You see, that’s why when I need to use Discord, I just use it in the browser anyway. No need to install an app that’s just going to be a browser tab in disguise.

Needing to run a full-fledged browser in the background in order to display your html/css frontend adds a lot more performance cost than necessary, making the app eat up far more RAM and CPU than necessary. It probably also introduces a lot more security vulnerability concerns that an otherwise simple app shouldn’t have to worry about. And then there’s the dependency chain you’re introducing – now your app needs to be updated every time the underlying browser gets an important update … and maybe needs to be tweaked/rewritten to accommodate that browser update if it changes the way the browser interacts with your app frontend.

There are plenty of other GUI frontend frameworks that are also expressive, simple, and well-known, without all of these potential problems associated with them.

My 2nd most hated trend in modern programming. (Behind AI forced into everything.)

I’d be interested to try their distro when it’s done…

I’ll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick… Oh no…

With the resources they have – and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines – I don’t see why they wouldn’t roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that’s completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.

Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.

Yeah, that’s why I included the word ‘openly’ in there.

more-and-more a hyper focused bubble of what you want to hear, and only what you want to hear

*and only what Elon Musk wants you to hear.

There are plenty of mainstream platforms to reach such people on that aren’t owned by (openly) Nazi billionaires.

Well, better late than never.

So you’re saying we can sabotage the robots and improve public transit infrastructure at the same time?

Maybe if it starts costing them money. Until then, nope.

can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?

I don’t want a ‘natural language interface’ in my browser.

I want a browser interface in my browser.

This shit ain’t broke. Don’t fix it.

Can you customize your homepage? Can you add widgets? Can you change your background in whatever way you want?

I could already do all of that, without AI.

They could position missile/drone interceptors in preparation.

Seems a poor strategy to announce your targets before you strike them…

Not that I’m aware of.

Yeah, but Gallium has optimizations and drivers for Chromebook-specific hardware, including a custom kernel.

With any other distro, performance and battery life won’t be quite as good, and some of the Chromebook specific stuff like special keyboard keys and the touchpad might not work.

I’m running Gallium OS on an old Chromebook … it’s a dead distro at this point, and getting a bit frightfully outdated, but it’s the only distro specifically made for that hardware.

I’m happy for any rendering engine that’s not Chromium-based.

Fuck Google.

so you can do a lightweight desktop based on Ubuntu.

Honestly, I suspect the main issue here is Gnome.

Despite their insistence on ‘simplicity’ and ‘elegance’, Gnome is by far the most resource-hungry DE that exists in the Linux ecosystem.

That, and maybe snap packages. It can’t be good for RAM usage to have every app trying to load its own independent system of dependencies. That’s got to lead to a lot of duplication in dependencies loaded into RAM.