My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:
fortunately there was a local shop who’d replace the battery (it wasn’t a fairphone so I couldn’t do it myself). If it wasn’t for the software support I’d have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.
I’ve just used Itinerary for a few flights I needed to take and it worked really well. I love these really high quality mobile apps KDE are making!
I hate it.
Usually I’m online but what if I’m not, or what if they have server problems, or what if in 5 years they feel done with the game and remove the servers. If I pay for a game, I want to be able to play that game on my terms
It just leads to a worse player experience now, and limited likely an inability to play later
I asked in the nixOS community a few days ago, but since you mentioned you run nixOS on servers too, what’s been your experience?
Firstly, I think if you want to try switching to macOS, do, it might suite you better. You could always switch back to Linux if you change your mind, but be aware linux typically runs worse on apple hardware. I would say I’ve read and heard people have plenty of problems on macOS too, so the grass might not be as green as it first appears. MacOS does have one thing going for it, which is integration between hardware and software, apple make both. You can get a similar effect by picking specific hardware in linux, it’s less important, linux runs well on most hardware, but if you for example pick a thinkpad, you’ll probably have a better experience on the whole as lots of linux kernel developers use them.
It could be worth trying to ask in a community forum or IRC about each bug specifically and try to fix them, or you could switch distributions and see if a different distribution runs better for you, although Ubuntu is pretty well used and I think I’ve heard they tend to ship recent kernels.
I don’t think the variety is effecting this too much, generally someone working on some tiling window manager isn’t impacting a user who’s using a vanilla-ish ubuntu install, it only really impacts the folk using it and if you’re using Ubuntu you’re using a well defined, well tested set of software. Yes maybe the variety of package management might be effecting you if you’re using some esoteric package management system, but ubuntu uses apt and to an increasing degree snap, so I suspect that isn’t playing a big role in your problems.
Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I’m honest. Are they actively trying to piss off literally everyone?
How come you went back to tumbleweed?
I haven’t really, I’ve always been a bit scared off by the alpha warning on kalpa
I’m a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.
I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I’ve tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.
I’m really glad to hear this. Hopefully over the coming years with laws like this allowing service manuals and laws like the EU’s right to repair and get parts we’ll see much better devices that we can hang on to longer. It’s unsustainable to continue using and throwing away devices at the rate many do.
I knew neochat existed but wasn’t able to use it as it didn’t used to support end-to-end encryption, but I noticed recently that they’ve added support for it so I’ve switched. It’s been great, I use matrix both at work and at home and I love being able to native implementation.
Definitely worth giving a try if you haven’t already.
I really like these “for” pages KDE are making recently, for those who haven’t seen they’ve also done:
I think they do a good job of showcasing some really awesome software KDE have.
This is huge, I don’t have statistics but surely the most popular third party app.
I really hope reddit is hurt a lot by this move they’re doing. It feels like it’s probably too late for them to walk it back and that’s probably a good thing. As much as I really enjoy a lot of the communities over there, I don’t think it’s healthy they remain on reddit, they clearly don’t have the best interests of their users now, if they ever did. I know they’ve lost me and a lot of people who are moving over to lemmy, but I do hope a lot more follow and this hurts them.
I actually have really fond memories of Sabayon, the community was really nice. It also served as a good gateway into Gentoo by giving you a pre-configured usable system, including its binary package manager, but also gentoo’s emerge (not that you should use both at the same time).