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  • Yeah, it’s qualities that are useful for humans, too, like frontloading all the errors to compile time + good compiler error messages.

    Like, I’m annoyed that people will be irrational about it, much like they associate Rust with rewrites in permissive licenses, even though it is just a tool. It entirely depends on how you use the tool.
    But irrational people gonna irrational. Not much you can do about that…



  • Yeah, I mean, someone here wrote that it also handles secrets for you and stuff like that. I’m sure, it has some merit as a complete package.

    But, you know, Unix philosophy. You should have separate tools that you compose.
    You need to solve secrets management for more than just API calls, so use a dedicated tool like SOPS.
    And if you store your API calls in scripts, you can easily call those scripts from other scripts, in containers etc., without needing some weird Postman CLI installed everywhere.
    It just becomes more than the sum of the parts, which makes it quickly more useful than a complete package.







  • Yeah, the COSMIC desktop environment is relatively newly developed. I also just checked on the PopOS webpage and their newest version is still 24.04, so you actually tried a version from two years ago when COSMIC was truly newly available.

    They’ve been working on the 26.04 release (based on Ubuntu 26.04) since April, but at some point, I read that they’re still also heavily working on fixing up COSMIC to be actually decent, which is why that release is so delayed.

    So, it could be that in a few months from now, it’s been released and it won’t be so buggy anymore.
    But it still won’t be nearly as customizable as KDE Plasma, as that just requires years of work and a big community, so make of that what you will. 😅




  • Just in case you’re new-ish to the Linux world: The customizations you mean are probably from KDE Plasma, which Fedora just …well, distributes. 😅

    So, if you switched to openSUSE with KDE Plasma or Kubuntu or such, those customization options would still be there.

    And yes, KDE is excellent. 🙂


    Side-note: Fedora does have its own crash reporter (ABRT), but KDE has one, too (DrKonqi), so you’re right either way…