This is not open source software, it’s licenced under the Anti Capitalist Software Licence.

I still appreciate it in this list, but the caveat is important

Zotero: a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files.

You may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.

Open Source has a specific meaning

It’s an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.

On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can’t turn off screen lock!), but I haven’t tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.

I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.

I’ve been an Arch user for more than a decade and I’ll usually be first in line to defend it from dodgy claims about unreliability.

But that forum response is bizarre. Literally the last two RSS items right now are about how splitting packages will require intervention for some users (plasma and Linux firmware). VLC is an officially supported package, and surely this change would impact almost every VLC user?

New opt-depends is a nice pacman feature, but it hardly implies that things have been removed from the base package.

You can do this on Arch too and it will work great until it doesn’t. Manual interventions are rare and usually don’t affect everyone.

Settings > [App Compatibility] Include Anti-Features

In case you’re curious, the anti-feature is “tethered network services”, as it relies on a specific download server for maps. That is inherited from it’s progenitor and is planned to be fixed.

Even Arch has an interactive installer now, and Endeavour is meant to be Arch with a bulletproof installer as well.

For dual booting I strongly recommend having Windows and Linux on separate drives altogether.

The protocol was released in 2019. The LLM was released in 2024.

This would fit in perfectly in Dr Suess’ Hop on pop

Mono is owned by WineHQ

And there are other tools that use the same database format. I use keepassDX and keepassXC

You can also do that in Tubular, if you prefer a FOSS option

Catima can also handle pkpass (Apple wallet) files now, although last I checked it chokes on “pkpasses”, the zipped collective version

Mozilla doesn’t run Thunderbird

I really hope this doesn’t impact the client too significantly. A substantial part of why I use Thunderbird is to keep out of these “ecosystems”.

In essence keepass is an open database format and a bunch of different software tools have been written to interact with it. You can quite happily share the same keepass database between different software, e.g. synced between desktop and mobile

You don’t happen to know what whereabouts in legislation that’s detailed, do you?

Among other things it lets you define the return type in terms of the arguments to the function.