I hear that Gnome can struggle on touchscreens due to some GTK bugginess.

Plasma is probably a good bet since it has a dedicated touch friendly mode and is tested on the Steam Deck, which has a touch screen.

There’s third party Appimages. They also had a blog post discussing using Appimages for testing builds. If that gets done, I don’t see why they wouldn’t offer an official build.

Funny, FSR2 helps me a lot but FSR3’s frame generation does nothing for me.

Makes sense that it includes snap given that KDE officially supports their apps packaged as snaps, unlike Gnome.

If I recall correctly, aren’t they going for an Arch base? I assume they’re going to be enabling AppArmor so that the snap sandboxing is mostly working, except for the patches Canonical have failed to upstream so far.

Drew started the project but he isn’t really involved anymore. Simon Ser is the lead maintainer now.

Note that this article is from 2022, albeit with an update in 2024.

I was confused when they mentioned they upgraded from Debian bullseye, were using an old Firefox version, and had to explicitly enable Wayland for Firefox. I then saw the date of the post.

With 2024.10, Bitwarden could no longer be built without their proprietary SDK.

That was deemed a bug and now the SDK is also licensed under the GPL.

I’ve been using it since the beta, some small hiccups with the new file picker (didn’t work with Steam initially) but everything is working nicely now. Only regression I’ve noticed is that with the new nautilus based file picker, you can’t drag a file from Nautilus to the file picker and have the file picker switch to that location. Hope that gets addressed soon.

Oops, fixed. The post had “#Fedora” so instinctively I ignored the hashtag.

Reuters reports:

Finland is experiencing suspicious acts of sabotage and disruption and believes Russia is engaged in broad-ranging influence operations against it and other European countries

Since Linus is Finnish, this literally hits home for him, hence (probably) his reaction.

How are you trying to install docker? I wouldn’t be surprised if the docker ppa was unsupported for 24.10.

What OS are you running? On Windows, there’s an updater. Probably same for MacOS.

If you install the tar.gz on Linux, there’s an updater. If you have the flatpak, you update through flatpak. Distro packages get updated by the distro.

Functions great. I just wish the UI was a bit nicer in terms of look and how things are arranged (there’s some redundancy and strange placements). Though I did read on the Discord that some of the devs wanted to rewrite the UI code in Qt’s QML, so maybe that would coincide with some UI changes.

After this and the few hiccups I’ve had with Bitwarden on Linux (official snap in part still relies on Ubuntu 18.04 libraries and still defaults to X11, not great for security focused app), I’ve decided to give Proton a shot. Went for 2 year unlimited plan, so I hope they don’t do anything stupid in that time.

That being said, I’m not hating on Bitwarden. Based on what one of the developers said, this seems to be an oversight from their side that they should hopefully address. This is just my excuse to try out the Proton suite based on their strong focus on privacy and security, albeit with a hefty cost (and somewhat scummy strategy of listing prices as monthly but are actually paid annually, and choosing the actually monthly options are much more expensive).

Does anyone know what they mean by “legacy runtime environment”? Do they mean running of the host system libraries rather than Valve’s runtimes?

You’re right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there’s a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock’s UI for blocking specific elements on a site.

I believe Brave’s ad blocker is based on uBlock.

It can do that now. You can also rebind the overview to open with meta in the system settings.

I still prefer Gnome’s implementation though.

I wonder how Apple’s wine fork handles this since presumably games are still expecting a 4K page on MacOS.

Lunduke used to be decently popular in the Linux space. He worked for openSUSE and did a yearly “Linux Sucks” presentation about things Linux could improve on.

But many think he’s went off the deep end in recent years. Anti-vax, US election denying, basically against anything “woke”.