Its different now, and I mean it. I used Krohnkite in Plasma 5 when it worked well, but later it started to be buggy. Its a fork from the original BTW and the main thing that is worked on at https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite . I think reason it was buggy is, caused by Wayland or when transitioning to Plasma 6, forgot. Then I switched to Polonium (kwin script) and it worked but wasn’t great. But Polonium started to be buggy too,… then Krohnkite was reworked, even the Kwin developers made adjustments so that Krohnkite works well.

I am using it again since Plasma 6 launch period and it works well. Krohnkite is not buggy and it even got some cool features, where you can dock any window to the side or top or bottom side in a smaller area, that will not interfere with the other windows for tiling in example. So all in all, if you think about using it, then I can highly recommend Krohnkite.

KDE, but only with an extension called kröhnkite for auto tiling. To me a manual stacked window management system is almost unusable. As someone who used tiling window managers for years and lots of KDE based applications, and as KDE was one of the first who worked well in Wayland, I thought to give it a shot. I like it and since then (years by now) stayed on KDE.

For reference, I used Gnome 2 on Ubuntu, made the switch to Unity desktop, then Gnome 3 (and I think Gnome 4 too?, don’t remember). Then started experimenting with Regolith, auto tiling for Gnome, and tried out real tiling window managers, until I landed on qtile. Then experimented with Xfce, before finally making the switch to KDE (because of Wayland). Rest is history.

I assume you are talking about eSpeak? It sounds very robotic (and bad). Maybe Mozilla’s TTS is an option, I don’t know. Source https://github.com/mozilla/TTS and some examples https://erogol.com/ddc-samples/ .

It’s a compromise between Red Hat and the Hacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license

In short, the Open Source license means the work you created can be used by anyone, for any purpose, read, modify and share the original source and your modifications. There are variations of Open Source licenses and debates to what even Open Source means.

My answer is a bit cheating, because its emulation of Playstation 1 via RetroArch. The game is Dark Deception 3: Dark Delusion. It looks good, and the soundtrack is phenomenal. The manual is not needed, because the game teaches with tutorials. If you want, have a look at screenshots to get an idea how the game looks. Overall game seem to be okayish in gameplay, but makes up with an unusual game concept and good soundtrack.

The game is an Tactical Action Adventure game, with levels to pass. So its more a linear game with stages. Controls are not great, more like tank controls from third person. The idea is to run around, setup traps and attacks and with one of the buttons “use” them at the right time. The character is basically a witch. Bring up the “map” to set traps for the associated button. I’m quite early on, so not sure if I will ever finish this. If you choose to play this game, be aware that there is no autosave and you have to save manually after each stage.

On one hand it has treesitter and has a builtin optional modal mode with Vim shortcuts. On the other hand it is VSCode. On the side above it, it is a terminal application. And one more side is, it is written in Rust. Cursed, through and through.

On a more serious note, this is more than just an alternative. Its the bridge between VSCode people and those who want to try working in a terminal. I think this is actually a really good idea.

Even if you are right, that has nothing with this post. We don’t need to witch hunt here. This post is only about the frustrations of the software.

skill issues

Edit: This is just a joke reply. Don’t take it personal. Frustration with software is never fun to have. Maybe delete your config file and start over.

Hmm now that you mention it, GIMP has a similar way of version numbering for next upcoming versions. I guess waiting is the better option, because installing the beta version might cause issues with applications and libraries in use… probably.

This is the KDE-Unstable repository. I still wait for it in the main repos (should have been more clear). BTW the linked package shows up as version 6.6.91-1. So this is not v6.7?

Still waiting for v6.7 in the Arch repos.

Such benchmarks only test the default configuration, right? And ignores any optimizations one would do.

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 think you guys don’t read the context of the message. I was responding to:

Well, here goes the hope for a sub-1000€ Steam machine.

In which I tried to explain there is hope for a machine under 1000 Euros, because the machine just don’t add up in price, but there are parts that make it cheaper to produce. So your paraphrasing therefore incomplete and misleading.

I wasn’t arguing that? I feel like there is some disconnect in our discussion?

I am not arguing that most people will use mouse and keyboard only. But nothing speaks against it and having the option to buy without controller makes sense to me. Even if it costs 70 Euros more with controller, why would I buy it with one? And I am surely not in the minority of having a controller already, and not everyone wants to use a Steam Controller anyway.

All I am saying is, that there will be an option to buy it without controller probably, which helps Valve keep the price down as possible. Which is a very important factor, so that will happen for sure.

Not having a screen is not going to lower the price much.

Off course not having a screen will lower the price much, especially if we talk about OLED. It does not affect the price as much as memory, but it helps not having it. And that is not even the only thing. Yes, the Steam Machine has some other stuff going on over the Steam Deck, like 8GB of additional VRAM (oof) and bigger and better CPU. I am aware of that and that was not my point. I was talking about all the other non memory stuff, that combined still has impact on the price.

A controller is not essential for a PC / Steam Machine. Who says everyone wants to use a controller for the Steam Machine? One could just use mouse and keyboard and that is not wrong. Or another one already purchased the Steam Controller standalone (or has other controllers that could be used). On a console, usually you need the official controller as most controllers won’t work. I mean if you have a Xbox or Switch controller, it would not work on a Playstation. But most controllers work on a PC / Steam Machine.

In example, if I were to buy a Steam Machine, I would choose one without controller. Why? Because I have multiple, even a Steam Controller already. There is 0 value for me to pay 100 Euros extra for a controller I would not need. Valve tries to get the price down as much as possible, and having that option is a simple way.