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@tekato Sure you can use a third party app, but X without ANY app re-directs to whatever display you want it to. And there are precious few third party apps for Wayland, at least half a dozen that I know of for X.

@tekato That doesn’t solve for x2go, rdp, or guacamole, I’ve got customers using all of those plus vnc.

I’m not afraid of change, I just want to ensure change is for the better and that change isn’t in a direction we haven’t already tried 3000 times always ending in disaster, socialism/communism being a case of the latter, and Wayland being a change that I consider to be the former, it doesn’t network and that was the whole point of X windows. It was a NETWORKING window system. If you just need local graphics Wayland is fine but it doesn’t fit my use case.

@sun_is_ra Oh definitely related, it was working ok under 22.04 not 24.04, but I suspect it has something to do with decoder ffmpeg, as other applications using it also have issues with H.264 v10 video. However Thorium does not. Perhaps it has it’s own decoder rather than using ffmpeg.

@Magister @KickassWomen What OS and release? As I mentioned, I didn’t have issue with 22.04 Ubuntu but do with 24.04 Ubuntu-Mate.

@299792458ms @KickassWomen Problem with downgrading Firefux is that an older release won’t read a newer releases profile.

@sun_is_ra Great, what OS are you running, what release? I’m on Ubuntu-Mate 24.04, did not have issues with 22.04, but Thorium is working fine on 24.04.

@KickassWomen It is primarily maintained by them but it is an open sourced project and there are other contributors. But whatever, if you find something that doesn’t involve Google and still properly functions and doesn’t do slimy tactics like replace a vendors ads with it’s own, AKA Brave, I’m interested, in the meantime I need something that at least functions which Firefux ceased to do.

@sun_is_ra @KickassWomen You can run Firefox as flatpak, snap, or you can use the Mozilla repository and install as .deb package. However no matter which way you use it, the video is broken on some Youtube videos, Bitchute has no audio, and Netflix won’t play at all, which is why I switched to Thorium.

@KickassWomen Alexander Frick is the lead developer of the Thorium browser. Thorium is a cross-platform, open-source web browser based on Chromium. That’s Chromium as in the open source browser, not Chrome as in the Google browser, and it still has the old API that works with ad-blockers. I am using ublock origin with it and it works great.

I’ve been having issues with Firefox since v128, and I’ve tried snap, flatpak, and straight from the Mozilla repository. I ended up switching to Thorium which works with all the same plugins I was using for Firefox, has the same general layout, AND can import my bookmarks and passwords from Firefox so it was a pretty seamless transition.

It can easily be configured to emit no sounds, and wake-up is usually a function of your BIOS settings, disable wake-up on LAN, etc and you won’t have an issue.

@Kalcifer You worded your title, "What’s a good store to buy Linux, OR… so this suggests you’re looking to buy Linux OR in general open source related merch. I just addressed the first portion, you might be able to buy related merch.

You BUY MacOS or WhenBlows, but Linux is generally free to download. You can buy support from some vendors such as Ubuntu, Redhat, Mandriva, and Manjaro, but in all cases I am aware of, Linux itself is free.

@interolivary No. I mean hot enough to be dangerous in terms of radiation.

I’d fire up my portable Geiger counter and see if it’s hot enough to worry about or not.