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GTK-based desktop environments: GNOME, Pantheon, MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon

Qt-based desktop environments: KDE, LXQt

Iced-based desktop environments: COSMIC

By going GTK, you support 5 desktop environments. If you really don't like GTK, just build a Qt app runtime with libghostty. Lots of people want a Qt version.

I buy my parts online generally. Doesn't matter if there is a Chevrolet dealer in my area

The AMD driver has been great on my Framework 13, but the 6.10 series was completely busted. 6.11 worked fine. I can't remember a series where any of my Intel laptops didn't work for that long.

What is practical about the current design of the F-150?

I think trucks are too large and have become a vanity symbol for most owners, especially in the city and state that I live in. I would argue the F-150 is impractical given the lifestyles of most owners in my area, which is to commute, not to haul.

Chrome allows Google to control the web platform to benefit their Ads business.

> Companies cannot be forced to sell their operating systems distinct from hardware if they choose not to.

Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE, so why would this not be possible?

I think you can use the VSCode Docker extension if you enable the Podman socket.

There are subtle differences between the two and not exactly the same.

Podman has a docker frontend. On Fedora, it is packaged as podman-docker, I believe. I recently went through the pain of getting testcontainers working on Fedora 41 with Podman. After enabling the Podman socket and setting an environment variables, I was off to the races!

If you are not testing a full matrix, you are creating less reliable software and waiting for bit rot.

scdoc is similar to markdown.

Every option you add increases the size of your test matrix. It becomes untenable.

So then don't buy the car. That's an easy solution to your problem.

As I said, I don't use extensions, so why are you discounting experiences like mine?

That is not a GNOME problem. That is a distro problem. Users should petition their distro maintainers for change.

I've been using Linux since Ubuntu 12.10-ish days, and I use vanilla GNOME on Fedora Workstation while knowing how to add extensions. Why are you discounting experiences like mine?

> everyone has different preferences that they should accommodate. That is pragmatism, and that is treating your users with respect.

I completely disagree. Not every product is made for every person. If you don't like it, use a different product. It's not like there aren't a plethora of desktop environments to choose from. There is obviously a sizeable portion of the desktop Linux market that finds GNOME to be a perfectly usable desktop environment.

Your comment is similar to asking why Tesla does not create cars with internal combustion engines.

Ubuntu runs a heavily modified GNOME, and your issue is entirely in their taskbar extension. Vanilla GNOME on Fedora works fine for me.

This is a true testament to the maturity and popularity of the Plasma desktop. Congrats to the KDE community! Plasma is an awesome desktop environment and really serves a great purpose!

- A Fedora Workstation user

VSCode is not open source. Code-OSS is open source and is what is published at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode. VSCode is a proprietary application you download from Microsoft that is a distribution of Code-OSS with Microsoft branding and presumably some proprietary changes.

Yes. You famously cannot use the C/C++ language server bundled in the C/C++ extension or Pylance. Who knows what other development tools they will lock behind their fork to the detriment of open source communities. Also you can't use their Remote Extension suite.

Red Hat provides support for their packages. If you're not paying for support, you don't get access to the repos. That makes sense to me. What does Microsoft gain by creating a walled garden? They don't provide support. All that they provide is hosting. The Eclipse Foundation provides hosting for free for OpenVSX, which is an amazing service to the community of people using VSCode forks that aren't allowed to access the VSCode Marketplace. Microsoft should either relax the ToS on the Marketplace or acknowledge OpenVSX as the one and only marketplace for extensions.

Any idea how they got the data? I would imagine that just downloading all the data is also against the ToS.

I find that many of the extensions I use do dual publish. I also dual publish my own extension for people because walled gardens are not cool.

I think there can be an inherent bias to the argument which should be known, and not hidden away. Nevertheless, I removed that portion of the comment.

Either way, no, a fork is not simple because forks cannot access the VSCode Marketplace.

Has Microsoft allowed Cursor to access the VSCode Marketplace? As far as I know, it is against the ToS for any editor other than VSCode to access it.

> VSCode is provided fully free as in beer and freedom

No, VSCode is a proprietary text editor/IDE from Microsoft. Code-OSS is provided fully free as in beer and freedom, and is currently what resides at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode.

Why would Microsoft not want other AI agent extensions to get the same benefits, which would benefit all AI agent users?

Edit: I have removed the portion of the comment which discussed the throwaway account.

Rearchitecting the storage layer takes time. A storage manager API didn't even exist until fairly recently, maybe 14. That API needs to undergo changes to account for things that Oriole is trying to do. Postgres is not developed by a team. It's a community effort, and people work on what they want to work on. If you're interested in a previous attempt to change the storage layer, you can learn about what happened with zheap[0].

[0]: https://pgpedia.info/z/zheap.html

Are other extensions like Codeium[0] allowed to publish under the same rules? I'm not saying your comment is incorrect, but unless Copilot competitors can get the same treatment, it seems extremely unfair and anti-competitive.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Codeium....

Microsoft VSCode, as far as I know, is not purely what is published under https://github.com/microsoft/vscode.