Internal politics is a bitch 😩

I think it was lamentation rather than complaint.

Right!? I was half expecting a maintainer somewhere to start adding some extra recommends or something when it really started to get grim. Happy Plasma user now 🚀

Oh that was my first choice, but the load was pretty high once I turned everything up to my satisfaction lol 😭

Username checks out 👍 😀

No actually, it’s a huge pain in the butt process on Plasma, but the built-in ones weren’t fun enough 😀

Doesn’t seem to matter what I do, the card simply refuses to go to sleep. And there’s no option to switch it off in the bios 😭

I cold-boot daily because fucking nvidia 👺

For anyone interested in reading more on this type of thing, the colloquial term seems to be “SMM panel” where SMM is “social media marketing”. EN Wikipedia has nothing of course, but DE has this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMM-Panel.

Not OP, but in my house we’re very happy with it. Will even work nicely over WiFi, though you do have to manually turn all the settings down for that.

It upsets me to no end that this isn’t a standard package 😭

Oh indeed not deprecated, my bad. Wayland is default and “preferred” (how they’re deciding what to prefer I can’t imagine), and X11 is confirmed to be removed in a future release.

Plasma deprecated their X11 session in v6 pending removal in the future, and Redhat has already dropped it in Fedora & will do for EL in the next release.

I agree that what you’ve said is correct, but I don’t see how it would impede someone using the official repos. If telemetry is of major concern, there are alternative approaches (e.g. PiHole).

How does enabling third-party repo use prevent one from using the F-Droid repo?

I’d say continued improvement of third-party support suggests the main repo could be losing its value to users. There are apps in there over a decade old without even an anti-feature warning.