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I've been thinking the same. Also, with libadwaita, it looks quite good by default, and the design is more or less the same as Windows 11 or macOS.

Yep, I work exactly in the same way with Darktable and I really enjoy it. Once you get it, it’s quite straight forward and I’m really happy with the results!

I personally just use Darktable, and I'm incredibly happy with it. It's just a fantastic software and we're lucky to have for free.

Kudos to all the developers making free-software photography a reality!

Google needs an appeal process. They have too much of a responsability, they can't do this to people. If they don't want to do it, the law must force them to set one up.

You confused the business model. Google doesn’t sell YOU ads.

You provide valuable behavioural data to Google, which uses it to create very targeted demographics which are used for targeted advertising and analytics that are sold to advertisers.

Seen in this way, it’s quite darker than that, in my opinion.

The only thing missing is full-fledged Zotero, or something as good!

On text rendering, I've seen that too and I agree with what you say, unfortunately. There is a difference between being professional/straight to the point, which I appreciate, and being dismissive.

On the other topics, I'm not informed enough, but at least it's good some work on the accessibility front is happening, compared to the dire situation of the last decade... I hope that eventually the situation improves. Accessibility improvements really benefit everyone.

Regarding the matching of the look and feel... in the last few years, this mindset has become very common, where each app is an island and no effort should be made to look native, because, in fact, there is no native look anymore. Windows has always been like this, and Linux desktops have started embracing that. From the app developer perspective, it's understandable. For the user, it means giving up decades of usability studies and the pleasantness of coherence. Given this direction, I expect GTK apps to look like GTK apps wherever they run, unfortunately. On the bright side, the default look of GTK4/adwaita apps is kinda similar to what macOS and Windows 11 are going for, so at least it won't look too alien over there.

Doesn't GTK4 address your complaints? To a certain degree, I think they've realized what you say. GTK4:

- decouples GNOME and GTK. They've created a new library, called libadwaita, that hosts the GNOME stuff.

- brings big performance improvements (it has GL and Vulkan backends)

- is much better on macOS and Windows.

Anyway, I agree with you on your points. One of the issues of opensource graphic programs is that the toolkits that are available are quite problematic/don't care about this use case. This is not just about GTK, as QT has also been causing a lot of headaches to the Krita developers. It is not by chance that Blender, which draws the UI using its own toolkit, is not affected by these issues and has a fantastic, fast UI.

And here I go explaining my friends and family I helped switch to Firefox that the browser I've installed on their computers got broken at the beginning of a new day while Edge and Chrome work fine... personally, I know very well bugs happen and I'm not mad, but this certainly hurts the confidence in it for the non-tech people.

Exactly what I was thinking. I hope they thought about this case and made the updater use a different stack...

Once in a while I try to switch to Duckduckgo. I first use it, then I start to rely more and more on !g, as I know the results will be irrelevant, until I just have the automatism of adding !g for every search. At that point, when I become aware of it, I just switch back to Google, unfortunately.

In the end, Bing is really, really bad and Duckduckgo is just repackaged Bing.

This is so wonderful and sweet. Such a creative computer era. Thank you for bringing it to light!

It is there on Windows 7 and even 10 (just tested it to be sure)! When you drag a window to the side, a sort of circle/drop effect appears around the cursor. I think this is what they are referring to, but I might be mistaken.

Seeing the beautiful, uncluttered, elegant simplicity of those screenshots makes me quite nostalgic. The lack of bullshit and the aesthetic coherence of that UI is really something I miss. The last decade has been disastrous for Windows, experience-wise. Wish we could have the Windows 7 experience with the core and security improvements of Windows 10!

Well, the lack of rent control in my country, Italy, isn't working either. It has become really, really hard to rent an apartment or even a room in Italian cities (Rome, Milan, Bologna, Turin, at least).

The prices are high and there is a lot of demand. Moreover, the quality of the apartments is really, really low. Landlords ask for a lot of guarantees and finding a room in an apartment can take even multiple turns of interviews.

Of course, leaving nearby the city center is difficult and public transportation is lacking. It is really hell and I really wish rent control existed.

While undoubtedly true, it’s also true that Linux is nowadays the default OS for VFX, for example, and this means that a lot of commercial 3d software targets it (for example, Autodesk Maya or the Substance suite). There is a standard “platform” of reference that allows companies to have a fixed target for their software: https://vfxplatform.com

I think targeting it would be probably the best solution for a company willing to porting to Linux. Alternatively, Flatpaks/Appimages provide a very nice and user friendly solution to this problem.

I think KDE has changed that much. A lot of work has gone into fixing the small things and making the default saner. The solid technology behind it + all the usability fixes they’ve been working on in the last years have made it really shine. I think it’s the culmination of years of work, and I think it’s finally paying off (also the fact that Valve is officially working on KDE will give it even more momentum).

Same here. I used to use GNOME once upon a time, then switched to macOS, then after 5 years to Windows, and since this spring I’ve gone back to Linux, specifically Fedora with KDE. I find KDE to be fantastic. I’ve got most ergonomic setup I’ve ever used, there is really nothing to complain about it, including fantastic hidpi support. I’m really happy.

Yes, I came to write this. If anyone from Affinity is reading this, I really hope they take notice of the demand for the Affinity suite on Linux. It’s really the missing bit on Linux.

I own the suite on Mac and Windows and I’ll gladly buy it a third time for Linux. Otherwise, at least better Wine support will be very welcome. I’d even take part in a Kickstarter fund raise for this.

I've bought many many games on GOG for years because of this. Lately, GOG games come in installers made out of 20 or so parts which take ages to download manually. The only real way to download their games is by using their GOG Galaxy Client. Not that much better than Steam, which on the other hand has fantastic Linux support, while GOG can't be bothered to port their GOG Galaxy client to Linux.

Luckily Lutris allows me to somehow compensate for GOG's lack of interest in Linux, but still, I feel they really do not care about the DRM thing.

Thanks to Valve and Proton/Wine, my games run great on Linux now, in most cases. So, I can say I'm really satisfied. We're certainly miles ahead of, say, 5 years ago.

And so, this is what Proton was for. Hope this is a success, as the success of Linux as a gaming platform is strictly linked to the success of this.

It does look very appealing: it could become a Switch with the whole PC library available. Damn cool.

I also noticed it is a recurring self-help philosophical aid, particularly among the tech crowd. Of course, the stoicism version that gets publicized here only keeps the "pragmatical" aspect of stoicism, but ignores all the metaphysical theory around it (which provides the justification for a particular practice, but oh well). In the end, it becomes an inconsistent catch it all term for "being resilient" in a Hemingway way, which is very removed from the actual Stoic philosophy. But I guess this is inevitable and it has happened to many traditions when they get publicized for self-help.

Every art has its why. Check out the wonderful work by @MadMaraca [1] as an example of what one can do with voxels. They're truly stunning. I think that the limitations of voxel art are also its expressive power.

Pixel art didn't replace at all painting, nor did it aspire to do that. But it founds its beautiful niche, and there's beauty in that.

[1] https://twitter.com/MadMaraca

Brave New World was meant to be a dystopia, not a model to follow!

I wish this existed for every philosopher. This is marvelous and an example of what I love about the Internet!

The reaction of homebrew [1] really makes me dislike the project. They just answered with bullcrap, instead of directly addressing the matter.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745

I think there's a misunderstanding: Tantacrul, the developer with a pretty active Youtube channel, works for the Muse Group, which acquired Audacity. This has nothing to do with him. A company acquired Audacity, not him, and he's not in charge of the Muse Group. Your portraying of the whole thing is inaccurate.

People didn't lose their collective minds.

The Muse Group acquired Audacity, then introduced:

- a CLA (which, between other things, allows them to make closed source versions of Audacity)

- telemetry

- a very controversial privacy policy

People aren't losing their minds. And please, do not spread misinformation.

I agree with this. Moreover, people who do fall into addicted behaviors are often very aware of the risks and dangers involved with their choices. However, the present desire or satisfaction that the impulse provides them overrides such awareness. As an ex smoker, this is apparent to me. I knew it was bad, I knew the details of what I was doing to myself, but I couldn’t help myself.

It is not about stupidity or awareness. It is about finding satisfaction or motivation elsewhere. Educated people, rich people, poor people, ignorant people: all classes have their addictions.

Apart from the Blender manual itself, I don't think there are. In general, I also find the repetition of basic things in every Blender video to be exhausting, even if by sticking to it I do learn a lot more stuff. Ian Hubert and his 1 minute tutorial are fun exceptions to this.

Perhaps you could study Blenders' nodes systems? I've found that channels dedicated to shader and geometry nodes are a lot more precise in their terminology and succinct in their explanations. Probably that is because their target audiences are slightly more advanced and, also, the positive influence of math on their method.

Here are a few Youtube channels I recommend: - Erindale. He's probably the most known Blender node wizard. His videos are pleasant, thorough and accurate. - Just 3d things. Another channel about nodes, also very thorough and precise. - Sam Bowman. A channel that methodically goes through the creation of different materials. A very useful resource. - Entagma. They're mainly Houdini people, but in the last months they've also started doing geometry nodes videos. Great and informative stuff.

There are many others, but I can't remember them right now.