Found the millenial

millenial? Some of us are now in our forties. We grew up in the format wars

sighs heavily in Australian

that’s the beauty of distros, those that want traditional package structure can still use a distro that does.

Even the current flatpak first distros like OSTree spins of Fedora (Silverblue, Kinoite et al) provide mutable containers for using any package format you like.

The flatpak size disadvantage is negligible in the age of terabytes

the issue is overstated as most flatpaks use the flatpak platform runtimes and share their own libraries in a similar manner to the host, yes its separate libraries, but its not dozens of disparate copies like some detractors of flatpak seem to state

Sorry I didn’t see a notification for this.

It’s a different work flow installing software. Flatpak first mentality, then install stuff in a Toolbox container, if that doesn’t work layer the rpm.

Being able to rebase has been helpful, I’ve based forward to rawhide a few times to try new packages and then rebase back to stable.

You lose things like being able to use packages out of copr, but used to only really use that to test new versions of KDE. However the devs created a branch for KDE testing anyway, so nothing lost.

Happy to answer any specific questions you might have

Don’t know if this counts - used Fedora KDE for about a decade and then last year moved to Fedora Kinoite. It’s essentially the same, but is OSTree based and immutable. I like the solid base, the rebasing function and containers

Check out Distrobox or Toolbox

Good talk on the subject Benno is very engaging

My private tracker has multiple transmission versions on their approved list 🤷‍♂️

Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job

Pipewire has been great, except for some edge cases

Still got passthrough issues 2years later

it is my understanding that our sucky Assistance and Access Act, is fundamentally different, it compels developers provide back doors where it will not systemically undermine the system. To my understanding the UK one requests “breaking” e2ee in its entirely - which is why services like Signal were considering full exiting the region?

If governments the world over were as obsessed with solving things like the climate crisis and cost of living as they are with undermining encryption techs, we’d be living in a utopia by now.

They tried this here in Australia, luckily for us it got voted down. Iirc there’s been other countries trying the same BS

It doesn’t even need to be a script you could just alias the 2 commands on a single line to a command in bashrc

People who hate them have never driven them

Yes… Microsoft hearts Linux… When it runs in azure selling CPU cycles or maybe WSL

Move to silverblue/kinoite and when the urge to use another DE just rebase the OStree to the other branch - Silverblue for Gnome, Kinoite for KDE, Sericea for sway, Vauxite for xfce and there are some other not yet official branches for other DEs on Quay

Similarly if nvidia wanted me to buy their cards they’d get their drivers sorted out. While plugging in an amd card just works with literally no setup from me, nvidia will get no money from me

You can get usb-c aux adapters that split off a charge port too, they aren’t very expensive either

Red Hat 6 on the front of a magazine in 2000 which was an interesting curiosity, and then a Fedora Core 2 live disc my university lecturer was handing out in 2004.