refalo

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refalo ,

gentoo uses elogind to emulate the systemd interfaces required by gnome

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gentoo already does this with elogind to support all init systems with gnome

Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share...

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You can alter your PAM configuration to require both: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/572841

On my system, by default it lets you use either one to authenticate any time a password is needed, but this can be changed to require successful authentication using BOTH methods if desired.

I wasn't sure if you were wanting to require both, or just allow either one to be used, but both scenarios are trivial to configure.

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Most of the games I play don't work on wine (Teknoparrot), and multiple machines I have are either missing or have broken essential drivers for built-in peripherals like wifi/BT, fingerprint readers etc. So... I had to go back.

One of my laptops has a 10+ year old unfixed kernel bug for the bluetooth not working... and the wifi only uploads at 1mbps under Linux, but works fine on Windows.

I'm sure people that don't happen to have random hardware/software incompatibilities are enjoying linux, but there's also still lots of people that can't switch.

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Yea this is some BS... gnome doesn't need any help to burn their own reputation to the ground, this is just a hitpiece by yet another one of their out of touch high and mighty contributors.

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lol, lmao even

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it's giving me GIMPshop flashbacks

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besides uncompressing itself, there will be other info that is needed at runtime that requires dynamic memory allocation beyond the size of the kernel itself, like hardware/memory maps, framebuffers, filesystem/networking stuff, caches etc.

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It's not, labels were always written that way. They went into a box where the slide was facing down so the label was always visible at the top.

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How is AI-generated content detected and what is the process for disputing such claims?

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So then it's not really a blanket "no-AI" rule if it can't be enforceable if it's good enough? I suppose the rule should have been "no obviously bad AI" or some other equally subjective thing?

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I think there is. I would say the connection is not that electron didn't exist before, but that now that ram prices are high, an increase in the number of electron apps becomes a problem because of the ram usage. Not that the usage wasn't a problem before, but that more people are using even more electron apps now than ever, hence their "industry standard" comment.

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Wouldn't an exact replica be technically illegal?

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I certainly wouldn't call that pixel perfect either though.

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you're using alpine+docker with systemd?

Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

I ask this because I think of the recent switch of Ubuntu to the Rust recode of the GNU core utils, which use an MIT license. There are many Rust recodes of GPL software that re-license it as a pushover MIT or Apache licenses. I worry these relicensing efforts this will significantly harm the FOSS ecosystem. Is this reason to...

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Open source is the very worst thing currently going on because it is so incredibly exploitative, it's far more exploitative than any actual company is of the workers who work at the company.

Even the people who are getting paid in open source are getting massively underpaid to do it compared to how much the people who are using their code are making, it's nothing compared to the power that is accreted by the people who have co-opted that work thanks to the open source model. And then mark zuckerberg gets to define how the internet works despite having paid for almost none of the software that his company actually needed to make that work.

It's like feudalism or serfdom, these people did the work and got nothing for it. It's like you took the worst aspects of capitalism for workers and the worst aspects of socialism for workers and put them together, that's open source. You get no power and you get no money.

It's exploitative whether the people chose to be exploited, just because someone chooses to let you exploit them does not mean that you didn't exploit them. And for the record that's how most exploitation works; convincing people to do something that turns out to be very bad for them and very good for you, and that's exactly what the open source movement has turned out to be.

I really don't see the "we post stuff on github under a gpl2 or lgpl or apache or mit license", all that is to me now is just exploitation. You can say that there's solutions but until someone demonstrates that those solutions work, it's the standard "real communism has never been tried" argument. AGPL is the only thing that I've seen so far that's an attempt to fix these fundamentally unfair compensation practices.

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I wonder if a dual-licensed non-commercial + paid commercial approach could work, but from my experience with FOSS developers, they tend to view non-commercial licenses as sacrilege...

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In their eyes, probably not... but you can't have it both ways. Either you let companies take advantage of you, or you don't...

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He is a massive dickhole that is abusive to every single user he interacts with online.

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This... every time I have created a github issue, I was personally attacked by Kovid and the issue was closed immediately after their response.

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I would still consider that a software bug on Linux's part if it allows a USB device to bring the whole system down.

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dgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively.

Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.

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RetroArch works just fine from the command-line.

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It uses DRM/KMS to enable OpenGL (and probably Vulkan too) on the console without needing a display server like Xorg or Wayland. Or if that's too blasphemous for you, there is a libcaca driver.

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There's lots of content sitting just below the surface on github. Any time you make a PR on a repo, even if it gets closed or "deleted" by the repo owner, the actual link to the file itself stays there forever if you save it. Github's own dmca repo even has warez links on it, sitting there for years.

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Usually entire repos are disabled in that case. I've never tried to access hidden content on a DMCA-removed repo, but I assume it would not work.

Ubuntu 25.10 Unattended Upgrades Broken Due To Rust Coreutils Bug ( www.phoronix.com )

Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on Ubuntu 25.10 causing some breakage, a more pressing issue has been discovered: Ubuntu 25.10's unattended upgrades functionality for automatic security updates is currently broken due to a Rust Coreutils bug....

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I wonder how they did not catch this

Because the date command fails most of its unit tests and they decided to ship it anyway. I would also argue they don't have anywhere near enough tests in the first place.

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I try not to put much stock in black-and-white opinions because I think the answer is rarely that simple.

How is Photoshop performance on WinApps?

I spent much of today trying to get WinApps running on NixOS. The VM performance is meh after following all the setup steps in the documentation, and I can't get the RDP part working. I'm not asking for help, which would probably take lots of back and forth commenting. but if I should even try to continue. The steps don't even...

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Photoshop works fine for me in wine, no VM necessary, and performance is near native.

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I assume this is because, in addition to the missing ciphers as referenced in the linked article, OpenVPN, even though it uses TLS, it initially uses a very identifiable handshake before initiating TLS, which is not hard to block. I have personally had problems specifically with OpenVPN being targeted/blocked in this way.

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I have the feeling that limiting yourself to Gemini would guarantee you basically only ever communicate with the weirdest of the weird.

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Did you read the article?

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Will this stop the constant crashing I've been having the last several versions?

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Basically instead of launching completely new processes for each tab, which uses the (now updated/different) binary on disk, it uses a small secondary process that stays running the whole time the browser is open, and new processes are forked from that one, which makes them all use the same in-memory copy of the old process even after the program is updated.

This only works on *nix because you can't overwrite binaries on Windows that are in use... but Linux keeps the old binary in memory the whole time, so it doesn't care if you replace it, as it won't be used until you restart the program.

So it doesn't actually update anything at all while it's running.

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If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.

To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.

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I don't understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere... the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others... but nobody seems to care about those.

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not a single mention of notcurses-demo

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That and if you go on the gnome forums, their attitude IMO seems openly hostile to.. almost everything and everyone.

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will be denied entry

Source:

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4chan.

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Who was denied entry for not having social media?

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Banned
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About four years ago, Linus Torvalds rebuked him for spreading anti-vaxxer misinformation on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

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They actually do. To quote a major FOSS developer, "popularity is not a project goal."

Reminds me of early punk rockers that get upset when their tiny little nobody band that fits in their back pocket, gets too big to fit in their pocket anymore. Some might call it "selling out."

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tbf I'll take Dale Gribble level conspiracy theories over Linus' bad attitude any day.

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I said I will take it, not that I think everyone else should, or is capable of recognizing/ignoring conspiracy theories. I struggle much harder with ignoring bad attitudes than I do obvious bullshit, but to each their own.