Notices by Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social), page 3

It always kinda scares me when I read certain comments. They’re not numerous, but I see more of them each year. They say things like « the woke EU », or the « EUssr », or « socialist EU ».

They’re generally there when I talk about the EU regulating big tech, or fighting abuses of dominant position, and I just don’t understand how anyone can link that kind of activity to being « woke » whatever that means today, or being « socialist » (which in these people’s minds probably means « commie »).

@ploum This is the reason why I interact less here than I used to. I love having discussions about topics that generate a lot of dissenting opinions, but once I’ve said my piece, I don’t want to be dragged into a week long discussion arguing where the goal posts should be.

Not being able to mute these threads is making Mastodon illegible at times, so I just stopped talking about « controversial » things to avoid this.

A few years ago, I made a video to showcase an easy method to run #macos on #Linux. Since then, that method was discontinued and was never updated, so I decided to revisit the topic!

So, here is a very slightly more complex way to get a MacOS virtual machine on Linux, a few tips to configure everything, and a look at the use cases and the limitations:

https://youtu.be/Qa6y_CiyAMA

The amount of misogynistic comments on my latest video is just off the charts.

You can doubt the new CEO for her skills, her vision, experience, or the companies she worked at. But saying « another woman CEO, Mozilla is dead » is just… wow.

It’s 2024, people. Seriously. WTF.

In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video, we have:
- #OpenSUSE leap looking to push the immutable distro space forward
- #Ubuntu 's Steam snap becoming a problem for Valve, to the point they recommend you don't use it
- #Google pretty much giving up on their Fuchsia OS

And a lot more stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5ghaSLVUc

It’s 2024, which means I’m legally allowed to make my one #Linux distro tier list video for the year.

And a lot of distros have changed since the last one in early 2023, and I’ve tested a lot more as well, so it’s pretty packed!

And as with all tier lists, it’s obviously subjective, and tailored towards my own use case, so don’t get too offended if your favorite distro didn’t land in the spot you wanted it!

https://youtu.be/MuP-9O7gNIc

And here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News podcast!

https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/cosmic-alpha-linux-67-more-steamos-devices-and-the-wayland-saga-continues

As always, follow it @tlenewspodcast or subscribe to it from any good podcast client!

Also, if you want daily Linux news shows, you can subscribe to the Patreon or become a youtube member, all the links are in the shownotes of the podcast :)

@mmu_man @BrodieOnLinux You’ll be able to run it like before, with XWayland, which isn’t going anywhere.

It does raise the question of: do we need to support 25 year old apps for all time and refuse to fix our entire desktop stack to support them? Real question, btw, not trying to be snarky or anything.

@forteller For me, it’s been great, except that it doesn’t work with fractional scaling on KDE, the menus are cut off and displayed in the wrong place :/

Big props to the French Constitutional Council for stopping the recent police surveillance law. This thing would have let the police film or record people without their knowledge or consent if they were but suspected of a crime (provided a judge granted that right too), but it was deemed way too intrusive for privacy and disproportionate.

Glad to see there’s still a tiny bit of reason floating somewhere, at least for that specific law.

So, I say I use #Wayland all the time, and that X11 is dead, or dying.

And while the second part of that statement is a fact, it doesn’t mean Wayland is ready for everyone right now, so I decided to take a look at the current state of Wayland support, between desktops, apps, drivers, and what the protocol still doesn’t support:

#Linux #OpenSource

https://youtu.be/xlvusAuDDZ0

After using @kde for a bit, I found out about a few handy tips, tricks, apps and widgets to fix some small issues and improve my productivity.

So, I might as well share them with you:

#Linux #OpenSource #kde

https://youtu.be/Sungl8gWU_8

A few comments on my latest video seem to paint a very depressing picture of how poorly people understand the political spectrum.

People saying these anti VPN laws are why the left shouldn’t be allowed to govern:

Sorry to tell you this, these laws are being passed by our current French government, which is absolutely right wing (some would say center right, but let’s be honest, they’re passing laws our far right has been dreaming of for decades).

The left is opposed to them.

@killyourfm @Jayhosh I absolutely disagree with the statement! The books cover a huge span of time, but each one is focused on a particular character or set of characters, which they used in the show as well. The books are character stories. I’m no filmmaker or writer, but I think it was more a case of « let’s write what we want » more than « it’s not filmable ». Dune was supposed to be impossible to adapt, and the movie was absolutely fantastic!

Finished foundation season 2. The second half improves, but it’s still absolutely terrible. The writing is so bad, I was laughing at half the scenes. Character deaths were made meaningless by the ham-fisted dialogue and Cotillard-like performances. It’s the realm of Deus Ex Machina and coincidences, instead of celebrating the agency of 1 person to impact the whole future.

It missed what the book was about, turning it into stories about individuals. Season 1 was far better!

@Jayhosh The books (the Robots cycle, and the whole Foundation cycle) are some of the best Sci Fi I’ve ever read. They’re a masterpiece, and I recommend them over the show any time! (The show doesn’t follow the books half as much as they should).

After 2 years using the same desktop for editing, running #Fedora and #GNOME, I made a big switch:
- first, I replaced both my desktop and my laptop with one single laptop for both use cases
- I moved to #KDE plasma
- I switched distros!

Here is the whole new setup, how I configured KDE, and how everything works!

https://youtu.be/No_A22Mdxb0

Wow Foundation season 2 starts off so badly. They ruined 2 crucial mysteries and crucial plot points in the first 3 episodes. The returning characters (that shouldn’t be there at all IMO) jump from sadness to excitement to solving problems in one single scene, it’s… so weirdly written and directed.

I almost thought the first scene of the first episode was a joke, as it felt so weird.

Super disappointed in the adaptation so far.

Since macOS was really not my cup of tea, I installed @AsahiLinux on my M1 MacBook Pro.

While I was expecting it to be alpha quality and very buggy, I was surprised to find a pretty great level of support for the hardware!

So here are my impressions, in video form: everything that works, what doesn’t work yet, and how to get it up and running:

#Linux #Asahi

https://youtu.be/ZFx6R26aRHw

Looks like StarLabs turned their affordable entry level laptop into an entry level tablet / Surface like device!

Looks pretty good for a Linux tablet!

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite