bitwolf

Fedora.

I’ve tried them all but found it’s the most reliable. It’s upgrades are even more reliable than Macos and Windows.

Packages are very up to date but also well tested. Sometimes even newer than Arch for short periods.

The community is awesome.

I love Gnome, I’ve found it’s more consistent than even MacOs in its design. And it has perfect keyboard shortcuts.

VRR, HDR.

It also had an early patch for nvidia support on Wayland earlier in the year.

I believe mutter-vrr has gotten merged though, behind a dconf flag

Gnome on the laptop, its keyboard and touch gestures are the best for notebooks. I also like its simple design and reliability.

KDE on desktop, I’d use gnome, but kwin has more gaming relevant features.

Yeah but I imagine porting a JVM and an API using open source code is much easier than reversing the Windows API.

I still move a 5.25" Blu Ray writer drive between machines. Just in case I want to rip or watch an old bluray.

Without it, we have to sit.and wait for the dusty Xbox One to update just so it let’s us play a bluray.

The Xbox One is so fantastically bad, the only reason it’s not in the garbage is because it’s not mine and the SO wants to save it

HTC knew what was up with the HTC One series. Their polycarbonate bodies felt Nintendo 64 controller levels of durable.

Granola Bars

Cookies

Chips and salsa

Apple’s + pb

Popcorn

That should not happen under normal circumstances. It happens to me sometimes and I clean my USB port and it’s good.

It could be the dongle connector also.

I acknowledge it is an additional annoyance not present with just a straight 3.5mm connection.

It depends on the dongle and the DAC inside.
For example, the Meizu HiFi Pro dongle I use sounds better than the headphone jack in my Pixel 4a.

I do know the Apple c-3.5 is the best value. It sounds balanced, has little distortion, and puts out decent power.

If you want the end-all-be-all, the Nexdrive Spectra has a very similar audio chain to the popular Quad Amp LG phones.

Personally I don’t consider it a con unless rampant. However in many cases they’ve dumped the projects. It is effort that could have helped along another project.

imo the negative side effect is the wasted effort and the abandonment.

Same, I was very sad wheb they gave up in Unity8. I do check in often on the project as I felt it provided a very good mobile experience.

The thing is. Snaps isn’t the first controversy.

Canonical, with Ubuntu early on was helping drive things forward, but they reached a point where they started to do things their own way with disregard to the broader ecosystem.

Each time they did this, they cause fragmentation, struggled, and then deferred to the choice the rest of the ecosystem has. The problem with this is that they’re not sharing their effort, they’re just throwing it away.

They merely doubled down hard on snaps which is the latest controversy.

Snaps have their own advantages, but Canonical owns the store. Which becomes its own stalewort

I wish Google would just switch back to Qualcomm but keep Titan security chip. Best of both worlds now that Qualcomm has decent NPU onboard.

Its very bad when you have a predictive back enabled.

It’ll just skip the animation entirely. However you won’t go home until the animation “finishes” so it just freezes for a second

I felt the same however Organic Maps did have many businesses. And with Street Complete I can correct any errors when I visit.

It may simply be my area, but I so recommend organic maps over Osmand for business and POI lookups

I also am very fond of 8.10. It was my first exposure to Linux :)

I agree with you, I don’t want the trouble and just use mailgun free tier.

That said, I just need password reset emails for my IAM solution.

I imagine some just want to try, under the desire to avoid having their email data misused for data collection / ai training

Some news sources sell suvscrptions via newsletter.

Personally I find it quite nice, its similar to RSS and has high quality authors.

You can absolutely get by by, and have a great experience with GNOME + the app store.

Its a reason its default on so many distros.

Google Pay/Wallet

Right now tap and pay is completely and hopelessly corporate