No idea how good whatever “Bluefin” is, but if their front page makes my computer lag much worse than actual videogames, it’s really not a good first impression.

Also, it seems to come with Gnome which is a bit further away in terms of user experience from Windows than the other choices like Plasma and Enlightenment, so I am not sure if whoever sits in them cubicles will get used to the lack of tray icons for example. Well, assuming they know what a tray icon is, but even if they don’t, they are gonna get a bigger “something’s off/missing” feeling than otherwise. And I am assuming nobody is using Windows 8 specifically, so it will take some time for people to get used to the excuse of a start menu Gnome has. Have to always be pessimistic about user’s intelligence and will to adapt.

What are you actually broadcasting while doing so? That you are using KDE Connect?

That + device name which is probably pretty unique. Chinese routers scrape all of that. IIRC mDNS is actually disabled on Linux for now because it was conflicting with Avahi which broke some more stuff.

do not use KDE Connect on other networks

Last time I used it, I don’t recall a toggle for that in either the Linux or the Android clients.

Edit: what alternative device discovery solution could be used by KDE Connect to make it more private on untrusted ntetworks?

Exactly as it is right now but on a whitelist.

Offtopic but I am really annoyed by how many custom ROMs (especially LineageOS) disable MAC randomization at build time and make zero mention of it on the wiki/forum/whatever page. That’s just as important.

KDE Connect seems to send identifying broadcast packets constantly (just like gapps), not the best for privacy on public bing chilling router WiFi. Android itself technically does too, but you can just change your device name to " " (space).

Plot twist: it’s using 2 gigs worth of frameworks and won’t even begin rendering the page before login.

Intel graphics support, or the absence of it

That’s like one of the best platforms.

Decent touchscreen support

Pretty much everything on Wayland LGTM. If something doesn’t look quite right (like, hover tooltips), it’s probably the fault of the widget toolkit and will also be broken on Windows.

Windows Ink

As in stylus/pen/drawing tablet? kwin has awesome support, other compositors have some basics.

WSL which I use with NixOS

??? you want a container? distrobox can do that, or something like this

Adobe apps

true… slightly outdated repacks work fine in Wine tho

PowerPoint Libre Impress (…) it’s not even close

Wine.

idk works on my machine

Most apps print stuff in the same loop as everything else, so stuff like alacritty might help it a little bit. It’s not really that significant most of the time, however.

A little bit more about the sponsor on HackerNews.

If you are a lazy bastard not wanting to click this, basically there a quite a few issues with the main goal of Hack Club (not the fiscal sponsorship sidequest), such as not using a privacy policy for kids for 11 years, many leaks of said data and misclassifying workers in at least 2024.

I did that before just getting Arch.

Also, I wonder if KDE on Ubuntu stuff still includes that FUCKASS FONTCONFIG FILE THAT MAKES EVERYTHING LOOK SHIT I SPENT 4 HOURS LOOKING FOR

Gotta love promoting Electron slop like Element right next to stuff claiming sustainability

Well, there’s a web installer (Chromium only because it’s using very unsafe features of course) that is used by ProtonAOSP and GrapheneOS currently. LineageOS people don’t want to add that because it’s impossible to troubleshoot if it doesn’t work, would make Firefox users feel left out, and because the normal installation procedure is a matter of some tech literacy.

And there are hundreds of native wrappers around fastboot (look up “fastboot GUI”) and ones specifically for installing ROMs (look up “LineageOS installer”. All of which break in all sorts of ways. The only example I can think of for a somewhat good one is the embedded for MiTool, the tool specifically for officially unlocked Xiaomi devices. Well, good luck getting a Xiaomi phone officially unlocked, however.

Almost forgot the thing I said “I have news for you” for. The closest thing to what you described (that is guaranteed to work) is opening the LineageOS website and blindly following instructions there. They are really specific and it would be really difficult to misunderstand.

Bro I got news for you

If your user is in the input group (set up in pretty much every distro), you can use uinput over netcat for forwarding devices (display server agnostic) without extra privileges. Same with the video group. No idea if anyone used this in an actual remote desktop piece of software tho.

Hmmm, don’t Libreoffice devs test it with actual MS Office instead of guesstimating the format?

Another thing that helps is baking in the fonts or using metric compatibles to MS ones.

display drivers

describes an issue that would be the job of your compositor & window manager

ODF support is in MS Office as well, but if you want to be extra sure you can export as .doc from any office suite (Libreoffice should also tell you if a feature you are using can’t be exported).

“to code”

No, I am talking about FOSS games

Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux

Oh yeah, gotta love that. Some people have “Minecraft phases”, I have “STK/hedgewars/teeworlds” phases. Proud owner of an AUR package for a QoL client for Teeworlds, was dead simple to make that. Unless you mean the original TuxKart (not super), in which case that’s dead. And WarMux is dead (albeit still mostly playable), same with that one game that is also like a Worms clone but real time. I wish those were brought back…

Oh, and I forgot the name but there was this one tron clone that still mentions modem preferences and has some really really really low default graphics options but still has quite a few online players, I wish I didn’t suck at the game…