My point is they are not corporate overlords, that is the good thing smh

And yes, feature parity with a thing written in the eighties might not be a good idea either

Wayland devs develop stuff for wayland and most of them work for free, those that are payd are usually payd to do stuff that is needed by their employer. Spoiler alert: employers don’t give a damn about screensavers.

If you need additional stuff you need to either develop it yourself, or pay someone to do it for you.

This attitude of pressuring devs to do the work for you works if you pay for something, in opensource it is usually frowned upon.

People can complain all they like, if it ain’t useful to those who pay or those who work on it, it won’t be done.

In my opinion that is a feature not a bug.

Why are screensavers still used?

Nothing that causes pixels to change color “saves” anything these days, unless you have some kind of old LCD display.

Wayland has no limitations for how a traditional screensaver should work, nobody bothered to implement one, that is why there isn’t one yet IMO.

Hate to be the guy but if you need one you either need to hack something on top of xscreensaver like others in the thread said, or implement something native for those that need it to protect their old monitor.

That said, in case you don’t actually need a screensaver but a looping video for a kiosk type of situation you might just setup a videoplayer in a loop and turn off screen power saving.

Yes, screensavers are for sure among the top 300 features needed for this.

Cat too. It works largely the same way

This works. You can also cat image.iso >/dev/sdx

I always laugh at windows users with their external random apps to do something elementary

Its about sending the message: fuck ubuntu, w debian to the mint maintainers

All these projects for sure are cloned on multiple backups, if something happens and github is no longer viable it is a minimal effort to clone the source code and bug tracking and move it somewhere else. Serious projects will have contingenties in place for this, lesser projects will do what the big guys do

You seem to think that the idea is that linux and most FOSS projects are some carebear nonprofit charity organization. You are wrong.

In most cases the idea is that open source work is there because it is easier to share technological progress if multiple companies work at it. And because of this it is just better than the alternative. The linux kernel is worked on by multiple large corporations that are in the business of making money using servers. If these servers run better then they make more money. To make them run better for them they need to implement their features and because of the licence and the ecosystem they need to publish these modifications back to the upstream.

All this works so good because a lot of companies make a lot of money with it.

Github will be used as long as it does not interfere with the workflow or with the legal aspects, nobody cares about the spirit nearly as much as you think

I mean, I don’t disagree, but ultimatively what motivates game developers and users is what matters.

Me and you won’t install that crap, but the kind of people that want to see pretty pixels and don’t care what runs with their kernel might have more options in future.

Yet again a reminder that flathub solves a problem most people don’t have, and most users het confused with what it does.

We have had granular permissions for users on systems for 50 years, and virtual machines for 30 years, yet people keep using the wrong tool for the job just because the wrong tools keep getting popilar for some damn reason.

OP you are using your flatpack terminal wrong, the processes it launches do not inherit the constraints, or at least are not forced to follow them. Use a separate user account for that.

Do not forget, this is unreal engine work, a native linux build with an anticheat kernel module is the likely path here. Huge step forward for the kind of people that need that kind of thing to move from windows

The main issue is that nobody is able to come up with anything better. I use systemd because it made my job hugely easier and soved many problems. The main guy is an asshole but his work is good when you use it as he intended, which kind of is the point of open source.

If you don’t like it you fork and do your own thing, until now nobody bothered, and this is telling.

Poettering did respectable work in snarky fields like audio and init nobody wanted to do something in and everybody complained about. I respect that despite he behaving like a spoiled asshole

Debian uses systemd exclusively for init. The distros op listed are some of the only ones that remain that do not force it.

I agree with the rest of what you said ;)

They don’t still dump you into the kernel build configurator these days?

Yes and no. It would be an issue if the coreutils were actually something difficult to do, but the main difficulty that project is encountering is just keeping bug-accurate compatibility. The fact they actually managed to get something working in a couple months is the indicator that it is not really that gamechanging.

Now a kernel or a browser on the other hand are another beast.

Gentoo, along with arch and their derivatives are more advanced distros, that will require you to actually learn stuff to be able to use them.

That said, if you are motivated and have the time there is no reason to not try, and the arch wiki and installation manual are in my experience very good at explaining everything you need to know on the system side.

I know that the gentoo handbook is also very good, and the main difference between gentoo and arch is that there is the additional uncommon step to build everything from source, kernel included.

You could go with gentoo directly, but since you seem searching for a progression I do recommend to try arch first before going to the gentoo endgame.

Are you crazy? On the terminal?

Regedit is a lot easier!

/s

They should stop with that touch screen crap, always connected to the internet spyware bullshit, but they are putting that everywhere now not just EVs.

We will soon be in the siutuation where if you want an old car without that crap you can’t even go into the larger eu cities anymore, because the engine will be too polluting.

There really is a market for cars without that crap. As long as it brings me and my family to destination safely I don’t care how it is propelled.

Your performance issues are likely not an issue with thunderbird but with your hardware or some weird filesystem. Like others in the replies I have ten years of emails stored in my thunderbird inbox and they search near instantly.

It does not matter where the mails come from (gmail or other), if you are using thunderbird or any other client to store them locally, virtually all providers have an imap and pop3 endpoint the client connects to download everything