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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Oh come on! First, you hate on COSMIC for taking away some of the noob user base, now you hate on other compositors for taking some of your other user base.

    Why can’t you be happy that there are other projects in this space? Why can’t you just be happy that people are now more likely to find a project which works for them? Is it because your own project is losing users, now that people are no longer trapped to it, because it’s no longer the only good project in the space?

    Even Brodie admitted that you’re not completely right on many of your takes, so why not focus on what you’re good at, aka writing a Wayland compositor?

    Edit: It seems that I should have read the article. He talks about things from a different point of view, but if you’re looking to write a proper Wayland “window manager”, there is only one real choice and it’s not Hyprland, it’s the upcoming River 0.4.0 which will use a custom protocol, based on the layout managers that River was already made for. Basically the dev, Isaac, is moving as much of the window management into the “layout manager” protocol to turn River into a base for writing your own Window manager.

    It’s one of the main project releases I’m the most excited about in the Linux space.











  • Great news! My only issue is that Clem and team keep on taking up more and more tasks. Of course there’s maintaining both Linux Mint and LMDE, the entire Cinnamon desktop, and their own applications, but there are also all the deb programs they have to package now that Ubuntu is moving further towards snaps, and there’s also the whole new Clutter framework, and the maintaining of GTK3 programs so they don’t have to deal with libadwaita, and then there’s the Cinnamon UI refresh, the Wayland transition, and probably some other things I can’t even think of right now, and they are working on all of that.

    And now they’re working on the best compatibility with Framework laptops? I’m just worried that they might be taking too much work for themselves.


  • I second that. Even my lower-midrange laptop from 3 years ago (8GB RAM, Integrated AMD GPU) can run a few of the smaller LLMs, and it’s true that you don’t even need a GPU as they can run in RAM. And depending on how much RAM you have and what GPU, you might find models performing better in RAM instead of on the GPU. Just keep in mind that when a model says, for example, 8GB Memory required, if you have 8GB RAM, you can’t run it cuz you also have your operating system and other applications running. If you have 8GB video memory on your GPU though, you should be golden (I think).