For example, there's the gun emoji which can either be a water/toy/alien pistol (which could be interpreted as fun for some) or a real gun (which a different group would find fun). I know right now it's probably a toy gun everywhere, but it's a relevant example.
> You need approximately zero i915 related ones because they're enabled by default just like on Linux
And the ones that are not enabled by default are either: (i) known to be broken or (ii) worse than the default. And if the broken good thing ever gets fixed, it will be enabled by default again.
By using random i915.something options you ensure yourself a bad experience. Non-default i915 options even taint the Linux Kernel, so your bugs reports suddenly become less credible: the first thing devs are gonna ask is to reproduce the issue with default options.
And what is the best way to become part of such group while at the same time paying as little as possible?
Also, if for some reason Google decides to simply block/ban my account as a whole (so I can't login), how will I be able to contact them in order to even say "hey, I am that premium customer"?
(serious questions, I rely on Gmail and have always been afraid of simply losing it)
I really love(d) gnome since the days of Gnome 2. After gnome 3 got forced on me, I installed a bunch of extensions and made it Just Right for me. After the first apt-get update, half of my extensions were broken. Then I switched to another DE, six months later came back and got the same result. Some time later I tried again and got the same result. To me, it feels that extensions are a second class citizen: extensions are the devs excuse to "hey, if you don't like our interface you can modify it with extensions", but all the burden of keeping your extension working is on maintainers, not Gnome: in practice there's no guarantee an extension will keep working over time.
In the end I feld like I was a person who keeps giving second chances to an abusive relationship. I finally had the courage to cut the relationship with Gnome forever after many reconciliation attempts.
Gnome is the desktop environment that has the most money being injected into (through Red Hat), and this was supposed to mean it's one of the best DEs. But I really can't get past its UI paradigm and concluded extensions are not a viable thing.
This could be a chicken-and-egg problem: they don't focus on it since Wayland is not really widely adopted. And maybe Nividia's lack of Wayland support may be one of the reasons Wayland is not really widely adopted.
Either way, Red Hat moving Wayland forward may at some point force them to reevaluate their decisions.
That is a software decision. The nice thing about DisplayPort is that now we can find out if the monitor is on or off and connected or not. It is software's decision to move everything away when the monitor is off but still plugged. I agree this is a bad decision.
The computer's ability to reorganize windows is independent of whether the monitor is on or off. For outputs like HDMI we don't even know if it's on or of, we only know whether the cable is connected.
What you're complaining about is entirely a software problem. No improvements to display standards will move the situation forward.
By the way, if you're using Linux, consider switching your desktop environment.
Yes, this! But sometimes all it really takes is some VP who wants to show how they can 'reshape' (or whatever buzzword of the week) the company for major changes to start happening. I feel that stability of good things is impossible in big corps since there will always be people generating unnecessary work to others in order to accomplish their own personal agendas.
Also sometimes a great improvement to one team generates a ton of extra work to another team.