I did not see this coming. I thought the “recent” new driver NTFS3 is the ultimate driver. You can bet phoronix will do performance comparisons once it is available in mainstream. Is performance the only reason or are there other technical reasons for creating this new driver?

For me I was using SearXNG for years now, by rotating public instances. So this private one is basically the same, just private. The search results are really not great to be honest. That’s why I sometimes used other search engines back and forth, especially if the instance got blocked a lot or was no longer available. And a few times I still access Google directly, if the prior search results were nonsense. Most of the time the search results with SearXNG are satisfying enough for me that this is a non issue. I’m okay paying with a bit inconvenience or worse results. I’m not dependent too much on web search anyway.

It wasn’t like that before Ai. And since rise of Ai, the quality went down and not only for bounties. So this is not a problem with bounties. Now that the quality of reports went up and is not much of an issue anymore, we can assume it will not an issue anymore with bounties coming back.

In short, bounties are not the cause of the low quality reports.

bounty also encourages good reports. So your argumentation is that the bounty program is the reason why reports were bad lately? I don’t think that is the reason and bringing it back will not make it that worse again.

Does that mean the bug bounty program will come back?

Oh… :D But you were right.

Sleep doesn’t work well in some environments, like right now my current one using AMD+AMD hardware on EndeavourOS. Therefore I do boot. And couldn’t care less for 10 seconds faster or slower boot times.

First I wanted to install with podman, but the instructions wasn’t clear about it. And I’m not very familiar with docker much, just used podman to build a cross platform app with Rust (little unrelated I know). So I could not figure this out and looked into the AUR. To my luck that worked out pretty well. Maybe I will look into the docker again in the future, if I want do a cross device installation (access from other devices). Right now, I’m not comfortable doing that.

There were parts compiling though, such as Valkey I think at least.

I think you don’t understand what LFS is. It is not a distribution you move on to, you build it from the ground up yourself following instructions and understanding how it works. Gentoo does all of that for you, you just have a ready to go distribution where you compile applications from source; you can even use binary builds to avoid compiling complicated and big apps.

What is “The Year of the Linux Desktop” exactly? How do we measure this exactly and what does that even mean? (I use that phrase for memes usually.)

I want to highlight a few mods (because this question will come up eventually :-) ):

Alex Kidd in Miracle World_

• Snappy Snorg and the Seven Silver Stones: Total conversion with different graphics and gameplay, including puzzles. High quality.
• Octo Unleashed: Impressive conversion with good graphics and atmosphere.
• Stella in Adventure World: A more traditional style of gameplay with new character, story and level designs.
• Voyage - A Sorceress Vacation: Total conversion with new gameplay, character, graphics and story.

Sonic_

• Boxguy Adventure 2: Part of a multiplatform series. Play as a new character within its own levels structures.
• NC Revision: Keeps main game intact, but updates graphics to very beautiful style. Other improvements in gameplay and miscellaneous alterations are made as well.

Sonic 2_

• Frenzy: 7 zones with secrets and alternate paths, making up to 21 levels. Further some changes to graphics and musics as well.
• Zen Island: Main game stays intact, but with changes to graphics palette, music and and a little bit on gameplay.

Phantasy Star_

• Makeover: Redesigns graphics (including Character Sprites Improvement hack) inspired by graphics from PlayStation 2 Phantasy Star Generation 1.
• Easy Patches (Double Meseta and XP): Collection of patches to reduce the grind. Simply double the money and xp earned from battles.

Super Boy 4_

(Note, Super Boy 4 is an unlicensed game in Korea that is a bad knock-off clone of Super Mario games. It has this uncanny effect of Mario games, but just in bad and wrong.)

• Individuality Improvement: Changes the graphics to something new and unique, getting rid of or the Super Mario aesthetics. Or makes changes so it looks a bit more unique than before.

Wonder Boy 5 Monster World (E)_

• Sram Pad Enhancement Hack: Adds a save function so you don’t need to use passwords (or save states). Coloring are also adjusted, as the original colors can be ugly.

No, that is not what it was about. I know, don’t run sudo yay, but rather just yay and wait for password request. What it was is about a configuration to not ask password anymore, a passwordless package manger.

Hey, I didn’t meant this to be removed or anything; was just sharing my personal opinion. Everyone can do whatever they want, as long as they are aware of consequences and get teached about it. I’m just a bit paranoid, that’s all.

I don’t feel safe doing so. Would a script be able to run escalated rights without asking me a password? Is it somewhere displayed that such a process is started (notification in example or at least in the terminal a message?). And even for applications I am directly starting, I want it be explicit to require a password, that I am always aware its escalated root rights the app has now.

I can understand your view of convenience and I am “guilty” of some convenience stuff too. But this goes a bit too far for my taste.

You mean you have a package manager for your system without a password? Why would anyone want that?

Edit: For context. The part I was replying to was edited out.

I sometimes prefer Flatpak over AUR, because I do not trust everyone on the AUR to run scripts with root rights on my system. At least Flatpaks are a bit sandboxed (even if the sandbox is an illusion) and the programs don’t install and run with root rights. Sometimes the Flatpak is from the original developer and the script in AUR is not. Or the AUR script is not updated well and often enough, unlike day one Flatpak updates. But Flatpaks do not integrate well in your system and applications can look out of place too. There is a lot to consider, besides what you already mentioned.

I use both, prefer the AUR in optimal cases.

Why do you have both paru AND yay installed at the same time? As someone who likes Rust, I maybe should have switched to paru too. But I just can’t justify the change, because yay comes preinstalled and works just fine, and paru seems to not offer anything worthwhile the change.

I use yay, as it comes by default with EndeavourOS. It’s basically an AUR helper that uses pacman and works quite the same.

Flatpak is a different package manager and has nothing to do with your system packages. They are not exclusive, I use both. So what you basically asking isn’t which package manager people use, but rather which package format.

I love Gruvbox. My favorite color scheme. If its not, its probably derived version of Gruvbox. My current one is different, simply because I wanted to have a different scheme after years of same.