Does anything related to money work on GOS? Bank apps, check deposits, credit card apps, nfc payments? Any other apps/features disabled by Google?
Seems like a huge sacrifice for perceived privacy improvement.
How is this significantly different from using vanilla Android without signing into any Google accounts?
Show me a screenshot of what your display settings look like please.
I couldn’t even find a place to do it. Only config for display scaling applied or to all monitors. And it requires a restart of kde every time. So either large external screen became unusable or the small laptop screen.
I haven’t used Xorg in years. All my problems are in Wayland.
Great, now please fix per monitor scaling. 4k laptops are unusable when connected to large 4k screens. I need no scaling on large external screen and about 175% on laptop’s 16".
I used to work in the same industry. We transferred several PBs from West US to Australia using Aspera via thick AWS pipes. Awesome software.
Pipewire works well enough for sharing screen even though it isn’t well supported by shit software like Slack. Would this replace it?
Yup. Been using it for about 20 years now. It is more popular in Europe, but I wouldn’t call it a small player in US either.
This anecdote without any context certainly makes OpenSuse a low key player in OS game.
Desktop config has very little to do with OS since most are running kde or gnome and those handle all that.
OpenSUSE is very well known and had btrfs snapshots for a very long time. I’ve used this feature several times to undo updates and it is extremely easy and best of all works perfectly without user having to configure anything.
Those are very basic mice that will have no issues in Linux if you don’t care about their software.
I am surprised there isn’t an automatic mechanism to handle this especially if it is such a frequent issue.
btrfs dynamically allocates inodes.
Are you sure that’s the case with btrfs? I know ext has that feature. My understanding is btrfs just has a global reserve that can be used for any data in an low space situation.
# sudo btrfs fi usage /mnt/disk3
Overall:
Device size: 12.73TiB
Device allocated: 12.73TiB
Device unallocated: 1.00MiB
Device missing: 0.00B
Device slack: 0.00B
Used: 12.29TiB
Free (estimated): 449.43GiB (min: 449.43GiB)
Free (statfs, df): 449.43GiB
Data ratio: 1.00
Metadata ratio: 2.00
Global reserve: 512.00MiB (used: 0.00B)
Multiple profiles: no
Data,single: Size:12.70TiB, Used:12.26TiB (96.55%)
/dev/sdd1 12.70TiB
Metadata,DUP: Size:15.00GiB, Used:14.49GiB (96.58%)
/dev/sdd1 30.00GiB
System,DUP: Size:8.00MiB, Used:1.34MiB (16.80%)
/dev/sdd1 16.00MiB
Unallocated:
/dev/sdd1 1.00MiB
I realize that’s not exactly what you asked for but Pipewire had been incredibly stable for me. Difference between the absolute nightmare of using BT devices with alsa and super smooth experience in pipewire is night and day.
How is IRC decentralized?
Zero issues for me. Been daily driving it for years. Play Steam games regularly, but have not tried switching to X. Performance on Windows is MUCH better with my 1080ti playing D4, but I’m prefectly content with preformance on Linux and don’t want to keep switching.
I read it and I think I understand why people are using it, but just to clarify your Google play example: you still can’t use it without being signed into Google account, right? Is your concern what the app does while it’s not running? Because it feels like they’ll still collect the same amount of info once your sign in to install the apps.
Do you you try to use F-droid for most things?