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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
There are days where I think that desktop Linux usability has gotten so good, it has come such a long way since I started using it in the late 90s, and that now itās really good. And then there are days like today, where I just install some system updates, reboot, and suddenly Iām greeted with:
Note: I have absolutely no idea what āFcitxā even is. Or why and how itās launched, or whether Iām actually using it or not. Or what this notification is trying to tell me exactly, and whether it is desirable for me to āimprove the experienceā with it. Or how the latest updates caused this. It appears that it has something to do with keyboard input, I guess. I assume that I could find out more by crawling the web. But honestly, Iām just too fucking exhausted to even bother figuring it out. I donāt even want to know how much lifetime Iāve already spent chasing Linux problems like that.
I dunno, still not as bad as the last Win10 update I was presented with that wanted to resize the recovery partition and shrink my C drive at the same time. That was the push I needed to switch to my Gentoo install and never look back. I presume that Windows is probably pretty decent about live partition resizing these days, but I donāt know that for sure, and I donāt want to waste time being concerned about it on a system thatās mainly for gaming anyway.
Yep, Iām certainly not claiming that Windows is better at it these daysā¦ (Possibly unpopular opinion: Windows usability peaked with WinXP.)
Fcitx is an input method editor used to type different languages, especially those that need to be composed from context (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc.) I believe it comes preinstalled with KDE (at least in kde-full it does, unsure about the smaller packages), but it should be totally safe to remove if you donāt need this functionality.
Thanks! I uninstalled it and things appear to work normally.