There’s so much shit that simply doesn’t work

People complaining about Wayland always like to say that, but usually don’t give any specific examples.

If it really was so bad then all major distros and DEs wouldn’t be actively working to switch.

For what it’s worth, since a few years Wayland works better on my PC than X11 ever did, and with more features.

Except they responded to a post talking about an Arch-based distro, so Fedora isn’t relevant here.

What kind of argument is that?

It’s already in AUR, you can install it right now if you want.

Countries? Don’t be ridiculous.

And any company that made itself so dependent on unproven bullshit kinda deserves it.

Yeah, what they really do is worse.

They just remove your ability to buy/play the original, so literally everyone loses.

And they claim “zero vendor lock-in”.

Exporting your content from whatever weird format they’re using in the DB isn’t exactly making the switch easy.

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property, but Teslas are not cheap.

I doubt anyone who’d lose one would have their life destroyed.

I’d like that to be “new”, but… It’s not exactly the first time this exact thing happened in tech.

It seems pretty easy to break, unfortunately.

Or it just time outs on longer articles.

I don’t think being open matters here, it’s the part where it’s developed by big bad China.

All of these threats apply to other LLMs as well.

Calling that Hitman bullshit “confusing” is way too charitable.

Not too long ago Steam listed something called “Hitman 3” (they changed it now).
Imagine my surprise when it turned out to include only the game launcher, without any actual content that could be reasonably called “Hitman 3”. If you tried to start a mission they redirected you to buy it first…

Thank god for the refunds…

Yeah, I tried it for a bit 1 or 2 years ago and didn’t see much difference.

Only cool thing was the automatic summaries with sources, but the I found out LLM summaries are like everything else “AI” - unreliable, at best, so…

And besides… aren’t AI features getting pushed in Kagi heavily?

Weird idea to use it as an argument against Google and DDG, but conveniently ignore it for Kagi.

Yes, and another big difference is that Bottles refuses to provide any kind of help to package maintainers.
According to maintainers’ comments on the Github project, they have to figure out how to build it by trial and error.

I was actually really surprised that there’s isn’t any kind of build documentation.
It’s pretty unusual.

I don’t think it’s understandable in this case, no.

The entire project depends on Wine, imagine if Wine devs restricted Bottles in what way they are allowed to use it just because Wine project doesn’t want to deal with bugs potentially introduced by the Bottles dev.

But they won’t, because of the license.
And neither can the Bottles devs.

If they want to have total control over their source code, fine, but then they cannot claim to be open-source and release it under GPL.

It’s kinda shitty, but after reading the other links in the post I can’t say it’s very surprising.

Bottles devs seem weirdly hostile to the idea of anyone repackaging their software, because apparently they’re the only ones that are able to do it properly.

edit: devs also refuse bug reports from any version that’s not Flatpak, so in this context removing the button doesn’t seem that unreasonable.

edit2: now that I’ve had a closer look at the PR mentioned in the post I’m not surprised at all.
Bottles devs are actively hostile. Apparently with this PR it’s impossible to run Bottles outside Flatpak without the package maintainers patching the code.

In my case it refused to ever mark me as idle, which meant I never got any notifications on mobile…

Works fine with a plugin, so clearly it can’t be that hard.

Did they also finally fix the AFK detection on Wayland?