jonathonf · HackerTrans

> KDE5 never seems to be the default choice of desktop environment

Apart from KDE Neon, and Garuda, and...

> it's probably more efficient to reduce churn

That would be lovely. Unfortunately, many places would rather you move job than give you a raise. It's cheaper in their accounts, and that's what (ah) counts.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

Was it 80%* or 96%?

Was Phacility paying for a dedicated IP or not?

If someone from a company is lying to you then is this really an overreaction?

(*Was 80% cherry-picked from a particular domain and so used in a purposefully misleading way? Should a sales rep have access to that sort of data anyway?)

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

I'm surprised by the other comments here that I'm in the minority thinking that the sales approach was pretty terrible. You're trying to sell something you don't understand to a company you don't understand. Why? If you actually want to "help" a company (by selling them your product... not really sure how that's "helping", but...) then at least do some research into the company and provide something that looks useful rather than some crappy "Hi, I like you, let's chat!"

In this specific case, someone somewhere is lying about services being provided. If that's sales then that's not great. If that's accounts/billing then that's probably worse. In any case it's a pretty terrible look for the company concerned, and understandably results in an erosion of trust.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

I thought your point was that Manjaro isn't afraid to try to introduce commercial software into the default installs...

(The FreeOffice version included was essentially feature-limited shareware, also requiring registration after 30 days)

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

Although that edition is maintained by one of the Manjaro GmbH CEOs, and received not insignificant fanfare from Vivaldi as being "the default browser on Manjaro", https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-m...

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

You've taken that sentence out of context. ;)

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

Using funds to pay for colo costs (and possibly staff) is not "skimming". The entire purpose of raising funds is to pay for things.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

The front page of the project says:

> Please do not share this website with others until we believe it's ready for broader distribution.

Sure, it's accessible, but it doesn't really seem to be in good faith to directly ignore someone's explicit wishes.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26005872

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

> Is there a writeup/summary somewhere that explains "the lessons learned"?

Not that I'm aware of, but I'm sure you could check the GitLab commits and/or ask on their forum if you're interested.

This is a young project (just under a year old) with developers who do this for fun. The developers are going to keep making changes that maintain the fun they have during development.

Mistakes will be made. Things will break. Lessons will be learned. This isn't a decades-old mature distro, so if you're expecting something absolutely bullet-proof then Garuda currently isn't it.

However, I will say that the pace of improvement is pretty stunning. Their direction and what they have achieved in a short space of time is pretty impressive - not just within the distro itself but the surrounding OOB features and infrastructure like ChaoticAUR (prebuilt AUR packages), secure password management (Bitwarden), dotfile sync (NextCloud), a pastebin service for log output (Privatebin), ...

Is it perfect? No. Is it for everyone? No. It is what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, and I kind of like that approach.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

I guess the Garuda Boot Options screenshot shows the options in operation:

https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/garuda-boot-options...

I'm not sure whether this is misleading or not given the nature of illustrative screenshots, e.g. the package management one shows VLC installed but not Firefox:

https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/pamac.png

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

> These funds are parts of the community funds Phil (founder of Manjaro the Company, and project leader) had collected privately and forwarded to this collective

OpenCollective and CommunityBridge/LFX were set up after the surprise company announcement to collect community donations from that point (and intended to protect them as independent). The previous privately-collected donations were never forwarded.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

You can switch to whatever theme you want. The defaults are opinionated. If you like them, great. If not, use another distro. That's fine.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

It doesn't make the original bug less severe, but it was resolved under an hour after it was reported.

jonathonf

há 5 anosdiscuss

There is an _option_ to do this, it is _not_ the default.

jonathonf

há 6 anosdiscuss

From my limited understanding: it looks like a matrix coprocessor, and implies that hardware-accelerated matrix processing has been built into the M1.

Matrix processing comes in useful for AI/ML/CV-type applications. It's something GPUs are generally very good for.

jonathonf

há 6 anosdiscuss

> 10€ is given to the project edition.

Do you know where this payment goes to? e.g. is it to their OpenCollective or LFX donation accounts?

jonathonf

há 6 anosdiscuss

Possibly useful existing implementation:

https://github.com/unfs3/unfs3

This has the benefits of being tested and having a working read-write implementation (along with still being user-space).

jonathonf

há 6 anosdiscuss

Want to "skip" the compile step?

  //usr/bin/tcc -run $0; exit
  main() { printf("Hello\n"); return 0; }

Just `chmod +x` and run it...