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woelkchen, 1 year ago

It’s literally a distribution of an operating system that uses the Linux kernel, therefore a Linux distribution.

It’s, for example, not a Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Yast on openSUSE does this and is maintained.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

I’ll keep looking.

But why? Not being the default doesn’t mean that Gnome isn’t available. As both are Fedora derivatives, both should have good Gnome support inherited from Fedora anyway. As the changelog says, only a handful of Gnome Shell extensions will no longer be provided in the Nobara repository but instaling them manually from extensions.gnome.org is a breeze.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Well, Nobara is a gaming-oriented distribution and as the changelog outlines, does Plasma currently offer technological benefits. As is the case with everything, this isn’t set in stone and might change at some point but right now the main target audience for paid development work for Gnome are corporate users where for Plasma it’s being Desktop Mode for Steam Deck.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

if you don’t keep a rolling release up-to-date regularly (like once a week), packages start to break.

Those are packaging bugs then. With proper packaging everything updates seamslessly. Outside of SteamOS I’m not a user of Arch-derived distributions but I am a user of openSUSE TW which is a rolling release and I have one old notebook for a specific task I need to do maybe twice a year and updating was never a problem and installing a package triggers updating all affected dependencies.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Currently LXC Incus is more active than Canonical LXD.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

I though it was being relicensed under agpl?

The answer is in the submitted blog post.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

There’re discussions to drop the X11 backend with the release of GTK 5.

A question of what will happen to the X11 backend is not the same as an active push for the removal of X11 just for the sake of it, as it was claimed.

Chances are at least the Valve side of Wine development work will not care for Wine’s X11 support either after SteamOS will only run Proton natively on Wayland instead of XWaxland as is the case now.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Yes but I don’t know what you don’t understand. One-directional flow of FLOSS licenses?

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Billionaires don’t care about people. They don’t view others as human.

Whereas peophiles and forces sex labor apologists are super empathetic.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Fedora Silverblue

Just FYI: universal-blue.org/images/bazzite/ It’s based on Silverblue but with gaming as primary focus.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

There are several forms of anticheat. The ones that just run when the game is running, is usually fine. However, there is the Riot anti cheat which just runs all the time and isn’t uninstalled when Valorant is uninstalled. That is malware.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Does Intel sell wifi cards that use USB rather than PCI slots?

AFAIK the problem is that the chip itself was only developed with the PCI protocol in mind.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

USB tethering should look on the PC just like plugging an Ethernet cable.

woelkchen, 2 years ago (edited 1 year ago)

I can absolutely confirm it’s still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset

Yeah, and I was explicitly writing about recent chips. RTL8812AU isn’t recent. The very latest Windows driver is from 2018, so the chip itself was released a good while before that.

I know exactly what you had to go through because I had to do the same with mine a couple of years ago but since then for newer chips Realtek started contributing to Linux itself:

• phoronix.com/…/Realtek-RTW88-WiFi-Linux-Driver
• www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-802.11ax-rtw89

which left me without the internet I need

USB tethering your WiFi-connected phone would have worked as stop gap just as well. I had to do that a lot.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

It’s a virtual environment that requires installation of an entire Linux system. The disk and memory usage is not comparable to a native Unix OS.

Everything uses some sort of “virtual environment” these days. It’s not bloat, it’s the norm. homebrew does not use native macOS libraries except the very low level stuff. It handles its own dependencies. “Regular” macOS applications usually bundle their dependencies inside the .app folder bundle. On Linux, Flatpak installs its own dependencies. Heck, for whatever reason the Bazzite maintainers decided that installing Steam within a Arch Linux distrobox container is somehow preferable to the alternatives and Steam on Linux in turn uses “virtual environments” because the various Steam Linux Runtimes are specialized Ubuntu and Debian environments and every version of Proton is its own “virtual environment” of Windows.

I’ve bought a notebook almost exactly 10 years ago for €629 that had a 1TB hard drive and that I’ve upgraded to 16 or 24GB RAM for relatively little money (IIRC around €100). Sure, if you look at the insane prices that Apple asks for even a pathetic 8GB RAM / 256 GB SSD entry level MacBook, you surely want to avoid “bloat” but for many people in the regular x86 PC world a few “virtual environments” here and there don’t make a difference and aren’t considered bloat at all. If anything, for WSL users being able to run most unmodified Linux binaries is a benefit over relying on crappy ports of GTK to macOS and such because those ports of Linux software to macOS integrates so well…

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Having used both, I don’t find WSL comparable to macOS’s native unix shell.

I use Windows with openSUSE WSL, macOS with homebrew and “real” Linux.

Aside from the bloat of it

Which bloat? It’s just a regular terminal.

WSL 2 will behave similarly to a virtual machine

That’s not so much different from a sanboxed environment on native Linux where a Flatpak application can request file system access but not touch processes outside its sandbox. If anything, I prefer that I have all my regular openSUSE thingies (zypper, my own Build Service repository,…) available unmodified on Windows, whereas the macOS terminal (and I know that’s subjective) just feels off.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

I work in support, the amount of people I ask are you running windows 10 or 11 and don’t know the answer should be enough of an indicator that when they did upgrade, they barely noticed.

Those people don’t know the product names. That’s it. Obviously they noticed that the core piece of GUI interaction moved from left-aligned to centered, just as they notice when after an update a giant search bar appeared on the middle of the desktop.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

I would agree with the “Linux is an OS” people but they are the same ones who insist that Android isn’t Linux which is wrong.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

I hope that upsets you.

Weird fanboy

woelkchen, 2 years ago

I’m guessing that was meant to be a joke.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

GamePass is a service for mildly entertaining games (around 7/10 score). The better ones leave the service Netflix style all the time and for the games I’ve checked DLC was not included, so purchasing needed.

Destiny 2 fell down to mixed reception in recent months according to Steam. Most Sony PC games launch Steam Deck verified these days. Same for many other games. Since SteamOS is a Linux distribution, compatibility extends to other mainstream distributions.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Then I guess it’s a good thing they don’t control all other Linux distros.

But they would to a degree if the Snap Store would actually succeed becoming the Linux app store (like Steam is for games but that’s more because all other vendors don’t care to make a Linux client).

woelkchen, 2 years ago

If Fedora runs fine, I see no reason why openSUSE wouldn’t. Friends of mine use regular Manjaro with the same Framework. Just keep using openSUSE if that’s what you feel most comfortable with.

I used Silverblue for a bit but got very annoyed by its rpm-ostree command. I think it’s too complicated for a simple single user setup.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Because I want to get rid of windows I installed Nobara. I love to play games. I works pretty good, but since only one guy ist maintaining it, it should be not considered a daily driver.

Nobara is just a Fedora remix. I’ve used another remix a bunch of years ago and converting that to a regular Fedora installation after its maintainer left was just removing that addon repo and letting dnf handle the rest. I think I only needed to switch to Fedora’s branding packages.