Yeah. I just mention it because I’ve generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.
But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.
Last time I set it up, i3wm basically does run “on top” or rather mixed in with componenets of other desktop environments.
Tehnically, one can run i3wm alone, but really, it wants a bunch of parts from another desktop environment to be loaded, and it’s not particularly opinionated about which ones.
If I recall correctly, picking it (a friendly i3wm meta-package) on Ubuntu gave me i3wm with a bunch of pieces of Mate pre-loaded to fill in the edges.
The previous time I set up i3wm, there was no friendly package (yes, I’m old), so I looked up the names of about a dozen Gnome services and applets, and added them to the i3wm config to launch them on i3wm start-up.
(Edit: missed an important not)
I’m also a big VNC fan, but I imagine RustDesk is solving for CGNAT better? I’m not aware of anything in VNC that solves CGNAT being a PITA.
i3wm is my favorite window manager, but I find I can get a good 90% out of either Gnome or KDE Plasma, with a bit of settings fiddling.
I think I added “Metacity” plugin to Gnome, to get proper tiling. It was okay.
In KDE Plasma, I just poke the settings to maximize windows by default, and enable keyboard shifting windows into half screen increments.
It’s an annoying compromise, but it’s nice not to have all the jank that comes with tuning my i3wm setup to add basic features that KDE Plasma ships with.
Edit: And I’ll be reading along, hoping someone else has a better answer than mine!
There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.
Hmm. That matches my recent napkin math guessing where they would land.
It’s a little short of what they probably need, but they can always raise prices in a few months.
Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?
I’m hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.
The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.
At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.
I wasn’t before, but now I am.
I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there’s no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That’s normal in 2025.
If you treat your laptop like a server, that’s okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn’t doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.
An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.
I don’t normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.
Yes. I guess that’s fair though. Most people don’t like change.
So you’re complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot…
That’s rough, buddy.
I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.
In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.
My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me “Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?”
It’s been a pretty cool thing to watch.
I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.
Sometimes by the time I’ve tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.
Yes.
At this rate, we will be having a “local files are hard for the average user” debate, here, in another decade.
Which, maybe it will be, at that point.
It’s often the ones we most suspected.
Oof. Hopefully a security professional will slap some sense into someone before it gets out of beta.
Imagine what she can accomplish in an echo chamber, though.
@retrolemmy username…hm…
they say it’s worth it
Narrator: They did not.
because you probably don’t know how software is built.
Oh shit. Nevermind then.
What I’m hearing is: I can replace saying “I have a dumb little WordPress blog that no one reads” with "I host a part of the ‘Deep Net’.
Sweet.
Oh no!
Edit: You uave brought pedanticness, rather than value to the discussion. You can do better.