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rollingflower,

What types of SSDs?

rollingflower,

If you use dnf you are not affected, yes

rollingflower,

Use 40 and not rawhide and you are good. But be aware that the upgrade to Plasma 6 might break small things.

I tested Plasma 6 on Fedora Kinoite months ago and it was already in a really good state. Really, the release of Fedora 40 will have a pretty much just working new Desktop!

rollingflower,

This, I would honestly not recommend regular Fedora, but Kinoite always.

I dont feel safe on traditional distros that just break and literally have no mechanism to just reset everything to default.


<span style="color:#323232;">rpm-ostree reset --reboot
</span>

Done.

rollingflower,

Gentoo is moving the non-technical organization overhead to Software in the Public Interest (SPI). As noted above, SPI is already now recognized at US federal level as a full-fleged non-profit 501©(3). It also handles several projects of similar type and size (e.g., Arch and Debian) and as such has exactly the experience and background that Gentoo needs. What are the advantages of becoming an SPI Associated Project in detail?

Financial benefits to donors:


<span style="color:#323232;">tax deductions [1]
</span>

Financial benefits to Gentoo:


<span style="color:#323232;">matching fund programs [2]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">reduced organizational complexity
</span><span style="color:#323232;">reduced administration costs [3]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">reduced taxes [4]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">reduced fees [5]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">increased access to non-profit-only sponsorship [6]
</span>

Non-financial benefits to Gentoo:


<span style="color:#323232;">reduced organizational complexity, no “double-headed beast” any more
</span><span style="color:#323232;">less non-technical work required
</span>

[1] Presently, almost no donations to the Gentoo Foundation provide a tax benefit for donors anywhere in the world. Becoming a SPI Associated Project enables tax benefits for donors located in the USA. Some other countries do recognize donations made to non-profits in other jurisdictions and provide similar tax credits.

[2] This also depends on jurisdictions and local tax laws of the donor, and is often tied to tax deductions.

[3] The Gentoo Foundation currently pays $1500/year in tax preparation costs.

[4] In recent fiscal years, through careful budgetary planning on the part of the Treasurer and advice of tax professionals, the Gentoo Foundation has used depreciation expenses to offset taxes owing; however, this is not a sustainable strategy.

[5] Non-profits are eligible for reduced fees, e.g., of Paypal (savings of 0.9-1.29% per donation) and other services.

[6] Some sponsorship programs are only available to verified 501©(3) organizations

You can still donate to the SIP and the Förderverein in Germany.

rollingflower,

To my knowledge they did some horrible “performance” fixes like disabling Windows Defender.

Windows requires you to install random software. If you are really careful, you could live without antivirus, but honestly just dont.

If your PC doesnt tolerate the overcomplicated Windows 11, any Linux distro is lighter.

I recommend to give Fedora Kinoite a shot. It is a very modern distribution model.

Fedora Discussion is a good resource for help, and I am always down to fix the small Kinoite issues like video codecs or flatpaks.

rollingflower,

RIP Jia Tan

rollingflower,

This!!!

This!!

People, stop celebrating “freeing” software of maintainers that want to prevent being exploited.

rollingflower,

Can we stop calling a good software dev autistic or stuff?

rollingflower,

I think their concept is just as flawed as “dash to dock”. Desperately trying to “not be Windows” (while mimicking mac lol)…

You have a huge top bar that is mainly unused space. You have no hitbox at the top right edge, because of the bad GNOME decorations (also in Firefox) and because of that stupid top bar.

Then having a dock with empty space around it, where you could easily fit clock, quicksettings and menu, why??

Dash to panel fixes most, just not the bad hitboxes to the top edge. And luckily it is very actively maintained.

Ubuntu meanwhile keeps that useless top bar and also places a bar at the edge. This is good for regular screens. But it is annoying when tiling in half.

And they dont fix it, as they still keep the silly top bar.

And the main issue is their theming, which breaks apps.

rollingflower,

This is so damn needed

rollingflower,

It is also a lie as the installer doesnt know any percentages.

But afaik Debian installer, Calamares, Fedora Anaconda and more all have loading bars

rollingflower,

github.com/Jguer/yay

Doesnt look like that, many translations but also normal maintenance

rollingflower,

Fedora Pantheon or something. But really, GNOME, KDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, Mate, soom COSMIC are all in a better state.

rollingflower,

What I really like about stuff like RedoxOS, COSMIC, typst, simpleX, Wayland and others is having stuff built from a modern perspective with modern practices.

Linux is ancient now, and its a miracle that it is thriving like this.

If dynamic loading really is that robust, it probably doesnt matter. But I dont know how big the performance increases are and I really need to do benchmarks before and after.

There are btw also some experiments on making tbe CentOS-Stream LTS kernel run on Fedora. Which would be another great way of getting a more stable system.

rollingflower,

Uhm this is linuxmemes my guy

rollingflower,

You need to be more specific.

You need to think about the background problem here.

When Google made Android, it was web based. Their “perfect sandbox” ironically has no internet toggle. They won tons of marketshare, and iOS is not different here, both restrict apps to containers and have permission systems to reach out of these containers to access sensors, files and other data.

Desktop operating systems are way older and have no such concept. We have mandatory access control with SELinux and Apparmor, but those are (I think) more complicated than Flatpak.

Flatpak is a solution for multiple problems of Desktop Linux Apps at once.

  1. isolate apps with a real permission system
  2. make apps run anywhere
  3. have a single platform to target, so we dont need packagers anymore (for most GUI apps) and can file bugs upstream
  4. separating apps from the system: stable distros can have modern apps (similar to Windows) and Apps dont affect the stability of the OS at all. Also config files of such apps are in their container, not bloating your “oh so good xdg basedir”

These are all extremely important points for a healthy, modern and secure Linux Desktop.

But there are also issues to every point:

  1. most apps are not adapted to this model, which means they need broad static permissions like Pulseaudio, home or even host, allowing surveillance or trivial (even documented) privilege escalation. This is basically how apps like Flatseal work. Pulseaudio has no portal, do apps can listen to your mic whenever they want.
  2. Apps that “run everywhere” will not have distro-specific optimizations. The system needs to run on old LTS kernels to be universal, which means you miss out on tons of optimizations. Developers could just not care, but this depends on the app.
  3. Flatpak is more complicated than Snap (or even Appimage, if you leave the manual signing, monitoring vulnerable libraries and having a manual repo out). So it is not a great experience for “the Linux packaging model”. GNOME Builder is a good IDE for it but afaik only for GTK apps.
  4. No issues here. This is the core princible of “immutable” distros like Fedora Atomic Desktops.

If you have issues with flatpaks, you need to be more specific. Maybe it is a packaging issue, or you expect an app to do stuff that is not

rollingflower,

Same. Ubuntu AND Fedora Libreoffice, SciDAVis and more where broken, not the Flatpaks.

Flatpak is really meant for the big GUI apps. No problem with small distro packages really. It just takes off the huge burdens of maintaining distro packages for like Libreoffice, which is as big as the Linux Kernel.

rollingflower,

Fair point. But when apps are on Flathub and people say “I dont care I have the AUR” they need to know.

  • the AUR has no verification at all
  • the apps have no permission system at all, so you need to trust them 100%
  • they are installed on your system and might mess up updates, give dependency errors etc.
  • their solution does not apply to nontechnical people. If a solution is not scaleable, it is not a good solution
rollingflower,

Which is not needed but a good bonus. VLC and others are still unverified, even though very well packaged.

But I dont care about VLC anymore haha, Celluloid has Wayland support, portals, MPV configuration and is better for watching movies. Not for music though.

rollingflower,

How come the other distros don’t seem to care?

Obviously because they are SO MUCH MORE BADASS.

No.

lmddgtfy.net/?q=why can ubuntu ship nonfree codec…

rollingflower,

What points?

Deykun, to history
Deykun avatar

As well, since 1945, the USSR had a spy ring within Yugoslavia[128] and Stalin attempted to assassinate Tito several times. Stalin remarked "I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito".[129] However, these assassinations would fail, and Tito would write back to Stalin "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."[130] Yugoslavia would go on to become one of the main founders and leaders the Non-Aligned Movement.[131]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change#1948%E2%80%931949:_Yugoslavia

rollingflower,

Damn, Russians where always bad at tactical attacks?

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