Elementary OS 6 beta
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Elementary OS 6 beta
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Re: Elementary OS 6 beta
#2Hell yeah!
I'm hopeful to see some features by the time stable gets released. Notably the tasks app[0] and Nextcloud integration[1].
Re: Elementary OS 6 beta
#3I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the Flatpak-centric application ecosystem. Reminder: https://flatkill.org
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#4I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the Flatpak-centric application ecosystem. Reminder: https://flatkill.org
I’m not necessarily like flatpak, but these childish websites with badly written arguments are the things that should be killed..
These are toxic and doesn’t help anyone at all
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#5I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the Flatpak-centric application ecosystem. Reminder: https://flatkill.org
flatkill is FUD [0]
[0]: https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flat...
Also anecdotally I quite like flatpaks as a user. For example having Lutris as a flatpak (it's in flathub beta) is quite nice because it doesn't pollute my system with all those Wine dependencies.
Pro Tip: Use Flatseal to manage Flatpak permissions, e.g. give some apps access to specific folders you use that they don't have by default.
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#6I'd love to use Elementary OS, but their use of Vala is just such a turn off.
That language is dead except for a tiny gnome niche.
If they wanted the mac devs for their sleek look and feel they could have switched to swift. And if they wanted to gain easy popularity they could have switched to rust. But vala... there is no developer pool to draw people from, and they're not apple where ObjC might have been an obscure but in the end really productive ecosystem.
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#7Somewhat off topic: Whenever I see these user-friendly Linux distributions I think they would be great for mass deployments in schools or similar. Is there any technology that gives Elementary (or similar distributions) a deployment workflow like Chrome OS; ie zero-config (for the user) to log into a central service and configuration of the user account while being easy to administer?
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#8It looks like there is still no fractional scaling out of the box (always possible with hacks). The elementary team has defended the choice not to introduce it before [1], but it just makes it unusable for me and many other users.
KDE Plasma handles fractional scaling well. Gnome does it mostly fine on Wayland. Now you can also run Gnome on X11 with fractional scaling (at least with Pop OS [2]).
There's a cost of running the DE with fractional scaling of course. But I am fine with that if that makes the DE usable!
[1] https://blog.elementary.io/what-is-hidpi/
[2] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/10/system76-continue-impr...
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#9I'm very excited for the multi gesture track pad support. It's such a small change but I just haven't been able to find good support for this outside of Mac OS.
I'm tempted to install this version the second they hit their first release candidate for that feature alone.
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#10With the tiny market share I doubt many apps will bother with Gtk custom APIs.