GNU socialhttps://gs.jonkman.ca/api/statusnet/conversation/348489.atomConversation2024-03-29T02:49:15-04:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101436012339259358New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@tootbrute" class="u-url mention">@<span>tootbrute</span></a></span> I've been wondering which distro to use on a <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/macbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacBook</span></a> I'm going to have soon. One possibility is <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/uruk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Uruk</span></a> (it has a dock too), a close cousin of <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/trisquel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trisquel</span></a>:<br /><a href="https://urukproject.org/dist/en.html" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span>urukproject.org/dist/en.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I asked for suggestions here a few days ago, and a few people mentioned <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/elementaryos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ElementaryOS</span></a>, which is somewhat influenced by <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacOS</span></a>:<br /><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/a-tour-of-elementary-os-perhaps-the-linux-worlds-best-hope-for-the-mainstream/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/1</span><span class="invisible">2/a-tour-of-elementary-os-perhaps-the-linux-worlds-best-hope-for-the-mainstream/</span></a></p>737515http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-18T05:51:55+00:002019-01-18T05:51:55+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101431466334805795New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> ok, so you're going to double-down on the passive-aggression, eh? You can go on mute for a few days, while you think about diplomacy and how important it is when promoting projects you're involved with. Enjoy :)</p>737016http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T10:35:49+00:002019-01-17T10:35:49+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101431410866879308New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> you're not obliged to keep answering me, of course. But if you do, please be aware that I interpret a comment like ...</p><p>> you seem to have a lot of time to spend asking for answers</p><p>... as a passive-aggressive way of accusing me of being a time-waster. This is the sort of thing people often do when they start worrying they might not be 100% right, but can't admit it. The polite thing to do is to admit that you could be wrong, and either move on, or try to learn the answers together :)</p>737009http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T10:21:43+00:002019-01-17T10:21:43+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101431395814134142New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> you seem to have picked a fight, then got upset with me for the fact that you found yourself in a fight. For me, this was never a fight. I made some statements of fact; eg GNOME uses more resources than most other DEs, and some statements of opinion based on experience; eg users with older PCs are better off with one of the lighter DEs. </p><p>You made some statements of fact, eg:<br />> It has also become massively more useful in the last 10 years.</p><p>I tried to find out why you think that's true.</p>737004http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T10:17:53+00:002019-01-17T10:17:53+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101431240198786550New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span><br />> you seem to have a lot of time to spend asking for answers</p><p>Let's not get personal. If you time to engage in personal attacks, you have time to answer reasonable questions that relate to the claims of fact you've made here.</p><p>> GNOME integrated IBus</p><p>Mate also integrates IBus. So again, what does GNOME do better for all the extra system resources it chews up?</p>736994http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T09:38:18+00:002019-01-17T09:38:18+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101430837353927052New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span> not me. I don't make any money at all. My wife is the breadwinner, and I do my activist work in between doing the housework ;)</p>736976http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T07:55:51+00:002019-01-17T07:55:51+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101430764240728023New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> a comparison between 2 close increments can be very misleading. When unemployment has been going up a lot for a long time, then dips down a tiny bit, governing politicians like to show off graphs with a very short timescale, and claim it shows a huge improvement.</p><p>Can you show me graphs of GNOME resource usage over the last decade (ideally not just RAM, also CPU, size of base install on drive etc)? How many times has it gone up vs. gone down? Is the overall trend up or down?<br /><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span></p>736968http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T07:37:16+00:002019-01-17T07:37:16+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101430739534530773New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> I'm not trying to slam GNOME here, just being realistic about its limitations, and particularly who can use it (people privileged enough to have reasonably new/ more powerful computers)</p>736966http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T07:30:59+00:002019-01-17T07:30:59+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101430735659245266New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> no answers to question 1)?</p><p>> that second question is misleading</p><p>Alright, then let me restate it;<br />2) What can a completely *new* GNU/Linux user, who expects everything to "just work", do *easily* with GNOME that they can't do with Mate?</p><p>> Chinese input methods.</p><p>How does GNOME handle this that makes it easier to use than in Mate?</p><p>Also, still curious about question #3?<br />3) What does full GNOME do that Fallback doesn't?</p>736965http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T07:30:00+00:002019-01-17T07:30:00+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101430730969163651New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> no answers to question 1)?</p><p>> that second question is misleading</p><p>Alright, then let me restate it;<br />2) What can a completely *new* GNU/Linux user, who expects everything to "just work", do *easily* with GNOME that they can't do with Mate?</p><p>Also, still curious about question #3?<br />3) What does full GNOME do that Fallback doesn't?</p><p>> Chinese input methods.</p><p>How does GNOME handle this that makes it easier to use than in Mate?</p>736964http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T07:28:48+00:002019-01-17T07:28:48+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101430331382667951New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@tootbrute" class="u-url mention">@<span>tootbrute</span></a></span> sounds way more powerful than Bishop (my ancient <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/aa1" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AA1</span></a> netbook). I ran <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/lmde" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LMDE</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cinammon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cinammon</span></a> on a similarly powered machine before I relocated to China and had to get rid of it, and that worked fine. Again, really keen to hear how it goes with Trisquel/Mate.</p>736942http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-17T05:47:11+00:002019-01-17T05:47:11+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101427788120632031New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.libre.fi/users/brainblasted" class="u-url mention">@<span>brainblasted</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span> glad to hear it's finally headed back in the right direction. But you have to acknowledge that the minimum specs for GNOME have increased significantly since a decade ago. There are very few <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/freecode" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeCode</span></a> DEs that require more resources to run (AFAIK only <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KDE</span></a> and maybe some <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/unity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unity</span></a> forks).</p>736659http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-16T19:00:24+00:002019-01-16T19:00:24+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101427571676976967New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@tootbrute" class="u-url mention">@<span>tootbrute</span></a></span> love to know how it works out for you. What's the specs of your Acer? Mine is a netbook I bought in 2010. I've upgraded the hard drive to an <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ssd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SSD</span></a> (which makes the world of difference on any computer), and doubled the RAM to 2GB. <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/trisquel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trisquel</span></a> 8 (with <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/mate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mate</span></a>) runs great on it.</p>736624http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-16T18:05:21+00:002019-01-16T18:05:21+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101427316948623330New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> then let me be more specific. Mate does everything that any version GNOME I've ever used does, except for make my PC drag, freeze up, and crash all the time. I have never owned a PC powerful enough to run GNOME 3.0 at a performance level suitable for day-to-day use. That's why I don't recommend it for any PC older than 3 years. It might work for now, but not for much longer, as the required specs continue to creep up.<br /><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span></p>736594http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-16T17:00:34+00:002019-01-16T17:00:34+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101427304741025313New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> two questions. <br />1) What has been added to GNOME in the last 10 years to make it more useful, that justifies the Windows-esque increase in resource usage? <br />2) What can a user do with GNOME that they can't do with Mate?</p><p>Genuinely curious. With version 8.0 <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/trisquel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trisquel</span></a> changed from GNOME Fallback to Mate. The only major change I noticed was a significant reduction in resource usage. What does full GNOME do that Fallback doesn't?<br /><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alatiera" class="u-url mention">@<span>alatiera</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span></p>736592http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-16T16:57:28+00:002019-01-16T16:57:28+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101425802267299214New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alatiera" class="u-url mention">@<span>alatiera</span></a></span> I don't understand the question. I see you are involved in GNOME, so I assume you are referring to my recent comments about that. I'm just sharing my experiences and the result of my research, with the intention of helping other users. Are you saying I'm wrong that the minimum specs for running GNOME (useably) haven't increased massively in the last 10 years?<br /><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span></p>736464http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-16T10:35:22+00:002019-01-16T10:35:22+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101425767471470854New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.fr/@mathieu" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathieu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span> 3 years old was an estimate, based on my experiences with 'Bishop', a laptop of similar pedigree to the 2008 one you mention. YMMV depending on how powerful a given device was for its age, whether it's been upgraded etc. "Barely usable" is hardly an encouraging sales pitch ;) Whereas Mate flies like an eagle on Bishop, and is my everyday desktop for both work and leisure.</p>736455http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-16T10:26:31+00:002019-01-16T10:26:31+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101421230027669420New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span> keep in mind that I haven't used GNOME 3.0 for a long time. There may now be things it does I don't know about. I started using PCs with Windows 95/98, and I'm comfortable with a fairly simple DE along those lines, so Mate is fine for me. It's definitely worth testing Mate though, and comparing resource use on the same system, as <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neoncipher" class="u-url mention">@<span>neoncipher</span></a></span> has.</p>735828http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-15T15:12:35+00:002019-01-15T15:12:35+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101421181128121070New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span> on this netbook, I'm currently using Mate with Trisquel 8. It can also run the GNOME Fallback in Trisquel 7, but I doubt it would be usable with a full GNOME stack.</p>735818http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-15T15:00:09+00:002019-01-15T15:00:09+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/commenthttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/101421174226091530New comment by strypey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://s.noorul.xyz/users/noorul" class="u-url mention">@<span>noorul</span></a></span> bloatware is software that requires more and more resources with every new version, to produce the same results. If the resource requirement don't go up, not bloatware. If the feature set increases along with the increases in resources requirements it's not bloatware. Mate does pretty much the same thing as GNOME 3.0 does, with a fraction of the resources.</p>735817http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-15T14:58:24+00:002019-01-15T14:58:24+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypeystrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … strypeyStrypey<p>Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PeerProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerProduc … https://s.noorul.xyz/contexts/4a60e093-36be-4ae2-9b41-15de57519376