Software festure, but I miss being able to turn on and off wifi and Bluetooth in the drop-down menu with one click. Latest android replaced it with another sub menu to select network or device, requiring another action to enable/disable.

Hadn’t heard of that, but can’t say I’m surprised.

Is this related to the kernel/rust drama, or the political situation in the US. Sure, the drama could have been handled better by the maintainers, but would that make Asahi lina feel unsafe?

I guess all sort of neckbeards are feeling empowered to spew hatred on the internet right now.

*taught :⁠-⁠) No worries, your intent is coming across clearly.

Tip from long-time arch user (btw). Avoid installing or making changes to system installation without going through pacman. I.e., don’t use install scripts or make install invocations requiring sudo. More often than not that will cause headaches long-term. PKGBUILDs are actually reasonably simple to create if you need to install something not in the AUR, and it will keep you from overwriting files and leaving files behind after uninstalling.

One possible culprit is CPU-GPU memory transfers. Have you tried encoding without burning in the subtitles? Maybe the burn-in requires a CPU transfer after decoding and then back again to encode

Yeah, fair enough. I’ve just noticed that a clean setup requires more and more workarounds in regedit and policy editor etc. Updates reenabling stuff like that is just infuriating

Not completely sure, but I believe that is a kernel thing. Hence present on all distros. Perhaps because the kernel is turned for throughput/server workloads. I hope this will be resolved with new schedulers though (e.g., through sched_ext).

My main gripe with windows is that it’s gradually turning to adware/spyware after MS decided to go for that sweet data collection revenue. That also means a shift in the focus of the development of the OS, as it’s not being developed for the benefit of the users anymore.

That, and software development processed are more tedious. Although today I’m sure I could find a workflow that works with WSL or vcpkg.

Edit: Oh, and everything turning to webapps on the desktop. Love staring at white canvas while it waits for a server response.

Arch does have a testing repo though

Had the same journey. Thats the thing though, once you start with custom ppas and packages arch becomes much better. Today, users should largely pull in newer programs through snaps/appimage/flatpak, so I think it’s gotten better than it used to be.

I’ve packaged on both distros, and PKGBUILDs are truly amazing

Using torguard. Works well