They lost their Unity.

Fair. At some point they kinda ... Snapped.

Because we have been asking for it back for 10 years.

Does this mean there will finally be an immutable LTS distro? That might be kinda cool for Grandma PCs. I wonder if it would be easy to fork to make a "it just works" competitor to Bazzite

One laptop I have is from 2020 and has S3 sleep. Linux even reports it has S3 sleep, but it loses 20% every day when sleeping. It's nuts.

Yes. Canonical has lost the plot years ago.

You can't load modules built with a different compiler. The modules aren't external programs, the modules are literally part of the kernel. And if you want to use a module wrote in rust you also need to have built in the rust support in the kernel

Not by default

Corpos do weird shit and call that attestation

Having integrity verification of the system is very useful and essential for things like Banking software to be potentially available on Linux.

If we want that proprietary malware... another question. Do we have a choice?

/etc is usually writeable XD

Unless you are on NixOS where you need to use nix for EVERYTHING

One of my most prized possessions is a transcript of some of my late grandfather's notes. Among them, and most prized to me, is an note he wrote about the fruit of wicked trees: that the ends do not justify the means; the means and ends are both the merit of a thing, and if either is corrupt, so too is the thing.

I keep a printout of it with me often as a memorandum.

The article or the project or both?

Agreed.

AI slop

attestable

Please don't bring this utter shit to Linux.

No distribution is universally the best.

My current favorite for personal use is Artix GNU/Linux with OpenRC as the init system.

I was just recently talking about this with a colleague, who in the end, just said "Windows is better".
Guess now KDE is better. Or has Windows fixed that problem too? (in that case it was kinda sporadic).

just use AI

why?

Does anyone know if this fix will be backported?

Not sure if this addresses the same problem (please let me know if not), but a fix that I've used for the past couple of years is one suggested in these discussions:

https://gist.github.com/2E0PGS/f63544f8abe69acc5caaa54f56efe52f
http://lwn.net/Articles/572911/

essentially changing the values of vm.dirty_background_bytes and vm.dirty_bytes. File transfers with the USB have been smooth and fast, on Plasma/Kwin, with this fix.

And this post explains how to make such changes permanent:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/149140/515980

Maybe this is useful for people with older versions of Plasma.

This technology is impossible! You are a rambling mad man for uttering such nonsense!

Fucking finally. Been my biggest gripe for about a decade.

set up workspaces or whatever they are called instead of virtual desktops. The ability to do independent wallpapers is like 50% of their features

I think this is a bigger deal than it sounds like when you consider cut and paste, or just moving files. The writing would've been thought to be done even if the cache is still flushing, so it deletes the source files, but the write can still fail after the source files are deleted. The device could fail, it could be unplugged, you might kick it by accident, or have a power outage.