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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlCan KDE Tile Windows Like PopOS?
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    41 minutes ago

    I believe, that’s something which became impossible with Wayland?

    But it wasn’t very good under X11 either. Even back then, it was much less clunky to use the various KWin scripts, which offer tiling. Well, and by now Plasma has built-in semi-automatic tiling, which those scripts basically just configure, so they do now feel quite smooth.






  • Yeah, one of the largest pieces of software humanity has created, next to Google Chrome and the Linux kernel, which are all around 30 million lines of code.

    To give a frame of reference: With a team of 5 full-time devs at my dayjob, we can dish out a codebase of about 20 thousand lines over the course of two years.

    A browser might be somewhat quicker to build, because the requirements are relatively clear at this point and you can start implementing many standards in parallel. But yeah, it’s still just an insane amount of code.







  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMusicBrulez
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    7 days ago

    Ist in dem Fall, glaube ich, tatsächlich ein traditionell implementierter Algorithmus. Also in ihrem Style Guide für Englisch steht z.B. drin, dass das erste und das letzte Wort mit Großbuchstaben beginnen sollen (mit ein paar Ausnahmen). Was vermutlich für englische Song-Titel irgendwie zufällig richtig ist…? Aber ja, im Deutschen kommen dann Substantive dazu, die auch mal mittendrin groß geschrieben werden wollen, und dann eben keine Chance mehr…



  • I 100% understand the frustration. It can easily feel like you’re doing the maintainers a favor and they’re making this harder than it needs to be.
    The thing is, though, from the maintainer side, it very often feels like you’re asked to do those contributors favors. You may not care for whatever feature they want to contribute, but then are supposed to put in work reviewing their contributions and possibly having to patch up their work, if it doesn’t meet quality standards.

    And then, yeah, you start requiring quality gates to ensure you don’t have to put in extra work for something you don’t care about. But then may also end up putting hurdles in place, so that effectively fewer contributions show up asking for reviews. It’s an ugly solution, but frankly, it’s better than having contributors put in actual work creating a pull request and then you not having time to review it.






  • At its core, SystemD coordinates and launches all the services in your operating system. So, it is essential for the boot process, but also does scheduling, meaning you could run a backup script every night with it, for example.

    That’s the simple answer. But in truth, SystemD is often criticized for doing too much, so it’s hard to describe what it really does. For example, you can also manage network interfaces via SystemD.

    Kind of the goal of SystemD is to provide common plumbing which works the same across distros, so that when you configure your services or network interfaces etc. on Ubuntu, it works the same as on openSUSE or Arch or whatever.