or distrobox with podman backend. Though tbf don’t run sketchy software even without sudo. Privilege escalation is pretty easy on most distros by default and even outside of that having your files deleted by ransomware sucks too.

lol i misread that

I have not tried GTK because I cannot fathom why would anyone use a UI toolkit written in C. But even language trash talk aside, it’s probably easier for a C++ project to use a C++ GUI library instead of a C one albeit with C++ bindings. Also I’ve read somewhere that it the C++ GTK bindings are kinda sucky.

These are just my assumptions, though. Someone who has tried both GTK and Qt might give a better answer.

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It would not make sense. For me these posts are a waste of time. The community should be started by someone who actually enjoys the discussions, not by an outside “hater”.

You can just wrap the software in a binary and interact with the binary and you will likely elude the GPL terms. This is kinda grey area but it would be hard to win against it in court. (I am not a lawyer)

I mean that broadly because nobody will make proprietary Coreutils or sudo as someone already pointed out.

None. The closest you can get is the AGPLv3.

If you go further, it will no longer be open source. This is the case for the Server Side Public License (SSPL) for example. It requires the entire system configuration to be released under the same license*. This sounds “open source friendly” but it’s actually just a proprietary license because it’s not realistically possible to legally comply with it. You cannot run standard hardware without proprietary firmware, which means you cannot run SSPLed software on it legally.

*This only applies if you host the software as a service but the result is the same. It basically violates the freedom to use the work for any purpose.

lol my significant other does that actually. I knew it was a bad example but it was the first thing that came to my mind.

To me “banning VPNs” is more like banning packet routing. Because VPNs or just that. “Normies” think they are like some magical hacker trick when in reality they are just routing+encryption. (technically you could have VPNs without encryption so for me the routing ban is more accurate) I guess that depends on the way the ban is implemented, though.

haha

Though to be fair whenever I encountered an issue in Excel/Calc, it was a user (me) error.

Banning VPNs is on the list of braindead government restrictions up there with banning encryption. The latter is basically a ban on math, just like in that book where 2+2 is sometimes 3, sometimes 5.

If OP is ok using “DIY” distros, there’s also Void Linux. It provides binary packages and supports many architectures — x86_64, x86, arm64, armv6, armv7.

These posts should be disallowed on this forum. For that there should be /c/distrorecommendations or something like that instead. And I guess pin a post linking said forum, so that people who just search “lemmy linux” know where to go.

This is not really about time savings. It’s more about “I want to spend as little time as possible doing this crap.”. But I agree the switch is not super worth it. IMO tiling WM vs a floating WM one is kinda like putting your toothbrush in the bathroom instead of the bedroom. Having it in the bedroom is inferior to putting it in the bathroom but in the end the more efficient option won’t really make your life different.

Number 2 is an implementation issue. Dialogs should be floating by default.

Number 3 is funny to me, because that’s exactly the experience I have when using a floating WM.

It does actually hurt something — my time. If the windows are on top of each other, that means I cannot see the one on the bottom. Which means I either have to click between 2 windows or make them tiled like you described (aka using a tiling WM but shit). Both options are inferior experience to a tiling WM which handles this automatically.

I don’t think tiling WMs are some mega productivity boost. But I also think that floating WMs are just a worse workflow with almost no benefits. The only exception is if you want to see only a part of a window, which is easier to do on floating WM. But that’s a rare situation and you can do it on a floating WM too, it just takes like 5 seconds more to set up.

The only potential downside is that software is not handled by your package manager, so uninstalling or upgrading can be pain. But there are ways around it like source based package managers or manually building binary packages and then installing them.

Not OP but the answer is that having windows on top of each other is mostly useless. 99% of the time, when you’re working with multiple windows, you don’t want to see just part of the window. So either your window is minimized or somehow tiled. At that point you are using a worse version of a tiling WM. The 1% of the time, you can just make the tiled window float.

Yeah I feel like this is an even bigger issue. Phones are basically a hardware ID card. Companies and (EU) governments use phones as a way to run “hard to tamper with” kind of software — banking apps, digital transport ticket, etc.

This kind of software is not compatible with Software Freedom, so if we want Linux phones, we first need regulation to get rid of this toxic software. Such regulation should allow the use of cryptographic keys (example) in place of crappy Android apps for things that are basically mandatory to live in current society (have a place where to store money, being able to travel, etc.). EU Linux phone can come after.

Could not have said it better lol. I dislike their overall mentality that they don’t care about proprietary code if it’s baked into hardware. But at least I can sort of understand how they got that idea. But with the microcode part, I just cannot even fathom how did they come up with such stupidity.