Post #3985928
2026-07-13 21:31 UTC
And you’d be technically correct, the best kind of correct.
To the inquisitor:
any distro that’s fully OSS can be fully compiled from scratch with any modifications you choose).
Though yes, if you’re still using Windows, the learning curve may look like a wall.
I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service
Guessing the X11 [X]Wayland migration KDE Plasma bug report? Should be fixed in 6.5.2.
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@DevDave@piefed.social 2026-07-14 04:28
Sorry, switched contexts there. Microsoft broke their clipboard service recently which makes me think they added “telemetry” collecting logic somewhere in there.
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@DevDave@piefed.social 2026-07-14 04:33
Adjacent comment. I’ve found working in a true posix environment is drastically better than the oddities I dealt with Win32. One annoyance is Microsoft has never been able to implement fork(). Though i never messed with x11 as I was never motivated to see what it was like under the figurative hood.