Audacity9961

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why on Earth are these nonsense blog rants constantly upvoted here?

It is essentially an unlettered rant that conflates the author's UI and toolkit preferences with an objective view.

It doesn't even provide a useful comparison to the evolution of QT to provide for a meaningful reference of its implied assertion that the evolution of GTK is too rapid for devs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I live in fear that the Phoronix forums will federate...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It really is quite useful for a certain user.

It has a really great selection of polished layouts OOTB that can make GNOME look very familiar to whatever the user is used to.

Also has some other great tweaks around WINE for beginners, and a more easily accessible Nvidia option in install media.

I don't use it myself, but I would suggest it is ideal for someone who is a basic computer user who wants to mostly web browse and use home office tools. It really is ultra-polished.

Yes this could mostly be replicated with extensions and themes, but honestly, unless you have strong feelings about your OS, which most people don't, it is not worth messing about with this (particularly when installing for others) when Zorin is available; it can be a headache to have to maintain such comprehensive layout changes through extensions and themes without breakage throughout upgrades. It also has the benefits of being based on the very actively developed GNOME, compared to something with a smaller team like Cinnamon, namely much better Wayland support, and in my view more polish.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Also limiting rule updates to new extension versions will essentially make it impossible for adblockers to outpace anti-adblock interventions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why do you expect that Edge wouldn't adopt Google-like MV3 along with Chrome?

Microsoft adopted Chromium in order to minimise development costs in a product it doesn't see as core, something which would be incurred if it had to maintain its own fork of mv3, and is incentivized through Bing to pursue a similar approach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It is opensource. The only thing that aren't are some required Google Play libraries for notifications and the EME - Firefox can't make those open as it doesn't control them.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'm aware. My fault for not specifying I was talking about stable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Unless I am misunderstanding you, it is, on Dec 14.

Extensions just have to specify they are compatible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely, along with the specs of your phone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fedora is on a six monthly cycle just like non-LTS Ubuntu; neither distro is on a yearly release cycle. The previous release is just supported for an extra six months, for one year of support per release for Fedora.

Fedora itself isn't rolling but the kernel and mesa packages do roll between releases, and it is more bleeding edge than Ubuntu generally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Manjaro has too many issues that are well documented with instability and security for new users.

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