I’ve been using Niri for a little under a year now on both my desktop and laptop, I like it a lot compared to regular tiling window managers (I used QTile for 2-3 years on my desktop and Hyprland on my laptop for about a year until I found out about vaxry).

Personally, I usually group my workspaces by app category (e.g. browser, system-related, chat windows, games, etc.) which works really well with a scrolling model since you can have multiple “fullscreen” apps per workspace, or a fullscreen apps and half-width app like a file explorer for dragging files over to the main app. It also works well for me since I am unlikely to have more than 2-3 full-width apps in the same category.

I like organizing things that way because it makes my hotkeys consistent for the thing I’m trying to do. For example, if I have a chat window open, my hotkey to get there will always be meta+3 regardless of what app it is and how many other chat apps I have open.

I feel like that’s by design. Tiling WMs generally make 2 assumptions and if they aren’t true for you then you’re probably better off with a regular desktop:

• Most apps you use are one window and are either fullscreen or splitscreen with another app.
• You have a lot of different Fullscreen apps open at once

For a lot of people that makes sense because Workspace-based WMs let you switch between full screen apps a lot quicker than pressing alt-tab 10 times. e.g. when I’m doing work I’ll usually have these Fullscreen windows open:

• browser
• chat app (teams/outlook at work, discord/matrix at home)
• IDE
• window for whatever I’m testing/working on
• miscellaneous things (file explorers, random text files, etc. which can all be splitscreen)

For me at least, every extra second it takes me to move between apps snowballs because I have to pause my thought just to find the app I’m looking for in the alt tab menu or the task bar

Is it possible this is because of extra memory/storage costs? I thought Samsung sold way more fold/flip this past year so it seems weird to cancel the whole flip line to me

I was confused about this also, I’ve been using GameNative on a pixel 10 on and off since I got mine in October. Maybe compatibility just got a lot better because of fixing GPU drivers? I did notice a lot of games had issues but I assumed that applied to anything that doesn’t use snapdragon

It depends. I run GrapheneOS and it can pass everything except the most strict integrity check (which is just that you’re using a custom ROM at all).

In practice most apps don’t have any problems. Google assistant doesn’t really work for me but I’ve seen posts saying people have gotten it working. Google wallet and Google Pay are also explicitly blocked by google, so they will never work.

I think the reason GrapheneOS never did a GSI is because most of their security improvements rely on specific hardware calls that GSI abstractions don’t provide access to. This probably would still be an improvement over lineage though, just not as secure as base Graphene is.

Most of the world can’t feasibly install non-Apple-approved apps on iOS without paying $100 a year so something like that would probably never catch on in iOS land

It’s an Android app patcher that removes ads and adds some other quality of life patches. Primarily for YouTube but it supports several other apps as well.

On YouTube it also adds things like integrated SponsorBlock, extrapolating dislikes, actual resolution buttons, and the option to disable shorts.

Worth noting that Linux Mint Debian Edition exists and is based directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu. They starting publishing it specifically because the Linux Mint team doesn’t like the direction Ubuntu is heading in with snaps. Not sure how good it is as I haven’t tried it in a while (and don’t really use regular mint either).

Honestly I’d consider using this in combination with NixOS just for the flatpak support

Did you actually read my comment? It’s actually impressive to get those takeaways from that…

Anyway, if you want to twist my comments into something that makes yourself pointlessly mad I can’t stop you. Your definition of an android game seems to be Google Play malware, so I don’t think you’ll ever get what you want.

When I’ll get games comparable to like FFX or Shadow of the Colossus (the first two that come to mind) I’ll finally be satisfied with android gaming.

Again, indie games exist and can easily be run on most phones through Winlator/GameNative. The Nintendo switch is basically an 8 year old midrange phone processor and that still got games, plenty of steam titles will run fine on even a low/midrange android phone.

Until then all the p2w shit and other crap, or even 5yo PC games at low graphic settings on flagship phones, won’t cut it.

So you want games comparable to what came out in 2001 and 2005, but a 5 year old AAA is too old for you? What???

Luckily my current phone will probably be my last android device too.

If you’re saying this because you’re switching to iPhone, I wouldn’t get my hopes up on the situation improving. It’s equally as bad on iOS. If you’re saying that because you’re getting a Linux phone or a non-smartphone, fair enough but those don’t have any games, let alone emulated ones.

Also, emulating is very cool, however what’s the last AAA PC game you played in your phone?

Excuse me for sending an incredibly clickbaited YouTube video, I don’t play AAA’s since honestly IMO they’re not as good as indies anyway. However, according to this cyberpunk runs (albeit I’m guessing that’s on low) on newer phones: https://youtu.be/ACPXNADIjKw

I’m sure other AAAs from even just a few years ago could run fine. The only problem is that most android phones don’t have enough storage for AAAs anyway. A “native” android release wouldn’t change that.

Also wine is not an emulator, as its name clearly states, it makes things run natively so we should more generally talk about “PC gaming” there.

If you still want to make a distinction between games born for Windows and games born for Linux, then yes, those are not “Linux gaming”.

So is the line you’re drawing the emulation layer needed between ARM and x86? Or is it the difference between emulation and translation?

If this exact same fex+proton software was run on a snapdragon laptop under Ubuntu is that really that different? Do you count apps running under Java bytecode as emulation? Because that’s a vast majority of android apps. The distinction between translation, native gaming, and emulation is ultimately kind of meaningless if you get a good experience out of it.

Android is technically Linux under the hood, so it can (and has) been making use of the improvements to Linux gaming.

If by “android gaming” you mean you want to see a world where games are published to the play store in addition to Steam and consoles, you should probably give up on that. The play store is too ridden with actual malware to make that a reality. Even if games got released there, people would complain that they aren’t free because all of their other phone games are. If you want to play games on your phone with a Bluetooth controller and get a decent experience, it’s already here.

Honestly if I can play all of the new indie games on my phone I don’t really care whether or not they’re “android games.”

By your logic the steam deck doesn’t have any games since most of them rely on proton to work.

There are android apps combining fex/box64 with proton in order to run full Windows games now. Android may actually be a semi-viable gaming platform in the near future.

GameNative is one that works as a full steam client but there are a few others that give you more control like Winlator (both on GitHub)

You can actually play games pretty decently on them, especially indies like hollow knight and Celeste.

COSMIC is early on enough that you’d probably be better off opening an issue on their GitHub, this is very likely a bug

The company says it is now developing an “advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.” This installation flow will include safeguards to protect people who are being coerced into installing a dangerous app, or tricked by a scammer, along with “clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved.”

Seems like there will also just be a toggle somewhere (probably developer settings) that lets someone install from any source

To be clear this was not a recommendation lol I completely agree with you

If you want to do both at the same time without knowing which side any given task will fall under use NixOS