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I went from gnome 2 to xfce to kde and I can’t imagine anything better than kde and that’s what I’m gonna stick with :)

You can either use the 9999 slot of that package, which is the latest git commit or kindly ask for a version bump on the gentoo bug tracker and the package maintainer will package the new version or like someone else said, use your own ebuild in an overlay, as last resort

Kpat is one of the best solitaire implementations that exist. I play daily

I use Strawberry too and in general it is great. Sadly it still lacks some features I need, so I still need foobar2000 with wine on the side (for library management, stuff like viewing and editing all custom tags, renaming files according to tags instead of copying them, …)

this “takeover” is imho a good thing. the greeter/login manager is an essential part of a desktop experience and I was sad that sddm was so left behind until now

I use both on gentoo for some obscure or proprietary stuff that is not packaged in portage, like filebot, authy desktop, discord, steam and foobar2000 (including wine in 1 bundle to avoid dependencies and switching all portage packages to 32bit abi). It works well and opens me up to loads of stuff. It’s freedom in some way.

Snap or flatpak makes no difference to me, they’re just different backends for kde discover

# systemd-analyze time

Startup finished in 39.050s (firmware) + 6.680s (loader) + 993ms (kernel) + 3.519s (initrd) + 22.326s (userspace) = 1min 12.570s 
graphical.target reached after 21.680s in userspace.

for me, most time is used until the bootloader shows up, because I had to disable “fast boot” in bios because it made some problems on rebooting. pressing enter in grub could speed up 5 seconds more ;-) gentoo, systemd, 2x2tb nvme, 32 gb ram, 4 hdds. could be faster, but it mostly doesn’t matter because I power on the system every morning but don’t use it right away

edit: on my server, which is not UEFI, therefore has no “firmware” part:

# systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 1.814s (kernel) + 47.640s (initrd) + 36.602s (userspace) = 1min 26.057s 
graphical.target reached after 36.602s in userspace.

and on my laptop, which boots fast AF

# systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 4.242s (firmware) + 14.631s (loader) + 1.737s (kernel) + 3.210s (initrd) + 5.136s (userspace) = 28.959s 
graphical.target reached after 4.936s in userspace.

interesting, I could use that for telegram groups, if this is available. less talking to my family in person :-)

cool stuff but what about packaging the games? only transfering files is most of the time not enough and games need registry stuff and what not and on games that need a setup.exe to be run, is that unattended like on steam or do users need to click “next, next, finish”?