The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).
@timonsku There's the actual statcounter source, however what I'm reporting here is an obvious trend that is visible if you search a bit on youtube, reddit, on various forums. The amounts of users switching has increased, and it has kind of taken a world of its own since last week, after MS' AI announcement.
Watched #Dune Part II, and I must say that I wasn't utterly impressed. It's a good #movie, but not a classic for me. Some of the scenes felt jarring in terms of time, e.g. from the scene trying to survive in the desert, to full blown fighting (weeks?) later. Like... what happened in the middle? It didn't feel smooth in these time transitions. Overall good, a 7/10 for me. But not top-25 of all time, as it currently sits on #imdb.
WTF? Is #Tenacity on the #Flatpak store #MALWARE? Apparently it was running in the bg AS IF it was an invincible #Gnome extension so SystemMonitor/htop would NOT see it as a process. But #MissionCenter (also from flatpak store) saw it as it is: an app running on startup! Killing it killed Gnome session! It was also spiking wifi, and was leaking the Gnome gjs service from 4MB RAM to 120MB. Uninstalling fixed the prob
@tenacity@sonny
I see. Thank you for the reply. Yes, it's possible that it's something inside flatpak that did all that. I don't know. I wish I had taken some screenshots, or used wireshark before uninstalling the app. I thought of it afterwards...
@tenacity@sonny I only noticed it today. I have had tenacity installed for months now, but I hadn't really used it, as I don't use this laptop much. I noticed it after gjs was bloating to 120 mb of ram out of nowhere, and after happened to load Mission Center app and noticed that Tenacity was running, even if I had not load it for ages (and have had many reboots in the meantime).
@joplinapp I'm using a totally de-googled phone, but I'd like to use joplin as my note app. I can't find an apk to download on either f-droid store, or on github. Please consider adding these, thx!
With the new version of procfs the memory reading is more accurate, and it shows that #Linux distros are actually using more RAM than previously thought. While it's possible to run them at 2 or 4 GB with quite some success, you will start swapping sooner than later. The minimum these days is 8 GB, and that doesn't make Linux much more efficient than #MacOS or #Windows. Sure, there are distros like DSL for old PCs, but modern desktop versions are as memory hungry as their competition. #opensource
@visone Not on 2 or 4 GB of RAM. ZRam shines when you already have enough ram, because it can't guarantee any available ram. At least swap on file, that can grow, can. So, it depends on the computer specs you are working with.
I wish there was a portable, usb-run version of #Asahi#Linux for Silicon Macs. More people would try it out and actually use it that way, if it was easy and risk-free to their #MacOS partition. The current way to do that is two whole pages of arcane commands on a terminal. It needs automation.
@popey You misunderstood. I'm talking about being a portable installation, installed properly on a usb stick. Not to simply boot from a usb stick in order to install it on an SSD, but to run it from there normally, as a proper installation (so it's not read-only). It's how I run Mint in one of my Intel macs too, I have it installed completely on a usb stick.
@popey Given the idiosyncrasies of mac users, i think they would prefer a linux ran directly from their usb, rather than "mutilating" (in their minds) their macos partition. So I think there's demand, but I don't think that the asahi team has honed on it.
@pomCountyIrregs@popey Why so to a home user? No one's talking using that installation method in an office. At home, if someone's gonna steal your stuff, they're gonna first go for the whole computer and not just the usb stick.
I don't understand what is the point of releasing an IDE via #flatpak, when that flatpak doesn't include all the necessary dev tools, and it can't access the ones outside its sandboxing. Honestly. What's the point? I'm looking at you, #Geany.
Personally, I can't stand flatpaks or #snap. #Appimage is nicer just because it's just one delete away from within the file manager and doesn't leave crumbs everywhere. But overall, I prefer #apt, and #dnf.
@gnomelibre@vwbusguy@wickedsmoke I usually install Linux for friends and family on old chromebooks that have 16 GB of storage. With Debian, one of the lighter ones, I get only 7 GB free after installation with XFce. I can't afford to install Flatpaks. Appimages are slightly smaller and in rare occasions that's ok. But .deb are much, much more better in this case. I just don't like the bloat of flatpaks, especially with only 50mbps internet in my area. Sorry, not a good alternative for me.
Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource devs that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important+popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes
@tenderlove I wouldn't be too. sure it's some nation state that put together the whole scheme. It could also be a case of 2-3 friends engineers (a'la Office Space), putting together something that's eventually sellable in crime and espionage markets. From the mailing list, it seems to be a job of 2-3 ppl originally, and not just the commiter.