It is on by default in Windows… More likely people have routers with it disabled.

Pro doesn’t reduce ad amounts IME.

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It’s all client side. It even mentions infected clients.

Video decoding/encoding should work fine, better than Nvidia as fewer things support nvdec (the vaapi wrapper is enough though).

I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.

Thats not relevant because Cosmic isn’t either.

My view is that if the goal was to effectively make good software they wouldn’t start from scratch.

If they used wlroots the desktop would be usable today with a good feature set.

If they used Qt or GTK they would have feature rich well supported software. (GTK4 could have been an improvement for them, it’s designed around being minimal and having platform libraries implement design choices)

They didn’t take a practical approach imo. You could argue its a long term investment but because of it it’s probably years off of feature parity. The only upside today is… it’s written in Rust.

macOS has some level of application sandboxing, Windows apps, in practice, have none. They tried it a bit years ago but immediately gave up. Antivirus has always been the dumbest solution.

Nobody loves arguing semantics more than a programmer. VSCode is absolutely an IDE. Jetbrains is entirely plugin based, Eclipse is totally plugin based, and yeah so is VSCode.

The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.

FWIW many modern text editors just let you modify multiple lines at once.

Fedora does not because they can’t support it. If a bug is found all they can do is shrug and point you at Nvidia. If they want to add a feature that breaks they would be stuck and have to hold back other drivers.

The kernel drivers were never an issue, but userspace drivers fixed this many years ago with glvnd.

It means it will break less on kernel updates. I don’t think it fundamentally changes much else for gaming.

Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

Nvidia was also more painful than now.

Yes its a different language by the same creator.

Everything they do is open source, artificially holding back features doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, I don’t think that’s generally a problem. But modern firmware for some hardware is very complex and would be nice to be open.