I’ll just link another user’s response to a similar question, as I don’t think I could ever say it better myself: https://corndog.social/comment/3216441

Isn’t that what Explicit Sync was trying to solve? Check your Nvidia driver version, as well as your KDE Plasma version and see if they both support Explicit Sync.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Snap slowdowns have been supposedly fixed, but the only snap that updated their packaging to apply the fix was Mozilla’s Firefox (from what I’ve heard).

And there is a way to create a custom store other than Canonical’s (but it’s obscure and hidden, so I bet nobody would bother).

And snaps have better support for cli programs.

If snaps were as good as flatpaks (which I don’t think they are yet), and they were not made by Canonical (got them some extra bad rep), they could have been the dominant packaging platform. The issue is that their reputation precedes them. I don’t think Canonical can ever fix that.

TLDR: Snaps are not as bad as people make them out to be (anymore). It’s just that their reputation precedes them, and some of the solutions are there but are not in use.

Personally, I use cal all the time.

Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I’m going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for “Shiny thing sindrome”, or the “grass is greener on the other side” stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I’d have known better.

Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.

Zig is feasible for systems programming and some, (most notably, the Primeagen in one video) claim it should have gone into the kernel instead of Rust, but I don’t know Zig so I don’t feel qualified to comment beyond that.

All those apps are tied to Plasma, pull Plasma as a dependency, and as such, are not what you’d want to use unless you want to keep 2 DEs around. Okular is an exception, but I know for a fact that Dolphin pulls all of Plasma with it. For an Ark alternative, just use xarchiver (contrary to the name, works perfectly on Wayland). Gwenview is just an image viewer. Use ristretto or something else. COSMIC comes with its own screenshot utility as Spectacle replacement (and COSMIC Screenshot is quite good in my experience). And just replace Dolphin with COSMIC files (for a simpler experience) or Thunar (for something more powerful) and you’re good to go.

Edit: But I agree QT theming should be added. IIRC, they’ve talked to the Plasma team, but it was just too time consuming so they’ve put it of for now, but will have this done eventually. It’s a promised feature, it just probably won’t happen soon.

No Way! What??? How did they manage to…? Is the Issue Board on Github wrong? It shows tens of issues yet to fix??? Link: https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1

And THAT is the attitude that causes Linux to still not be ready for many people.

Unfortunately, a lot of those are super popular and there are still gamers that want to switch to Linux but can’t because of those games.

These publishers’ names are:

Hachette,

Penguin Random House,

Wiley,

and

HarperCollins

Time to never buy any book from them again. I’m moving on to pirating ebooks and audiobooks. Sorry JRR and Christopher Tolkien (may you rest in peace), but I’m not buying any more of your books because they were published by HarperCollins. And I’m also not buying a lot of other books too.

How is it that Piracy is better than Key reselling sites? Am I missing something?