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Comment Gnome updates = months of broken plugins (Score 2, Insightful) 22

My biggest issue with Gnome is that with every major version update, they change something that requires every plugin to update something to be compatible. If you rely on plugins for your UI experience, and you're on a rolling/bleeding edge distro that pulls in Gnome too early, you're often stuck with no-plugins, missing plugins, perhaps for months, until the plugin authors update their plugins. I have no idea what is involved with updating the plugins - sometimes it seems major code changes are required. There is rarely anything user-facing that seems like it would require a major code change, but seems there is a constant rewrite/refactoring going on. I don't really understand what is going on - haven't really looked into it. I started switching to alternative Wayland desktops during this broken plugin period. I tried KDE - not for me. Sway is pretty decent. Now I'm staying in one: Hyprland. I keep Gnome around as a sort of backup desktop now.

Comment Re:I heard a similar story from NPR. (Score 1) 56

Drug policy written by real squares. If you work at the DEA you should have to actually do most of these drugs, at least once.

Elect me and I'll make that happen.

At least once a day, or an hour, whatever it takes for it to wrap around and you start to think you are a DEA agent.

Comment Latency (Score 1, Flamebait) 13

What's the latency like? That was the biggest issue I had with satellite internet. I think the theoretical minimum round-trip ping time was around 600ms, but it never was that good... realistic ping times were more like 1.2 - 3s depending on network conditions. Games? VOIP? Video call? forget it. SSH was painful.

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