Any of the adblockers can do this. Pihole, adguard home, technitium. Ublock origin to. You can probably do it pretty painstakingly through the hosts file as well.

Why Linux ended up being the big thing is pretty well answered in the historical sense if you want to go looking for it. As for its low modern adoption. No one can really answer that for certain. I’ll give you my two cents on the matter, but that’s all anyone can do. All of this is based on research done on and off over the years in regards to this very topic as well as personal anecdote and hearsay. I will point out specific examples that I am familiar with, but don’t fault me for missing anything.

Everyone is already on Linux. Both companies and individual people. While the BSD’s work just fine for some people, it is largely hardware dependent. I have heard many people liken it to where Linux was 10 - 15 years ago in terms of hardware support. That alone means that most people can’t use it. Less people = less developers making things better = less people trying it. We’ve all seen that song and dance before. Good ole chicken and egg problem.

Furthermore, while BSD certainly has its strengths. Being technically better has never been enough with anything. There are lots of equivalents to BSD features that are good enough eg: cgroups and others for jails. More importantly with a lot more big players using and contributing to Linux. Those things also see a faster rate of development and more quickly meet the needs of companies.

There is of course the license debate. While not as important now as it was before at least to a lot of individuals, I have personally been trying to answer this question for years doing my own research. The only reason I bring this up is that companies often upstream there work. Netflix famously chose freebsd over linux for their simpler and faster networking stack. They have contributed many improvements to that upstream and there are examples floating around as to how those improvements helped to improve freebsd networking for others. Although according to many Linux has largely caught up in that regard if not surpassed it. There are after all many tech giants that use linux and also need to serve similar amounts of traffic if not more than Netflix. However, regardless of if its is better or worse. The point is I feel like examples like this are far and few between. Because companies can simply take the bsd code and choose not to give anything back. It certainly feels like they do so more often than not. I based that on my ability to find useful examples in the first place. Which is of course admittedly flawed.

You will notice a lot of the use of the word “feels” in that last paragraph because I don’t have any concrete proof. It is hard to measure how much a company has contributed to freebsd. It is less talked about and even combing through commits you would need to know who is behind those aliases. There are concrete examples of things that were contributed, but in my opinion a lot of the contributions are even more company specific than those on linux.

For example when it comes to changes that matter to a desktop user. Sony contributed drivers for their ps5 controller on linux. Here is a random article for that here: https://androidexperto.com/sony-releases-official-ps5-controller-driver-for-linux/ I found many articles of bsd people digging into linux code to get the ps5 controller working on bsd as recently as 2024. Here is just one of those https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/playstation-5-dualsense-controller-pairing.80786/. In my opinion however, it is kind of strange that they would have to do any work to get it working considering that the ps5 and ps4 if I remember correctly were based on freebsd in the first place. Why did Sony not contribute drivers upstream for bsd? They must have them because the console itself needs them. This harpens back to me saying that it feels like companies more often than not choose not to contribute back when they don’t have to.

It has been hard for me to find equivalent examples on the bsd side. Little things like hardware or software support for user facing things that have been contributed to the bsd’s by the big names, but not to Linux

Anyways, that’s the short version of a random miss mash of things I could think of.

My only problem with sudo-rs is that unlike the other rust rewrites. Compatibility isn’t a goal. I use the -E flag for some very specific programs and trying to manually pass in a bunch of different variables from my user environment has proven both tedious and in some cases doing so still results in programs not launching as I don’t know exactly which variable it needs.

So something disabled your monitors and you were able to get them back by quickly enabling them during the brief period of time that they were visible. The monitors should still be listed in the display configuration even if disabled. May be worth filing a bug with kde. Seems like a massive oversight if that isn’t the intended behavior.

It certainly isn’t a permission issue like others are claiming at least for the window rules. It could be a bug, but as far as I know the steam deck does not use the latest version of kde, so it may already be fixed and isn’t worth reporting.

As for onlyoffice, if I had to guess. It is forcing its own window decorations and therefore you don’t get all of the same options as with windows that use the breeze decorations from kde. However you can still create window rules for these window. If I recall correctly. The default shortcut is alt + F3 which should work regardless of which decoration the window is using.

What does the kwin rule for evolution look like?

Lastly, the password thing is the only one that could be related to a permission issue. I however don’t believe you should start mixing keyrings. kwallet is probably already installed and running. Like I replied to one other person already. Both gnome-keyring and kwallet use the secret service standard. The only reason it could not work is if evolution hardcoded gnome keyring instead of relying more generally on secret service. However, I doubt that. You could even use keepassxc as a secret service provider if you wanted to. Although it is a bit more annoying in practice.

We’re basically already there. KDE has already moved to the secret service standard that is used by gnome keyring. The real issue in my experience has been applications hard coding a dependency on gnome-keyring and not secret service. Some applications such as mailpring have fixed that hard coded issue, but it is still an issue in other applications.

Honestly, it seems pretty similar to cockpit which should be available in most distros repos.

The reason most distros don’t do this is because they usually try to steer users to their preferred desktop. I don’t mean that in a bad way, but often they call it the flagship edition. This is usually the desktop environment that they develop and test. Think Linux Mint with Cinnamon, popOS with Cosmic, Zorin, etc. Pretty much every other distro that has options do exactly what you are showing through the use of the venerable calamares installer that you see in your screenshot.

Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.

Dolphin should be qt6 for quite some time now. So you should need qt6ct. Also I’m not sure if either qt5ct or qt6ct is maintained. Their is a fork in the aur that I have been using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt6ct-kde, but not sure what to do outside of arch.

Hell, if you had gone from an arch derived distro like EndeavourOS and just clicked the nvidia option. It would have been solved.

I recently installed it on a one plus 6t (about a month ago) cause that seemed to be what a lot of videos were using and I read it had great compatibility. Never ran into any issues with the hardware buttons not functioning since that is a big part of tampering with mobile devices.

You aren’t meant to use them for managing your system. They are mainly there for development. For example, I often use them for a debian chroot on arch.

Mint doesn’t even support kde, so at best you would be grabbing it from Ubuntu’s repos which is probably out of date. Which leads to the problem of people on fixed release distros reporting problems that have already long since been fixed, so In addition to others suggestions of testing it out on a full plasma installation. I would also recommend testing it out on a distro known to be up to date in the first place.

First Arch and malware in the AUR now a ddos on Fedora. This is an attack on FOSS.

Also PKGBUILD’s are the superior packaging format. Back in the day people use to talk about preferring debian or redhat based distros based on how much they liked debs or rpms. Building packages on Arch is easier than pretty much any distro I have ever tried to build packages on.

I used them for some things, but other things still don’t work quite right. Take Steam for example. I do love flatpaks for testing out apps, things with really finicky dependencies, or pinning a specific version of a software that I want to continue to work in the future. However, for most things, Arch + AUR just covers all my needs without any hiccups.

To me flatpaks are sort of like NixOS. All the benefits they provide aren’t something I need on a daily basis. Rolling back works just fine 99% of the time with downgrade. I already have system backups. Despite what some articles might insist, things don’t just break all the time. I’m not running untrusted software.

Basically no solution is perfect, but they don’t need to be. If the benefits I gain can be recreated through other methods without the tradeoffs they introduce, then I will go with that. Of course, that isn’t to say they don’t have their place, but sometimes I feel like some people think that “being designed from the ground up” to handle certain use cases is always better than whatever “cobbled together” thing we currently have and that isn’t always the case. I’m specifically quoting those two phrases because these are the exact phrases you will hear projects using to justify their existence. In fact, I would go so far as to say that some people have outright confused modularity for “cobbled together”.

One last example I want to make is that I make use of projects like the fish shell and helix editor. In these cases, I find the features they introduce to be worth the tradeoffs and work better because of being designed “from the ground up” to do what they do. However, I don’t make use of immutable systems, containers such as docker, or say filesystems such as btrfs. The features they provide are not useful enough to me compared to the problems they introduce.

Maybe pipewire and the ROC protocol? I’m not sure if it can be used on windows. You will have to refer to their documentation to get anything working. On Arch the package is called pipewire-roc. On Android the app you will need is roc droid. I have used it from linux to android, but have never introduced windows into the mix.

Well she was right. I did learn something new about those commands.