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abhinavk··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
It's the Arch way. A beginner shouldn't be using Arch, Gentoo, NixOS or FreeBSD etc.

That's why there are myriad of distros.

abhinavk··on Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
niri is based on smithay which is also used by COSMIC.
abhinavk··on Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
You are conflating Window Manager with Task Switcher programs.
abhinavk··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
Home edition comes with a few offers.
abhinavk··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
I'm sorry but the vaccine-skeptic RFKjr is US Health Secretary?
abhinavk··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Kernel doesn't use Cargo.
abhinavk··on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
It's still in process. Today's update (KB5070311) added the following:

> Keyboard settings for "character repeat delay and rate", and "cursor blink rate", have moved from Control Panel to Settings.

abhinavk··on Tell HN: Azure outage
I only noticed it because VSCode's updater failed.
abhinavk··on EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
2/10. Mainly for writing full sentences.
abhinavk··on MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system
It's a net positive but wide/no-ball DRS slows down the game a lot.
abhinavk··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
It is mostly valid for 16GB/256GB-SSD config and when you need performance in bursts. Consider sustained performance, more RAM, more storage, OS options etc and the value proposition changes.

I have maintained it for years that the base model M-series Air is the best computer for normal people if they plan to keep it for years.

abhinavk··on Bluefin LTS Is Released
I have tried both Silverblue and Bluefin and I realized that I want something in between. So basically Silverblue+codecs+drivers.

Maybe https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template is the way to go when I do my setup next time.

abhinavk··on Why do some gamers invert their controls?
In a 3rd person perspective game, I am controlling a character that I can see with my eyes. I'm not the character.
abhinavk··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
> No, there's an auto-hiding dock built-in. Pressing the Super key acts like better version of Apple's Expose feature: it shows the windows you have open, auto-opens the dock, and focuses the application launcher search bar so you can just start typing and launch an app.

It either requires using a keyboard or moving your mouse to the opposite direction of where the dock appears.

abhinavk··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
I can turn off other features and work around them but the most annoying yet harmless is the flicker when you switch to an inactive app. The title bar and the window contents change their color at different frames. It requires ditching Breeze and using other theme engines/decorations altogether.

I currently use niri but Plasma has always been my go-to/backup DE. I always have it installed in case someone else has to use my PC.

[1]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433569

abhinavk··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
It depends on people and their age (of eyes). None of my parents/elders (except an uncle; he's the only one who's had LASIK) could see the point of my 240Hz monitor.
abhinavk··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
The only feral-like response here is the OP's follow-up "Bullshit..." itself.
abhinavk··on Linux phones are more important now than ever
Identity apps as well as apps to access government and social programs.
abhinavk··on KDE launches its own distribution
I use it via Chromium. Are there additional features in the Electron version?
abhinavk··on KDE launches its own distribution
It makes hacking easier in some ways too. Overlay any hacks. It will be gone by reboot unless you want otherwise. Also see blue-build.org <- It helps you to put all your hacks in the immutable image.
abhinavk··on iPhone Air
It's a vocal minority on the internet which also owns a lots of other computing devices. I'm one.

IMHO most people in the real world increasingly use their smartphone as their primary computer and want a big screen.

abhinavk··on Is OOXML Artifically Complex?
Have you tried setting MSWord's default save format to Strict OOXML for inter-operation with LibreOffice?
abhinavk··on The day Return became Enter (2023)
Or a 5-button mouse.
abhinavk··on Sometimes CPU cores are odd
Xbox 360 (which ran a modified version of Win 2000) had 3 PowerPC cores.
abhinavk··on About Containers and VMs
And a system container makes an OS (or OS userland) believe that that it has the kernel to itself.
abhinavk··on Omarchy Is Out
Do you mean something like this?

https://github.com/dawsers/scroll?tab=readme-ov-file#content...

abhinavk··on Omarchy Is Out
You can try Karousel on KDE.

Earlier concepts existed but it all exploded with PaperWM on Gnome.

There is niri, scroll(sway), papersway, hyprland's plugins, PaperWM, PaperWM.spoon on Mac, Komorebi on Windows etc

abhinavk··on Omarchy Is Out
FYI: The author of Hyprland's scrolling plugin (not the official one) had archived it and instead forked sway to create scroll.

https://github.com/dawsers/scroll https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller

abhinavk··on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no
Elements and Compounds.
abhinavk··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
I surely love answering *Why I don't want to backup my files and settings to OneDrive" every few months OR Removing things like Edge Game Assist etc from autostarting.
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