



Lately I mostly see only minor improvements when I hear about Gnome updates.
I mean, I like quality of life improvements, but is it me or the project is becoming stagnant over time?
How were they able to make memory leaks in rust? Lol
It’s already at version 1.2.0, it’s backed by a company who actually ships it as default and it got a solid roadmap.
I think it’s still young but should not give any big issue.
This is a bit more manual, so there isn’t a safe way.
You can get groups installed by enviroment with this:
dnf environment info kde-desktop-environment
You can then check the difference between your new installed cosmic environment and removing the differences or just remove the desktop group (in this case “kde-desktop”):
sudo dnf remove @kde-desktop
This maybe could try to delete packages even required by your new cosmic environment or other packages useful in general. Try to run the command and see what it lists to remove (do not confirm if not sure). This is a safer version which automatically says “no”, so you can just list changes:
sudo dnf remove --assumeno @kde-desktop
To remove only some packages in the group, list packages inside it:
dnf group info kde-desktop
And then manually write a dnf command to remove what you want:
sudo dnf remove kwin plasma-* kscreenlocker kdialog kdesplasma-addons [...]
Lemmy know how this process goes because I want to switch to COSMIC too in the near future.
If you delete the old display manager (ie SDDM), remember to switch to the new one. I’m not sure if the system does it automatically. To switch do:
sudo systemctl enable cosmic-greeter.service
Cosmic greeter is the cosmic desktop display manager, if not installed install and enable it:
sudo dnf install cosmic-greater
Just install the package of DE and switch to it through the login page (display manager).
Fedora do provide a “group” of packages to install COSMIC Desktop. To install it:
sudo dnf install @cosmic-desktop
And now you should be able to select it on login.
Fedora KDE uses SDDM as login/display manager. I’ve never used it so I don’t know where to click to switch DE, but maybe it should be the “Other” button.
Fedora Workstation uses GDM (Gnome Display Manager). To switch DE click the cogwheel in the bottom-right corner.
By reading the official Fedora documentation I’ve found out that there are “special groups” named “environments”.
To list all of them:
dnf environment list --available | grep -i desktop
So to install COSMIC:
sudo dnf install @cosmic-desktop-environment
I don’t know what’s the difference, but this is what the official documentation says.
By doing:
dnf environment info cosmic-desktop-environment
It’s clear that "environment"s are groups of groups of packages. So it could include stuff you don’t need, like libreoffice group.


Good point you got there.


The good one is the one shipping Google spyware and not updating their devices.
The funny part is that’s actually the least bad thing they’ve done.


That’s another Motorola. The one making phones is Lenovo who bought the brand to put it on phones.


a future smartphone to have GrapheneOS pre-installed
I’ll not trust Lenovo (Motorola is Lenovo) preinstalling stuff on my phone. They’ve already ship Windows laptop with literally malware and backdoors (even in UEFI, so persistent across format) preinstalled.
I will rather install it myself.


AdBlocker for YouTube works.
Couple days ago I had to install it on top of uBlock Origin on friend’s pc, since the latter stopped working on YouTube. Be sure to disable uBlock on YouTube.


Sun power for data centers? How do they transfer generated energy? Or are satellites themselves data centers? :P


would bring a lot of users to better alternatives.
Most users of whatsapp don’t care about e2e. They hardly even know what it is.


If you want to use Ableton, then Install it with wine, if you sandbox the prefix copy the VSTs inside the prefix and use them thru Ableton.
Some VSTs may not work or could have some graphical glitches. For example with Serum sometimes some widgets gets black until I pass hover with cursor. There is a fix for this which didn’t work for me that’s about disabling “d2d1.dll” and installing “gdiplus”.
Otherwise you can use a Linux native DAW and use VSTs with wine. Check yabridge and LinVst.


I use Ableton with Bottles (wine) with VSTs too, like Serum.
I found VirtualJoy.
Is playing using your phone touchscreen as gamepad a viable option?
Check yoke.


Thanks, but the file seems to be restricted.