That’s awesome if they’re implementing it.

My Google home and Chromecast at the moment are necessary evils because when I sit down to watch something I don’t want to have to worry about whether it’ll work with x or y, whether I’m getting good bitrate etc

Would however be really cool if I was able to cast my screen, cast YouTube etc from my Linux laptop

Have been able to do it in the past using chrome but I already need to keep two browsers installed don’t want a third

AppImage, build from source, or don’t bother

Imagine how much more convenient the world would be if the Chromecast protocol was open source

Bear in mind most tiling wms don’t come with much installed by default, you’ll need a bar and a launcher at least

No idea what distro you’re currently using but generally you can install whatever window manager/desktop (gui) you want

For a tiling wm I’d recommend hyprland. It’s not the most stable but I’ve had minimal issues with it and it’s really easy to get started with. You can install it alongside gnome/kde I believe and switch between the two on login so if you break one you’ve still got the other

You’ve gotta ask does an old person care more about Google spying on them or being able to use a computer as easily as possible

Depending on use case it doesn’t sound like that’d be an issue. I used one of the like 3rd generation Chromebooks for school, I had to rdp for visual studio and Photoshop but it was perfect for everything else

Are we expecting this old person to suddenly embrace their leet gamer skills

Ah you seem to be missing dnf. No worries! Just do pacman -S dnf

Then you can run

dnf install apt

If someone’s in imminent danger sending police capable of protecting them from said danger seems like a reasonable idea

How does its startup time compare to other launchers (rofi or tofi for example)

Ah makes sense. I installed hyprland on arch then jumped to nix when I couldn’t be bothered with it lol

I’m not arguing good vision is not important for general survival, but I think hunting has a higher ceiling of usefulness for good vision than anything else humans did in that period

They specifically mentioned alacritty which is a terminal emulator

What’s a PITA sorry? Never heard of that

I’ve used pantheon on nix before and it worked perfectly, can’t say for other distros

I would probably dislike someone if they told me they were vegan and then tried to justify eating X animal because y

Don’t mind if they just say they try to avoid eating meat, that’s still commendable, but the moment they try to assign the label to themselves it really irks me

Ahh perfect the desktop shortcut thing was what I was worried about, doesn’t seem like an ideal solution

Props to you for making it work with the launchers directly

I would argue there that there’s a limit to how much better eyesight would affect things like that though, falling over and dying

Using that example if someone’s vision is like an old CRT they might not see a root or something, trip over and die. If they have 1920x1080 they might see it if they have 4k they definitely see it.

Hunting however can benefit limitlessly, the further away you can see the better you can track

I like appimages because they’re just a single file/dir and I know where it is on my filesystem at a glance Could also probably add an appimage to bin pretty trivially

That kind of thing puts me on edge lol