You can also get the appimage on https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

After downloading, set the execute bit: chmod +x ./GIMP-3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage and then open the file to open gimp.

Yeah now I agree with you. I didnt understand the full impact the first time around.

(thanks for taking your time to actually explain it to all)

I might be in minority here but I kinda see the point the Readium guy is making, specifically this one:

We managed to convince publishers (even big US publishers) to adopt a solution that is flexible for readers and appreciated by public libraries and booksellers

Publishers and companies will always want DRM so at the very least we (as a community) could offer a DRM that is less flawed, more respecting of privacy and FOSS, etc. If we dont, someone else will offer a DRM solution thats far worse (and publishers will implement it because they dont care and there are no consequences).

yep very underrated piece of software, its so fast and reliable compared to like packagekit

If you dont mind using the terminal, there is topgrade which can update many different kinds of packages with a single command (topgrade).

You can also build mintinstall (linux mints updater/store) on ubuntu.

huh, I guess its fine if others do it too but looking at the discussion on that issue and it seems this might not go well with some people

you mean the recent libadwaita 1.7 change? why did they do that, any idea?

One thing I’m doing differently in Arch this time is I’m trying out installing as many things as possible as flatpaks. I’ve successfully ignored them until now. Surprisingly, a lot of my apps are already packaged as flatpaks.

Yeah I have grown a liking to flatpaks too but I dont think I can live with only flatpaks yet.

The other thing I’m borrowing is distrobox+podman. I didn’t know about that before. This seems useful for dev environments.

Distrobox is really nice, I even run some gui applications in containers.

That being said, I’ve never had a problem with pacman breaking my system, so I don’t see major value in doing this… other than… it’s helping me procrastinate! I should be doing real work right now. 😄

This is the only thing keeping from arch tbh. I shudder to think of all the ways I can procrastinate on arch!

KO, the bcachefs dev, did things in the kernel in a way that caused quite a bit drama. But with time and after some push back, KO now has adapted to the development process (and no drama since then).

Since it’s also fully experimental, it’s more harmful than beneficial to keep it in the kernel imo.

Its experimental but its an fs, it doesn’t affect anyone who doesn’t want to use it. Many drivers are also mainlined in an experimental state and then slowly worked upstream (for e.g. the new nova nvidia gpus driver).

why? Its not going to affect you if you dont use it.

He is the CEO of lemmy.

Thanks, didn’t knew it was based on Debian Sid though that makes a lot of sense for an immutable distro since I assume you can easily rollback in case of issues.

I had the same suspicion that it probably doesn’t work well for seasoned linux users but its nice to see its otherwise fine. I have used ublue in the past and my experience was similar.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer.

Did you use the linux-surface kernel? It has additional community maintained patches for surface devices and detailed installation instructions for the best linux experience. From their feature matrix they seem to have full support for sgo2.

Not sure if its available on pmOS though.

sorry its OT but what has been your experience so far with VanillaOS? I remember there was a lot of discussion about it a while back but haven’t heard much since then.

There is also Merkuro Mail which has a more modern design that some might prefer (to Kmail).

The MAU of lemmy.world is ~18,600 which is a bit greater than the combined MAU of the next 7 instances (a big help here is lemm.ee which has ~7000 MAU). This is a really healthy spread of users and it means we don’t lose lemmy if the biggest instance goes down.

Compare that to Mastodon, where mastodon.social has more MAU (~372,000) than the combined MAU of the next 30 instances at least (I gave up counting). Thats not healthy for the ecosystem. Though tbf the total MAU of mastodon is ~899,000 so without mastodon.social they will still have ~527,000 but it will be very spread out.

Yeah fedora does it even for small updates, not just kernel updates. But only if you update through the store.

I wonder if immutable systems could negate the need for kernel anti cheat. If the game can ensure the current kernel and image is one from a list of acceptable ones, it doesn’t need to kernel anti cheat. They could do this by comparing the checksum or something.

of course, no problem

Yeah I was talking in general, its weird and a potential privacy risk.