jlow (he/him)

I know you’re trolling but I had to look it up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer_operating_system#/media/File:Operating_systems_used_on_top_500_supercomputers.svg

So what are you using on the desktop and how long have you been using it? I’ve switched to Linux / open source software a year ago and especially learning programs (design / media tools in my case) was super painful for some time. But I had the motivation of not wanting to use an OS that tries to spy on me and getting away from a super shady monopolist (Adobe) as a motivator that kept me going. Sure there are still some things that get on my nerves but those exist in Microsoft’s (and Apple’s) and Adobe’s products as well.

I guess you have checked out Krita? I like it a lot.

Ooops, yes, sorry, Eevee is Blender’s real time renderer (like a game engine) that fakes fakes a lot of stuff while Cycles is the classic “physics-based” renderer. I heard that it took under a minute to Render a frame which is absurd for movie quality. But it makes sense since the look is kinda stylized (only noticed in the cinema that characters are kinda cell shaded) but it still looks so good, the lightning, fog, water, bloom, dephth of field, wow. Was really worth it watching on the big screen. Story is a bit weird but loved the characters and their interactions.

Just saw Flow at the cinema, I can’t believe they rendered this all in Eeevee, wth!

Yeah, I think it depends on how the distro decides to implement it, can’t remember now but I think e. g. in Fedora KDE you need to tick a box somewhere in Discover’s (KDE’s updater) settings (and then it’s Fedora’s own Flatpak repo?). In Bazzite which I’m using atm it’s Flatpaks all the way down anyway 😸

It’s also quite nice in KDE that you can do Flatpak permissions etc in System Settings.

It’s interesting and kinda cool that you can’t tell what distro it’s running on when using Flatpak. I would have thought that there’s some way to find out (it would be important for fixing bugs, I guess?)

Ah, yes, “Flatpak”, my favourite distro 😸

Have been on Walyand for a year now, no problems except for a weird big in Inscape so thst runs in X11 mode.

https://tilvids.com/w/fAvzwwK2abKCGUea6FT9va

There’s also bs like this:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/firefox-testing-new-privacy-feature-with-meta/

The browser is cool but Mozilla as a company is an absolute trainwreck of borked public communication (again and again and again) and bullshit products that noone asked for (Pocket, AI etc).

Are there any GUIs for IM?

That’s the (vomit-inducing) beauty of it: capitalist pigs made something useful to you that is build on poor people’s work, makes these people jobless, burns the planet and the rich (probably fascist) white dudes even richer (you’re also paying woth your sweet, sweet data, which is another plus in their book). So its nice for you and bad in about all other aspects.

Lol, I should learn to read +__+

+1 for Bazzite. Atomic distro + NVDIA drivers included 👌

Praise the sun! ☀️

Yeah, it works amazingly well, too. I’ve been rebasing between Bazzite and Kinoite a number of times in the last months (because Bazzite had some problems recognizing my drawing tablet which has been fixed now) without issue.

While I hate the capitalist AI-apocalypse with a passion I think this is great news for accessibility.

Probably not very helpful in this case but a very nice resource for learning cli is:

https://explainshell.com/

Ctrl-r!

I’m still unsure if you mean sharp as in clear, crisp high resolution / not pixelated / not blurry or “better” design / ui(x).

If the first check (fractional) scaling settings / font anti aliasing / smoothing options (I don’t use Gnome so don’t know where), if the latter, one is a small team of probably underpaid devs (Gnome), the other one of the wealthiest companies in the world (Apple) so I’d sure hope Apple’s UI is “better” than Gnome’s (though looking at Windows it doesn’t seem like having money equals good design, lol).