GPU drivers and DEs lagging behind, mostly.

Something like Fedora which releases newer code quicker will provide a better desktop/laptop experience. It’s the same reason other stable distros, like the EL distros, aren’t the best for desktops/laptops.

Historically, desktop applications would also be versions behind, but Flatpak really helps with this.

At this point, Debian is probably fine as a distro for a few year old computer that won’t be helped by fractional scaling. Pick a DE and install applications from Flathub.

Possessing the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and the knowledge of how to wield it?

It’s hard to think of anything that would matter to anyone who could do something about it at this point.

The US is such a failed state.

Vim/Emacs + Some Markup Language + LaTeX Template + Pandoc

Yeah, word processors are garbage.

Oddly, Google Docs is the least junky one, probably because JS had a bunch of limitations at the time it was started, and Google had to limit the features.

I’ve been pretty happy with Pandoc, some LaTeX, and scripts. It’s not for everyone, but it works for me.

Are someone’s TikToks not trending anymore? 😆

There, there little guy. Why don’t you stand up your own blue sky server?

I’ve thought about Doom, but I haven’t gotten around to trying it out. Finding the time to sit down and learn it hasn’t been a high priority.

Yeah, I daily drive spacemacs. 🙂

https://www.spacemacs.org/

The vim key bindings are a lot better.

KDE can probably do this with enough time and effort.

I used to work at a company where this was in the KB. 😐

Zsh is but more for interactivity. The extended file globbing, extended auto completion, and loadable modules are the main reasons I like it. The features really shine when used with a configuration framework like ohmyzsh.

Supposedly, Zsh has a more comprehensive shell scripting syntax, but that’s not a plus since I don’t want to write shell scripts.

Exactly. I’ve been up for 27 hours, but I finally have a booting Gentoo install now. 😃

Gentoo installs are not that bad these days. However, back in 2005, it would take, like, a day or so to compile the kernel on my old Pentium M Thinkpad. I would run through the install, start compiling the kernel, and go to sleep/work/whatever. I would check on it periodically to see if anything went wrong, and eventually it would get to the point where I could reboot and find out I messed something up and had to start over. That was like a week, and then I installed Ubuntu. 😂

FreeIPA covers most scenarios. Kerberos, Dynamic DNS/DNS, LDAP.

GPO equivalency would need some config management tool. Ansible is what RH would suggest, but something with an agent would probably be better.

It’s probably easier when people are interested in the job, or think they know what the job is.

I have a friend who is an artist, and they started telling people they worked in tech so the conversation would die. 😆

Is there a credit I’m missing?

The most stable system is one that is out of support. No updates == No breakage! 😄

I wasn’t clear and that seems to have cause some confusion. I was talking about the Linux kernel itself, and only the Linux kernel.

There are two sides to the Linux kernel: internal exposed to drivers and such, external syscalls exposed to the public. That’s what I was talking about.

All bets are off with 3rd party software. That’s just a general problem in software development. It’s not specific to Linux, and it’s why vendoring libraries is recommended.

This is why all the 3rd party software is frozen at a point-in-time with fixes backported in distros like Debian or RHEL. It fixes the problems of devs being mercurial. The distro is the SDK. It creates a stable base, and it works rather well.

Unfortunately, most software relies on libc and a compiler. Both of which can be problems, and both of which are external to the Linux kernel. There’s not much which relies on only kernel syscalls.

Basically. Out-of-tree drivers are annoying without an LTS kernel.

There are also out-of-tree drivers which don’t get mainlined for one reason or another even though they are FOSS. OpenZFS has this problem, and now so does bcachefs.

1. The user land API/ABI is stable to a fault in Linux. The kernel API/ABI is unstable.

2. Companies are cheap. They hired web devs then tasked them with building a desktop application rather then hiring people to write native apps. They had a hammer and used it to fix every problem they had.

3. macOS is just as affected by electron apps as a Linux is.

4. Electron is horrible, but it does bring apps to many an OS once Chromium is ported.

5. Open protocols or open APIs from the company would fix the non-native app problem.

It is. It’s just not particularly good outside of a X11/Wayland environment.

I think this being worked on though.