VOIDPTR

They clearly meant that Bazzite has an immutable read-only system. Though this can be mostly worked around by installing everything in /home without sudo.

I don’t like Xfce, it somehow manages to be more resource heavy than MATE, and renaming a file or a folder shouldn’t be a dialog. LXQt should be the desktop environment of choice for any lightweight distro.

This worked better on my old computer than ReactOS ever did and I have been testing out ReactOS since 2007. If AI is what it takes to deliver a working FOSS Windows-like OS then I am not complaining.

It would be interesting if this results in Linux being forked or perhaps even more interesting developers and users opposed to AI moving to GNU Hurd or any of the BSD variants.

I still try out Haiku and ReactOS on actual hardware every time a new version is released. None of my computers are fully supported yet.

MATE is already perfect, for a more modern alternative you can use Cinnamon. This project is just a waste of time and resources. It is not like some corporate overlord is waiting for a BSD-licensed MATE to profit off of. I am not against people working on passion projects that are not necessarily viable, but the whole point of this seems to license-wash MATE.

Many AOSP apps are dated and Google has its own closed source Google apps.

The writing has been on the wall for years now [Article from 2018]

And AOSP is purposefully falling behind

The OpenAtom Foundation might have an opportunity here -non-profit behind OpenHarmony the basis for HarmonyOS and others-, at least in some parts of the world any ways.

Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) releases, unless you go with LMDE which is based on Debian. There is not a major technical difference but there are political differences between the projects.

The main reason to go with Mint instead of Ubuntu is if you prefer Cinnamon over GNOME as I do, and want a distribution built around the Cinnamon desktop environment.

What is unexpected about it? No cheap natural gas from Russia via Nord Stream 2, no cheap LNG from Qatar via the Hormuz Strait, and Chinese companies are undercutting German companies on price and exceeding them in quality.

While all of this is happening, there is a rise of fascism in Germany and the government is focused on enabling Israel’s genocide than taking care of its people and addressing the issues that make them fall for fascist parties.

Baloo is indexing your file system, you can disable it, but its memory usage should drop once it is done. How long it will take to finish depends on how many files you have.

If memory usage is a concern you can always try a lightweight desktop environment but with 16GB you are just fine staying on KDE Plasma.

Unfortunately the poorest and most vulnerable will be killed off first.

35C is not a heatwave, that’s a cool evening here or would be if humidity wasn’t over 60%