Its not like they’re blocking all contributions, if it was more than niche, they wouldnt ignore the needs of other big players. I’m not fully across it, but the BSDs still make more use of xorg and maintain their own trees IIRC.

I really only saw headlines about Xlibre, hadnt followed up on it

The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

I agree Gnome 3+ is bad, but we do need modern components and honestly when the next biggest player in these things in Canonical with there NIH / throw it over the fence and like it attitude, I know which I’d prefer. Especially when these components truly are upstream projects, and they do indeed take community contributions.

almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to.

Yeah the xorg thing is shit for those that feel they still need it, but no one else really had the resources to maintain it. Its critical infrstructure, they can’t just hand it off until they’re done with it (RH10). Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it’ll end up like KwinFT.

I refuse to use Fedora (because it’s basically their testing bed)

interesting take

RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development

I’m interested in any examples you can provide of this

back to Monke

its really only /bin /usr, much of /etc is editable like normal. People hear read only system and freak out like its locked down. Most things I use are flatpak, or in a distrobox and there are now sys-exts that do a lot of what anyone could need

I started fiddling with toolbox and distrobox and really liked being able to install random stuff and build dependencies in those containers and then purge them when I was done. It keeps the system clean. The ostree distros take that mentality to the whole system.

I also then found I liked the appliance like nature and the ability to rebase. I will sometimes rebase to the rawhide branch to try new stuff out, and then rebase back to stable. I see some people feel the read only file system is going to be an issue, but I have not had to screw with it since the very early days. I truly believe this is where most distros should be headed.

I used Fedora KDE from 2012 to 2023, then I moved to Fedora Kinoite because I like the idea of atomic distros. Don’t know if that counts though since its mostly the same software, just delivered slightly differently (however you could argue that is the case for all distros)

My kids ask when I’m adding a movie to Jellyfin all the time

no, we have nano at home

in my terminal I press ctrl + r and then type the name of the machine

Does input-leap do what you need? I control my testing mac at work with input-leap

“we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect”

if you’re worried about the integrity of the sources you’re installing from why are you using app images? Use a repo, or flathub

Any of the ostree variants of Fedora, be they Fedora Official or downstream ones like the Universal Blue family

Fedora’s repo build has had this turned on for literally years

there is some change of workflow, but its not difficult. The benefits outweigh the changes or any perceived draw back IMHO

Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that “just works” no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?

You’ve given so little insight into your experience

My most recent hardware has been fine

• My framework 13 amd works perfectly with Fedora Kinoite.
• My Minisforum UM780XTX has been a great Steam console with Bazzite
• My desktop is a gigabyte x570 board with a ryzen 3700X and a 5700XT GPU, has been solid for years, running Fedora KDE and then Kinoite.
• My workstation at work is a HP 845 G11 and it works fine, also running Fedora Kinoite

In the past I’ve had thinkpads (an X1 carbon and a T485), also good choices

Over my 12 years of using Linux as my daily for work and home (and about 13 years of fiddling with it on and off before that), avoid realtek hardware, avoid nvidia gpus, avoid switchable graphics, avoid strange OEM feature devices. Check hardware for compatibility before you buy it. Stick to mainstream distros, not niche 1 man community distros. I’ve moved to immutable/atomic distros because they are harder to tinker with outside of user space, as historically tinkering is what got me into trouble, now I do that in a container away from my base OS.

I am always confused that such a stale distro is so highly recommended

Good News Everyone!