I just listed the changes since GIMP 3 RC1.

Over GIMP 2.10.38, there’s a lot of changes. Better color management, GTK 3, non-destructive editing, and other stuff I can’t remember.

That last one is a major boon. It means you could perform an action on a layer, say raise the exposure, but revert it later on without affecting the quality or losing information. Unfortunately this doesn’t apply to all actions (such as resizing), but the list of non-destructive actions will grow later on.

By far the most important thing I’ve done is created a list of all the package names. With just one command, I can reinstall all my apps.

The second most important thing I’ve done is created a long list of gsettings/dconf commands that configure Gnome to my liking.

I’ve also moved most of my user data off my OS drive to removable drives. But I don’t have my home on a separate drive since I don’t want to share that across different distros since they configure things differently. It’s also just a lot easier to not have a separate home.

Apart from that, the script I have also copies over some config files, sets my hostname, sets flatpak overrides.

Fixed settings migration from 2.10

Implemented new GEGL API earlier than planned since plugin makers really wanted it

They renamed the nightly flatpak so you can have the stable and nightly versions installed alongside each other.

Are you using fractional scaling?

Yup. Or at the very least, a distro package’s listed dependencies don’t show you the true dependencies a program needs to function. There are a lot of dependencies that are needed but not listed because they are installed through transitively by other packages.

Rust shows you the true scale because it’s statically linked. That being said, Rust really may use more dependencies, but directly comparing the number of dependencies can be misleading without considering the scope and focus of each dependency.

He’ll be Cooking if iPads have better software.

Is the Windows drive listed in your /etc/fstab?

Google products work on pretty much every platform, whereas with Apple you’re out of luck if you use any non-Apple platforms.

My shameful recap includes the week I tried to switch to MacOS with the M4 Mac Mini. But I ended up hating MacOS.

The issue with Proton is that it’s designed to work within Steam, sandboxed, and with Valve’s runtimes. There’s also a lot of hacks Steam uses to make games work on a per game basis based on the game’s steamid.

It doesn’t do that in Heroic. Which is why umu has been developed, its purpose is to run Proton outside of Steam but still be properly sandboxed and use Valve’s runtimes. It also has a database so that the same hacks used to make a game work on Steam are also applied to the GOG or Epic Games version.

Heroic doesn’t use Proton by default. Currently, it uses WineGE 8.26, which is rather old. But they plan on switching to Proton-GE once their umu integration is stable. It’s been working well for me in Skyrim.

Same. I briefly had an M4 Mac Mini and one of the things I instantly missed about Linux was Wayland.

I always want new windows to open on the middle of the screen I am currently working on, but on Windows and MacOS they just go wherever they want.

On AMD, it’s not uncommon for games to perform better than on Windows.

For Nvidia, games almost always perform worse than on Windows.

flatpak create-usb [OPTION…] MOUNT-PATH [REF…] - Copy apps or runtimes onto removable media

I don’t think it has to be removable media despite the description. I’m also not exactly sure how to install the packages once they’re copied over.

For more details, see flatpak create-usb --help and flatpak man pages.

One of my favorite things about Gnome is that almost anything can be customized via CLI with dconf or gsettings. Which is great until you encounter one of the few things you can’t customize, like displays.

Well, that’s annoying. I just turned them all off, but I hope all that data is stored and operated on locally.

I was greeted by the image playground icon on my home screen and the icon was… not great.

Things did not get any better as I tried making images in it.

I also find it a bit alarming that Apple links user content to you. Seems like they’re either tracking the pictures you upload and/or images created.

They’re considering moving to Forejo from Pagure.

Fedora is pretty aggressive with updating KDE. They push major new versions during a Fedora release.

HDR is new ground on Linux, so it’s understandable it’s taking a while. It requires involvement from all over the graphics stack: graphics drivers, mesa, Wayland protocol, protocol needs to be implemented in compositor, apps need to implement the protocol.