qweertz (they/she)

Doesn’t seem like it, but users who don’t know how to toggle a setting should be kept faaaar away from sideloading

Atomic distros by Universal Blue build proprietary codecs into their images

Maybe Aurora by Universal Blue?

It’s based off of Fedora Silverblue, so it’s atomic, rock solid and basically guaranteed to work (more secure by design as well). But uses KDE Plasma instead of Gnome and has a bunch of improvements here and there, including proprietary codecs and Nvidia drivers preinstalled (latter depending on the image you choose)

I personally wouldn’t go that far tbh, but I haven’t rly looked into it that much so idk.
To me it seems like they are still maintaining Firefox, Gecko, and Thunderbird (which is more independent tho IIRC) quite well.
I use Thunderbird directly and Firefox through Librewolf

(haven’t rly had the drive to look into Thunderbird analogues to Librewolf. Should rly do that tho)

The partial unannounced update broke my installation, which is why I finally ditched Nobara for Bluefin

Bc this seems to be a crosspost, imma cross-comment:

I get wanting to phase out Mercurial in favour of git. But why did they have to choose Github T_T

Ideally they would have just hosted a their own Forgejo instance (heck, a Gitlab one would have been better too FFS). Even just using Codeberg and donating would have been better

The for-profit side of Mozilla seems to have succeeded in purging most of the principles Mozilla used to have (IK they have been eroding over the years and sometimes been too “pragmatic”, this is just the cherry on top of a long series of shitpiles)

If Mozilla actually stood for a free/libre future they’d push Forgejo to the lvl they need it to be (if it already isn’t capable of all that stuff. Haven’t rly interacted much with it). Since they will still keep the CI/CD on Mercurial for now, there is even less valid reasons for using Github…

https://programming.dev/comment/16918830

Exactly; a lot of international organisations are already located in Switzerland, so there shouldn’t be many gripes with that (also means you aren’t at the whims of a global empire in self-destruct mode)

I’ve been using it without major caveats since October last year. Even tried the proprietary swiping library you can install (it uses the Gboard one iirc, but OFC it can’t do shenanigans since it’s isolated by the app and not connected to the internet)

Doesn’t seem like anyone mentioned it yet, so I’m gonna chime in: Bluefin-DX by Universalblue might be worth a look.

It’s a special developer version of their already interesting and rock solid atomic distro, meaning it’s not rly meant that you do much with the OS part of the filesystem (I’d recommend you read up on it, since I can’t explain it that well) It has VSCode preinstalled (you can replace it with VSCodium tho with a simple command IIRC) and allows you to spin up virtually endless Linux environments where you install your additional programmes that aren’t available as a Flatpak (you can still use them in the CLI, DW)

sure, keep insulting people with principles while buying into proprietary software being “open source washed” (for the lack of a better word)

Every time this licenses comes up I have to repeat myself: It’s source-available proprietary (free)ware; “source first” is “open source washing” at it’s finest

From an old comment of mine:

[…] It strips you of the options the four essential freedoms provide.

IMO [“but protecting muh devs and making it financially viable as a for-profit”] is not rly an argument. Libre software is free as in freedom and not necessarily free as in beer. You could license it under the (A)GPL, charge for downloads in the Play store or for compiled binaries on ur website and ask for donations on F-Droid.

You could even do a freemium version where some features are locked in the binaries you distribute and need a license from ur website or smth (for those who don’t want to use Google Play). (iirc SD Maid 2/SE does this)

sauce

E.g.: AFAIK the QT Framework (which I don’t particularly like) is dual licensed, making it both Foss that ppl have to contribute back to and viable as a for-profit

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Running a community-centred nonprofit is inherently more efficient resources-wise than paying managers and execs piles upon piles of cash in a for-profit scheme

What else? “Ignorant and inexperienced consoomers” doesn’t sound very nice…

valid, I just feel like Gnome is a rly solid base for me, with one of the most intuitive workflows and consistent designs out there

the ecosystem of apps is just superb too

Nowadays it’s easy AF pretty much everywhere. Sometimes there are simple GUI tools that get you there with just a few clicks. Hardest it will get is having to look it up in a wiki for the distribution you are using (if it doesn’t have them preinstalled) and then following simple step-by-step instructions

My first was Ubuntu 14.04. and then 16.04. at school 💀. as early as 2015 iirc

Though Blackbox or Kali might be a contender too (one of the distros my father had installed for fun)

I had rly cool CS teachers, which also administered our infrastructure

then we used Linux Mint in the “Linux” club run by one of said teachers

For personal use, my first one was Manjaro in 2018 (I switched to it with a Windows dual boot, I got rid of Windows entirely in 2020 I think?). Somewhere I switched to Endeavour OS, tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop and eventually settled on Fedora bc of the Grub fiasco Arch had. Am using it to this day.
Though it’s in the form of Nobara on my desktop; I also plan on switching to Bluefin eventually

I get you, like “been there, done that”

Nowadays I have like 10 if not 15 extensions (most of which are not essential to my workflow) and they make the already wonderful Gnome base just better for me personally

this is why I usually wait with recent distribution upgrades, another upside is: it saves me a bunch of headaches too since – by the time I do upgrade – all the little bugs have usually been fixed

On Fedora, Btrfs has been the default for years now iirc. It’s modern and rock solid too (as long as you avoid Raid 5/6) and has some features I can’t live without nowadays:

• Copy-on-write (prevents file duplication)
• Snapshots (your systems broke? most easy rollback you will ever experience is with Btrfs in combination with Timeshift)
• on-the-fly compression (I’d recommend “–compression-force=zstd:3” as a mount option. Last I checked Fedora defaulted to using the lowest compression level, which is not the Btrfs default, making you lose some gains. FYI about the “force”: btrfs by default checks whether a file is compressible or not, this is redundant with zstd, which does the same thing but quite a bit faster AFAIK)

I (unfortunately) have to heavily recommend against using Nobara, especially if you have an Nvidia graphics card. It’s an amateur distribution in the original sense of the word and also lacks a large community, neither does it have a company behind it.

This leads to a lack of proper QA and testing in general. It’s OK but I would not recommend it to anyone

If you want to go with a “traditional” distro, go with Linux Mint, simply the most solid out there. I’d also recommend you check out Bluefin, it’s atomic (meaning that you are basically guaranteed to always have a working system, even after upgrades) and quite modern