I'll be honest with you, I'm by no means a fan of "nu-trek". couldn't stand Discovery, SNW I enjoyed but then it kinda went belly up, and I only really enjoyed Picard season 3.
So I went into Starfleet Academy and I wasn't optimistic. Utilizing plot points from Discovery made me groan. but I must say this last episode has won me over. It's about time Star Trek does a decent homage to DS9. it's been a long time coming.
qutebrowser v3.6.3
Git commit:
Backend: QtWebEngine 6.10.2
based on Chromium 134.0.6998.208
with security patches up to 144.0.7559.96 (plus any distribution patches)
(source: api)
Qt: 6.10.2
this is likely what's happening. Like I said it only just started happening within the past couple days as I've never had this issue with Qutebrowser and piefed.social before.
At this point Epstein is the new "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon".
you can pretty much tie ANYONE to Epstein so the media is just going to be slapping everyone and their grandmas names in headlines for ad revenue clickbait. Wouldn't surprise me if an article comes out claiming "Jesus Christ named in new Epstein Files"
I'd say Bazzite but I would warn him (and since he's a developer already it might not be a big deal) if he's looking to do any sort of dev work or whatever with Bazzite then prepare to utilize stuff like distrobox, flatpaks, etc to accomplish stuff like that.
That being said as a dev and gamer myself if my first linux experience was Bazzite I might get annoyed. Mint is a great first experience. when I originally tried it well over a year ago though I did have issues with my Nvidia GPU on it and gaming wasn't super great BUT it's been awhile since I've used mint so that may have changed.
Honestly I would suggest start with Mint and just drive it for a couple weeks. If he likes it but feel it's limited for some things then that's when he can expand out to different distros. And like I said maybe gaming on Mint has improved since I last used it. But if he's comfortable with running distrobox and containers then Bazzite is fine.
I mean at this point you've pretty much hit most things with the exception of a WM but you've stated that i3 was too much for you so...there isn't really anything else. you've done xfce, cinnamon, gnome, and kde. that's it. Other than say LabWC but if i3 was too much than that's not going to be much better. And I'm assuming when you say "too much" you mean editing the configuration?
you could do something like Niri or Hyprland with Quickshell/DankMaterialShell where the config is all done essentially via the DMS/GUI setup for it.
Honestly the last one would be COSMIC DE. but if you've used GNOME already you might not like it. COSMIC does give you the option to toggle between stacking and tiling so that'll be different than what you've already used but if you liked the customization of the previous DE's you've used you're going to be disappointed with COSMIC as the customization for it right now is very limited.
The only other thing I can suggest if you're dead set against doing manual configuration would be like installing Niri or Hyprland with Dank Material Shell where you can style it via the GUI.
I'm sorry but if my child was attending a school in Minnesota and ICE was "circling" it looking for children to traffic I would be standing out front with a gun in hand all day.
Why do I feel like this is bigger news OUTSIDE of Canada than it actually is IN Canada. like on Canadian news I hear jack shit about this but all these American "journalists" and posters keep posting this crap when the majority of people IN Alberta are all "nah, we're good".
if you're playing FFXIV, especially on Linux, don't bother with the official launcher/updater. Use XIVLauncher, hell even use that if you're playing on Windows. Updates a hell of a lot faster plus you also get the dalamud stuff which adds a few quality of life plugin improvements.
it's a mindless install. If you want something to just play games on, maybe stream stuff, then Bazzite makes it easy and you don't have to think about it. IF you're looking to potentially do MORE on bazzite like dev wok or whatever than yeah, there's much better distros to use for that. Sure you can circumvent all this utilizing like Distrobox or whatever but honestly if you're going that route then why are you using Bazzite? If you're looking to make hard things easy and easy things hard just get on NixOS. and I say that as a NixOS user.
Drama within a Linux Distro/open source project? I've seen this episode before...
I'll be honest with you at this point if I personally stopped using something on linux be it a distro or FOSS based purely on posts or stuff like this I'd probably be back on Windows because I'd have nothing left to use.
it was good but I recently tried it again and removed it within 30 minutes. the default Nobara repo for stuff honestly didn't have much in it and sure that's an easy fix to circumvent, the initial bloat with all the brave crap wasn't a great new/first impression. Also after all this time the Nobara updater is still busted.
If you want a Fedora fork that is similar to Nobara, there are better options.
It was slow but in a way more connected if that makes sense. There was more awe and more exciting things because you literally had to search for content or get it word of mouth from your friends. Communities were more inclusive and you generally knew who you were talking to online be via ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, mIRC, or web forums/chat rooms.
I had friends from all over the world. people I knew on a first name basis that I had never met in person at all. and we all knew each other. either because we all played the same game together, we were in the same gaming clan, or we all had a similar interest in some random hobby/fandom. We'd talk on ICQ or AOL IM. We'd hang out all day in IRC and talk or just post stuff on the forums. We'd buy each other christmas and birthday presents. I remember one time a few of us in our group all pooled our money together to buy another in our friend group an Xbox cause he couldn't afford one. My mom would naturally get concerned when I'd get packages in the mail on my birthday or christmas from places half way across the world. Guy I knew that lived in Mexico (i'm in Canada) bought me Audioslaves first album cause he figured I'd really like it. Just awesome stuff like that. You don't get that these days.
Like for example right now I'm replying to your comment on this site. Back in my day if I were to do something like that there's a good chance I would actually know you.
That's what being social on the internet was like back then. It was way better. it was more carefree and fun. It was innocent.
If you've spent any time with Claude within the past 3 to 4 months you'll have noticed a massive decrease in performance and viable solutions. Claude hallucinates the majority of its solutions now, it's a useless LLM and I'm not optimistic that Sonnet 5 is suddenly going to fix the obvious issues Claude has had since the fall. Also saying it could be ahead of something like Gemini isn't exactly the most glowing praise to throw at it.
I wouldn't call this a victory. I'd call this a "re-evaluation". they've invested way too much into AI/LLMs to simply drop it because users don't like any of it. They're simply going to pivot and come at this shit from a different angle.
I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they're axing people left right and center.
And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it's still alive in 2026 is in it's own right quite the achievement. I can't even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.
exactly. And keep it mind it was ALL released within like a week or two of Reloaded. I was working at Best Buy when the sequel came out so I remember. Animatrix if I remember correctly literally released a few days prior to Reloaded. Hell I think Enter The Matrix released the exact same day.
I'll be honest with you, I'm by no means a fan of "nu-trek". couldn't stand Discovery, SNW I enjoyed but then it kinda went belly up, and I only really enjoyed Picard season 3.
So I went into Starfleet Academy and I wasn't optimistic. Utilizing plot points from Discovery made me groan. but I must say this last episode has won me over. It's about time Star Trek does a decent homage to DS9. it's been a long time coming.
Proton and Pirate Software gloating over the "downfall" of another...misery loves company I guess.
this is likely what's happening. Like I said it only just started happening within the past couple days as I've never had this issue with Qutebrowser and piefed.social before.
At this point Epstein is the new "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon".
you can pretty much tie ANYONE to Epstein so the media is just going to be slapping everyone and their grandmas names in headlines for ad revenue clickbait. Wouldn't surprise me if an article comes out claiming "Jesus Christ named in new Epstein Files"
I'd say Bazzite but I would warn him (and since he's a developer already it might not be a big deal) if he's looking to do any sort of dev work or whatever with Bazzite then prepare to utilize stuff like distrobox, flatpaks, etc to accomplish stuff like that.
That being said as a dev and gamer myself if my first linux experience was Bazzite I might get annoyed. Mint is a great first experience. when I originally tried it well over a year ago though I did have issues with my Nvidia GPU on it and gaming wasn't super great BUT it's been awhile since I've used mint so that may have changed.
Honestly I would suggest start with Mint and just drive it for a couple weeks. If he likes it but feel it's limited for some things then that's when he can expand out to different distros. And like I said maybe gaming on Mint has improved since I last used it. But if he's comfortable with running distrobox and containers then Bazzite is fine.
I mean at this point you've pretty much hit most things with the exception of a WM but you've stated that i3 was too much for you so...there isn't really anything else. you've done xfce, cinnamon, gnome, and kde. that's it. Other than say LabWC but if i3 was too much than that's not going to be much better. And I'm assuming when you say "too much" you mean editing the configuration?
you could do something like Niri or Hyprland with Quickshell/DankMaterialShell where the config is all done essentially via the DMS/GUI setup for it.
Honestly the last one would be COSMIC DE. but if you've used GNOME already you might not like it. COSMIC does give you the option to toggle between stacking and tiling so that'll be different than what you've already used but if you liked the customization of the previous DE's you've used you're going to be disappointed with COSMIC as the customization for it right now is very limited.
The only other thing I can suggest if you're dead set against doing manual configuration would be like installing Niri or Hyprland with Dank Material Shell where you can style it via the GUI.
I'm also having this issue with Qutebrowser on Piefed.social
On Floorp I can login just fine but entering my username and password on Qutebrowser I get the same thing as you. just refershes to the login page.
I'm sorry but if my child was attending a school in Minnesota and ICE was "circling" it looking for children to traffic I would be standing out front with a gun in hand all day.
Why do I feel like this is bigger news OUTSIDE of Canada than it actually is IN Canada. like on Canadian news I hear jack shit about this but all these American "journalists" and posters keep posting this crap when the majority of people IN Alberta are all "nah, we're good".
if you're playing FFXIV, especially on Linux, don't bother with the official launcher/updater. Use XIVLauncher, hell even use that if you're playing on Windows. Updates a hell of a lot faster plus you also get the dalamud stuff which adds a few quality of life plugin improvements.
it's a mindless install. If you want something to just play games on, maybe stream stuff, then Bazzite makes it easy and you don't have to think about it. IF you're looking to potentially do MORE on bazzite like dev wok or whatever than yeah, there's much better distros to use for that. Sure you can circumvent all this utilizing like Distrobox or whatever but honestly if you're going that route then why are you using Bazzite? If you're looking to make hard things easy and easy things hard just get on NixOS. and I say that as a NixOS user.
Drama within a Linux Distro/open source project? I've seen this episode before...
I'll be honest with you at this point if I personally stopped using something on linux be it a distro or FOSS based purely on posts or stuff like this I'd probably be back on Windows because I'd have nothing left to use.
it was good but I recently tried it again and removed it within 30 minutes. the default Nobara repo for stuff honestly didn't have much in it and sure that's an easy fix to circumvent, the initial bloat with all the brave crap wasn't a great new/first impression. Also after all this time the Nobara updater is still busted.
If you want a Fedora fork that is similar to Nobara, there are better options.
It was slow but in a way more connected if that makes sense. There was more awe and more exciting things because you literally had to search for content or get it word of mouth from your friends. Communities were more inclusive and you generally knew who you were talking to online be via ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, mIRC, or web forums/chat rooms.
I had friends from all over the world. people I knew on a first name basis that I had never met in person at all. and we all knew each other. either because we all played the same game together, we were in the same gaming clan, or we all had a similar interest in some random hobby/fandom. We'd talk on ICQ or AOL IM. We'd hang out all day in IRC and talk or just post stuff on the forums. We'd buy each other christmas and birthday presents. I remember one time a few of us in our group all pooled our money together to buy another in our friend group an Xbox cause he couldn't afford one. My mom would naturally get concerned when I'd get packages in the mail on my birthday or christmas from places half way across the world. Guy I knew that lived in Mexico (i'm in Canada) bought me Audioslaves first album cause he figured I'd really like it. Just awesome stuff like that. You don't get that these days.
Like for example right now I'm replying to your comment on this site. Back in my day if I were to do something like that there's a good chance I would actually know you.
That's what being social on the internet was like back then. It was way better. it was more carefree and fun. It was innocent.
I'm going to go with "no."
If you've spent any time with Claude within the past 3 to 4 months you'll have noticed a massive decrease in performance and viable solutions. Claude hallucinates the majority of its solutions now, it's a useless LLM and I'm not optimistic that Sonnet 5 is suddenly going to fix the obvious issues Claude has had since the fall. Also saying it could be ahead of something like Gemini isn't exactly the most glowing praise to throw at it.
I wouldn't call this a victory. I'd call this a "re-evaluation". they've invested way too much into AI/LLMs to simply drop it because users don't like any of it. They're simply going to pivot and come at this shit from a different angle.
I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they're axing people left right and center.
And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it's still alive in 2026 is in it's own right quite the achievement. I can't even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.
well to be fair you don't even need to look at the md since right at the top it says it's built with loveable.
exactly. And keep it mind it was ALL released within like a week or two of Reloaded. I was working at Best Buy when the sequel came out so I remember. Animatrix if I remember correctly literally released a few days prior to Reloaded. Hell I think Enter The Matrix released the exact same day.