It does not “just work” for me and I love it that way. I got bored of using Kubuntu LTS because nothing interesting happened. Now I’m running prerelease versions of everything and get to file (and fix!) bug reports on the reg.

QWERTY keyboard. 2/10

I don’t think I’ve entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using <hostname>.local thanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for… 20 years I think?

Do you even DNS?

I’m pretty sure if they had come out of Canonical they’d be GPLv3. I can’t really blame you though - I’ve pointed that out to a half dozen people, none of them seemed to know.

What I do find ironic is that one of the people who’s complaining about the MIT-licensed uutils is a big fan of alpine Linux and the MIT-licensed musl…

This isn’t Canonical. uutils has been MIT licensed and included in both Debian and Ubuntu for a while. Canonical releases a lot of their code under GPL/LGPL, including the source for canonical.com. They even release some of their stuff under the AGPL.

Please don’t spam this post.

Please don’t spam this post.

Been using KDE exclusively on Wayland for over 2 years. What am I missing?

Hot take: the more Gnome shoots itself in the foot, the better for Linux.

You’re describing the boot keyboard, not the full USB HID protocol. It is true that there are some keyboards that only support NKRO, but the USB HID protocol has supported NKRO forever. https://www.devever.net/~hl/usbnkro

Me replacing GNU coreutils with the rust ones.

That doesn’t get you a good text editor. That just gets you emacs with two bad next editors.

But how am I going to use capabilities to have my equivalent of sl having setuid to nobody?

They’re downloaded somewhere under /var/snap and by default a snap only has access to a limited set of directories - one under /var/snap for system-wide data (generally used by snaps that run services like cups or MySQL) and one under ~/snap for each user. When you snap remove an app, it bundles that up into a file that’s kept for a while in case you reinstall, but it won’t if you use --purge.

Obviously many apps request access to other places (such as non-hidden directories in your homedir) so they can read or write stuff, but that’s down to the app to then behave correctly (same as with any other packaging system).

Let me know when I can get cups as a flatpak.

(Oh and snaps predate flatpaks.)

Yeah the API is open and there used to be an open store, but lack of interest ended up with the project shutting down. As it turns out people don’t like alternative stores nearly as much as they like the idea of alternative stores.

sl and KDE plasma

Good way to check that all the parts are working before putting whatever you want on it.

While that’s true and what I’m about to say could be legend rather than reality, I grew up being told that giraffes also tend to go to the top of a hill during storms, making them more likely to be struck by lightning.