Wow, I do the same thing! How great!
theshatterstone54
joined 1 year ago
Setting up a WM and installing a ton of software you might need on Bazzite is a long and painful process. The best way seems to be to just create a custom Ublue image, and I've been trying to do that and have failed miserably on multiple occasions.
And on top of all that, there are a bunch of useless configurations, like the shell, and whatever they did with ld, breaking my Neovim in the process, which I'd prefer not to have.
While it is very good for a Steam Deck OS, it still has issues like every other distro out there.
It is true. I'd praise Fedora currently. I have praised Arch when I used it. For all the issues I had with its outdated software, I praised Debian for that month I've used it. I had praise NixOS' rollbacks, while sparing the details on the learning curve and immense difficulty of setup and weird, obscure issues I had with it.
Ultimately, every distro without exception has some issues for different people. That's a fact. It's all about what you can and cannot live with, what fits and what doesn't fit your purposes.
I want the latest software after some good testing and on a static release if possible, with all the software available, a fast package manager, and NOT Arch, as I was done with it for various reasons. Got pissed at NixOS, OpenSUSE's zypper is the worst package manager bar none (because it's slower than the older dnf, and doesn't even have parallel downloads, and doesn't have many mirrors either). So Fedora it is. And I'll stay here for a while, seeing as there isn't anything better for me.
And I'll praise Fedora for what it does right, while casually avoiding the fact that the first thing I did after install was to install and set up dnf5, and not mentioning I had mirror issues twice in the last month (I had none in the months prior, but twice in the span of 2-3 weeks?).
Anyways, that's just me ranting about Linux distros, because as much as everyone claims they're the same (and they are when it comes to usage), they are very different when it comes to package managers, package availability, package versions, and release cycles, and those are the main differences between them all.
They might as well skip 4.0 and just start work on the GTK 5 version next.
Wow, people are selfish bastards who will almost always put their needs before those of others. Who would have thought? I'm not defending him, I'm attacking you for expecting more of people.
And don't pretend you wouldn't have done the same. Put yourself in his position and tell me you wouldn't have done the same thing, or maybe even handled the situation worse than he did.
So what? Is the US Government going to prohibit Nvidia and AMD from using TSMC's chips to make money for Big Tech so they can keep on their ~~corruption~~ lobbying over the US Gov? I highly doubt it. It's just smoke and mirrors, as usual.
AI can fix it if we make it a politician, seeing as it agrees we should've started acting on climate change 10 times harder, and 10-20 years earlier than we did.
Operation: Eat the Rich is a go! I repeat: Operation Eat the Rich is a go!
Wait, there's GPL code there as well???
I'd heard of all the others but this ome kinda snuck under the radar with all the larger issues at play here
It didn't happen with SimpleMobileTools but it might happen with Fossify:
A Custom ROM that replaces the stock apps with this suite would be just a wonderful idea! I'd love to see this happen. If anyone wants to collaborate on such an idea, let me know.
I tried Zen again after this article and it's improved a lot since 2 months ago.
I'm still missing some keybinds (some keybinds I used on Vivaldi are not available, and some keybinds that are available (workspace switching) don't seem to work),
also missing my custom theme from Vivaldi (I might just fork a Zen theme and make it that way) ,
and I still have some issues regarding the ability to remove the top bar (namely, when getting the URL bar with Ctrl-L, it calls the entire top bar instead of just the URL bar, and I can't seem to make that disappear with just ESC. Sometimes it just hangs there no matter what I do, just for the sake of being annoying. Also, it's not even disabled, just hidden and if you accidentally hover over the top of the window, it's back! Absolutely infuriating!)
but other than that, it's pretty great!
It's actually quite impressive for Alpha software. What's with 2024 and super stable Alphas of projects that make power user capabilities accessible and easy to use for everyone? First, COSMIC DE and now Zen Browser!
Edit: Update on these issues:
Missing Keybinds: They are all already reported as Github issues.
Workspaces keybinds issue: Caused by an already-reported issue that websites seem to take priority and grab every keybind before the browser, meaning I had to use one of the worst key combinations I've ever used (Win+Alt+{num}), for workspace switching. UPDATE: Trying Ctrl+{num}, we'll see if that works.
Custom Theme: I tried to remake it using Mozilla's tools and getting it up on the addons store but Mozilla removed it cuz it was too similar to another theme? Even though I literally created it? Weird. I couldn't be bothered to deal with their bullshit so I forked a Zen theme that someone else had made and based it on that, with custom firefox css.
The top bar issue is still there, not sure what I can do about it.
And I'm interested because you wouldn't make an article if it wasn't interesting slop, right? Right? (Insert Star wars meme here)
Oh, nevermind then. Don't care.