“Kernel version numbers are easy”

Didn’t know about those. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. I wonder how they compare to libxml2.

The Linux Foundation is too busy funding AI, it seems.

They support MKV now???

Every version is stable in linux means no version breaks userspace. Semver’s major version literally breaks the contract. It’s what it’s for.

And even if we literally meant stable as in “this is expected to work”, no, that is nowhere near normal in my experience. There are countless projects and companies with “test in production” mentalities. Then there are distros like Ubuntu and nixos that always have an unstable and/or a testing release, which is by definition not stable.

So, no, every version is stable is definitely not the norm in my experience.

My guess, it’ll be rewritten in rust.

“Every version is stable” is definitely not “just like every other branched model”. Why not just have an increasing number or date as a version number if everything is stable? The major and minor numbers don’t make in this way if “everything is stable”.

Good on Nick. Do what you want buddy, you had a good run. Go have some fun doing what you love.

Now it’s time for a corporate user of libxml2 to donate resources for maintenance and bug fixing or forking it. It doesn’t always have to be on the shoulders of unpaid maintainers.

“Simple”. That’s not simple.

Why make your own phone? Why not partner with Fairphone? Fairphone seems to be the only vendor out there that sells phones with an alternative ROM (/e/ OS), they might very well be open to an alternative OS like Sailfish.

It really pisses me off when something doesn’t work and the first thing someone says is “must be Linux”. Bro, I moved away from Windows because of all the bugs there. Don’t try to bullshit me into thinking you live a bugfree life.

My system is as fast as when I first got it (minus maybe the extra bloat websites have acquired due to bugger JS libraries and unnecessarily big assets). On windows reinstalling every year or every second year was normal.

Waydroid is GPLv3 and that’s great. Hopefully contributions will be upstreamed. Waydroid, Wine, FEX… Valve is contributing to great things!

Latest release was 2 weeks ago. Not sure how “dead” that is.

He spent 30 days trying to get adobe premiere to work instead of just fixing his audio issues with kdenlive.

When you say “nixos installer”, do you mean the GUI nixos installer? If you have a github account, you can create a bug report. As a KDE user, this has never been a problem for me.

Probably not. There must be something missing in your configuration. Do you have createHome = true for your user?

When facing issues on nixos, you can easily just share your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix + a description of your error + logs and it’ll provide useful context for people. We’ll even be able to spin up a VM with your config to see if the bug can be recreated.

Windows realised that they hadn’t locked in their users enough and hadn’t built an ecosystem difficult enough to exit like the ego phone makers. My only hope is that they will fuck that up enough with their AI driven coding practices and agentic OS to drive more people to Linux.

In this thread:

• users rejoicing
• users who never donated a cent to krita or gimp shitting on it

As usual, the entitlement amongst users stays high.

In this thread: people who believe the myth of the safe C programmer. The one who has memorized the spec and is able to hold endless context in their brain while writing code. They themselves are C compilers.

Just to spite you.