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by xnorswap 721 days ago
Used to be that people would wait ages for applications to get a "Dark mode", I find it funny how now we have to wait for "light mode" instead.

Even so, good to see that arriving. I've been experimenting recently and I've found podman very useful compared to my previous experiences trying to do containery stuff. ( Admittedly a very long time ago now which burned me and put me off trying again for a long time. )
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outcoldman 721 days ago
Lol, I could not even guess that the "light mode" was the opposite of dark theme, not the term for being a "light" as opposed to "heavy". So I was so surprised to see only the description "that light mode is available now, and you can turn it on". What is light mode? Not a "mode", it is a "theme".
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diego_sandoval 721 days ago
The CLI is the "light mode".
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kenmacd 721 days ago
Like wayland, podman was one of those things that took a lot of "I'll give it another shot? Nope, not ready" before I could switch.

Lately the only real incompatibility I run in to with podman is that the handling of `RUN --mount=type=secret` in a Containerfile/Dockerfile is a bit broken (https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/5282).

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ndriscoll 721 days ago
Pretty much every program I interact with on Linux simply respects the system theme. I don't understand why light or dark "mode" for individual programs is even a thing.
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