I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.

Thats not relevant because Cosmic isn’t either.

My view is that if the goal was to effectively make good software they wouldn’t start from scratch.

If they used wlroots the desktop would be usable today with a good feature set.

If they used Qt or GTK they would have feature rich well supported software. (GTK4 could have been an improvement for them, it’s designed around being minimal and having platform libraries implement design choices)

They didn’t take a practical approach imo. You could argue its a long term investment but because of it it’s probably years off of feature parity. The only upside today is… it’s written in Rust.

The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.

FWIW many modern text editors just let you modify multiple lines at once.

Fedora does not because they can’t support it. If a bug is found all they can do is shrug and point you at Nvidia. If they want to add a feature that breaks they would be stuck and have to hold back other drivers.

The kernel drivers were never an issue, but userspace drivers fixed this many years ago with glvnd.

It means it will break less on kernel updates. I don’t think it fundamentally changes much else for gaming.

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I think they just mean they should have control over the modem. They are all locked down and proprietary with known backdoors throughout history, effectively bypassing any OS level security.

I find it interesting that Proton’s other alias solution doesn’t even know what domain aliases are used for. That information shouldn’t be necessary.

In simple usage OpenGL can perform identical to Vulkan. A compositor with little complex rendering won’t change.

The phone is extremely low end hardware and not pleasant to use.

They’ve done great work investing in the software but its still young and incomplete.

I would buy a new one if it had significantly more powerful hardware.

Of course this is all subjective. Millions of people use it as their main OS just fine, because it’s fine.

I’d never use Windows and can come up with an equally long list of complaints.

At least a few of your comments are also just false.

Maintaining a fork of Chromium would cost millions to do it responsibly.

The old versions are not intended to be used like this, they get cleaned up for space, otherwise it would be petabytes of unused software.

I’d guess because the metadata says it’s required for KDE, so cannot be removed. The UI should show that probably.

https://github.com/KDE/plasma-welcome/blob/master/org.kde.plasma-welcome.appdata.xml

The blog has multiple progress posts https://asahilinux.org/blog/

I’ll admit im not an expert but shes not brought up tiling at all as a problem.

A vulkan driver already exists and has made progress, it just needs some more time.

Banks don’t have an ad business like this, though they will have some advertising in general.

They also all, I believe by law, have opt-out for all third party sharing of data for this purpose.