The Flatpak is official.

But gnome apps don’t do that on XFCE. simple-scan and zenity as an example.

The latest version of both simple-scan and zenity do support custom accent colors. AFAICT, XFCE doesn’t support the XDG accent color setting.

Please don’t implement libadwaita, guys.

This is just extremely misleading. Libadwaita uses the system accent color by default which makes it even easier respect the users preference when developing a GTK application.

That depends on where you live. In many parts of the world, software patents don’t exist and aren’t applied.

It looks and feels nice, let’s see how it compares to Jerboa in daily use.

# apt apt install
E: Invalid operation apt

I would prefer manually writing each software using butterflies over having snapd installed on my system.

To explain it a bit further: when you move a file/directory on the same mount point, moving the file/directory is essentially just a rename operation, which doesn’t involve copying the data itself and is a very cheap operation. If you move a file/directory across mount points, you need to (recursively) copy the file/directory, copy file metadata and (recursively) delete the old file/directory, which is slow and error-prone.

the hidden “trashbin”, .Trash-$(uid), invented by Ubuntu

This isn’t some “idiotic principle invented by Ubuntu”, it just follows the freedesktop.org Trash specification. For many users, it can be really beneficial, see also the spec’s introduction:

An ability to recover accidentally deleted files has become the de facto standard for today’s desktop user experience.

Users do not expect that anything they delete is permanently gone. Instead, they are used to a “Trash can” metaphor. A deleted document ends up in a “Trash can”, and stays there at least for some time — until the can is manually or automatically cleaned.

Whether an application like Prism Launcher should use the trash can or delete the files directly is an entirely different question.

The error message is very detailed and there is nothing to add to it.

If you want to install an application/CLI tool, use pipx or your system package manager. If you want to install a library, use a virtual environment (e.g. by using python -m venv) or your system package manager.

By providing a modified bitmap to the X.Org Server, a heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation can occur.

Maybe we should stop writing security critical software in memory unsafe languages. I now this vulnerability was introduced a long time ago, but given that major Wayland compositors are still written in C, something like this isn’t too unlikely to happen again.

This is extremely sad. I use Syncthing a lot to sync documents between my phone an my computer.

The main benefit over client/server-based solutions are that it always works.
No network connection? No problem, the files are all stored locally.
I broke my home server again? No problem, the devices can talk directly to each other.

Unlike X11, Wayland was never intended to be network transparent. As others say, solutions like waypipe and more tradionally RDP and VNC exist.

I don’t like it. He is just perpetuating the endless stereotypes that plague linux and harm linux adoption.

If you are using a somewhat stable distro and don’t have weird hardware, you don’t need to “write your own driver” etc. A lot more people “punch themselves in the face” by using a buggy, ad infested, data harvesting operating system even though they just need a web browser.