I wasn’t even aware of APNG or AVIF before this thread. Webm was just the first alternative for GIFs that came to mind.
Looking at this APNG also seems to result in pretty large files whereas AVIF appears to have by far the best compression.
AVIF looks like the best alternative for sending short meme clips to people, which I assume is most peoples use case for GIFs.
Discord, Signal and Whatsapp all let you send any video format I’ve ever tried. I presume the same is true for Messenger and whatever else people use to communicate nowadays. I genuinely can’t think of anything that would support GIF but not various video formats.
Yes? I don’t really understand the question.
Please stop making gifs at all. It’s a terrible format that creates massive files that look like shit.
Webm is supported almost everywhere now and manages better quality at higher framerates and smaller file sizes.
Or you could buy a Starlabs Starfighter with a slightly worse CPU in the base config, double the RAM and a far better display for $1000 less. Also comes with coreboot.
That’s the way I see it as well. Some distros are going to want to or be forced to comply with the laws, so offering the option seems sensible on systemd’s part.
Systemd is not forcing distros that don’t want to comply to use the field.
It is for their target audience. They’re not talking to you, they’re talking to their customers.
From PLMs GitHub:
Plasma Login is in a prototype state and is not considered ready for real-world usage.
I just tried it out anyway, because SDDM sucks. PLM no longer uses the lowest common resolution for all displays and HDR works about as well as it does in plasma (sometimes I get a black screen and have to turn the display off and on). Still better than SDDM. It also integrates with KDEs system settings so it’s easy to setup.
Auto-login does not work however, so I’ll be sticking with SDDM for now, but I’m looking forward to the stable release.
Maybe I overestimated how widespread support for alternatives is. The problem seems to be to be that while most apps will support an alternative, no single format is supported everywhere (xkcd). According to another comment US messaging apps don’t support any alternatives, which is enough to keep GIF alive on its own.