Wake me up when they add Linux support and AI content disclosures.

This will be interesting as well. Your Linux desktop will be able to remember window positions and sizes across restarts. So if you are meticulous about an organized layout where the terminal is on the left and the browser is on the right, it will be the same even after your system restarts. Note that session survives temporary app closures, too.

It's about freaking time.

EDIT: I just realized that KWin has already had this for a year. Then again, maybe this means it'll actually get used now?

"Unfortunately we're ALL "someone else" to someone else."

So true.

Don't comply in advance, that's what I say. Unfortunately, that's what systemd is doing, and what archinstall, xdg-desktop-portal, and Freedesktop.org are on the verge of doing.

For the vast majority of people who don't live in California, including myself, California law can go fly a kite.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think having a DRM-encumbered application running in the background that relies on another large application to launch just so you can have a fancy wallpaper is kind of dumb.

IMO, Lutris was already an overrated pile of junk before genAI became popular. It tracks that they're vibecoding it now.

I really hope they're being sincere about these statements.

Not cracked, bypassed . That's an important distinction.

The hypervisor bypass only works if you're on Windows, and it opens up a huge security hole when you use it.

You raise a very good point. systemd isn't the only thing we should be bringing attention to. Everything in the Linux ecosystem that's pushing for age verification/attestation should have attention brought to it.

I'm pissed that systemd has made a change that paves the way for age verification, and is unwilling to go back on it. The change they added may not do much on its own, but I worry about future consequences.

Since it's rare for large organizations and projects to go back on things like this, I'm considering moving my systems over to non-systemd distros. At the very least, I hope a fork without the userdb birthDate variable hits the AUR.

This is one of the beautiful things about open source. If the original devs do something stupid, the community can fork.

Limited Run

I'll pass.

why does it need to accommodate compatibility for archaic devices/software?

Because that's one of Windows' selling points. It has unusually good backwards compatibility for a mainstream operating system. Compare that to iOS, Android, MacOS, or Linux, where the infrastructure needed to run older binaries often doesn't exist in the first place.

Linux is a weird case, because thanks to Wine, it actually runs a lot of old games better than Windows, but this doesn't do anything to help compatibility with older Linux binaries.

TIL at least one German computer magazine still ships cover discs.

"This release bumps the suggested alternatives for Windows apps by more than 40 percent to a total of 240 applications. This is one of Zorin OS’s niche features, recommending users tailored alternatives to sideloading their Windows executables."

That's a pretty far cry from what the title of the article suggests. Clickbait.

Most indie games work fine on Linux, thanks to Proton. MacOS is just an exceptionally poor platform for gaming.

Consoles are the rich man's platform these days. If you have a bit of technical know-how, it's not hard to find a cheap old PC and get some games running on it.

Good. I hope this puts a dent in the number of new projects that use AI. I also hope Flathub implements a system to clearly flag existing submissions that have used it.

I haven't watched the video, but my lukewarm take is that duopolies suck and having only two real players in the x86 CPU market has never been good. I was happy when Intel re-entered the discrete GPU market a few years ago (I say re-entered because they had the i740 cards in the 90s) because it meant we finally had a real competitor to Nvidia and AMD in that market.

I know ARM is supposed to be the CPU architecture of the future, but man, I wish we had a modern day equivalent to Cyrix or something in the x86 space. More competition is good.

I would possibly upvote this if it were just a GNOME customization guide, and if it didn't try to insist that "GNOME is good, actually."