Quickshell is definitely the most popular. I think QTs flexibility is a big part of what made it so popular.
Probably the biggest similar project that used AGS was end-4s Hyprland dots, which eventually switched to Quickshell too. The dev shared some of the reasoning behind it here.
There’s also Fabric, there’s a Hyprland shell called Ax-Shell using it that seems pretty popular, but I don’t know much about it.
Nice! I just switched to niri + DMS, its great!
“read the changes before installing a major update”
Obviously I dont think people need to read every change log for every piece of software. I do think its a good idea to read the release notes for a major update of your DE thought, since its the piece of software that is going to effect you the most.
And once it is no longer on and has become a setting, they can just remove the setting and force people to drop gsettings and then remove it completely.
What reason do they possibly have to do this? The setting already exists and is feature complete. It doesnt require maintenance. They also noted in the merge request that many RHEL users use it, so RedHat has a financial incentive not to remove it.
They could also instead ask people on first launch. Some people enable telemetry, so they will find out how many people prefer to keep it, which I bet will be most.
They could also just make it a setting. I really dont think it makes a big difference. They can also still use telemetry to see how many users enable it. Based on this thread, I really doubt it will be most.
The first time startup wizard should be kept relatively short and minimal. This just seems like a very unnecessary thing to include.
I was disagreeing with the statement “valve doesnt sell hardware at a loss”, which applies to more than just the Steam Machine.
I was unaware that they had said this, thanks for sharing it.
I wasnt trying to imply the idea was to somehow take over PC gaming. My point was just that creating new PC users by offering a console like experience will increase Steam sales.
This is AI generated garbage with no sources.
We dont know that Valve doesnt sell hardware at a loss. Its entirely possible the Steam Deck was sold at a loss on release. The only real thing Valve has said about the price was Newell describing it as “painful”.
It makes sense for Valve to sell hardware at a loss when breaking into a new market. Any purchases are very likely to lead to more purchases on Steam.
It will break their workflow for a few seconds before they change the setting back. Or they could read the changes before installing a major update and change it before even doing anything.
Maybe in the future it will be added to the initial setup guide along with stuff like choosing if you want mouse acceleration, but I really dont think its that big a deal.
Do any DEs still have 1 click folder opening by default?
If you add the shortcut at the DE level it definitely should work in every program. Idk if Gnome actually let’s you bind copy and paste though.
It already is configurable, theyre just defaulting it to off. You will be able to turn it back on.
It’s very easy for a user to accidentally paste private or sensitive information somewhere dangerous if theyre unaware of this feature.
The FreeDesktop specification refers to this feature as an “easter egg”, and something like this should absolutely not be an easter egg.
This change would mean disabling it by default and adding a settings entry that actually explains it, making sure users are informed before they can accidentally use it.
And that is the exact reason that was given in the gnome merge request. A user being able to accidentally paste a bunch of text they didnt even know they’d copied incredibly design.
It’d be so easy for them to just add “by default” to the end of the title.
The project already has some paid options with more features: https://xpipe.io/pricing
AFAIK some HDMI to DP converters can be used to work around this. Since the converter is handling the VRR management in its own code, then converting it to DP, there’s no need for a FOSS implementation
Duh, but now that this has replaced SDDM as the main login manager for plasma, Cachy will likely replace SDDM with it by default.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to say SQLite is universally better. I shouldn’t have said best option, I really meant best default. I don’t think the majority of users are running a central db, most will just spin-up docker compose files for each service and end up with multiple SQL versions running.
I’ve had a lot of problems in the past from software crashes that left sqlite files in a corrupt state
I have had this issue, but it was always easily recoverable. I haven’t had the same issues with backups, although a lot of the software I use that’s running SQLite has a builtin backup feature, then I just backup that directory to a cloud service.
Besides that SQLite really doesn’t play nice with NFS, which is the basis for quite a few cloud storage providers. Also a good point, I just don’t think the majority of users are using NFS for their DBs.
When an app is using an ORM already, I think they might as well make sure it supports both SQLite and a hosted DB like Postgres
SQLite doesnt require you to have any service running, the DB is just stored in a file which the program accesses through an SQLite library. I think its the best option for selfhosted software, as its very lightweight and more than performant enough for 99% of these use cases.
I think matugen is great if you want something similar to android, where your can have your entire system them follow your wallpaper.
I’m personally not a fan of doing that, I’d rather just use existing themes like Catppuccin, they tend to look good more consistently. It already supports basically everything I use.