Looks like for everything there is plugins and lsp support for. Like vsc but not Microsoft.

Ah, yes, using non-PC controllers on a PC does sound like a nightmare.

Interesting, thank you, I’ll have to check those out.

Curiously is there a way to pull up a task manager when kde or Wayland freezes without dropping into a ptty?

What controllers are you using that don’t work on Windows? One of the most commonly used PC controllers are Xbox controllers and they work amazingly on Windows. On Linux they suck and have constant issues. For the cheapest options something like Logitech works better on Windows and typically just use the same API as the Xbox controllers.

Yup, I think the core design philosophy is the fault and thus the janky always behind the times Linux os will never be a leader. It’s because there is no driving force to make something coherent, well polished, and unique in a productive way. When your design philosophy is everyone design and implement by committee nothing will feel like it has a goal.

Yeah that’s where windows shines is devices. Windows supports more random devices than Linux. Linux might have the most drivers for devices but they are half baked most of the time and with windows you know that’s the supported and tested platform for it. Linux needs serious buy in from vendors before it becomes big and the only way to get that is a large audience. It’s a catch 22 that Linux folks won’t admit it exists.

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Peglin was incredibly fun on the Steam Deck.

I don’t have hope for Linux becoming a major desktop OS anymore. It doesn’t seem like a priority. So I agree, distro developers trying to create an environment that would win over the Windows crowd seems like it would never happen because they don’t care to. It’s fine, different oses for different use cases.

Those distros are different than what I am talking about. Those are immutable distros that preserve the preinstalled system base. It’s not at all what we’ve been talking about.

interesting, I feel like any additional workspaces always throw me off.

Do people find this useful as a desktop feature or is it just a meme?

The package managers and official repos for most distros would be better thought of as lego blocks to build an OS from - they have no concept of OS and application separation, and splitting installation of an OS across multiple physical drives doesn’t really make sense.

The packages for Blender, steam, etc, and typical Userland apps are in these repos. The package managers are not the “Lego blocks” only. They are the utilities, user apps, and libraries you need. They are everything in one place. That’s a large point of Linux. Everything you need is in the repo.

Also, repos are distro related. You can’t use Fedora repos on Ubuntu. Originally you couldn’t use any distro’s repos on any other distro’s repos. With Ubuntu and its offshoots and arch and its offshoots, we’ve started to see repos grow to multi-distro but to say that they have no concept of OS is wrong. The whole reason there are distros is so that specific distros can configure things to their liking. This is why things like Debian and Ubuntu exist. It’s why OpenBSD exists. Again, a large selling point for Linux users is that all your packages are configured to be used with your distro.

Flatpak and Appimage are very specifically not what I am talking about. They aren’t typically supported by distros and don’t include distro-specific fixes/configurations for a lot of things.

If I want to install an application installed by the official repos to another hard drive, not the one mounted at /. How do I do that? Note: If you tell me a command line command, you’ve failed. The Windows way to handle this is 1) format the drive. 2) Install the app. No excuses, no “What if other apps can’t find it.” no “What if it includes already installed libraries.” Just install

Biggest issue I have with Linux is the inability to sanely use multiple hard drives. Not to mention a ton of bugs with random hardware configurations. Like Wacom tablets don’t work well with Nvidia drivers.

Steam deck specifically solves both of these by being hardware designed for Linux and for being a handheld.

just to parrot @PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social’s comment: GitHub is just a mirror, actual development happens on https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/

So if you want to contribute back to it then go to the invent link.

Why mirror to Github if you can’t or won’t take pull requests or such on it? Is this just another place where someone can download the code? Additionally, it doesn’t feel clear that this is a mirror looking at the Github repo. Maybe the description should be expanded to explain it’s a mirror and is read-only.

https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/tree/master/klipper

China is a data collection country.

Cause the USA isn’t?

If China wants to see it, then yes they are required by law to pass information to the CCP.

You should look up the PRISM program.

If you are going to label Tencent as purely a data collection company belonging to a data collection country then let me remind you that Linux had a social media site that collected a lot of information that could have been turned over to the US federal law enforcement due to prism and the US laws SCA and CLOUD acts.

So literally if that’s your definition, the Linux Foundation is a data collection company too.