That’s what I said.

It’s very easy to get a Gnome look and feel with Plasma nowadays.

I still don’t know why Gnome loves wasting 3 % of the screen on an empty black bar, tho.

Maybe you are just dealing with the new Plasma 6.1 feature for multi-monitor setups? It’s pretty useful, but I find it annoying too, and thankfully this is KDE, so there’s always the possibility to make it your way.

Here’s a way to tweak the setting to your liking.

It definitely is useful, I use it for train tickets, or user QR codes for things such as IKEA, supermarkets, gas stations… It’s quite literally a virtual wallet where you have all your “cards”, but they are QRs.

This way, for example, you don’t have to install every single app to get the QR code that identifies you in every market. You just paste them into this wallet and you are good to go!

NFC payments require a transaction platform and these things are only possible with banks or huge, “trusted” companies like Google/Apple.

Although things might start changing in Europe (for now) with GNU Taler.

Not for over-the-internet use

I could understand that some distros’ kernel had binary blobs, but the main kernel?? I was not expecting that if it’s true.

This is premium functionality, for those who don’t know.

Just like I am not a fan of Firefox derivatives, I am not a fan of modified ISOs for Windows.

This is because all the effort put on trust on a big company/community is now gone; now you must trust some unknown random dev.

Install official Windows and apply trusted tools to clean it up. Or better yet, install Linux. That’s my general advice.

Let’s face it, if you install Linux (or even Windows!) for your mom, you put VLC in there.

Yes, some other tools are better at some things, but VLC is the perfect choice for the “standard” user.

I don’t think symbolic will solve your problem at all

Well, we need a better system then

OsmAnd allows me to see changes in hours, for OrganicMaps I have to wait a full month.

Oh, I very much know that! But only on OsmAnd I can see those changes being applied a few hours later instead of a month later.

Oh, I very much know that! But only on OsmAnd I can see those changes being applied a few hours later instead of a month later.

I wish Organic Maps had up-to-date maps. If there is any possibility for that please let me know!

I would say that does apply in the case of Endeavour OS but shouldn’t for a custom install with 100 % Arch+AUR packages.

*GUI installer

I am also thinking of starting an open source project, and honestly, will do it on Github, because so far, GitHub does not require microphone or location access, yadayada… And the AI thing would happen anyway. Do you think Google has not used GitHub repos for training Gemini?

I am very interested in syncing the repo with a federated git server, but from what I am reading Codeberg/Forgejo still don’t have federation working?

The dracut-systemdboot thing makes no sense. If you are installing Arch Linux, you have all options available? There is no “default” Arch, 😅

Sorry I don’t understand your first question.

What I mean is that anyone (in fact there were projects that did this) could make an image with an installer GUI for Arch Linux that installed Arch Linux and some opinionated software like Endeavour does. But at the end you just got an easy Arch installation. What bothers me is that instead of pushing for Arch Linux’s brand, Endeavour created their own, virtually wrapping Arch Linux as theirs, and I don’t believe it is enough work to consider it a different distro, because it is LITERALLY ARCH with a couple of extra packages (that could be on the main repos or the AUR).

And I am saying all this as an Endeavour user myself!