 1 for Epoch 2 (seeing as they said they want to release Epoch 2 in the same year i.e this year)
The main reason is Fedora has standards for some stability that COSMIC simply can’t meet on time.
Not THAT far. But 32GB RAM is getting more common, though I haven’t heard of many people using 64, let alone more than that.
Also, storage is usually not that extreme, though multiple terabytes are also getting more common on the higher end.
Just this month, I upgraded to 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD so it isn’t that extreme for most people.
CPU and GPU - wise, most people aren’t running the best of the best, and there are still plenty of people using 10-series Nvidia GPUs, with most people seemingly using 20-series or 30-series GPUs, (and usually not the best cards for these generations)
wayland