ProtonVPN is on Flathub, I’ve had no issues with it.

Prime gives you a GOG code

I just listed the changes since GIMP 3 RC1.

Over GIMP 2.10.38, there’s a lot of changes. Better color management, GTK 3, non-destructive editing, and other stuff I can’t remember.

That last one is a major boon. It means you could perform an action on a layer, say raise the exposure, but revert it later on without affecting the quality or losing information. Unfortunately this doesn’t apply to all actions (such as resizing), but the list of non-destructive actions will grow later on.

By far the most important thing I’ve done is created a list of all the package names. With just one command, I can reinstall all my apps.

The second most important thing I’ve done is created a long list of gsettings/dconf commands that configure Gnome to my liking.

I’ve also moved most of my user data off my OS drive to removable drives. But I don’t have my home on a separate drive since I don’t want to share that across different distros since they configure things differently. It’s also just a lot easier to not have a separate home.

Apart from that, the script I have also copies over some config files, sets my hostname, sets flatpak overrides.

Fixed settings migration from 2.10

Implemented new GEGL API earlier than planned since plugin makers really wanted it

They renamed the nightly flatpak so you can have the stable and nightly versions installed alongside each other.

Are you using fractional scaling?

Yup. Or at the very least, a distro package’s listed dependencies don’t show you the true dependencies a program needs to function. There are a lot of dependencies that are needed but not listed because they are installed through transitively by other packages.

Rust shows you the true scale because it’s statically linked. That being said, Rust really may use more dependencies, but directly comparing the number of dependencies can be misleading without considering the scope and focus of each dependency.

Is the Windows drive listed in your /etc/fstab?

Same. I briefly had an M4 Mac Mini and one of the things I instantly missed about Linux was Wayland.

I always want new windows to open on the middle of the screen I am currently working on, but on Windows and MacOS they just go wherever they want.

flatpak create-usb [OPTION…] MOUNT-PATH [REF…] - Copy apps or runtimes onto removable media

I don’t think it has to be removable media despite the description. I’m also not exactly sure how to install the packages once they’re copied over.

For more details, see flatpak create-usb --help and flatpak man pages.

One of my favorite things about Gnome is that almost anything can be customized via CLI with dconf or gsettings. Which is great until you encounter one of the few things you can’t customize, like displays.

They’re considering moving to Forejo from Pagure.

Fedora is pretty aggressive with updating KDE. They push major new versions during a Fedora release.

HDR is new ground on Linux, so it’s understandable it’s taking a while. It requires involvement from all over the graphics stack: graphics drivers, mesa, Wayland protocol, protocol needs to be implemented in compositor, apps need to implement the protocol.

It’s hidden away on Gnome. You need to hit a keyboard shortcut that brings up a special console window then run a command to enable the HDR.

For better or worse, Plasma has the option prominently displayed in settings.

You can right now. If you are using KDE, it should work with mpv, though you might need to launch it from terminal with a few flags to tell mpv to use HDR.

If you’re not using KDE, you can launch gamescope with the hdr flag in the tty and have it launch mpv.

Though I’m not sure any browsers have working HDR. I think Chromium may have some stuff in progress. Gnome Web may get it since WebKit supports HDR and HDR is being worked on for GTK.

They as in Wayland? Xorg doesn’t have HDR either and never will.

you can’t go and install apt packages without updating your system first You can use apt without updating first. You’ll just be installing potentially outdated versions if the cached repository information is old. Though you may run into issues if you do partial upgrades (updating the cached repository, but not running an upgrade, then installing something new). Though this is less of an issue on Ubuntu since they try not to do big updates.

you also can’t use a GUI apt frontend as well as apt via the command line The error message should tell you that you can’t have multiple commands running at once. The error message is a bit too technical, citing the lock files.

I would like to remind everyone that while this extension does not include display response measuring and calibration, they will come later.

No calibration yet.

This is the protocol for HDR content. KDE already ships an experimental version of it.