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I‘m not sure if I like this. I use Matrix for a couple of years now and to be honest the more I use it the more I hate it.
Everything just feels slow, clunky and some basic things are quite complicated to archive and some functionality just does not work.
All that was okay for me in the beginning but it never got better.
IRC and XMPP also had their problems but I often wish them back nowadays.
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this message was not encrypted for this device if we're going to wish XMPP back
You son of a ... 😫
I think Matrix is the future, it just needs better designers and implementation.
They really, really shouldn't do things differently than discord just to be different.
Looks like you’re saying federation is the future, but Matrix is a bad federation implementation. And that sounds good.
I still think forums are the best way to handle support. Even phpBB is better than any chat. Have a bot alert a chat channel that the project team hangs out for every new topic or something, if that’s a concern.
I still think forums are the best way to handle support. Even phpBB is better than any chat. Have a bot alert a chat channel that the project team hangs out for every new topic or something, if that’s a concern.
Giving the users the choice to have IRC and a forum sounds nice to me. Forums for the longer conversations and be able to look up things with a search engine, and IRC for quick questions and informal chat.
the issue isn’t so much with IRC, XMPP, Matrix, or Discord per se (aside from Discord having its own issues) – it’s that every dev/org/group is trying to use a chatroom as a replacement for support channels, wikis, knowledgebases, FAQs, forums, announcements, mailing lists, etc.
[as the meme states: “I don’t want to join your fucking Discord server just to get basic information that should be on a proper website instead of hidden away in the archives of a fucking chatroom”]
Discord is the Gold Standard for you ? Why ?
It's the easiest to use.
Everything just feels slow, clunky and some basic things are quite complecated to archive
It's been that way for much longer than a few years unfortunately. I don't understand how people can tolerate it. Some projects switched to it because it seemed more beginner friendly than IRC, but to me it's not focussed on making things easy.
My problem with matrix is that you need email address to use it. Compared to the irc, where you could just use whatever name and ask questions straight away. Most distros I used came with an irc client preinstalled and preconfigured to connect to the support channel when launched. In my opinion that is more beginner friendly.
I was trying to think of what the impactful differences between IRC and Matrix are (it's been a while).
“While being as open as IRC, Matrix provides a user experience which is similar to Slack or Discord to some extent. It’s modern, it’s persistent, and […] it’s actually less confusing to newcomers than an extremely simple application like Jargonaut.”
Persistancy! It's funny how that completely slipped my mind. The expectation from a chat room app has changed a lot since I last regularly used IRC and I guess I forgot what it used to be like.
Green Ubuntu go brrrrr
Green Ubuntu is Best Ubuntu
it really is and i been liking green Debian as well.
I've been thinking of switching to Green Debian... It doesn't sound like there's all that much difference, anything you found missing or was it pretty much same enough?
Same as Debian but with pre-installed firmware, and other stuff. also the desktop GUI gets updates and it has backports enabled by default.
Green Debian didn't like displaying things on my laptop's Nvidea chip. On my desktop with an AMD card, Green Debian runs flawlessly. No terminal transparency, though, but that's not really a problem for me.
I wish they went with XMPP. Still cool though.
Do we know when Mint 22 is coming yet other than just "summer '24"?
Would you rather they announce "when it's ready" instead?
It wasn't a criticism - I was just curious if anyone had any more info.
Nobody got solid info (probably not the devs themselves), but some facts:
Thanks!
I feel Mint doesn't need a Matrix client, IPTV client etc. pre-installed, but luckily you can easily remove those unlike some other OS's
"Forks of the project are welcomed. Nobody can stop the code from living on."
That's a tear jerking quote right there. o7
Cool that they are using now matrix
Hmm I hope it will be at least somewhat stable. I never had good experience with Matrix for more than like an hour
Why have preinstalled apps though? Hear me out... i am very new to Linux and enjoying it quite much.
But most of the preinstalled programs that came with mint, i have not touched and never will.
Why have preinstalled apps though?
To make it easier for people.
That does not make any sense if you read my comment. This is my point exactly. They are not saving me any time because i won't use matrix and i wouldn't have spent time installing it. . They may even be making it harder for me if i chose to uninstall it
You're not the only user. Other people may benefit even if you personally don't. Getting software you don't want is a compromise for getting an easy out the box installation that comes with what you want already pre-installed.
If you want a more personalized approach there's always forking a distro and customizing it so that it suits your needs (which is how Nobara came into being).
If that was the case they would add a step in the installation giving you the option to have no preinstalled apps and choose between currated apps based on your expected use for this pc.
I dont argue that its a great service. I am slightly opposed on it being a forced option
Mint is aimed at normies. The fewer barriers to entry, the better. If you give users the option for a "clean" install there will be people who select it, not knowing what they're doing, and then end up with a borderline non-functional computer as far as they're concerned. To put it another way, they expect it to have stuff pre-installed. Finally, what counts as essentials and what counts as bloat? Text editor? Media player? Photo viewer? Internet browser?
That being said, I understand why you might not like getting extra programs you didn't ask for. Luckily, they're very easy to uninstall and forget about.
I can't remember exactly when I stopped installing mIRC when I built a new PC, but it's been a while. Is DALnet still around?
DALnet appears to be alive and kicking. Since you're maybe out of the loop, big drama happened with Freenode. Right now Libera Chat and OFTC appear to be the big names for IRC for open source software users.
DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network made up of 39 servers, with a stable population of approximately 10,000 users in about 4,000 channels. DALnet is accessible by connecting with an IRC client to an active DALnet server on ports 6660 through 6669, and 7000. SSL users can connect on port 6697 as well. The generic round-robin address is irc.dal.net.
I recently switched my main Linux laptop to Fedora and I have to say, it's probably the most stable and clean distro I've ever used.