I mean they live and work there, and all business and contracts are done there. This is not an individual who can react and just go to a different country to live on, its affecting everyone in the company and all partners. Off course they have to comply if the law goes through. I personally don’t blame them that they are prepaired for such a case, and do not downplay their work and fight because of that.
I’m a regular auto tiler, but tried a few alternatives such as Karousel to see how it works out. Its not really for me, but it worked fine and did what it should in my experience. So another recommendation if anyone wants a Niri like experience with Karousel addon. Another curious one is Mouse Tiler, which is a completely different method of manual tiling.
In KDE my favorite is an extension to the window manager, for auto tiling: https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite or install it from Settings > Window Management > KWin Scripts, then click “Get New” and search for “Krohnkite” by anametologin. Development is a bit slow at the moment, but it does the job well.
As you would expect, it does tile the windows automatically. I like that there are different layouts available, meaning different logic how a window should be placed and sized. I can switch between a layout when needed, and add exceptions to specific windows or applications to not tile them. So the usual stuff. It comes with some features not seen in other tiling window managers. In example I can convert any window into a “Dock”. A dock would then make the window be always on the top, bottom, right or left side of the window, similar to the KDE bar. And a window is tiled accordingly, so its always visible. Super cool.
A good starting point is the pinned post “Understanding Linux and choosing your first Linux distro, v2.0”. In doubt, just take something like Linux Mint as a general operating system or a gaming oriented one like Bazzite.
The more power such people have in such positions, the more money they get, the worse it gets. And the bigger the cult might get, which could suck people into the views and so on. Do not underestimate that.
Quote from end of your linked article. Note he talks about humans:
When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.
I use the word “meme” very lightly here, which is a mixture of hate, second-hand embarrassment, making fun of the distro and its users and so on. For the issues it had in the past and being no longer trustworthy for many. Also people meme about Ubuntu for the Snaps, and the focus on Rust (I personally like Rust…), being best friend with Microsoft and so on.
Easier than said, if it gets this much attention, recommendation and money support. We should not ignore it, but tell people (like the linked post). So they can make an informed decision.
Its time to let go of Ubuntu and Manjaro as meme distros. Omarchy is the new meme.
Yeah, that was misunderstood. I said or meant “they was fighting against the law, so they can make an exemption”. To make it clear, the linked article from System76 goes into more detail. I just wanted bring attention to this, because the original linked article on tomshardware does not mention them.
I don’t think that is a problem for Microsoft, especially because they would want your ID and age, tracking you as much as possible already. Also you don’t just change the Kernel just like that, there are licenses attached, drivers and other stuff. From technical point of view, in current implementation it is probably impossible. Let alone Microsoft would face issues with compatibility. If we put the technical difficulties aside, I don’t even think Microsoft is against this law and pretty much wants it.
Why do you assume that Microsoft doesn’t want to comply?
BTW System76, the company behind their Linux laptops and the Linux desktop COSMIC, was fighting hard against the law to make exemptions for Open Source software. That’s important for them, because System76 operates in California. So I think they are big part to thank for here: Colorado and California Exempt Open Source from Age Attestation (May 2026)
This is where the server/client concept comes from. Some server software runs in the background and wait for access from an external client software. Then it works on the server and produces and output for the client. This way the entire server does not need to start run and stop for every single request. I mean you don’t start and close every time you click on a new link on the website, right? So your PC runs all the time. And that’s similar to how MySQL operates. It starts a server in the background and then waits for any application to use it. So this is totally normal.
Now because lot of people don’t want to start the server process “by hand”, they put it in autostart, so it starts with your system. If you don’t want it to autostart, maybe there is a way of configuring it so you have to start it manually each time you want to use it. But I cannot assist with that help, just wanted to explain why that is on a high level.
File indexing allows (faster) searching of files and sometimes even allows finding files by their content not only the file name.
At least for text files, grep can do that too. Off course it is not as fast as indexed files, but how often do you need that? There is ripgrep, a faster alternative. I personally don’t miss indexed files as I thought I would. With fast drives and CPU and the knowledge how to do a proper search does most of the stuff I need. Just my opinion. The price for an indexer is too high to me (and besides they were responsible for the death of my SSD… I believe).
Summary of my reply: Baloo (and mlocate) were stuck on filenames with unusual characters in filenam, which probably caused the death of my system SSD.
Baloo is known to be borked from time to time, in the many years I used it before. I stopped using Baloo for a different reason. Baloo and the more general mlocate file indexer destroyed my previous system SSD. After replacing the drive, (without knowing what the issue was) I was careful and watched write and reads of the drive. And then I found the issue, Baloo (and later mlocate) did massive Gigabytes of writes and reads in short amount of seconds for long period. After examination I found out baloo (and later mlocate the same) were stuck on specific files. Those filenames had unusual characters, that normally would only be seen in binary file formats.
I don’t know if we can blame the indexers for this, but as far as I know those are the only applications with the issue. I’m not entirely sure if RetroArch can play those games (these are Rom files for old systems), but at least its file handling worked fine.
According to this blog post, Omarchy has lot of security issues: https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/
Ubuntu is an ancient african word, meaning “I can’t configure Debian”
- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ubuntu
Also, my favorite:
Manjaro is an ancient African word, meaning “I can’t install Arch Linux”
I predicted this for long time! Just like Microsoft purchased Github, I was expecting one of the big Ai companies (including Nvidia) to buy Hugging Face. Because that’s what big tech companies do, if they are allowed to.
I was there, 3000 years ago…