Well that is probably dash to panel. Or does it autohide somehow?

Themes are not a security risk XD executable code, widgets and a lack of standardization resulting in shady install scripts, that is a security risk

Themes are just colors

Edit: after reading the post, the below is not really relevant to the blog post

Interesting one

I guess it is fair that nobody wants to deal with GNOME and their reluctance of theming. I like theming and despise “light” (white) themes or not well readable dark themes (that dont save any energy on non-OLED displays).

I am on KDE, using GNOME at work (it is okay but worse in like 20 aspects I regularly use). Tried COSMIC on lower end hardware and it was not great.

I like that they support theming but agree, their desktop is pretty ugly.

Tho I use GNOME with dash-to-panel and blur-my-shell as well as the breeze cursor. The default theme is kinda weird (not blurring wastes potential) and the macOS like top bar is worse to use and wastes screen space (most importantly on Laptops).

GNOME is way worse than KDE, COSMIC has a couple of nice things but is worse than GNOME still for my use cases. No surprises.

I have to stress though that statically linked binaries are not good. Many distros shipping COSMIC use those, wasting RAM, optimisations and potentially vendoring outdated dependencies.

I also believe people when they dislike C++ and say KDE has a messy codebase. So I very much hope that COSMIC (with a substantial theme) can replace KDE for me. But I highly doubt that.

More importantly is, how old DEs make the transition from C and C++ to Rust, Zig, Go or whatever else you prefer.

With Windows going all in on Javascript you can see how not to do it XD

Well, the app uses Firebase for all the personal data it seems, so Google knows where you are all the time

Same with olive oil

Yes of course, it inputs text.

But gboard is surveillance software, your voice is literally analyzed on their servers.

I did some network logs of gboard, you might be interested XD it basically sends data all the time

Yes of course, it inputs text.

But gboard is surveillance software, your voice is literally analyzed on their servers.

I did some network logs of gboard, you might be interested XD it basically sends data all the time

And of that, 70% is used to host or feed animals. The waste is insane.

True, you could use text input and some voice input on the phone, like FUTO voice input

It is fine but requires the complete Kf5 Qt5 bundle (which is end of life) because it is unmaintained. But yes, that is what you would use for now

For the tts part, try PiperTTS it allows to use various models for speaking

Yes but they change it quite a lot.

Nick from TheLinuxExperiment tested it and thought touch support was broken, but it was just Ubuntus changes. Vanilla GNOME might be better

Something with KDE or GNOME. KDE has better convertible support overall, but currently no working software keyboard (plasma-keyboard is in development tho)

GNOME has no adaptive things, works fine tho and has a software keyboard

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Well I dont have swap XD I should really make one

In my experience that is not really true. If you use Flatpaks (for recent versions and sandboxing), a browser with many tabs, unoptimised RAM eating electron apps like Signal Desktop, and then have a couple of things like Syncthing and some programs to share Linux ISOs running in the background, stuff gets tight quickly.

I would then also play a video in MPV and maybe encode one with ffmpeg, then oomd comes and kills apps, after my system was frozen for multiple minutes.

I used 20GB (4+16) for a while without issues. Just get another 16GB, if you can afford it XD

And yes agree, 16GB is kinda needed for modern Linux systems and normal to complex software workloads

Cool and all but stop the rebooting hate

1. I just installed some random drivers, I guess without rebooting. Windows is intransparent af, but I think this was the case.
2. Reboots are very important and should be done with updates. Atomic systems make sense!

Separate scanned PDF per person, as an image, no OCR, 3MB in size

Computertruhe could be happy about well working laptops! Dont hoard ;) you can try distros with external SSDs