Linux community, post about an OpenBSD review… On DistroWatch, not DerivativeWatch (lol)

No, it’s fun, I’m just amused. :D

If Google decides to, it can remove anything from AOSP, as it has done countless of times. Android is deeply controlled by Google.

Does that use pipewire-pulse while you are using pipewire? That occasionally has weird issues.

Try launching Pavucontrol and see if it has similar issues.

XMPP server would be another idea, those will happily run on anything and barely require resources.

A tiling windows manager with workspaces IS a switcher.

Sway. Windows manager, switcher… all that. Fully keyboard controlled. You can change any key combination you don’t like. :)

Just because the linked site does mention it does not mean it is not worth pointing out.

Yes, but just because SMART does not complain does not mean the drive has issues. If it does, it means there are issues. That should be kept in mind.

I really like GNOME, but I’m so used to my Sway/i3 keybindings I’ve been using for nine years without any change… I just cannot switch. I’d also miss tiling.

Meanwhile, the two things I dislike with Sway:

• the way window borders look
• nm-applet can’t be clicked to open a list of wifis, so I rely on nmtui (although it works on i3)

But I use a lot of GNOME software, especially on my phone. :D

Several different operating systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD (the latter one having a live system and being the easiest to try out). Those have their history based in BSD. But thatʼs all bit too much to fit in s reply here.

Unlike Linux distributions, those projects develop a kernel and the other parts together and make an OS.

Most software will be available on BSDs and on Linux distributions.

The OS itself is kinda nice, but having their own app format surely does not help.

They’ve waiting too long with open sourcing some components and have only just started open sourcing a bit more, I believe they’re currently open sourcing the gallery app.

I test it occasionally, but there isn’t even an XMPP client that supports OMEMO (although XMPP is built into the system), no KeePass compatible app, no Syncthing, no public transport app I could use for Germany, …

I could use it with the Android app support, but that’s proprietary and the goal would be to use Linux instead of Android, not an Android container on a Linux running on an old Android kernel.

On other distros, I can just use regular packages or Flatpak (for example pretty much everything from the GNOME project works on phones these days) and don’t miss anything really.

Just that. Also, most research I’ve seen claim no difference to be found, but surely that also depends and neurotype and several other things, so it might still be helpful for some groups.

Testing does not have dedicated security work and issues could be unsolved for a couple more days. You can use testing, of course, but read Debian security advisories. Upgrade packages from Unstable if there’s something critical and do not wait days for a fix.

It’s called unstable because packages are constantly upgraded, unlike Debian Stable, which stays the same until the next release and only gets patches. It is NOT called unstable “because they do not guarantee that it will work”, for that you’d need paid enterprise support from some company.

Yes, that seems all like neat technology, but what is the use-case for that?

~/git

Everything else is managed by Ansible or synced via Synthing (except ~/Downloads).

I was trying to find a summary of what it does, but couldn’t. That’s how far I’ve got.

Oh, you can do serious work with GNOME, most people try to force it into something that it is not.

This video gives a good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDLfRjam0E

I know many people that prefer GNOME for their work in IT. I prefer Sway, but use GNOME on phones and tablets, where it works great for me.

Is this satire? Just wondering, because it sounds so stupid.

Not sure what they complain about, but to me that self promotion is annoying.