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Glorious

someone who took another company who’s success was based on a large network of developers and successfully killed that community

You've got your timeline backwards. The massive Red Hat licensing fiasco was this year. Whitehurst was with Red Hat for 14 years before he resigned in 2021, along with a number of senior Red Hat staff.

I took Whitehurst and others' resignations as a bad omen. I remember the conversation around Whitehurst leaving (e.g. /r/redhat, /r/linux), was primarily about IBM taking over and the impending death of Red Hat.

I trust Whitehurst more than most other possible candidates. I don't know if he'll save Unity, especially if what I'm hearing about the board is true. But his track record is way more positive than you're giving him credit for.

I get your point. Since a .tar.zst file can be handled natively by tar, using .tzst instead does make sense.

16x10 means retro 4x3 games look much better.

Yep, my Sway config has

input type:touchpad natural_scroll enabled

I know; I'm not talking about ./. I put the slash outside the inline codeblock in the parent comment.

My shell is setup with a chdir hook to [[ -r. /.autoenv.zsh ]] && . ./.autoenv.zsh.

(Edit: Jerboa is bugged with "&" in codeblocks, that should be a "&&", not &&)

(NOTE: A lot of my more interesting "aliases" are actually short functions, but I'm keeping myself to alias.)

Some of mine that I haven't seen yet:

# Simple python calculator
alias pycalc='python3 -ic "
from math import *\nimport cmath as C
try:
    import numpy as np
except:
    pass
i, j = 1j, 1j
"'

# Defaults
alias cp='cp --interactive --reflink=auto'
alias gcc='gcc -fdiagnostics-color=auto'
# Lemmy doesn't handle ampersands in codeblocks correctly
alias rg='rg --max-columns=$((COLUMNS > 60 && ! ZSH_SUBSHELL ? COLUMNS - 30 : 0))'
alias rj='rg --json'
alias rm='rm -s'
alias rscp='rsync -azP --human-readable --info=flist0,progress2,stats1'
alias rust-c='rustc --out-dir build -O'

# Shorter forms
alias g=git
alias v=$VISUAL
alias py=python
alias jfeu='journalctl --user -xfeu'
alias sys='systemctl --user'
alias Jfeu='journalctl -xfeu'
alias Sys=systemctl

# Desktop stuff
alias trash='gio trash'
alias ud=udisksctl
alias y=wl-copy
alias Y='wl-copy -p'
alias p=wl-paste
alias P='wl-paste -p'

# Colorize with acolor/grc
alias GRC='grc -es'
alias LA='acol ls -lFAhb --color'
alias LS='acol ls -lFhb --color'
alias df='GRC df -hT'
alias dig='GRC dig'
alias docker='GRC docker'
alias docker-machine='GRC docker-machine'
alias env='acol env'
alias lsblk='acol lsblk'
alias lsmount='command mount | rg --color=never "^/" | acol -i -o mount'
alias lspci='acol lspci'
alias mount='acol mount'
alias nmap='acol nmap'
alias ping='GRC ping'
alias ps='GRC ps --columns $COLUMNS'
alias traceroute='GRC traceroute'

That would make my shell unusable, since some plugins use ./source.

I did about once a year until 2018 when I settled on Arch.

But now I've got a server on NixOS and loving it, so I might be switching my laptop soon.

I have it on Steam Deck since it can be launched with a CLI argument to force a 1280x800 window.

Vivaldi pretends to be Edge when visiting Bing to unlock GPT-4, and prefer that to Edge on my other devices. (Secondary to Firefox, ofc)

Well, those requires D-Bus. The wlroots project decided early on to support non-dbus software stacks, so wlroots compositors expose Wayland protocol extensions which could either be used directly or wrapped by the xdg-desktop-portal-wlr daemon.*

*(Well... many wlroots devs argued that the ecosystem should have chosen WP extensions instead of dbus, but I think most relented when Pipewire entered the equation.)

I was curious about what they'd say next. Their argument is "most users don't need more than Xorg, so it's 'silly' to expect investment in Wayland".

I found some agreement in "as more people need Wayland features, investment will grow", especially with the Valve and KDE/wlroots/gamescope. Also Automotive Grade Linux embracing libweston.