The Change proposal has been withdrawn by the author: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-wide/156330/57
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All those same options are available by right clicking on the app. Though thinking some more, the status icon being dynamic does give it some extra flexibility, I think it can show recently launched games. Still, does that mean Firefox should get a status icon so that you can access recently opened sites? Should your file manager?
The complaint against the app indicators is that apps tend to throw their icon in there for no reason. Why does Steam need to show itself there? Why doesn’t Firefox?
There’s also some technical reasons why they’re bad. There’s quite a few different protocols to show the icons up there, all each with their own pros and cons. But none can handle sandboxing properly, so work is being done towards a new protocol.
You can check if you are using Xorg or Wayland in the Settings -> System -> About -> System Details page. If you’re using Wayland, you’re all good, nothing changes. If you’re using Xorg, you may notice some changes. If you’re using NVIDIA on Ubuntu 24.04, you’ll be on Xorg by default. If you’re using a later version or AMD/Intel, you’ll be on Wayland be default.
To keep it short, X11 was the old protocol for creating and managing windows. Xorg implemented this protocol. But both the protocol and implementation have many shortcomings that are difficult to address for a multitude of reasons (breaking compatibility, poor code base, a ton of work, etc).
Rather than putting lipstick on a pig, a new protocol, called Wayland, was created. It was designed for modern needs and tries to avoid the pitfalls that X11, Windows, and MacOS have. It doesn’t just copy what those three did, it’s more opinionated, so some people love it a lot (like me) or hate it a lot because it changes the way things have to be done and simply does not implement some functionality, either purposefully or because the work hasn’t been done yet.
You could install Linux Mint onto a flash drive. Though keep in mind that flash drives aren’t that robust, the flash chips are cheaper and will fail faster than SSDs.
The battery life is still better than most laptops, but yeah, not as good as MacOS.
I use Silverblue and MacOS daily, I enjoy the former so much more.
Unfortunately my relatively new Lenovo laptop has a small but also major driver bug that hasn’t been fixed in all the time I’ve had it. Bad to the point I got the Mac to have actual working hardware. But I do not enjoy MacOS in the slightest. At best I can say it harasses you less than Windows and respects the user a few degrees more than Windows.
Not by default, but you can optionally enable it.
Don’t believe so, best that’s currently available is skimming through the video to look at the slides.
Here’s my short summary of the presentation, I tried to denote what’s being worked on (open PR), what’s kinda being done (WIP), and things stuff they’d like to be done in the future (wishlist). May be somewhat wrong.
Unfortunately, it’s not in a great situation. Flatpak is stagnant. There’s a lot of cool things in the works, like a stronger sandbox, preinstalling flatpaks more effectively, etc, but merging things is hard.
Flatpak isn’t as strong as a sandbox as Android. But if you tweak permissions, it can be deemed good enough.
If you really wanted security, you’d want to learn SELinux, but that’s a whole rabbit hole of complexity.
FOSS also depends on them, many FOSS contributors are employed by proprietary companies.
I love when I try to open a file and macOS tells me I can’t because can’t tell if it’s safe. There’s literally no way to open it from here.
You have to hit ok, then go so settings, scroll down to security, and hit a button to specify yes I actually want to open this file. It then reprompts you again but now with an open anyway button.
I love my MacBook’s hardware and battery life, but MacOS is such a letdown.
This is overly complicated. Just install Java then run
flatpak --user override --env="FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=openjdk" com.vscodium.codium
Note this works for all other SDKs too. It works especially well for programming languages like Rust that have their own package manager.
Doesn’t work so well for languages like C/C++ where you use your distro package manager to install dependencies. In those cases it’s easier to install VSCodium inside a container where you do have access to a distro package manager.
The traditional insecure global shortcuts system works in Xorg.
I’ve had no issues with the ProtonVPN flatpak on Fedora Silverblue.