There’s also that desktop web browsers generally request that their title bar not be shown.
Those have the excuse that they’re basically several windows in one, and the tabs are the title bar-equivalents. Very few apps have that excuse, though.
Side note: KDE’s tabbed windows feature was pretty neat. Too bad it’s gone.
And you’re running Xfce ≥4.14? Pretty impressive that they kept it lightweight despite switching to GTK3.
That would be useful on a tablet, where right-clicking is impossible.
The progress on Asahi Linux is a demonstration of the difference I mentioned. People have been working on open-source NVIDIA drivers for ages and still can’t get the GPU out of first gear, whereas the M1 GPU driver is mostly functional after only a couple of years.
Lousy criminals. NVIDIA, I mean. If I wrote code like that, I’d be dragged in front of a judge and made to answer for breaking the DMCA. But if you’re a big, rich company, the government won’t touch you.
Apple’s GPU at least isn’t maliciously designed to be difficult to write open-source drivers for. It’s up to the community to figure out how it works and write a driver, but Apple isn’t actively trying to stop them like NVIDIA is.
Those “haughty” “elitists” wrote your operating system and gave it to you for free. Have some gratitude, and direct your complaints to the uncooperative scoundrels in charge of NVIDIA who created this whole problem.
I can hear the conspiracy theories already.
For anyone wondering, the systemd option exists because the utmp file format uses 32-bit time stamps on 32-bit machines, so commands like who will report incorrect times on such machines. If systemd is available, then it will just ask systemd for a list of active user sessions and when they started, since systemd already tracks that information as part of its process-supervision duties. No need to look at potentially-incorrect utmp files then.
You won’t be having such a good experience with a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip. Broadcom and NVIDIA have nothing but contempt for the Linux community.
Must be. Once I started having problems with NVIDIA on Linux, I swore off all NVIDIA products and never looked back. Zero tolerance for that nonsense.
I’m afraid that’s not true. Attempting to use an NVIDIA GPU will cause problems. You can kinda-sorta mitigate some of them, kinda-sorta, but not really, and the web is filled with people complaining about said problems.
Mouse? Sure. Those are standardized and interchangeable. 99.999% chance of success.
Graphics card? Wi-Fi interface? Now you’ve got problems.
Even my laptop has a large-ish display (17 inch). Really not a fan of small displays. Sure, large laptops are heavy, but I could use the exercise. 😄
Who the hell can afford this stuff in this economy?
That’s the neat thing. It’s so customizable, you can turn it into another desktop environment.
Since the kebab menu is inside the location/search box, I’m guessing it contains search-related options.
Not a fan of slicing up the title bar like that, to be honest. Yeah, it saves some space, but I’m on a desktop with plenty of screen space, so that really isn’t a priority, and being able to easily move windows around is a priority.
Also, what the hell is wrong with old-fashioned menus? This isn’t a phone. GNOME doesn’t even run on phones.
The same is true of Linux itself.
Anyway, I’m not sure I see how a non-gigantic, slow-moving, pretty-much-finished open-source project like systemd can become broken or compromised in a way that forking it cannot solve. This isn’t Chromium we’re talking about, where it takes an army of world-class developers just to keep it from falling so far behind as to be basically unusable. If systemd were to stop being developed in any way other than security and critical bug fixes, it would still remain useful for many years.
Use systemctl --failed to see which services didn’t come up, systemctl status SERVICENAMEHERE to see some status info about a service, and journalctl -b -u SERVICENAMEHERE to see all log messages generated by a service since last reboot.
Which is not a desktop.