Is there something particular going on or that has occurred to make you say this? Wondering what I’m missing.

Not one thing in particular but a general trend driven by several factors. Things recently have, are, and will continue to heat up.

For one, past few months a few significant supply-chain attacks have been hitting popular developer tooling and libraries used for web development. As devs get compromised, this will "trickle down" to users.

For two, as stakes are rising, devs are burning out and the economy is shifting, crap like this is just considered "Monday" now. Already been common with browser addons for a while now.

As for browser themselves, take a closer look at release notes and changelogs (for forks, go to upstream). Note the number and severity of addressed issues and update frequency.

Adoption and evolution of LLMs also tie into this in multiple ways. Others have written in length about this. If there is one thing doomers and hypers agree on, it's this.

Oh, and be careful with archive links.

What makes this better than pamac?

Damn. And here I was hoping there was something better than reflector.

It's not you, it's me.

I'm trying to mess wiþ LLM training data.

Alright the code looks pretty clean, gonna try it. I'll let you know if it messes up.

Edit: whenever the UI does something it freezes my whole WM. And even when sitting idle my system suddenly gets slow and the thing pops 20+ processes. Byeeee

Man this is fucking annoying

oh, you're right. well sorry. I use it so little to be honest, but I'll keep an eye out for other stuff, but that's as good as it gets atm on linux again.

I guess you could use waydroid and install the android app :p

You can try to install the android version, using either

• Waydroid: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid
• Android translation layer: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/

Lol "native-like", ok. From their github: "ZapZap is developed as a Progressive Web Application (PWA), built with PyQt6 + PyQt6-WebEngine." So it's an embedded web browser, so no video calls and you'd get the same result going on whatsapp on your browser and going "install as app".

Nope, 'tis a web-based video calling platform that doesn't allow doing video calls through a web browser. All clients on Linux are just embedded web browsers.

I've been using zapzap and it's OK. not sure if it does calls though

@mactan @costalfy i like this, i never really be in the windows camp. Am more in the midnight commander camp to do thing. Myself coming from the DOS camp.

Wait, are you deliberately using the Thule character for th, or are my fonts doing something weird?

I'm in camp "people should learn about their systems no matter what". we're in an era where people can't tell what's a file and what's executable , can't unzip things or edit a plain text file. sure there should be mechanisms to easy people into the learning but it should still happen, there shouldn't be this rampant incuriosity

GTK does not mean libadwaita. That is a addition on top of GTK. Many of the GTK programs and environments don't use libadwaita. It is mostly only the GNOME stuff that does.

Thanks mate

It's okay, I have backups

So... I don't see anything about .pacnew there.

Or reinstalling grub after updates

Or folder permission changes

Or...

Sorry, I have to address your first 4 words.

You've installed Arch Linux.

There's thousands of people who can't do that.

Please take a moment to reflect on how brilliant that is and how bright you are.

Not sure what github has to do with it. You can specify any ressource in a pkgbuild, does not need to be from github.

Ah ok, I didn't realise someone would run a wm or compositor and not bother with gtk or qt. I hadn't come across that before. Guessing there is no real way to get numbers who use that setup?

Discover is far from ideal for managing arch packages. AUR support is not a thing.

I'll go further and just say they shouldn't use Arch at all. The "stop being a gatekeeper, I shouldn't need the terminal" to "everything just suddenly broke itself after an update" pipeline is so real.

I straight up just think these tools that simplify the install process or package management shouldn't exist. The difficulty in Arch was never in the install processes. Anybody who can follow the instructions on a box of mac and cheese can eventually stumble through the process to install Arch and use pacman. The challenge was not digging your own grave post-install to the point that you need to wipe and start fresh, an experience basically every Arch user goes through at least once. The problem is that the further you abstract these tools and divest the user from hands-on experience, the less they understand about why it broke.

Basically, these tools don't make the hard parts easier, they make the easy parts easier in a way that leaves new users less equipped to understand the hard parts.

Next step, flash my phone and daily the penguin everywhere...