labwc has it :) I use it with XFCE, integration is pretty rough but will hopefully get there over time. No crashes so far!

If I have to cross reference info from two windows I like to have one floating and always on top. In that case its nice being able to roll-up the window to see whats behind it. Minimizing would be similar but it feels more permanent than rolling up.

So there is no shading on KDE Wayland? This feature works in Labwc. Death by thousand papercuts…

GPLv2 vs GPLv3 matters. At least to corpos. You can’t just brush this away when they have a clear position on this.

Compare Ubuntu and MacOS. MacOS ships ancient version of Bash because its GPL2 which allows for coexistence with proprietary software on sold machines.

So if Ubuntu gets rid of GNU coreutils and sudo what else stays GPL3 on a barebones system? You can swap Bash with Zsh like Apple did. And just like that you got yourself a corpo friendly distro to ship proprietary software. Just like Android, and look where that got us.

Good points!

one liners can get pretty verbose, but it scripts nicely

I think fediverse shows that the model works. Fringe ideas stay fringe because you can’t amplify it with bots.

isn’t right wing censorship worse than right wing propaganda?

I think this intiative is spot on. I would describe current approach of 2 major OS vendors, Google and Microsoft as such:

Microsoft demands standardization at firmware level via UEFI, ACPI etc. because they bring OS kernel and userspace.

Google demands Linux API version and brings just userspace.

In theory Google approach better facilitates open ecosystem but each OEM treats Linux kernel as just a firmware blob so the end situation is actually worse.

On the PC we have standardized firmware while Android chases Linux API levels each release and thus undermines the whole ecosystem.

Apple is ok with GPLv2 Bash. Linux kernel is GPLv2, GNU coreutils are GPLv3. Systemd is curiosly also GPLv2. Striping GNU out of GNU/Linux might not be so innocent.

A new online crusade. Once again heavy accusations with very weak supportive evidence. It became a pattern already.

Mint has been a very good conservative distro so I hope they continue in this fashion: transition when the rest of the ecosystem is already there so that there will be no pain for non technical users

It’s like cooking vs going to McDonald’s. Lots of choice and thinking vs. being fed with whatever they put you on a tray.

There is already plenty of malware targeting devs on Linux where is it’s strongest userbase.

From enduser perspective the most visible change would be that all software wouldn’t be hostile to users because with propreitary you have to be very picky to get that.

In the long term we would see that companies could not build walled gardens to block off competition. Contrast Windows & MacOS vs Linux with its different distros, DEs, toolkits etc.

The least difference would be for enterprise because support is expensive either way.

thats it :) Now you need to pin package versions to guix versions via inferior so that you can share the manifest and be sure you have exact same stuff on the other machine. Otherwise the specified packages get updated everytime you update your system. I learned that the hard way by having to wait for latex to download everytime I updated my system.

yes, you would share with him guix manifest which is a file that specifies which packages should be present. What is important to note are inferiors which is a mechanism to version lock the packages.

I love it especially because of the guix shell and guix shell container for dev environment isolation. It is a whole different ecosystem from the ground up though so it’s not an easy ride. But those two features make it worth it for me. Also it’s GNU distro which imo is a plus.

I used Ubuntu 24.10. on new Ubuntu certified Intel Thinkpad and exeperienced system hangs every few weeks. The only solution was to reboot. Frustrating to say the least. On that system also webcam didn’t work so maybe it was kernel fault somehow but still very disappointing given the “certified” status.