Clearly within the margin of error. Especially because they were obviously not just looking at Bulgaria.

Not for normal people.

Your tedious query if I had filed a bug report.

complaining in a random forum would change anything.

What gave you the impression that I thought it would?

Right but presumably they chose the names?

So did you file a bug report

It’s not a requirement to file a bug report before you comment on anything. Don’t be silly.

How does it work, then?

I’m assuming that’s a genuine question… Normally when people develop a feature they do it once and then it’s “done” and any changes to that feature have to go through the whole feature request -> it’s low priority -> wait 10 years cycle before they actually happen.

Essentially, you have to do it right first time or it might never be fixed.

It’s an alpha release.

You really think they’re going to revisit this? That’s not really how software development works.

It’s an alpha release.

I was talking about Flatpak.

It’s as easy as pie too; they show up right there on the boot menu: <screenshot of KDE followed by apparently random numbers>

I really don’t understand why people have this little awareness of usability. Show the freaking date normally! At least add hyphens.

We tried Dolphin and Konsole as Flatpaks for a while, but the user experience was just terrible.

Yeah I’m fairly sympathetic to Flatpak. It’s way closer to how software should be installed by users. But I have yet to actually use it successfully. Is it really ready?

We went past that point many years ago. This is way overdue.

If only it were so simple. https://serverfault.com/a/722646

If they could just decide where TLS certificates live…

There’s also McFly which I slightly prefer, just because the interface looks a bit nicer. Although it does have an annoying missing feature - you can’t scroll through the history.

Why would I hate systemd? It has fixed many of the problems with desktop Linux that many people refused to even admit were problems. This looks like it throws all that away.

It doesn’t.

Well… Not from Framework. I looked one up and it was £700 for the main board or £1300 for the whole laptop. Or I could get a laptop with the exact same CPU (Ryzen AI 7 350) from Asus for £800. I mean, sure it’s probably not as good a laptop. But even so… If your laptop breaks are you going to spend £700 on a new main board that might fix it, or £800 on a new laptop that definitely works.

It definitely doesn’t make sense for upgrading - you can just sell the old laptop and buy a new one if you want to upgrade.

Tbh I hope they succeed still, but it’s really hard to compete with the sheer pricing power of less modular products.

Except for the small form factor I bought a second hand PC with those specs for £300. I think the only reasons to buy it are you really want small form factor, or you want to play with local AI and don’t want to use a Mac (which is still better value for money on that front).

Not to downplay the small form factor - I do think that is cool. Just… Not £1k cool.

Kernel code isn’t fundamentally different. Even designing hardware is still basically just coding, despite what hardware designers claim. (They think it’s fundamentally different because many things happen in parallel in a single cycle.)

Since you said you’re not very technical I think you’re going to have a bad time with Linux. I would instead do this:

1. Go to one of those slightly sketchy cdkey sites and buy a “genuine” key for “Windows 11 IoT LTSC” for a few dollars. Don’t worry about the sketchiness. The keys work, and keys themselves don’t carry any risks. Microsoft does not care about this.

2. Install it using Rufus. When you use Rufus it has a few options to fix annoyances in Windows - use those. I think they’re enabled by default.

This fixes 99% of the issues with Windows 11. No ads, no bloatware. Much more reliable than Linux and you won’t spend your life debugging things.

I’m obviously going to get downvoted to hell because of where we, and I’ll switch to Linux if they ever take this option away, but for now it works very well and avoids the pains of Windows ads and Linux bugs.

Ah that sounds cool for the future at least.

Because if you already have a Codeberg account you don’t need to create another account to contribute.

Still way more annoying than Github. Still, they apparently are moving from an existing mailing list / git send-email “solution”, so it is at least a huge step in the right direction.

If they’re philosophically against Github I don’t know why they didn’t just move to Codeberg though. Maybe that’s too modern for people who have only just moved on from mailing lists.