Used a Z1 for +7 years so fell in love with Sony phones and made me got a 1ii (I'd think naming them as 1.0, 1.1... could be a much better convention that this stupidity) when it finally had to say goodbye.
Those four 'cons' points are exactly the same points people complained about them 4 years ago.
They're absolutely great, I'd feel miserable with another phone brand - but It's unbelievable they have done absolutely nothing in this time to assess those points.
Kinda rich dissing KDE for its "unstability" and putting GNOME as its paradigm, the very DE well known to break every major version.
Sometimes this kind of posts/"content" make me feel like I must be the only person in the world who hasn't had major issues with KDE and it's been absolutely flawless lately, specially since 5 - but I then realize people without issues don't complain. It's the people who have issues with something that make the noise and make it a very big deal (and I'd argue most cases are of the PEBCAK type).
If the need is for something simple and stable I'd shoot for something like Xfce - but putting GNOME as the example of "stability" is nothing but laughable.
I'm with you - I was kind of happy with GNOME2 back in the day, but the forecoming of what was going to be GNOME3 made me jump out that ship and became a refugee in KDE.
It's a shame the Linux ports of Chrome and Firefox are written in GTK because of the reasons you mentioned. Once I heard some guy at GNOME talking about porting Firefox directly to Wayland - which sounds kind of bollocks for a pedestrian like me - but if it's possible, I hope that they succeed and Firefox can become a toolkit-agnostic web browser.
But at the same time I wonder about projects like Xfce and if they ever decide to move away from GTK, like LXDE did. I mean, a fusion between Xfce and Enlightenment would be awesome.
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.
I got to know Linux back in 2006 in a hackathon-type-of-thing at uni and they gave me a Ubuntu 5.10 CD and my jaw dropped with the cube animation thing.
Ended wiping my hard drive trying to install it, finally could install it, tried XFCE for a time, went back to GNOME, was tired of Ubuntu and tried Gentoo and somehow could install it, with the GNOME3 drama moved to KDE, considered FreeBSD for a moment just to realize pkg/pkgsrc is absolute shit compared to Portage.
Oh and it seems KDE went back with the cube for Plasma 6! Alas it's still masked in Gentoo and who knows when it would be ready, but it's a bit great I'm not the only one for that cube nostalgia.
As any person that lives under a rock I barely blinked and everyone was using streaming services while I kept half of my hard drive full of pirated mp3 and never got to understand why people fell for that trap. I really like MPD, though when it goes yolo it's a pain in the butt to re-configure it.
I used ncmpcpp for like 10 years (or even more, but I can't recall) but only a couple years ago re-discovered ncmpc and liked its minimalism (compared to ncmpcpp, that is). Even wrote a couple stupid patches to change the default progress bar.
But a few weeks ago learned about mmtc. Which is written in rust.
I didn't have rust installed and the 12 GB of RAM weren't enough to compile rust in my Gentoo box so I used this as an excuse to buy more RAM. And then compiled rust and it took a bit more of an hour so I could use this shiny "new" MPD player. Only to discover its so minimal it doesn't have an database update function - the author literally says you have to set a key combination to call mpc to do so.
Thirded one on the xperia line. Previous to this 1ii that it's being with me for 3 years and a half, I had a Z1 that lasted 7 years with me until fell off my hands and the screen cracked.
That being said, their software support is shit and I ended rooting them and using LineageOS (I even had a MIUI ROM with the Z1 at one point) so that's something you have to have in mind. LineageOS on the 1ii is good, better battery life than stock but I lost screen mirroring.
It felt like it had a bit of sensationalism, which alas is not uncommon in today's journalism, but can it be too much that a major newspaper like the NYT covering this story can bring indirect attention to the problem of hugely underpaid/no paid people working on (and mantaining) critical FOSS stuff?
KDE prioritizes features and customization over stability and out of the box experience.
I mean, the fact that the very new major release of KDE almost hadn't added new features and focused on a rather smooth upgrade kinda proves otherwise.
This may sound really weird and dumb (and long, on top of that) to you micro-pc gurus but this thought has been going in my head lately so I'd like to ask to someone who actually knows. Please excuse me in advance....
If the argument is that marijuana is bad for health and it should be illegal, then with the same logic, alcohol should be illegal because it’s also bad for health.
I absolutely agree but because of selfish reasons - I'm so tired of smelling marijuana smoke on park walks. I'm so tired of smelling cigarrette in the streets. I'm so tired of drunk people being stupid and framing alcohol as something cool and the only way to socialize.
Xperia announcenment launch May 15th 2024 (www.youtube.com)
KDE Plasma needs stability (www.youtube.com)
Gnome developers in a nutshell (lemmy.world)
Exclusive: Sony Xperia 1 VI leaked – Improved Telephoto, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and more -mspoweruser (mspoweruser.com)
It looks like the improved tele on the Xperia finally.
Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released! (blogs.kde.org)
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.
Hannah Montana Linux (lemmy.world)
Is it possible to erase the UEFI/BIOS using dd or rm -rf on Linux ? (yt3.ggpht.com)
nuclear take: (lemmy.world)
Did you choose for Linux for freedom or ...
for gratis or other reasons ?...
If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes?
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Music Players (feddit.cl)
Hello guys,...
It looks pope - I mean, dope
10 years of Skeptic to Septic Pipeline (lemmy.world)
23 April 1987 (sh.itjust.works)
Help a nerd choose a new phone after 7 years
I’m cross posting my own here, I hope it’s allowed. Maybe it will reach someone who has a similar problem....
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)
Raspberry PI (or similar) as an INTERNAL controller of a TV?
This may sound really weird and dumb (and long, on top of that) to you micro-pc gurus but this thought has been going in my head lately so I'd like to ask to someone who actually knows. Please excuse me in advance....
People who use distros without systemd, why do you do this? (lemmy.world)
What is the most beautiful song you've ever heard?
If you're against legalizing marijuana then you have to be for banning alcohol
If the argument is that marijuana is bad for health and it should be illegal, then with the same logic, alcohol should be illegal because it’s also bad for health.