Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?
I started my Linux journey on Kinoite, which unfortunately had some issues at the time of installing; after which I rebased to Silverblue, I have since ‘mained’ Silverblue while experimenting with a couple of other distros through dual-boot or on spare devices. The first two weeks were really hard as I literally knew nothing about Linux. The fact that documentation is -generally speaking- lacking doesn’t help either. But if I was able to surpass that initial barrier, then I’m sure you can too.
But, motivation is important! Why do you even consider an ‘immutable’ distro?
I don’t really understand what new I would need to learn
You’d have to replace sudo dnf install *package-name* with flatpak install *package-name*. If, however, the package is not available as a flatpak, then -following Fedora’s initial guidelines- one should install it within a container through Toolbx(/Distrobox). After a container has been created (toolbox create *pick name for container*) and entered (toolbox enter *chosen name for container*), one simply behaves within the container as though how they would in a traditional distro. As a last resort -in case installing within a container is not possible, well supported or doesn’t work as intended- one can layer it (rpm-ostree install *package-name*).
Furthermore, /usr can’t be touched (at least not easily), except for /usr/local. And some features, like UKI, aren’t supported yet.
or really what benefits it would have.
Updates are atomic; it either happens or doesn’t, there’s no in-between state. Even a power outage or a random crash doesn’t change that. This ensures your system isn’t broken if something unfortunate befalls it.
Additionally, the system (for the most part) is reproducible; I can rebuild my system from scratch (barring configs; unless your dotfiles management is sublime) and it is exactly the same as the one that has been running since the inception of Silverblue. Cruft, state, bitrot etc can finally be left behind…, but we’re not their yet. There’s still some amount of these present in Silverblue’s current model. But we’re embracing OCIs and Silverblue’s primary contributors know what’s up over at NixOS and (hopefully) are working to make Silverblue ever so slightly more stateless. Even if a lot of work is still required, it’s infinitely better than the traditional model as it has gone from an uncountable amount of possible states to a countable amount. And the mathematicians under us know that such an improvement is infinitely times better. Another benefit of where we are currently with reproducibility would be that it allows us to combat bugs effectively.
Security benefits due to more parts of the system being read-only. This is however (somewhat) offset due to lack of the aforementioned UKI support. Hopefully, the well-defined nature of an image-based distro will eventually make more robust system-integrity checks possible.
Not necessarily exclusively granted through/by ‘immutability’, but system maintenance has been a joy. Most of the time, it just works anyways. But, if somehow something breaks, then I can easily rollback; either through the terminal if I was able to get inside. Or through the GRUB-menu if the ‘broken’ deployment doesn’t allow me to get inside. Furthermore, you can even pin a confirmed working deployment through sudo ostree admin pin *number* to select the deployment to keep around for longer. I recommend everyone to keep around their first deployment after installing Silverblue, if used wisely it’s one of the closest things to a factory reset we’ve got within the Linux space.
Arguably there’s a lot more to talk about, but these are probably the primary benefits.
Digital keyboards (at least contemporary ones) use embedded systems that require software. OP wants a piano/digital keyboard that uses open source software.
I don’t think it exists (I don’t know of any). The software for these systems is going to be highly coupled to the feature set of that digital piano and the benefit of modifying the software is low. So it’s unlikely someone has made a open source digital piano.
If it exists its either a very small project, a manufacturer has chosen to release their software as open source or an adaptation of keyboard/synthesizer software. Although many libraries for such software are likely open source.
If you want a for-real free device your bes bet is a RISC-V Single Board Computer. RISC-V is open architecture meaning no hardware level spyware built Into Intel’s chips.
Chris over at explaining computers managed to get kdenlive to render a video with one and some other cool stuff, you should check it out
Ram is pretty much your limiting factor. I run the latest version of Debian on a machine from 2008 but it only has 1.8GB of ram so for a desktop it is a little sluggish.
Does musescore fit your needs? If you want a piano… you should probably get a midi input keyboard. If you don’t need 88 keys and real-time playing, you can deal with less octaves.
I really like LXQt for VMs. It is lightweight and fast enough to provide a very snappy environment, even beating out something like XFCE. With LXQt I get the minimally viable desktop environment with a panel, notification handler, etc.
Though most recently I have been using XFCE specifically because its notification widget gives me more info in the preview.
we could have more merging of projects, like xfce and mate, both trying the same thing, both started with the same goal(keep the old gnome style) but both need help, why don’t work together?
edit: xfce is old than gnome 3 so i was wrong sorry, but more collaboration on apps that both need is interesting
What? Please no. XFCE is its own thing. It is not old GNOME. They are both GTK based so a little collaboration on apps they both need would be interesting. Beyond that, they are different projects—like GNOME and KDE. BTW, there is also an “old” KDE called Trinity.
yeah, even KDE dev said about it on their blog, that they gonna stick with their own library but it’s possible to port KDE to work on wlroots in the future, so theur don’t spend so much time in something that only them work(btw kde work very closely to wlroots anyway)
XFCE and LXDE are nice in their own right. I used to run xfce and lxde on my laptops and netbooks. Those bottom of the barrel, underpowered, bargain bin machines hummed. At the time though HiDPI support was weak still (at least for xfce) so they never made it to my desktop. Didn’t like many multi-sized monitors. I assume this is a problem of the past now.
Longtime Debian and Arch veteran here. I moved most of my workstations to Silverblue earlier this year (maybe 8 months ago now), and I’ve been very happy overall.
There is a bit of a learning curve if you aren’t familiar with Flatpak or container-based workflows, assuming you wish to embrace those elements, but the curve is nowhere near as steep or unconventional as NixOS.
I love the automated updates. The flexibility to rebase or rollback the core OS on the fly, without any extra work, is great too. For example, it’s very easy to test out beta releases, remixes, and preconfigured software bundles like uBlue.
I still use Arch for 99% of my command line tasks, inside a container managed by distrobox.
I strongly believe that Flatpak is the future of Linux software deployment, and although the format still has its kinks, it is already quite mature and will only get better as more and more upstream developers adopts its use.
Installs mint. Connects to wifi at work. Prompted with a window that wants me to specify certificate versions or whatever. No clue about what any of it means and never get to connect. Uninstalled and back to Windows. Mint so easy to use /s 👍
Yeh and apparently Lemmy folks down votes legit bad experiences with gnu/Linux. If you think the user is the problem here, this community seriously have a problem if thet want gnu/Linux to be mainstream.
People here really do need to realize how little the average user is willing to tinker and troubleshoot. Not to mention the software availability. Saying “it’s soooo easy to switch over” is just blatantly false, even now. The vast, vast majority of gamers play games with incompatible anti-cheat. Those people will likely not stop playing the games they want to because of moral values or Foss whatever’s. Same with software. Sure, krita or gimp are easy as hell to pick up, but if you’ve lived your whole life with Photoshop, and have no problem other than the usual adobe bullshit, you’re not gonna switch to an is with zero possibility of supporting that app any time soon.
I can’t offer a solution to fix linux’s issues, but there needs to be a community willing to answer the most basic questions honestly.
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