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Thought I'd give it a try and installed the latest version. Application crashes at startup on Linux (Wayland) with: "The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: 'crashed', code: '139')". Probably yet another instance of developers mostly testing and doing quality assurance on macOS/Windows.

Hey, sorry about that! Some AUR packages share cursor in a way that isn't forward+backwards compatible across releases. We recommend using our official AppImage from https://cursor.com/download Alternatively, please use a different AUR package that doesn't have these issues https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cursor-nightly-bin

I am using it on fedora from the yum repo and it's crashing for me too.

  $ rpm -q cursor
  cursor-3.0.4-1775123877.el8.x86_64
https://forum.cursor.com/t/sigsegv-in-zygote-type-zygote-on-...

Apparently if launched with --verbose it works, but that's the same crash I was seeing without the verbose flag


I prefer to avoid AppImages if I can but I gave it a try anyway and it still fails with exactly the same error. What made you think it's just a packaging issue?

I'm running it ok arch Wayland (sway), installed last month I think. Maybe related to your electron package.

> a privacy conscious company such as Apple

[citation needed]


They have a whole page dedicated to it [0]. To be fair, I mean it with a bit of sarcasm. How can you collect so much data and call it privacy. I definitely believe they do a better job than most companies though, even though I dislike how aggressively they are pushing sync features.

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/


For anyone considering buying the Pixel Watch 3, please keep in mind that Pixel Watch 2 has some long-standing issues where the GPS completely cuts out during runs or walks.

Some users believe it to be a hardware issue but it's still unacknowledged by Google and the forum thread where people have been discussing it has just been locked recently. Just mentioning it for awareness and visibility.

- https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Android-App/Google-Pixel-Wat...

- https://support.google.com/googlepixelwatch/thread/242833127...


Genuinely don’t understand why Google continues to produce these products and refuse to support them. Do they just know there’s a contingency of anti-apple users who will buy their devices regardless of extreme usability issues?


Apple has its own issues. And if I'm not mistaken, you need an iPhone to use an Apple watch, but you can use a Pixel watch with either an Android phone or an iPhone. Of course, Samsung, Garmin, and others also make campatible smart watches, so if I were in the market, I would certainly be comparing alternatives.


> Apple has its own issues. And if I'm not mistaken, you need an iPhone to use an Apple watch,

that's a feature, not a bug


I don't know about it being either... more of a product choice made by Apple.


According to the US anti-trust complaint, apple made the choice to make it harder for iPhone owners to switch away from an iPhone


Android wear watches only work with android these days


Oh, looks like you are right... that stinks. But at any rate, a non iPhone owner such as myself can't use an Apple Watch no matter how I feel about Apple.

I guess if I need a smartwatch, I'll dust off my old Garmin. Several other recomendations in this discussion I could look into too :).


It's not just the watches. Chromecast/GoogleTV devices have been missing an audio sync adjustment for ages. That feature is being asked about/requested all over the related discussion boards. Amazon Fire has it built in. Google doesn't care across so many product lines.


I used to be one of these and honestly I'm so tired of Google as a company lately I'm really considering jumping over to Apple's ecosystem.

Google just have an incredibly weak product team, across both hardware and software.


Anti-Apple users have plenty of places to get their hardware and firmware updates from, few users are going to look this deep into getting a device though.


I wonder if they have fixed the emergency call issues on their phones yet too: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/y039zn/i_compi...

They seem to be let off the hook with things like this when other companies are dragged over the coals.


FWIW, I had a Pixel Watch 2 with this issue every now and then in the first couple of months when it was brand new. I've not had this issue in 2024 essentially (fixed as part of monthly updates).


That's pretty standard for Google.

Their Pixel phones have tons of issues that never get acknowledged or fixed, as do most of their products.

I've stopped considering anything google makes as a viable purchase unless I want to be a beta tester the whole time.


I haven't personally used it, but I have seen cage [0] being recommended a few times for similar use-cases.

[0] - https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage


Stumpwm is very nice if in X11.


No WM at all is less nice, but can work. A bit over a decade ago, we shipped a kiosk/appliance that software-wise only had kernel, X, and firefox. All starting directly from /etc/inittab, something like this:

  id:5:initdefault:
  x1:5:respawn:/etc/rc-x11
  ff:5:respawn:/etc/rc-firefox
...where /etc/rc-∗ are few lines of shell that set up environment variables, and end with "exec chroot --userspec=... / /bin/firefox ..." - this way X and firefox run under same PIDs that sysvinit knows about, so they get restarted after a crash.


I was also looking for a successor to the PC Engines APUs and came across https://teklager.se/en/ that lists some possible alternatives that you might find interesting.

Personally I was looking to build a router so I ended up buying a fanless N100 based mini PC from Aliexpress (e.g.: search term is "N100 firewall appliance") and have been very satisfied with it so far (Proxmox homelab with OPNsense running as a VM).


I've been using VSCode with devcontainers and podman for a couple of months now and everything seems to work fine for me. Is there a particular issue you're hitting?


Honestly, it's been a long time; I should probably just try again. The last attempt I made was on windows before WSL2 existed. At the time I assumed the issue was with podman on HyperV/WSL.


I've toyed around with Smithay Client Toolkit [1] for Rust and I think it offers just the right abstraction for writing simple Wayland clients.

[1] - https://github.com/Smithay/client-toolkit


sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/


Do you mean third-party apps on iOS? All web-based iOS apps are powered by Webkit/Safari so it makes sense that they all share the same bugs.


I mean third-party apps that are native, not web wrappers such as Cordova etc.


For what it's worth, most (all?) the comparisons in that phoronix article [1] compare the performance of apps running under XWayland (in a Wayland session) versus an Xorg session. That's because most steam games use SDL 2 which still uses XWayland by default (the default has been changed in SDL 3 though [2]).

So using the data from that article to conclude that "[Xorg] still generally outperforms Wayland" seems wrong. A comparison between native Wayland apps vs Xorg apps would have been a lot more relevant though.

[1] - https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-510-wayland [2] - https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6362


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