[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Librera can read PDF - there's also a dark mode. The app isn't the best looking, and the controls are unconventional, but you'll get used to it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You should help other help you. What I mean is, provide anything of substantial value to your difficulties - in your case, configs.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And your point being?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Please check this comment.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I've written about this here already.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Snaps are a default no, obviously. Most of the points by Flatkill still hold true to this day. Apart from that, I have my own set of disagreements which I'll not be talking about - basically, stuff like reproducibility, storage space, inconsistent permissions, inconvenient configurations, outdated runtime - well, you get the point, so I'll not be expanding on that.

My primary disillusionment towards Flatpak has to do with how people with shared backgrounds and vested corporate interests have taken over open-source - in this particular case, I am talking about Big Tech. It's almost as if the space for a community-developed organization is hijacked by them - by them occupying core positions of the organization.

These organizations do not follow a horizontal approach to decision-making, they often come up with decisions without consulting folks that aren't within their direct circle, and worst, when they're held in a tight-spot, they can evade any criticism by appealing to authority - that they're the maintainers/contributors, and they know what's best for the project's future.

The same is true about funding - it is always through members of the company that they're indirectly funding these projects, that I can't help but feel that the "community", aka the outsiders never had the chance to be a part of the decision-making.

Flatpak may have it's share of poor features that can be fixed - sand-boxing can be improved by using permissive containers that allow particular shell variables, installation will throw dialogue, informing the users beforehand about the permissions these apps will need, developers may be forced to use proper run-times, and perhaps, some of the runtime be eliminated to use system dependencies, thereby complying with storage compliance - I don't know, but it could be fixed. But this invisible, unspoken flaw in the governance? No way.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

With the largest group of people graduating with an engineering degree, you're telling me they don't use Linux? Just check the stats at NSF for the number of degrees awarded in S&E.

India alone has 14% in the desktop market share for Linux. China's market share is not easy to tell, thanks to the firewall, but 90% of government computers use Kylin and other Chinese-developed distros.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wrong, India and China has the highest number of engineering grads. From NSF:

India awarded 2.5 million S&E first university degrees in 2020, followed by China (2.0 million) and then by the United States (900,000).

With a younger population that is more than ever, a need for laptop would be in the highest demands. In fact, if you check the desktop market share for Linux in India, it is the highest, at around 14%.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

People who waste food are the biggest losers.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

In India, they'd have walked scotch-free. Well, have fun rotting in here.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The new DeLorean Alpha also looms really cool. However, I'd consider the Hyundai NVision 74 as an unofficial successor.

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