After this and the few hiccups I’ve had with Bitwarden on Linux (official snap in part still relies on Ubuntu 18.04 libraries and still defaults to X11, not great for security focused app), I’ve decided to give Proton a shot. Went for 2 year unlimited plan, so I hope they don’t do anything stupid in that time.
That being said, I’m not hating on Bitwarden. Based on what one of the developers said, this seems to be an oversight from their side that they should hopefully address. This is just my excuse to try out the Proton suite based on their strong focus on privacy and security, albeit with a hefty cost (and somewhat scummy strategy of listing prices as monthly but are actually paid annually, and choosing the actually monthly options are much more expensive).
Does anyone know what they mean by “legacy runtime environment”? Do they mean running of the host system libraries rather than Valve’s runtimes?
You’re right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there’s a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock’s UI for blocking specific elements on a site.
I believe Brave’s ad blocker is based on uBlock.
It can do that now. You can also rebind the overview to open with meta in the system settings.
I still prefer Gnome’s implementation though.
I wonder how Apple’s wine fork handles this since presumably games are still expecting a 4K page on MacOS.
It definitely is much better than before and has some niceties over the flatpak. Games are added to your app launcher, no need to fuss with permissions if your games are stored on a secondary drive, and you can optionally tell it to use more up to date mesa versions.
Though personally I am sticking to the flatpak. I like that it has less filesystem access by default. I also encountered some irregularities with the snap when using Black Myth: Wukong’s benchmarking tool: https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/issues/403.
Lunduke used to be decently popular in the Linux space. He worked for openSUSE and did a yearly “Linux Sucks” presentation about things Linux could improve on.
But many think he’s went off the deep end in recent years. Anti-vax, US election denying, basically against anything “woke”.
I like Newsflash. It’s a libadwaita app and is pretty seamless to use. The only problem I have with it is that trying to categorize feeds into categories can be really buggy.
Maybe it’s worth creating a feature request asking for that. Is is possible for Kindles to display downloaded html files? If so, that would probably be much easier to implement.
If I recall correctly, GTK was initially against cursor-shape (because GTK prefers doing things client side), but is now opening to merging it. But not a high priority. The last discussion I found about it was from 5-6 months ago.
Yes, it’s something you write yourself. Bash is the language you use when you use the terminal. A bash script is just many lines of bash commands.
A bash script could be as simple as
dnf install package1 package2 package3
dnf remove package4 package5 package6
This script automates installing some packages and removing some packages. The bash script I use does a lot more, such as running commands to configure Gnome how I like it.
If you’re not comfortable with the terminal, I would definitely recommend staying away from NixOS. To declaratively/reproducibly set up the system, it uses a language called Nix that is a fair bit more complicated than bash. It’s also just very different from traditional Linux systems like Fedora or Ubuntu.
Personally, I use Fedora Silverblue and use bash scripts for reproducibility. To set up a new system, all I need to to is install, reboot, run my bash script, reboot, and my system is 90% configured. With bash scripts, I am able to reproduce more of my system than I could when I used NixOS.
A lot of people recommend Nix, but the thing about Nix is that you’re only declaring how the system is configured. Not your home folder. You need to rely on third party tools for that.
Bash scripts can configure system and home folder. They can also be used on any distro, whereas a Nix configuration file only works on NixOS.
Though the worst part about any new install is just signing back into everything, especially an annoyance when you have proper 2FA setup. Bash scripts or Nix can’t solve that unless you migrate data over.
Belena is simpler, it’s just writing an image to a drive.
Ventoy is complicated and changes the booted image to make it work. That sometimes breaks things.
Misleading title. This is nothing new, just Manifest V2 being removed. Ad blockers like uBlock Origin Lite still work.
Could you clarify your second point?
Hoping that the preliminary Wayland support makes it in.
If you continue without adding the keys, you may have issues if you rely on out of tree drivers like Nvidia. Personally, I would hit continue then leave secure boot off.
You can still do MOK management when Secure Boot is off.
For Secure Boot, the kernel is “signed” with a key. During boot up, Secure Boot checks to make sure that key is valid. Most kernels are signed with Microsoft’s key that is preloaded on basically every system. However, not all kernels can be signed with Microsoft’s key; if you install a proprietary driver (which you likely selected to during the setup), to continue using secure boot you need to sign the kernel using your own key.
That’s what MOK management is for. You are adding your own key to your system to use for Secure Boot.
Personally, I just disable Secure Boot. While it does have some security benefits, it’s not worth the headache IMO.
Functions great. I just wish the UI was a bit nicer in terms of look and how things are arranged (there’s some redundancy and strange placements). Though I did read on the Discord that some of the devs wanted to rewrite the UI code in Qt’s QML, so maybe that would coincide with some UI changes.