Try explaining this to my idiot employer. They recently deployed Teamviewer to all company computers.

Gtk on Gnome vs Qt on Kde. I tried bottles. it’s fine. I can live without it given we now have a decent Lutris and Heroic

80% Lemmy, 20% reddit with rdx app.

That does make sense for such use cases, however I feel that archinstall script is also mature enough, allowing you to have config files even. Even w/o them it still has very powerful defaults. I will def give nixos a try in a VM first, as I mostly rely on flatpak and landlock anyways.

TBH I would switch to Nix, from my current long standing arch, but it wouldn’t make any difference to me ultimately. Cool concept though, but I don’t really care much about these immutable distros.

no one likes a smart guy. you can keep your dot files /s

Or any compact pc like gigabyte brix, nucs, lenovos , etc. you can get those for 70-200 on ebay and they are amazing for running any homelab projects, including stream services like jellyfin with hardware decoding.

don’t get me wrong. it’s definitely on my top 2 , however getting timely android updates is nice and the improvements are nice to have. You don’t really need them and given current ai centered updates, I can’t say they are that meaningful anymore, however pixels have android 15 and will be getting 16 soon, with that whole DeX thingy, while fairphone is releasing statement about how they will skip 14, so their flagship is still on 13… Not great.

I was/am definitely considering fairphone as a full european alternative, however it seems they are also plagued by support issues and delays and pixels are still the best way to go, unfortunately.

Wish I could do that when my school computers had Dos and Turbo Pascal. Ah, the good old himem.sys times. Miles better than W11.

redhat 5.5

Wifi? imagine trying to get pci modems working and basically compiling your kernel each time you’d need an obscure driver. usb didn’t even exist and external ones were both expensive af and running on serial ports.

good times honestly. I learned so much about linux.

there’s Zen also. that also has normie defaults, however the drastically changed UI/Uxmight not be for everyone.

I have fully switched my arch to flatpak only( for user installs obviously). There are still some apps missing features like anything requiring secure credential storage (i.e tutanota) , but for the most part using flatpaks has been an amazing experience, if you can live with the increased required storage needs.

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my cousin had this issue with her 4a and advised her to switch to graphene. not sure if that will do much, but at least 4a still had extended legacy support.

I don’t understand the hype with Bazzite. I mean, any linux is better than windows and Bazzite is just linux with bloat and a bad one at that.

my experience with Bazzite: install, use LACT to attemp a small overclock, crash, reboot, lots of packagers missing from distro, uninstall, went back to vanilla Arch.

immutable distros are just a hype and nothing more.

I’ve been an arch user for years and recently switched to Cachy cause of performance promises and curiosity. I did use their repos before in arch,but I ended up with a mess and instead of fixing the mess I decided to wipe the slate clean.

It’s a decent distribution ,like most,but it did offer me 0 stutters in Path of Exile 2. With Arch I had so many stutters for some reason that it was really unplayable. I think anancy-cpp or kernel schedulers, or everything combined, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Anyway, fire up a vm, or install on baremetal and decide for yourself .

it’s a very interesting distribution. it feels and probably is slightly faster than arch, with their optimised packages (I had v3), but to be honest you have to rely on their prebuilt binaries and I prefer flatpaks.

I used it for ~ 3 months, but eventually went back to arch and flatpaks (using flatpaks on cache defeats the purpose of having v3/v4 packages, until someone starts bundling optimised dependencies ).

I prefer the originals always, but it is a viable alternative if you enjoy a friendly installer (their Anaconda is very nice).

I don’t understand why you are being downvoted. that is simply the truth.

I have been using an iphone 12 pro for the past 3 weeks ,while my pixel 6 is getting its battery replaced and it’s been painful.

i’m missing a lot of apps, the ones I do find are limited or asking for monthly subscriptions.

i am unable to play a downloaded mp3 unless i go through hoops&hurdles .

i am no longer able to watch a youtube video without ads (unless I do 3 steps of passing them to adguard), or using sponsorblock ( i am on ios 18.2, otherwise I would have jail broken it to oblivion).

android is simpy better in terms of freedom. IF or when it’ll become a locked garden like ios, it’ll truly be a sad day for the mobile world.