Greybeard dev here, just stepping by to say I would do the same, this works and does nothing weird if there is nothing to commit.

I don’t know what the problem of the other crying person is, but robust IO watching should not be done in bash and whatever the fancy solution is it will not work as reliably as this.

Someone has to pay the bills, so they need to earn some money. If you ain’t paying you are the product is always a good metric, but in the email case the problem is also that a lot of the effort is manly IT admin rather than just the backend software.

You can roll your own dovecot and run your own emails at home in theory, in practice you need to be trusted by the major email providers to be able to send emails not tagged as malicious by anyone.

To protect their trusted status most providers collaborate on a lot of elements to be mutually sure they are not flooding each other with worthless spam. This is a lot of SPF, and other technical bullshit to be able to run a mail provider someone has to pay for

In case it is not clear: most use foss backend (dovecot or other), but this will not cover the whole software stack needed for an email provider

Flathub is crap

Snap is double crap

Docker would be useful if the networking wasn’t triple crap

You are completly missing my point.

I never said you should or should not do something, for all i care you can use wayland protocols in some hellbent way instead of systemd itself.

What I am saing is that it is bad form to complain the devs are not making what you want if you neither pay nor develop yourself to bring something to the table.

I said it the forth time now, I am out.

My point is they are not corporate overlords, that is the good thing smh

And yes, feature parity with a thing written in the eighties might not be a good idea either

Budget tier made for gaming? Ok…

Anyway unless you share more about your system like processor and graphics card nobody can help you.

As a final note you might want to verify you don’t have some supply chain attacked aur packages if you installed stuff from there.

Maybe try asking in a more linux oriented community too.

Wayland devs develop stuff for wayland and most of them work for free, those that are payd are usually payd to do stuff that is needed by their employer. Spoiler alert: employers don’t give a damn about screensavers.

If you need additional stuff you need to either develop it yourself, or pay someone to do it for you.

This attitude of pressuring devs to do the work for you works if you pay for something, in opensource it is usually frowned upon.

People can complain all they like, if it ain’t useful to those who pay or those who work on it, it won’t be done.

In my opinion that is a feature not a bug.

Why are screensavers still used?

Nothing that causes pixels to change color “saves” anything these days, unless you have some kind of old LCD display.

Wayland has no limitations for how a traditional screensaver should work, nobody bothered to implement one, that is why there isn’t one yet IMO.

Hate to be the guy but if you need one you either need to hack something on top of xscreensaver like others in the thread said, or implement something native for those that need it to protect their old monitor.

That said, in case you don’t actually need a screensaver but a looping video for a kiosk type of situation you might just setup a videoplayer in a loop and turn off screen power saving.

Yes, screensavers are for sure among the top 300 features needed for this.

Cat too. It works largely the same way

This works. You can also cat image.iso >/dev/sdx

I always laugh at windows users with their external random apps to do something elementary

What is your system? Cachyos is an arch derivative with some cutting edge optimizations that are supposed to run well on very modern PCs. On slightly older ones you are better off with either pure arch or even Mint

Its about sending the message: fuck ubuntu, w debian to the mint maintainers

You seem to think that the idea is that linux and most FOSS projects are some carebear nonprofit charity organization. You are wrong.

In most cases the idea is that open source work is there because it is easier to share technological progress if multiple companies work at it. And because of this it is just better than the alternative. The linux kernel is worked on by multiple large corporations that are in the business of making money using servers. If these servers run better then they make more money. To make them run better for them they need to implement their features and because of the licence and the ecosystem they need to publish these modifications back to the upstream.

All this works so good because a lot of companies make a lot of money with it.

Github will be used as long as it does not interfere with the workflow or with the legal aspects, nobody cares about the spirit nearly as much as you think

I do not know what you are trying to do with your translations, but if you are gonna do it then do it right, because right now you made an obnoxious wall of text with a translation quality worse than what could come out of a 2010 google translate, at least for italian and german.

To answer: in my experience a reasonably recent kernel will be able to run most popular controllers, I have yet to find one that does not.