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#126 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-06-16 19:24:49

@Camtaf gnome is a waste yes. Although, most of  the  DEs except LXDE, XFCE4 and LUMINA look awful and are bloated garbage.

And have unneeded dependencies...

This being said, I just cannot stand that level of arrogance. Such a-holes.

@brocashelm Agree with all of that. I just hope XLIBRE isn't tainted by the ideology of the person developing it. He supposedly is a fascist, I hope he keeps his views out of his project.

I don't trust him too much. But then I don't trust GNOME or Redhat devs either. So... yeah.

Corporate rulers = bad

Fascism = awful

I will have to see how this future progresses to know whether xlibre is any good.  Although, Xenocara also exists and I tend  to think that might be a better option. Besides which, it works in Hyperbola. Except pledge and unveil of course. wink

Time will tell...

#127 Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-06-16 01:53:45

zapper
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Way … temd-Focus

Immediately found this out when browsing distrowatch.

As some people know, I find this to be completely stupid and flat out arrogant.

The cheek one must have to doing stuff like this is immense.

Then again, corporations love this kind of cheek... so yeah.

Thoughts anyone?

#128 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-06-06 16:48:35

If at some point you can test openrc, that would be appreciated. I would more likely use it if that were the case.

#129 Re: Off-topic » libadwaita forked by Mint » 2025-05-26 22:02:19

@greenjeans hey what does CSD mean in this context? I assume its an acronym...?

#130 Re: Off-topic » So Microsoft has ruined GitHub by pushing AI sloppy nonsense features » 2025-05-26 21:53:50

Did you expect anything different? If microsoft didn't ruin most of what they touched, they wouldn't be microsoft.

That's fundamentally who they are.

Break things, to make money! That's also redhat too as well.

#131 Re: Off-topic » Does anyone watch Bryan Lunduke? » 2025-05-25 21:25:06

@brocashelm If he isn't fascist, he shouldn't use phrases like woke in a negative or use alex jones as a positive, because that is what fascists do.

@greenjeans Gnome shouldn't be dependant on systemd though. This is not the only reason I dislike it though.

The main reason is it has many stupid dependencies beyond that. That is just the cherry on top.

No DE or window manager worth anything should depend on dbus, polkit, pam, systemd, networkmanager, pulseaudio or pipewire. Another words, if it depends on very bloated redhat software, its crap.

Also, GNOME feels like windows 8 all over again. That design was trash. Then again, I dislike most DEs.

LXDE and Lumina are fairly decent. LXDE however alas, requires polkit for some unknown reason. (No idea!)

#133 Re: Off-topic » Does anyone watch Bryan Lunduke? » 2025-05-19 16:15:34

When Gnome  started forcing systemd to be a dependency for GNOME 3, they lost all credibility.

They became worse than every other DE.

Although, I don't have respect for any DE but Lumina Desktop. However, I primarily use JWM, because it has everything I need with jwmkit as an option. Although I would still be using it regardless of jwmkit's existence. It has the functionality dwm has but doesn't look as awful and uses less cpu power.

What else can I say?

#134 Re: News & Announcements » Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin » 2025-05-19 06:01:25

@lynch9

I also say the same.

As for whether librewolf is better than chrome, the answer should be a yes.

Firefox and chrome based web browsers aren't great.

ungoogled chromium could be considered an exception though.

Still, first place for me is palemoon
second place, librewolf or similar
third place ungoogled chromium or similar
everything else = bottom

#135 Re: Off-topic » Does anyone watch Bryan Lunduke? » 2025-05-19 05:55:20

Anti  identity politics my foot...

He is a fascist clearly, as only fascists use woke as a negative. Also, only fascists use alex jones as a positive. So... yeah

Woke means your aware of systematic oppression. and alex jones is a conspiracy nut

This all being said, the gnome foundation can suck it for their persecution of Stallman. Especially considering the majority of the people who signed their rms cancel petition were corporate goons.

Also, just mentioning his name is not a good reason to instant ban someone.

That is like saying he is hitler or trump. He isn't on that level, yet.

#136 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-05-02 11:50:49

@aitor I am not used to runit yet. I see now though, you haven't tested openrc yet.

#137 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-04-29 23:01:03

I tried to install Gnuinos, in VM, but every time I do, it doesn't boot properly once installed. It immediately drops to a shell. Really... annoying.

Do you know what I mean?

I check off Openrc, I uncheck default desktop environment and check xfce4 desktop 

and I also  use FDE minus  /Boot

There is something weird going on is all I can say. Not sure why it keeps breaking.

I was using a net install iso btw.

#138 Re: Devuan » Why sysvinit can't create init scripts by itself? » 2025-04-14 09:13:14

Speaking of init, I wonder if devuan will ever add dinit as alternative to openrc, s6 and sysvinit.

Heard good things about dinit.

#139 Re: Devuan » Devuan won't recognize Windows 10 UEFI install » 2025-04-14 09:12:07

probably need some kind of raid functionality.

#140 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-04-14 09:10:24

@Yeti

"Farron Balanced
Elon Musk's DOGE Staffers Are Dangerously Stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVa5cXiASQ8."

That's putting it mildly... very mildly in fact.

#141 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Brightness module? » 2025-03-18 05:16:31

light and set color temperature also known as sct or xsct are good ways to do brightness.

And if you use a window manager, in some you can have it start its command once you login.

light -S 75

xsct 2000 1.0

those are ones I tend to use for battery life and to ease the pain on my eyes.

#142 Re: Off-topic » FreeBSD seems faster and responsive, because CPU won't go to C-states » 2025-03-18 05:14:06

@blackhole still, they are helping to an extent. Call it what you want, but its not nothing. Its better than most corporations in my opinion when it comes to their idea of business.

most usually ignore wine, or even worse try to block it.

All I am saying is the situation could be much worse.

#143 Re: Off-topic » FreeBSD seems faster and responsive, because CPU won't go to C-states » 2025-03-09 05:19:52

@blackhole I am surprised that Valve even is supporting wine at all, given how many corporations do the contrary and get in the way.

So semantics to you, but to me its still worth celebrating.

The difference between wine and windows is that you only maybe are being spied on in the game while you are using wine.

At most.

You can at least not be spied on all the time. If you know what I mean.

#144 Re: Off-topic » FreeBSD seems faster and responsive, because CPU won't go to C-states » 2025-03-07 05:51:06

@blackhole yes and no. Valve is trying to get their version of wine to work with more stuff.

"proton" its a version of wine.

So... yeah its not that simple.

What you say here isn't always the case.

#145 Re: Off-topic » FreeBSD seems faster and responsive, because CPU won't go to C-states » 2025-03-06 11:09:58

@blackhole tell that to valve/steam

Btw, it also depends which computer games you are talking about.

if its triple A + anti cheat, then yes you could be right.

If its not anti cheat, then no its not that simple.

#146 Re: Forum Feedback » I can't believe you closed the Joke thread. » 2025-02-28 21:58:32

@golinux well did you enjoy the responses?

All you said was "time for a break..."

#147 Re: Forum Feedback » I can't believe you closed the Joke thread. » 2025-02-28 02:26:58

@golinux Rorschach test? EDIT:

o that's what that is called, the same thing as an ink blot test.

Never knew it had another  more specific name

Also, that thread got old like less than halfway to what it is now. So.. I will say I am on your side for this.

Don't blame you at all.

#148 Re: Off-topic » The Crappiness of Modern Laptops » 2025-02-24 19:57:33

@2disbetter Hadn't known that, interesting to know that you moderate framework forums. I have seen you on here in the past though, what's different now?

#149 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-02-19 22:06:54

@jwmkit Oh okay hadn't realized that about rrqsu

#150 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-02-15 03:15:31

@prospero @JWM-Kit

Is rrqsu lighter in cpu usage,  memory usage and less dependencies than YAD?

Curious

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