MyNameIsRichard

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

It works fine for me. Not on wayland but that's down to my Nvidia card and I hope explicit sync will sort it out.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix

This snap-laden Ubuntu remix

ftfy

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In addition to what's already been said, Canonical have a history of starting grandiose projects and then abandoning them a few years later. See Mir, Unity, and Ubuntu Touch for examples.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Alpine Linux is often recommended in similar circumstances. I've never tried it so can't say how it is. Of course you could use Debian with a light WM.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Well then, it's an interesting proposal because it would be nice to see a major player default to KDE. I don't see it happening though.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 52 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Is this an April Fool? I trust nothing posted on 1 April!

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

According to vim --help:

-y Easy mode (like "evim", modeless)

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Put such things into your home dir which does not change when distro hopping. home dir will always stay there no matter what.

Unless you've put it on the same partition as root

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The first distro I tried was Red Hat 5 back in the late 1990s but I never got a GUI working so I guess the first one I used properly would have been Mandrake iirc. These days it's Tumbleweed.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

The same risks apply to any software proprietary or open source which is why Microsoft have the following in their licence agreement:

  1. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.The software is licensed “as-is.” You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this agreement cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, Microsoft excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. FOR AUSTRALIA ONLY: You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in these terms is intended to affect those rights.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You can't recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.

Knowing that and knowing that themes can have code is two different things though. I wasn't particularly surprised as I thought (maybe wrongly) that global themes just installed all the other bits which would require code.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Breeze, for example, contains a lot of code. For instance

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