I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.
I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.
Thats not relevant because Cosmic isn’t either.
My view is that if the goal was to effectively make good software they wouldn’t start from scratch.
If they used wlroots the desktop would be usable today with a good feature set.
If they used Qt or GTK they would have feature rich well supported software. (GTK4 could have been an improvement for them, it’s designed around being minimal and having platform libraries implement design choices)
They didn’t take a practical approach imo. You could argue its a long term investment but because of it it’s probably years off of feature parity. The only upside today is… it’s written in Rust.
Nobody loves arguing semantics more than a programmer. VSCode is absolutely an IDE. Jetbrains is entirely plugin based, Eclipse is totally plugin based, and yeah so is VSCode.
The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.
FWIW many modern text editors just let you modify multiple lines at once.
Fedora does not because they can’t support it. If a bug is found all they can do is shrug and point you at Nvidia. If they want to add a feature that breaks they would be stuck and have to hold back other drivers.
The kernel drivers were never an issue, but userspace drivers fixed this many years ago with glvnd.
It means it will break less on kernel updates. I don’t think it fundamentally changes much else for gaming.
Every package has an architecture but you never have to care about it.
No its not, the package is literally “htop”.
I think you are mistaken. An example:
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glib2/
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/glib2/glib2/
Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libglib2.0-0
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libglib2.0-cil
This is the common case, but Debian gets really out there some times.
And I’ll just say dnf
is a much easier to use tool:
dnf install /usr/bin/aprogram
dnf install 'pkgconfig(glib-2.0)'
As a packager I’ll just say Debian is the one with the weird package names. Fedora just matches upstream names generally, similar to Arch.
Fedora will live without red hat. It’s got a community structure in place, all infrastructure is open, etc.
Obviously it would lose some funding and manpower but other distros get by.
A distro has thousands of independent sources. No your distro doesn’t audit them all, barely any.
You can choose folders in the portal now.
TL;DR for anybody worried. systemd-tmpfiles --purge
was too broad in scope (and has a confusing name) so now you must be more specific when using it to avoid accidentally deleting things.
In simple usage OpenGL can perform identical to Vulkan. A compositor with little complex rendering won’t change.
Video decoding/encoding should work fine, better than Nvidia as fewer things support nvdec (the vaapi wrapper is enough though).