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  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap

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  • Flatpak recently got a method of preinstalling flatpaks.

    A flatpak cannot install a snap on your system. Apt can install a snap because when apt installs and updates packages, it can also run scripts as root. That's insecure and potentially dangerous, so flatpak doesn't have that ability.

  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap

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  • All of those, apart from loop devices, are not technical limitations, but results from Canonical's poor management and monopolistic desires.

  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - The Roadmap

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  • Snap is interesting for me it can do more things than flatpak and has some really interesting sandboxing features coming up such as permission prompts for filesystem access.

    But Canonical management is a significant hindrance. The Snap Store simply cannot be trusted after so much malware got in and they still have not improved their processes. So many snaps including Canonical's own, are still using core22 for some reason. And there's the broken snaps Canonical pushed on users.

    I would love to see a snap repo that takes the best parts of Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks. Because as a technology, I think snap beats flatpak (if you're using AppArmor). But it's Canonical's poor management that really drags it down.

  • Does it ever bother some of you that "I'm switching to Linux!" is just more of a way to appear rebellious than actually committing to the choice?

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  • But as an actual option or not? I think OP is referring to those who say "I'm going to switch to Linux" like those politicians to pay so much lip service to freedom, democracy, privacy while at the same time voting to erode all of those. The implication being that they won't actually ever switch to Linux.

  • The ChromeOS of Linux: Basic use cases, impossible to break, ~1,000 happy(?) users, Nix based. Nixbook OS.

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  • You can tinker for the most part, it's just done differently. In the Universal Blue world, that would be creating your own OCI container using their image template or blue build.

    The nice thing is that it makes the OS much more reproducible than imperative commands and scripts.

  • A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL – Fedora Community Blog

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  • Not a security issue, copyright/license issues.

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    A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL – Fedora Community Blog

    communityblog.fedoraproject.org /a-statement-concerning-the-fedora-and-flathub-relationship-from-the-fpl/

  • GNOME Desktop top bar - waste of space?

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  • In my experience, many Gnome apps make doing complex tasks pretty easy compared to third party apps. However, it is at the cost of customization and questions like "why can't I do this???"

    But in general, Gnome's simple design works for me, most things feel clean and polished. I don't need the vast majority of features offered.

    In the cases where Gnome's default aren't powerful enough, often times the KDE equivalent isn't good enough for me either despite offering more features and customization.

    As an example, Gnome Text Editor vs Kwrite and Kate. GTS has the basics I need like line numbers (Apple's text editor does not have this...) and that fits 80% of my needs. But what about more advanced things? Well, no markdown support but I don't think Kate has that either. What about coding? I'd rather use a dedicated IDE than Kate or GTS.

  • GNOME Desktop top bar - waste of space?

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  • The bar is meant to be very minimal and not distracting.

    It takes up space, sure, but it's close to the minimal height while still having easily readable time up top

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • You can purchase used electric cars too.

  • swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution"

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  • No, it's a limitation with swaybg so they created a tool that doesn't have that limitation.

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    Flatpak Happenings

    blog.sebastianwick.net /posts/flatpak-happenings/
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    Flatpak 1.17 Adds Support For Sideloading From OCI Images, flatpak+HTTPS URIs

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  • Sideloading or preinstalling?

    Sideloading already existed, but only for ostree flatpaks. Flatpak also supports OCI flatpaks, but the support for those aren't as good, hence the previously missing side loading support.

  • What do you see as the arguments for and against adding Server Side Decorations in GNOME?

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  • “We do

    <thing >

    because we always did before <thing 2>” is not a good point

    I didn't mean it in a "this is better way". I'm just saying that Wayland was designed around the idea of client side decorations, not server side decorations. Gnome has stuck to the more purist vision of Wayland, which makes sense since I believe they were its biggest proponent.

  • What do you see as the arguments for and against adding Server Side Decorations in GNOME?

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  • That can be dropped eventually too. Compositors like Niri don't implement Xwayland support directly, and instead use Xwayland Satellite.

  • What do you see as the arguments for and against adding Server Side Decorations in GNOME?

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  • The for argument is basically the following

    • Wayland as a protocol was designed around CSDs, protocols for SSDs came years later
    • Having the client control the CSDs simplifiies things for the compositor and apps
      • The compositor has less things to implement and test
      • Modern apps tend to prefer CSDs anyway since it provides more flexibility, very common on MacOS and Windows
      • It's difficult to coordinate things between the client and compositor.
        • Something that annoys me about KDE is that they do this headerbar look where the top part of the application will match the color of the the titlebar. However, the top part of the application is drawn by the application and the titlebar is drawn by the compositor. But when the color changes (such as going from unfocused to focused), they do not update at the same time, so for a frame or few the top part of the application is a different color than the titlebar. That wouldn't happen under CSDs.

  • Introducing architecture variants: amd64v3 now available in Ubuntu 25.10

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  • SimpleX goes NFT / Shitcoin

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  • [Blockchain] technology is neutral. People make it good or bad.

    Sure, maybe. But you're making it clear you're in the bad camp too when you're announcing this with NFTs.

  • Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will be release December 11th, 2025

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  • I hope the performance significantly improves by then. Beta 1 felt pretty rough to me. And also, animations.

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    Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will be release December 11th, 2025

    fosstodon.org /@carlrichell/115457737486312683
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    Fedora Linux 43 is here! - Fedora Magazine

    fedoramagazine.org /announcing-fedora-linux-43/

  • Is Atomic Mail really that secure and private? Is it reliable?

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  • The security and privacy don't matter much when most of the emails you get are coming from unprivate servers like Gmail or outlook.

  • my reason why you should use KDE+Krohnkite instead of WMs

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  • The main reason I hear is that it maximizes screen usage and helps avoid/limit the tediousness of having to manage windows.

    Not what you're asking for, but I'll give you my perspective as someone who's tried tiling on and off and overall don't like it.

    1. Applications work best at certain aspect ratios, having them automatically tiled to different aspect ratios can be annoying
    2. Some windows windows/pop-ups have no business being tiled. Like some Yes/No dialogs (not all windows specify a max size which would avoid triggering the tiling) or a simple calculator. And you can specify which ones to have floating, but it requires setup.
    3. Sometimes it ends of causing more work than floating environements. Most of the time I only have a max of 2 windows open, but occasionally I'll quickly try to do something then end up with 4-5 windows, at which point that's too many windows and I need to reorganize stuff to continue working. But that usually wouldn't be an issue in a floating environment.
    4. Worst of all, just setting up a tiling environment is a nightmare. You have to configure the actual compositor/WM, which tools you want to use with it (bar, launcher, screenshot tool, notifications, screenlocker, etc) and configure all those too, ideally with some basic theming to make them look coherent. But inevitably you end up with missing functionality especially in the modern area where an app might be sandboxed or expecting all xdg-portals to be implemented, which most compositors don't do.

    Cosmic is exciting in this regard since it aims to be a fully-featured floating and tiling environment. You could just toggle between them as necessary (or have them on separate workplaces). You also get much better portal support.

  • Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka | Canonical

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  • As it stands today, sudo-rs is the default sudo implementation on Ubuntu 25.10, and uutils’ coreutils has mostly replaced the GNU implementation, with a few exceptions, many of which will be resolved by releases in the coming weeks. These diversions back to the existing implementations demonstrate that stability and resilience are more important than “hype” in our approach: I expect us to have completed the migration during the next cycle, but not before the tools are ready.

    https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-a-retrospective/69127

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    Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka | Canonical

    canonical.com /blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka