Made it Worse

Made it Worse

Made it Worse

I’d recommend yt-dlp for downloads.

If you want to stream, you can use yt-dlp in combination with mpv,

OR

You can just install FreeTube if you want SponsorBlock as well.

+1 to this but also, If you’re on Linux, I’d recommend Freetube.

It’s on Flathub and allows you to use SponsorBlock.

Doesn’t happen to me

Now that you mentioned it, I’ve had VERY similar issues on an old machine which had some cooling issues (it’s a laptop, what did you expect?). So I’d wager you’re right.

Really? I must not have heard about that, I’m sorry.

When I said “very alpha”, I meant that it still very much contained bugs and lacked features, as in it is still in Alpha.

When I’m talking about bugs, the main ones I’ve encountered are the ones I’ve seen on Brodie Robertson’s COSMIC streams.

The only unfixed bug I’ve encountered is terminal font rendering on COSMIC Terminal being very weird and different compared to all other terminals I’ve tried, specifically Alacritty, Kitty and Foot. I’ve seen a bug report about “Black bars about content” but nothing mentioned about how, for example, Hack size 14 on all those 3 terminals looks bigger than Hack size 18 on COSMIC Terminal.

I was wondering if that would be fixed with Alpha 5?

But other than that, I only had 1 bug until recently, that seemed to have been fixed with Alpha 4 (keybindings fell back to default ones for a few minutes of logins on cold boot; idk what caused it but it’s been gone since I went to Alpha 4.

So… is there a timeline for releases I could follow? I’ve been looking at the issue tracker for Epoch 1, and I’m even asking questions about and tracking individual features like Startup Applications and especially Pinned Workspaces.

Apologies but do you happen to know where I could find more info on Pinned Workspaces and maybe how to automatically implement them as replacement for Static Workspaces until that feature arrives in the Epoch 2 cycle?

Many thanks for reading and I would greatly appreciate a response.

And of course thanks for making what is now my daily driver Desktop.

And Happy New Year!

Old one was an Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 4500U, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD.

New one is Thinkpad T14 with Ryzen 7840U, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

Afaik terminator is unmaintained but some people still use it. I’ve heard of Tilix as a good alternative but can’t tell you if that’s the case as I haven’t used either. I change terminals only if there’s a feature my current one doesn’t have.

I used alacritty (because that’s what came with the distro I used, ArcoLinux) until I switched to Wayland where alacritty font scaling was inconsistent across Xorg and Wayland sessions (and I was still switching between the two). So I went to kitty, until I was convinced to switch to foot because it seemed to open faster so I went to it. Then I switched to COSMIC which doesn’t let me remove window decorations server-side and neither kitty nor foot supported their removal client side, so I switched to alacritty which did.

I will switch to COSMIC terminal for convenience (as I use COSMIC) when they fix their font rendering (it’s like old Alacritty, only that modern Alacritty has fixed it but cosmic-term still hasn’t).

Last month, I switched from an all-AMD system to a 2+ times better all-AMD system and I couldn’t be happier! (okay, 32GB RAM and a bigger than 59W battery could’ve made me happier but I digress).

I’ve been on AMD throughout my entire Linux journey and I’ve never had any issues related to that hardware.

Regardless, the maintainers doing the Spin proposal have said they will only release the spin when COSMIC gets a full release. And COSMIC is very much Alpha quality software still.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraCOSMIC

They expect it to “reach maturity” so likely when Beta 1 is released at the earliest.

Edit: I would expect the timeline to look as follows:

End of Jan: Alpha 5

End of Feb: Alpha 6

End of Mar: Alpha 7 or Beta 1

End of Apr: Beta 1 or Beta 2

End of May: Beta 2 or Beta 3 or Release

End of Jun: Beta 3 or Release

End of Jul: Release Epoch 1 or Alpha 1 for Epoch 2 (seeing as they said they want to release Epoch 2 in the same year i.e this year)

Thank you for helping me find a new podcast to listen to

The main reason is Fedora has standards for some stability that COSMIC simply can’t meet on time.

+1 on Tiny11 and you can make your iso through winutil too, making it easier.

Not THAT far. But 32GB RAM is getting more common, though I haven’t heard of many people using 64, let alone more than that.

Also, storage is usually not that extreme, though multiple terabytes are also getting more common on the higher end.

Just this month, I upgraded to 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD so it isn’t that extreme for most people.

CPU and GPU - wise, most people aren’t running the best of the best, and there are still plenty of people using 10-series Nvidia GPUs, with most people seemingly using 20-series or 30-series GPUs, (and usually not the best cards for these generations)

Here’s my advice for Installing Windows:

1. When getting an ISO from M$, select “English International” even if you’re in the US, to avoid a lot of bloatware.

2. Use Chris Titus’ Winutil. It’s open source and really easy to use.

Yup. Though it’s really a “fork” of a Bulgarian folk song.

I just use GPT4All

Basest of Based.

Personally, I try to mainly use locally hosted Open Source LLMs, and mostly for research purposes.

In my experience, these 2 are the endgame for distrohoppers. You either end on Tumbleweed or on Fedora. I ended up on Fedora personally, but they are both great in tgeir own ways.

By “the endgame”, I mean that’s what ends their distrohopping.

I was playing with COSMIC on Fedora since mid-May, or around 3 months before the first alpha. It’s been pretty solid for me though there are still bugs and missing features. I see why they’d want it for F42, but I’m just not sure if System76 can have Epoch 1 released in time for that. They still have Alpha 5 by the end of December, Alpha 6 planned for the end of January, and maybe 2 or 3 betas before release. So We could only have Epoch 1 (first full release) End of March (or even later), which I’d say would leave too little time for extensive testing to meet Fedora’s standards. Just because I’ve barely had issues on my fairly standard setup doesn’t mean that others haven’t been plagued by issues. So my take on it is I want it to happen, but I’m not sure if it can happen for F42, so maybe the contingency plan to delay to F43 might be a better idea, but ultimately only time will tell.