+1
the UI could be improved (I always end up hovering for tooltips on controls) but it works really well.
I also like that tabs will stay in the stash by default on close, so its great for opening a bunch of reference sites really quickly without worrying about losing them
Closest thing to the old firefox experiment from a few years back.
Having as many followers as he does on the fediverse right now is difficult. There aren't any tools or options to reduce the flood of notifications you get or do do any sort of sane filtering (especially on mastodon) so i totally understand why he often reacts the way he does. You cant feasibly block or de-federate when your reach is so large.
The political aspect is especially true. The FOSS confusion is often similar to the communism confusion, especially when it comes to small-scale things.
Take the concept of a neighborhood garden that no one is expected to pay money into, for instance. "Wait, so the people here who like gardening don't expect me to pay or provide labor unless I'm able to? What do you mean i should take only according to my needs? What about Jimothy, he never helps but he takes way more than I do! What do you mean Jimothy contributes as he is able or in other ways? How can i trust everyone to be fair?"
Take the money for goods/services exchange out of the equation and it can really throw people off.
If you know how to add a real "delete" entry that would be great.
At least in nautilus 42 the preferences let you enable a permanent delete option in the right click menu, if that's what you are looking for.
I've been using florisboard for a few months now. You will have typos. Auto-correct for obvious things would be nice... once you install a dictionary its not awful, but the dictionary struggles with simple typos since it isnt usually taking rhe surrounding words into context of the misspelled word. I think the only dictionary i could get installed was from libreoffice? So could just be a lack of common mobile typos in the dataset.
Florisboard does support things i actually used from gboard like a function row up top with undo/redo, activating voice options, and a clipboard with history. It also supports things like apps that support the autofill hints similarly to how itd pop up on gboard. Of all the foss options, it was the only one that had these modern expectations, so i also think its the best bet for a gboard alternative people will actually switch to. Anysoft and openboard are way too minimal (not a bad thing, just not what an avid gboard user is looking for)
Swipe on floris is ok. It definitely triggers when you don't want it on occasion. And the lack of autocorrect makes recovery miserable.
I tried openboard too, but i could not get openboard to a reasonable size on the screen. Pixel 7 pro is fairly big... and i use the smallest text scaling... but even the smallest layout options put the top row out of reach of my thumbs.
not seeing all my open apps is weird, also not being able to open or close from the panel is weird
The extensions that enable this are so simple too. Its a real shame its not built into the settings out of the box, even if they want that to be the default. I wish they made extensions more discoverable too, since you kinda need to know they exist in order to go get them, and easier discoverability would help people solve tbose problems faster.
UIs need to be compact when needed. Not everyone is a child and settings are not that simple.
I really wish these things were built in settings. Thunderbird Supernova's setting for this is a fantastic example of how much of a difference it makes. Yeah, it's a bit spacious by default. But once you drop the spacing to medium or small based on your needs and dpi, it feels great. Opinionated design done well makes for great consistency and feel, but it also needs to have some room for adjustments without needing to install stuff.
I've also been a Gnome user for a while, but i am looking forward to plasma 6 as well. I highly doubt I'll make any sort of switch, but I've never had a good time running plasma 5 so i would love to like kde more. Wayland by default is going to benefit gnome too since it'll put more priority on bugs and lack of support that is still somewhat common among the less desktop-tied apps.
(My Plasma 5 woes have been on multiple devices, multiple times over multiple years, with and without basic customization. i was basically never able to go a day without some sort of major shell crash. I got way too familiar the the command sequence to restart the desktop ui)
I do find KDE to be a bit info dense and it doesn't look like 6 is changing that aspect of things (at least by default), but it does look a bit less busy at least. I also never like basically anything about classic windows UI, layout, or task flows so KDE leaning into those just doesn't work well for me. That said, while i like gnome being more minimal, i do wish it had a bit more capability to expose hidden/nested options more easily than requiring extension installs.
I'm similarly excited about cinnamon 6. A bit unfortunate (and understandable given its goals and usage share) it is still X11, but there's a lot about it that demonstrates a solid middle ground between gnome and KDE.
Roku supports chromecast (and airplay, if/when needed)
Petco carries a "sofresh" litter that you can refill. Its unscented and does just fine keeping smells down. If i smell anything then i probably forgot to empty it.
Not particularly low dust but also not any worse than purina or others i've used. And its cheap due to refilling. I have a few petcos that i pass weekly regardless so its pretty convenient for me, at least.
No specific rust experience with either, but some thoughts on the popularity reasons outside of the language:
I suspect a bit part of this difference in framework popularity may be due to GTK being more attached to gnome and friends, and by extension, Ubuntu (for better or worse, the most used desktop distro for quite a while) Most of the time that'll be mainline Ubuntu which has always been GTK.
So if a developer or company is going to target something, then it may come down to "what is the ideal platform to build on for Ubuntu as our main target? GTK? Cool, that's what we will use." Of course, either framework is just fine, and either framework targets other OSs as well. I don't have any experience with either, but it wouldn't surprise me if the choice of GTK more often is akin to Swift + Apple's toolkits for iphone development being more popular by a large margin than Ionic/Capacitor, React Native, Xamarin, etc, even though the others provide some benefits (and some significant context-dependent downsides, of course)
If i remember correctly, Qt was not fully FOSS for a while, so GTK was much more widely adopted and recommended early on. But that was pre-2005, I think.
Manjaro can be a real pain depending on your hardware setup. They make a lot of choices that are difficult to work around when you need to (for better or worse) which kinda defeats the whole point of arch (to not be opinionated)
I have the same setup of packages on a few computers. 0 issues on one, plagued with boot issues on another. And unfortunately, the attitude of the devs and forum is that if you have boot issues its obviously your fault.
It was definitely a good first arch distro for me, but pacman, aur, and everything else work just as great on Endeavour and all my devices are far more stable than when they were on Manjaro.
https://whatpwacando.today/ is a nice site to test things out. You should see the option to install on Firefox for android, as well as verify what features work.
Glad it finally landed in main, I've been using nightly to install PWA's for a while. It worked fine, but having the two different browsers to juggle for initial install was a pain.