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richardisaguy, 7 months ago

System76 and other linux hardware manufactures make coreboot computers, it might get a bit expensive than buy some old thinkpad but I suppose if you’re searching for this you have the budget

richardisaguy, 7 months ago

Good choice, but remember to always containerize things, use flatpak and distrobox when possible, opensuse is excellent as a base distro to build your setup on top of, but i wouldnt say so much to actually be your setup. Opensuse user speaking

richardisaguy, 7 months ago

I would try using it inside an archlinux distrobox, and install using yay or some other aur helper

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

Good try Microsoft

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

Where distrobox

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

Depending on the software, you can use it inside an arch Linux distrobox with yay or some other helper

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

At least you haven’t got the Linux austism in which you and no other IRL person talks about

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

Are you using steam native or steam flatpak? I think flatpak might perform better in this case

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

Well, then try flatpak light be a good option, check if flatpak is installed with flatpak list, it it is, would should see a list of applications and runtimes, if thou don’t see steam there, you can easily install it with flatpak install steam

richardisaguy, 8 months ago

You can do that with distrobox, which uses podman

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

there is an issue on github about that

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

Try diabling “Google” app

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

What about opensuse

richardisaguy, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Well, i can’t really recommend a specific combination, but I can give you options so you can comprehend more about by researching. All the distros I will list here have dedicated editions, or ways to install different desktop environments. As of judging by your screenshot, it seems like you’re somewhat of a technical user so these recommendations were made by keeping this in mind, these are not the greatest options if you want something for a newbie non-tech savy Linux user.

• Fedora - exceptionally stable and quite fast distribution, altrought not the fastest, great software availability, if you don’t find your software, or the version shipped by fedora on the repos isnt working for you, consider install it using containers, like flatpak, or distrobox.
• Arch Linux - very tecnicial distribution, on my experience not really stable and not very usable on the longterm, but works well for a Great amount of people, it’s main features are it’s customizability, being able to craft your own system by deciding precisely what will compose it, and the aur(arch user repository), in it, you will find user made scripts to install all kinds software, even pathed ones.
• EndeavourOS - Arch’s youngest daughter, arch but a bit more polished, and user friendly, with it you get all the features of arch Linux, with better setuo, and more ease of install your desktop environment / window manager, at the expense of worsened customization.
• Opensuse - not very popular, but by far the fastest distro on the list, its main edition is based on the plasma desktop environment, you may run into some issues, but if you know your way around things, you will surely get the most out of this system, just like fedora, if you don’t find, or the software on the repositories isn’t working for you, you can always use containers.

Desktop environments / window managers - if you don’t know what these are, I recommend you do a more indeph research about them, but in resume, both are the user interfaces which run on top of your system, the difference is that desktop environments tend to be more user friendly and “complete” than window managers, while window managers tend to be more lightweight, simpler, and customizable.

• KDE plasma environment - excellent and fast desktop environment, has a great implementation of the keyboard shortcuts, you can make anything do anything just by changing them on the settings app, the glimpse of desktop customization on Linux, it has a lot of themes available and a built in theme “store” integrated right into the desktop. Recommended if you want a great balance between customizability and convenience.
• Sway - sway is a window manager for Linux based on the Wayland protocol, being the first of it’s kind, can be heavily customized using it’s configuration files, in which have a simple and comprehensive syntax, just like any other window manager, it can be configured to do pretty much anything.
• Hyprland - I would sway hyprland is a successor to sway, it’s more polished than sway with more features, has beautiful and fluid animations, I have never used hyperland myself, but for what I have seen, it’s the best window manager out there.

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

You could use distrobox for gaming, make an arch one and game from there without worrying about dependencies

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

Both use android’s work profile feature to isolate apps from the main profile, for example, If you install tiktok on island, and whatsapp on main, neither WhatsApp or tiktok will be able to see each other, among other kinds of data

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

For the university work you could try libreoffice, it works on windows too if would like to try, Epic games work through Heroic games launcher or the Epic games launcher trough wine. Please do not use Manjaro as your starter distro, it’s very unstable, Ubuntu is not your best option, Linux mint might be the way to go if you want something simple. You could try out fedora workstation, or fedora kde spin, it’s great, only remember to use flatpak for your multimedia apps.

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

Libretube

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

Just don’t forget to run distrobox-export from inside the container after your install something, distrobox-export --app for apps, and distrobox-export --bin with the absolute path of your binary from inside the container ex:/bin/neofetch

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

You can modify the .desktop file or the local binary genereted on the host and pass those those to it, you can also do it manually, locations are ~/.local/bin and ~/.local/share/applications

richardisaguy, 9 months ago

Yes, you should be able to