Please make it slop

-Mozilla employees, probably

Interesting

X11 is heavily outdated and vulnerable, but it features one thing Wayland doesn’t: it works with everything.

So, if Wayland checks your points, go Wayland. If something breaks - X11 is there to back you up.

The expenses are mostly upfront though. I’ve spent like $400 on a relatively fancy NAS and two 3TB WD Red CMR drives five years ago, and since then, there was that.

Of course, depending on your use case, there could be extra expenses as well, some of them recurring:

• Bigger drives
• Backup storage (I already had a place I could back up to)
• Domain name and DNS records (if you expose it to the public Web with a URL; you can otherwise just use a VPN tunnel to access NAS from outside the home network, which is free unless you do anything fancy)
• Some kind of paid software (if you don’t enjoy the perfectly good collection of open-source apps)
• Etc.

Now, for the streaming alternative:

• Netflix Standard: $18/mo
• Spotify: $12/mo
• Total: $30/mo, or $360/yr. Just these two services alone.

Your NAS system will pay off in a little over a year (maybe two years if you go all in with huge drives, fancy NAS configs, extra expenses here and there), and it’s smooth sailing from there.

My unit works for 5 years already with no maintenance, is still fully supported by the manufacturer, and I don’t expect to replace it in a few more years.

Self-hosting allows you to have all your files on all your devices, like many have used to with the streaming services. Also, some smart TVs specifically require to connect to some server to grab movies from.

If you don’t need any of that, regular hard drive will suit you best.

RustDesk could be a brilliant option, but the company is huge and there’s little chance to alter management decisions of this magnitude. This would take a lot of work on IT team, and as of right now, they can’t even care to update what they have, featuring outdated clients because they somehow “work better”.

But anyway, thanks for advice! Could be useful for my own projects.

X11 applications still run under XWayland

Somehow with XWayland enabled, the app still specifically demanded an actual X11 session

What’s Omnissa’s stance there?

They promise it will be done, but they already moved the dates several times

Migration would be great, but it’s not sometching an individual employee can do of an employer uses what it uses.

You make it look like old Nvidia cards are the only reason X11 is held around.

Heck, I had trouble installing remote desktop for my work (they use Omnissa Horizon) on Fedora, because the app still exclusively supports X11, and Fedora removed it in version 42.

There are plenty of instances of similar things happening here and there, and currently, ditching X11 will still be catastrophic for many users’ workflows.

Ideally, yes. But if Nvidia is stubborn, there are two ways to go about it:

• Say “screw it”, shift blame on Nvidia and not do anything to support Nvidia users (halving the userbase)
• Or do something about it and implement what is necessary to keep them supported.

all existing Nvidia systems suddenly disappeared because Linus said something somewhere

Sure, if I would buy/upgrade my PC now, I would go AMD for the graphics - it’s just less hassle this way, and open drivers are nice to have.

But it just so happened that I purchased my PC 5 years before I switched to Linux. It’s a perfectly functional machine I don’t feel the need to replace, and with many people coming over from Windows right now amid Windows 10 support termination, many more find themselves in a similar situation.

Building a new PC just for Linux is expensive, stupid, and not ecologically conscious. As Linux shows itself as a more democratic and old hardware-friendly option, supporting Nvidia GPUs, old or new, is a must, even if Nvidia itself gets hostile at times.

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This is English only. Other languages are downloaded separately, though they typically take less space.

Can be read directly, like normal Wikipedia.

Not sure, not having that option. Can imagine not much more, if proper version history management is involved.

With images, it is 111,08 GB

Nothing, it’s probably an attempt to have something stable and unchanging, so that aging doesn’t show much.

The meme doesn’t seem to be about Debian becoming bad, more like data hoarding.

I can answer one part of your question. Yes, it’s not as big as you think it is.

The more I know, thanks!

Amazing

Beautiful! Much worth asking for lol. Lawrence Linux ftw!