bitwolf

Fedora.

I’ve tried them all but found it’s the most reliable. It’s upgrades are even more reliable than Macos and Windows.

Packages are very up to date but also well tested. Sometimes even newer than Arch for short periods.

The community is awesome.

I love Gnome, I’ve found it’s more consistent than even MacOs in its design. And it has perfect keyboard shortcuts.

VRR, HDR.

It also had an early patch for nvidia support earlier in the year.

I believe mutter-vrr has gotten merged though, behind a dconf flag

Gnome on the laptop, its keyboard and touch gestures are the best for notebooks. I also like its simple design and reliability.

KDE on desktop, I’d use gnome, but kwin has more gaming relevant features.

Yeah but I imagine porting a JVM and an API using open source code is much easier than reversing the Windows API.

Personally I don’t consider it a con unless rampant. However in many cases they’ve dumped the projects. It is effort that could have helped along another project.

imo the negative side effect is the wasted effort and the abandonment.

Same, I was very sad wheb they gave up in Unity8. I do check in often on the project as I felt it provided a very good mobile experience.

The thing is. Snaps isn’t the first controversy.

Canonical, with Ubuntu early on was helping drive things forward, but they reached a point where they started to do things their own way with disregard to the broader ecosystem.

Each time they did this, they cause fragmentation, struggled, and then deferred to the choice the rest of the ecosystem has. The problem with this is that they’re not sharing their effort, they’re just throwing it away.

They merely doubled down hard on snaps which is the latest controversy.

Snaps have their own advantages, but Canonical owns the store. Which becomes its own stalewort

I felt the same however Organic Maps did have many businesses. And with Street Complete I can correct any errors when I visit.

It may simply be my area, but I so recommend organic maps over Osmand for business and POI lookups

You can absolutely get by by, and have a great experience with GNOME + the app store.

Its a reason its default on so many distros.

Google Pay/Wallet

Right now tap and pay is completely and hopelessly corporate

I don’t have one myself as I don’t like jewelry.

However you can gather a lot based on the release history in the Infinitime wiki

Agreed! However I don’t want to set unrealistic expectations

I only know of the Pine Time, however they warn that their watch OS is community driven and under active development.

Would you really be paying for Crowdstrike for use at home?

Remember when FOSS apps stereotypically looked worse?

The FOSS Android apps seem to have top-notch uis, and often look / work better.

Tough choice. Personally I wouldve taken display out over a macro camera.

Did you install from Minimal or Everything isos?

You may need to install the firmware for the GPU if so.

I’d argue there are two ideologies.

Gnome focuses on design and user interaction, then features.

Plasma focuses on configuration and modularity, then design.

It does seem like they are starting to converge though. With gnome focusing on more features, and Plasma focusing more on design and consistency.

Was hoping to see a fix for the right click menu randomly deciding to open as a window.

Gnome is way more put together than Plasma 6 at this point in time. Its rock solid reliable.

I keep gnome as my stable laptop setup, and Plasma as my tinkering with games setup. This outlines both of their strengths individually.