I have been using https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/de.mm20.launcher2.release , I really like their search functionality. There is also the famous lawnchair https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/app.lawnchair which is kind of the default FOSS launcher nowadays.
I recall very long time ago, I used to have improperly rendered CJK because of language setting.
Apparently, some character can be renderer differently in Kanji and Chinese, which causes size/type face inconsistency. Can you add Japanese as the secondary (or primary) language in your machine, restart and see if it fixes anything?
For someone who is famously not a people person, Linus Torvalds is surprisingly nice and chill.
(BTW, he lost a lot of weight. Does his treadmill actually works?!
Left 3 Dead
I hope image-based distro can solve this issue. In general I feel a lot of these breakages are caused by repeatedly migrating configuration files, yet fresh install usually fixes these issues.
I think one of the advantage of image based distros is that they are much more principled in migrating config files.
To be completely honest, if Google kills ROMs, I would probably just get an iPhone…
What brand of VPN do you use to bypass it, many of my friends are there quite frequently, none of them have a mainstream solution for it.
Last time I was there, express does not work, and I heard proton also does not work. However, my mobile carrier by default routes all roaming traffic through UK, so that did work.
China blocks most IPs from foreign cloud providers like AWS or Digital Ocean. And if I am not mistaken, they can also block some VPN protocols (tor is not a VPN protocol, but it is very blocked, I don’t know if tor bridge works), but I am not sure which exactly.
Google, despite having a track record of killing services, does have a good track record to keep their phone up-to-date. On the other hand, most other android OEMs stop frequent update after a year or two.
I think the best tip is to not be too hard on yourself. Using linux doesn’t mean abandoning Windows, even if you feel overwhelmed and need to go back to Windows, that is totally okay, just try again when you feel comfortable.
If you are confused please ask questions, people love to help beginners. Finally, like others, I think mint is a great starting point. If you have time, you can also follow some linux content creators on YouTube or PeerTube.
Sorry I am not aware of the incident, do you mind elaborate? Thank you.
Yes, from the announcement, it seems true.
I feel one of the hardship for Linux to catch on is the lack of commercial interest to make it usable for consumers.
If this problem happened on Windows and macOS, MS and Apple would just send an engineer to spend a week or a day to have it fixed. This change has been in electron for months, and no one bother to fix it.
Same with bugs in chrome and libsecrate, which have been open for 4 freaking years… https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/-/issues/49
It also took chrome half a decade to support text-input-v3: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40113488#comment1, which is added by a third party developer. And it still breaks KDE’s implementate https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492225 …
It is understandable people are frustrated, I am frustrated, and joined several conversation regarding this problem. However, I don’t appreciate some of the rant from many users. This change is certainly out-of-touch, potentially due to them don’t quite foresee the amount of flatpak/kde users who are affected by this change.
But many complaints have been dangerously close to the line, if not over the line. Their quiet month policy is reasonable IMO, developers need breaks, especially those interacts frequently with the community. Love or hate electron (same apply to CEF), these works clearly bring many wonderful apps into the linux world.
I personally don’t believe that non-contributors have the right to demand free work from the electron developers.
My strategy is to always install program with flatpak, SDKs are also installed as flatpak, find graphical alternatives to command line programs. I don’t use command line a lot, so I don’t need fancy tools for it.
I only have one system package installed for inputting unicode math symbols. So that I have a clean and easily migratable system.
I might add, everyway actually seek to “consolidate” all the older ways, and always ends up adding to the ways needing to be consolidated.
Installing on a old laptop is great because eventually after you get a more serious machine, you probably got enough experience to choose your distros.
Linux mint is certainly the most promising option, especially if you are just using the laptop, and don’t have any external monitors setup.
You are right. I have done some research, it seems most people think that client side hashing is unnecessary in an HTTPS setting.
That is my misunderstanding.
Does this have anything to do with the Helix text editor?