It really bothers me that the update manager GUIs in gnome and KDE, like Discover, don’t do this automatically.

Every day after work

Then don’t use JavaScript. This functionality is intentionally baked in to the design of the language. It was literally designed to do exactly this. I think it’s dumb too, but my solution isn’t to expect the language to act against its design, it’s to use a strongly typed language.

My desktop sitting right in front of me.

prove me wrong.

Ok

You might be getting down voted because of your claim that it doesn’t have screensavers, which is just flat out wrong.

Behold, a screensaver on Wayland:

Also “Please don’t reformat my hard drive”

Isn’t this similar to the reason a lot of people hate snaps? Or am I misunderstanding something? I’m not an Arch user (btw) so I’m not super familiar with AUR.

Bob writes books about software development and has a huge following of mediocre developers that graduated in to management. Unfortunately what Bob says and does affects way more than just Bob.

I’ve got a co-worker that worships every word that falls out of Bob’s mouth hole. Nice guy, but not a good developer.

As someone that’s used both Wayland and X11, I strongly disagree.

I got sick and tired of windows turning onedrive back on and moving my files.

The Internet is my app store.

As a software developer, hearing “it works on my machine” from a subset of users is actually helpful information. It means the problem is environmental, or data related, instead of an explicit code issue. It does narrow things down a bit.

The issue arises when some people treat it as a reason to ignore a problem.

It’s like a modern day blond joke.

Vibe coders are really dumb.

Did the Gnome people ever figure out how to put icons on the desktop yet?

I just tested putting my desktop to sleep this morning and everything seems to have woken back up correctly.

Here’s the system summary if you’re curious:

I haven’t actually tried sleeping the system. It’s a desktop, so it isn’t something I generally do. I’ll give it a try later tonight and let you know what happens.

My Nvidia driver has worked flawlessly in Fedora for the past 3 years. Not a single issue.