There’s always an XKCD for discussing other XKCD’s, isn’t there?

Fair enough

My favorite is KDE asking for user password upon waking from sleep even if you have autologin enabled.

So, all you have to do to circumvent the login window is to reboot.

I see

Interesting, though Goanna is still a Gecko fork.

It’s…complicated.

On one end, a clear sign of “f*** you” with such decisions is important. On the other, Mozilla is already in a rough place, and with so many genuinely good projects, including Waterfox, depending on Firefox or at least Gecko, this is akin to biting the hand that feeds you.

All these teams cannot maintain their own browser engine, and without it, they may as well turn to dust. Thereby, maintaining their upstream is in their best interest.

As a Russian communist with relatives in Ukraine, count me in!

(Historical context for others: 1917 has seen two revolutions, February one, which ended monarchy, and October one, which brought bolsheviks, the communists and socialists siding with Lenin, to power. Lenin has then taken Russia out of the World War I)

Microbiologists hate wild microbes everywhere

Honestly, my current stance on immutable distros is: why don’t you have a mutable distro and just try to follow the best practices without being forced to?

Install flatpaks, use Distrobox when something is only available as a standard package, but doesn’t actually depend on non-isolated system interaction, etc.

This way, nothing breaks the way it does with immutable distros, but you still have a reasonable level of confidence in your system.