My experience with KDE is that it is a frustrating new user experience. I also doubt that the devs have tried setting up their desktop from defaults recently.

Kwallet (one of the two reasons I stopped using KDE): Kwallets defaults are bad. They encourage you down an opaque path that requires CLI intervention. If you stubbornly take that path the performance of kwallet is painfully bad. Any electron app (discord, etc.) will now hang unresponsive on the main UI thread for 1 to 3 minutes if kwallet was not already open. None of these apps need kwallet. Chromium stalls in the same way on startup except that if you don’t want to open the wallet it will keep asking 3-4 times taking minutes to reach the prompt each time and won’t unblock the main UI thread until you either enter the password or it crashes with an error that too many wallet requests were issued. Protonvpn won’t open on KDE unless a wallet is configured and unlocked. The password prompt has a time out for no cryptographically good reason which means if you try to open the wallet and then wind up distracted by something else you may time out and need to restart the waiting game from square one. Bugs have been open against kwallet for years. Allegedly they have been fixed and I have updated but the speed is still awful on my computer.

Fractional scaling: Nominally KDE does this the “right” way but practically application support seems somewhat absent. The flagship Linux office product, Libre Office, displays microscopically on one monitor with fractional scaling on. It just works on other DEs

Borderless fullscreen with mouse capture on multiple monitors is broken and results in the mouse wandering off and going MIA in FPS style games. KDE killed me in Helldivers several times before I switched windowing modes. Honestly minor except that it seems to be the default in gaming distros where this matters

Other DE issues:

• Cinnamon freezes on haswell age Intel iGPs
• XFCE handles cheap Chinese graphics tablets badly
• XFCE fractional scaling is confusing and requires updating too many settings. The flip side of this is it can run fractional scaling much more performantly than other DEs under x11 on lousy iGPs. The problem here is not that the scaling controls are inverted but that the graphics scale settings are scattered all over the place.

All in all I would say that Cinnamon is a lot less frustrating at an entry level than KDE on recent hardware.

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People want a console but also:

• A wider game library (Missing on Playstation and Xbox)
• No subscription (missing Playstation and Xbox)
• a working 10 foot UI (missing in windows)
• controller os navigation (missing in windows)
• no bimonthly fullscreen nags to use edge, office365, onedrive, etc. (missing in windows)
• Working ACPI sleep states. (Missing on most cheap mini PCs)
• Backwards compatibility for older titles and not needing to rebuy games when upgrading (Missing on PlayStation)

Microsoft could probably build an XBox that fixes the first problem but would probably fill it with nag screens.

People with technical skills can probably run Bazzite on a minipc but might hit issues with sleep depending on luck while purchasing.

People without technical skills just want a package that works

Ok I thought they were hanging Ronald McDonald in effigy

Because the HDMI forum is ass?

That’s the problem. Open source software doesn’t work with the NDA. Nvidia does it with an embedded processor and closed firmware, Intel does it with an embedded Displayport to HDMI converter, AMD does it in the driver. Steam uses AMD chips and open source drivers so they can’t get it to work.

PS5 memory is soldered to the board

Fabs take like 5 years to spin up. No one is going to set up another without some kind of guarantee

I spent $160 on 64gb its now $625

It’s the one possible positive outcome of AI: it gets a lot harder to blackmail people.

Some games anticheat supports Linux. VAC, EAC, GameGuard, and BattlEye either run under Linux by default or can be configured to do so, by the game dev, with a toggle. A number: Destiny 2, Fortnight, etc. break it intentionally even though the client could run without modification. Battlefield 6 breaks because it checks the Windows measured boot API.

It’s now viewable. Why TF was this regionlocked

Content not viewable in your region

A/B partitions are an improvement.

It’s stupider than I thought reading the headline. That car started driving down the fing tracks

What is your favorite brand of air fryer? It has come to my attention that air fryer’s brought to school may be liable for confiscation. Regardless, how are you doing on this fine October morning?

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They are promising to gut the CHIPS Act which would be needed to even think about doing this.

I have an entire note taking program calibrated around the ink colors of 5. I kinda dug myself that grave though. They are at least decent pens.

Also you can mod them into pen guns. Shooting works better if you replace the ink though.

Time for another playthrough I guess