Where does this work? I even tried the lemmy WebUI and didnt find such a feature

No, but as they do great work it is a shame that they dont protect it and thereby reduce the protection of every distro shipping them

Because we are users, contributors, packagers, distributors… and if the project is unsustainable and suddenly becomes proprietary that is bad.

Or if the project is included in proprietary systems. Nobody will have the right to get source code then, or in case of GPLv3 even the right to install other software.

Copyleft and GPLv3 grant users the rights to prevent e-waste or replace shitty proprietary software on useful hardware with better one.

Copyleft licenses spread these rights, while permissive ones do nothing apart from handing out software for nothing in return.

This. Licenses are so that trust is not needed and being a good FOSS citizen is expected. That means publishing your code if you fork, giving proper attibution and granting your users the same rights as the original project did.

Something very normal.

If they could just use a real licence and even more copyleft (at least something, like EUPL, MPL or GPLv2)

Well, PopOS is a distribution, based on Ubuntu, shipping a desktop. That desktop was formerly a customized GNOME, now they have their completely own desktop environment.

The tiling might be similar between both but their GNOME extension is probably deprecated now.

Cosmic has dynamic tiling, while KDE has many manual tiling features which may be less efficient but require nearly no setup.

This is not about GNOME…

Oversimplification. COSMIC lacks like 95% of what GNOME has that is important for regular users, like the vast extension ecosystem, GSConnect or remote RDP login as simple examples.

So not your choice either XD

So you are living in an illusion of choice, while your options are obviously determined by the big corpo that you relied on for getting that card

(Saying that, I got an NVIDIA card like a dumbass too)

Dash really sucks. Use it as an interpreter for /bin/sh and thats it

Yeah ok. But java uses weird graphics toolkits. For example many java apps still rely on X11 and look like crap on modern Linux, have no support for fractional scaling etc.

Ok. I had a t495 and that thing is just crap. Nice keyboard but it broke fast

Debian + nix + flatpak is okayish

Tbh the T470/80 seems to be one of the last real Thiccpad series.

I had one in my backpack and slipped on ice, fell straight on my back. Laptop didnt have any issues

Fork GNOME

No joking, have a look at GNOME circle apps in languages you like

No wayland, missing fuse2, pulseaudio, weird graphics libraries, java…

nix-shell -p packagename

And then add to config if you wanna keep it

The only address book I know is thunderbird any maybe the GNOME or KDE suite (their Personal Information Management (PIM) Suite).

Maybe the small desktops have alternatives.

Thunderbird supports CardDAV for syncronizing contacts too. But it is unencrypted so I wouldnt use it.

Etesync is encrypted.

Careful with this!

You need to change the repo priorieties to REALLY low, otherwise your system may downgrade packages and stupid shit like that.

Trust me, I extracted PopOS repos from ubuntu noble based PopOS and installed cosmic apps on debian. It worked, until it started messing up my system.

Use nix, it is way cleaner. On Debian I basically use nix for everything because many packages are missing or outdated.