Did you see the video or is this a lucky coincidence? I refer to the video uploaded today: “I Used Proton Mail for 6 Months - Is it Good?” (18:37 min.) by The Linux Cast, watch on YouTube or Invidious on Dec 10, 2024

He explains a bit his experience and talks about switching from Gmail to Proton Mail. So you might be interested into watching.

it’s like magic or somethin’.

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From one of my memes (which compares the common 3 OS types): https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3ad94e0f-c145-4b1b-9a41-16f3ebcfee1b.webp

It will hurt the whole way down. Please don’t climb.

Also implies that you can actually climb it (metaphorical for “learning”) and has the option to stay above or climb down. Based on the image, its an art project that just stays there for you to explore.

Another serious suggestion is OpenSUSE. They have a rolling release (like Arch does) model distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed - https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ and another distribution more stable in a sense like Ubuntu releases versions, openSUSE Leap - https://get.opensuse.org/leap . openSUSE is seriously a good and reliable distribution that existed for long time, but is not too much well known in the entire Linux world. If I was not focused on Arch based distros recently, it would have been my choice probably.

https://nyarchlinux.moe/

Nyarch Linux

The perfect linux distribution for degenerated weebs.

It’s based on Arch, therefore has my approval. I don’t use it, just saw it in some Linux related comment mentioned recently (today in fact).

I personally use EndeavourOS - https://endeavouros.com/ , which is based on Arch and operates close to Archlinux, but has some automated stuff going on that helps people like me. Its so close to Arch, that I ask myself why I’m not switching to it entirely. Simple answer is: Don’t touch a running system.

Thanks for sharing. Pretty cool site, instant bookmark. The About page is the first thing I lookup when I want to understand the purpose of a page: https://libregamewiki.org/LibreGameWiki

I’ve noticed that too and try that also. Sometimes the reader does not find anything, but adding /rss.xml or /feed/ or something manually to the link does work at times. The inconsistency is also a problem. But some blogs just do not have such a functionality at all, or is not tested (wrong dates, therefore unusable). Its often sometimes an afterthought and inconsistent.

I wish more blogs, websites and services would offer RSS feeds. I personally use Thunderbird as my feed reader on PC. Not sure if the Android client has this functionality too.

Actually that’s my biggest issue. Give me settings, give me choice

That’s an GNOME issue mostly I think. It has this least possible settings and oversimplification approach, because GNOME thinks people can’t handle it. Ubuntu modified the configuration of GNOME that it looks and behave somewhat similar to previous Unity versions.

But its not about just how it started. Snap was more focused on phones and servers, not on desktop in the beginning. And there were not much, because Snap was usable over the following years (like Flatpak). Canonical could see how the entire rest of the Linux communities and distributions adopted Flatpak and could have switched to it. But contrary to it, Canonical was very pushy about Snap. So my argument is, Canonical should have dropped Snap early when they still could (just like they did with Mir in example). But they didn’t.

Obviously now its a different situation, but you were talking about the beginning in this reply.

Here we go again… Some historical reasons, and some technical. Here are a few (strong points) that comes to my mind:

Ubuntu has a track record to do their own thing and splitting community or the entire Linux eco system, such as with Unity, Mir and Snaps. Unity was badly implemented desktop environment in the beginning and lot of people didn’t like it. Although I think it was a great DE over time, it was just another fuel in the fire. More serious problem was Mir. Mir was an alternative to Wayland, because Canonical was not happy with Wayland and they didn’t want to implement what Ubuntu tried to do on phones. But that meant the programs and protocols to support was now X11, Wayland and Mir. And related to it, the focus of mobile user interface on desktop (Mir+Unity) was something lot of desktop fans didn’t like at that time. Canonical gave up on Mir and Unity (and smartphones entirely).

Snaps were very slow at the beginning, some people does not like that it fills the device loops, and not many apps were available as snaps. Snap is a similar but alternative technology to Flatpak. Again, because Canonical was not happy with Flatpak and Snap truly has some advantages over it. But it means splitting the eco system once again. But what made it really upsetting for many is, that not only Snap is pushed by Canonical a lot, but also when installing a native package, the package manager would silently install the snap version instead. That is sneaky. And not only that. The Snap repository from Canonical is proprietary. And if you want support Snap, you have to use that repo or use your own repo. Unlike Flatpak, you cannot have multiple repositories. That means in Snap you can only use Canonicals proprietary Snap repository, because otherwise you would not have all the apps in it.

There was some Amazon related datas send to Amazon with an app, every time you searched in the search bar of Unity. Even though this is gone for long time, it still is something people (me included) remember. Some say it was spyware… which is kind of was, but is up to debate.

Also some do not like that Canonical is a corporation. I personally don’t have a problem with that (and used it for 13 years exclusively), but its something to mention what problems have with. Also Ubuntu is used in Windows too, so people have conspiracies too or do not like their cooperation. I’m fine with that and actually like that Linux gets more exposure this way. But again, some people don’t like it.

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Maybe a better place to ask would be one of the following places:

• https://beehaw.org/c/technology
• https://beehaw.org/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

For your question, are you talking about streaming videos? At least on YouTube videos are at 60 fps. The higher the fps, the more bandwidth and space is required on the servers. Therefore YouTube will limit 4k at 60 fps to paying customers. And for the casual smartphone videos, isn’t 30 fps at 4k not the default? People like to have higher resolution, because they don’t understand what fps probably is (I mean the non tech mommies).

Are you talking about movies? Movies often aren’t filmed at 60 fps, therefore it would be lot of waste to stream them at 60. I’m not sure if this is still true with modern films though. I didn’t keep up with tech much.

Yeah. Lot of people also use Ai generated code… so…

I have tested if clippy would warn me with a simple example (generates 6.7gb memory usage, be careful not to crash your computer if you add another 0…), while I watch with a system monitor (in KDE):

use std::thread;
use std::time;

fn main() {
    let mut vec = Vec::new(); // Create an empty Vector.

    for number in 0..900000000 {
        let bign: i64 = number * number;
        vec.push(bign);
    }

    thread::sleep(time::Duration::from_secs(10));
}

I used the pedantic option of clippy and the only thing it complained was about the notation of the number…:

$ cargo clippy -- -W clippy::pedantic
warning: long literal lacking separators
--> src/main.rs:7:22
|
7 |     for number in 0..900000000 {
|                      ^^^^^^^^^ help: consider: `900_000_000`
|
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#unreadable_literal
= note: `-W clippy::unreadable-literal` implied by `-W clippy::pedantic`
= help: to override `-W clippy::pedantic` add `#[allow(clippy::unreadable_literal)]`

warning: `notright` (bin "notright") generated 1 warning
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.00s

Especially if you have to use unsafe libraries from C, or use any unsafe block at all to do low level programming or for performance.

Yes. And this has huge implications, as as root user in Vim you can load and edit other files. While sudoedit is limited to your personal environment, as while the editing process no root privileges are in use. (I think…)

Not even a joke, I was sleepy (before going to bed) when making this post. :D So not sure why I said this. I like how the replies have good faith and trying to find a reason.^^ lovely community

Good point. I was always wondering how secure this is, as it works with copies of the files in my environment. Because I’m in my personal environment, doing sudoedit /etc/fstab does not let me edit other files from root while in that file. That means if any of the plugins from Vim tries to, they can’t edit arbitrary files, right? (If you don’t trust the plugin, then don’t use, but that’s another topic.) Little side note, just learned that sudoedit ~/.bashrc does not allow me to edit files in my home too.

I didn’t do anything special to make that work. The variable export EDITOR='nvim' is set in my “.bash_profile” file in “Home” directly. The point of sudoedit is to use your personal environment, so it should pick it up. If there is any configuration needed to make this work, then I"m not aware of it.