Some thoughts for features I care, for my personal setup:
Highlights / Per-screen virtual desktops: Just in time for me. I finally added another screen and had to enable a workaround KWin Script "Virtual Desktops Only on Primary". For my use case this was already enough, but it is an awkward workaround that should have not been there. So glad this is resolved. Just need to remember to tick that off after the update and check it out. :-)
Highlights / Press-and-hold for special characters: This will have a bigger impact for me personally probably. There are lot of solutions to this available, but after my new installation (years ago now) I didn't bother to set anything up. Right now my keyboards physical layout is German, but I use an English-German hybrid layout in KDE. Its confusing enough to remember where all the special keys and access combinations are, so glad there is a much simpler way built into KDE now.
Widgets / “Background Apps” in the System Tray: I think this could be useful for certain apps that does not have a tray icon, but are able to go to background. Because otherwise I don't see any use for this. How many applications that can go to background without closing the app doesn't have a system tray? Oh is it for GNOME first designed apps maybe?
Usability / Faster virtual desktop switching in the Overview: This ability to switch desktops via shortcuts should be default on any multi desktop system. Me coming from tiling window managers is used to Meta+1 (or any other number) to switch to desktop with one hand directly to the desired desktop. I find the new pre-configured way of scrolling through with Page Down / Up a bit awkward. Not sure why they opt in to that.
Usability / “Type-ahead” on the desktop: Curious about this one. Nothing much to say, as there is no deep explanation here. Need to see it in action.
Theming / Breeze: Oh no, I do NOT enjoy rounded stuff. The new slide in for notifications on the other side looks pretty.
Theming / Union: This is a big one. But as I see its still not part of the regular desktop and needs additional "that is under heavy development" package to be installed. I'm actually happy with my current setup, so won't try it out yet. But this development is exciting for future me.
Maybe the problem is, that you try to learn and use everything at once. Rust is not easy and it has lot of stuff to learn and get good at. And compared to many languages, Rust has a few set of core features that makes it more complicated to understand and also you need to learn the basics before getting started. So just doing the exercises is not enough. My advice is to write simple programs with a focus of specific set of language features and what you want to accomplish, before doing the more advanced stuff.
The difference to languages like C++ is, that Rust forces you to do the homework before running the program, not after. That is the reason why it looks to be "harder", but I think this is one of the reasons why its so misunderstood. In example if you MUST think about all possible states, variables and errors in a program before it runs, then you have to put so much work for this. In the end, you did all the work and the program should theoretically better than if you did not have. Compare this to other languages, where you can run the program simply by ignoring errors, all states a program can be in and be done in short amount of time. That looks easy. But in reality you didn't do all the work.
I need to test this with multiple distributions in a virtual machine, out of curiosity. Then test executing common tasks. Could be an idea for a blog post or YouTube video...
Depending on what he means by "serious". I don't know what hat means in context of languages. So, depending on his personal definition what "serious" means, Go might not be serious at all.
Python is designed as an easy language. Yet it is a fundemental important language in the IT, backbone of many Linux operating systems and servers. One could even say... a serious language.
I personally wouldn't care if a language is called "easy" or not. You should also look at what it is capable at its peak and where it is used most often, if it works for you. Pick the language that you think fits you the best. I wouldn't call Zig as an easy language to get into, its still low level language.
There is an extension called DeArrow, that replaces video titles from the community. It can also replace thumbnails. Another method is a setting in FreeTube app to set Thumbail Preference to automatically replace with in video screenshot. Maybe those applications does one of those things.
Are we talking about the license or about the software collection? GNU is a huge part of Linux operating systems and open source history. I don't have a problem with GNU and don't know why anyone would.
I was so scared to update the BIOS, because in previous PC when I tried it, it went wrong and I had to replace the entire motherboard. Now with my current computer, I didn't update the BIOS (until now). I had random crashes in a specific game, which the motherboard "could" be responsible for (I'm not going into details here). The original firmware is from 2022, almost 4 years old, and since there were dozens maybe 100 updates! Last one from this months. I think this will improve stability, compatibility and security, and with a little bit luck also performance. So everyone should theoretically do it, but make sure you do it right.
What's cool on my ASUS board is, I could update from USB stick while PC is turned off. I just had to make sure file was named correctly, and just hold the button on the motherboard for 3 seconds to start the process and wait (maybe 3 minutes, felt like 3 hours). After rebooting the system I had to accept recovering the previous bios settings, on the prompt at boot, save the settings and reboot normally. Confirmed the new bios version is running with inxi -M.
I wasn't criticizing at all. Just tried to define what I mean by creator and user. You was takling about "how do you think LLMs are trained" and I told you that the user was probably not thinking of who trains the LLMs, or fine tune them as you said. And yes, fine tuning the open weight falls into creation process, as they are rebuild. That is not the same as an end user who downloads the final usable product. And yes, it makes sense.
That still falls into the category "creator" to me, if you need to rebuild. I was making the distinction to an end user, comparable to applications that you download and use and configure. Instead of rebuilding the source code with your modifications.
Do I misunderstand here something? Or is this a communication issue caused by different interpretations?
For the longest time I was avoiding the npm. But for certain stuff I needed it to set up my Neovim environment, that depends on npm. And reading headlings and articles like these makes me feel very uncomfortable. Not sure if I should re-evaluate my setup.
Better use the actual -site:domain function to filter out by domain directly. You can in example search everything about Reddit, without results from Reddit itself:
Some thoughts for features I care, for my personal setup:
Highlights / Per-screen virtual desktops: Just in time for me. I finally added another screen and had to enable a workaround KWin Script "Virtual Desktops Only on Primary". For my use case this was already enough, but it is an awkward workaround that should have not been there. So glad this is resolved. Just need to remember to tick that off after the update and check it out. :-)
Highlights / Press-and-hold for special characters: This will have a bigger impact for me personally probably. There are lot of solutions to this available, but after my new installation (years ago now) I didn't bother to set anything up. Right now my keyboards physical layout is German, but I use an English-German hybrid layout in KDE. Its confusing enough to remember where all the special keys and access combinations are, so glad there is a much simpler way built into KDE now.
Widgets / “Background Apps” in the System Tray: I think this could be useful for certain apps that does not have a tray icon, but are able to go to background. Because otherwise I don't see any use for this. How many applications that can go to background without closing the app doesn't have a system tray? Oh is it for GNOME first designed apps maybe?
Usability / Faster virtual desktop switching in the Overview: This ability to switch desktops via shortcuts should be default on any multi desktop system. Me coming from tiling window managers is used to Meta+1 (or any other number) to switch to desktop with one hand directly to the desired desktop. I find the new pre-configured way of scrolling through with Page Down / Up a bit awkward. Not sure why they opt in to that.
Usability / “Type-ahead” on the desktop: Curious about this one. Nothing much to say, as there is no deep explanation here. Need to see it in action.
Theming / Breeze: Oh no, I do NOT enjoy rounded stuff. The new slide in for notifications on the other side looks pretty.
Theming / Union: This is a big one. But as I see its still not part of the regular desktop and needs additional "that is under heavy development" package to be installed. I'm actually happy with my current setup, so won't try it out yet. But this development is exciting for future me.