openSUSE Tumbleweed is great and all, but have you tried openSUSE Aeon/formerly MicroOS Desktop (based on TW)? Don't really wanna go back to traditional Linux Desktops at this point.
I hate articles like this, so let's go through it.
1: Fair, but it undermines how much you can tune Windows and MacOS, they are not nearly as set in stone as people think.
2: Completely true and based.
3: There is a Linux way of doing things, and there are many things that follow from that, like not being able to do advanced admin task without a command line, unlike on Windows. Lock-in also refers more to stuff like hardware lock in for MacOS not just the OS not having an option to change something.
4: Kinda fair, if you use the right distro with the right settings, but in my experience you still have to reboot semi-often.
5: I don't get this one, Wine is on MacOS and Windows has WSL(g), so I don't see how you are ahead on Linux at all.
6: This is kinda dumb kinda not dumb, Ignores the AppStore, WinStore, winget and other tools common on these OSs.
7: Ok, I'm good on this. People have some pretty sick Wallpaper engine and raindrop setups on Windows as well.
8: Nah, I don't know what you are talking about there mate. based on my last few install sessions for laptops there are plenty of stuff that is glitchy as all hell.
Valve has certainly given linux a boost with the SteamDeck and all the work they've funded to make it a viable gaming platform. I just hope they release SteamOS for all platforms soon, maybe we'll see an uptick in PC pre-builds with SteamOS as an option instead of just Windows.
It requires too much fuckery to really do it on RPi. But on x86, it's the most reliable distro I tried. You can even switch stable/unstable branches without running into issues.
God I hope not. Especially not snap, it’s so painful and slow. AppImage works fine enough I guess. I don’t want an ecosystem where more and more developers go with these only and neglect being able to install at a system level.
That is unfortunately the future because maintaining packages for a million different distros is painful to say the least. The best you can hope for is native packages for the top 10 distros. Everyone else will have to deal with flatpak.
Doesn't that just depend on whether or not the people maintaining are happy with the flatpak experience? If they're not, they'd probably keep maintaining their packages.
In my eyes, this adds another potential point of failure outside the control of the developer of a given tool.
On the contrary. The Fedora maintainers saved all their Audacity users when audacity introduced a spyware in their build. The flatpak had the spyware for months while the Fedora release of audacity was made secure by the maintainers. I value this, if you remove the people doing it then you remove value for everyone. It all comes down to how much you value your privacy.
Windows has a fantastic model where every software just work. It's great! The result is an abomination of devs stealing your data or doing whatever mess on your computer. "Free software" was synonymous of red alerts and we used programs like Adaware or whatever cleaner software. Each months there was another new cleaner utility. When was the last time you cleaned your distro?
Try to expand the scale of flatpak and you'll see that you will hit the same problems that any other distro.
I don't really see Fedora maintainting a patched version of audacity as a fault of Flatpak, though.
Flathub is designed to allow developers to publish their own software in the way they intended. So Flathub and Flatpak are doing exactly what they're designed to do
Well, I can't give you a better example of the effect of auditing softwares for your desktop. One source, Fedora, had the app patched, while the other, official on flathub, published the flawed version on purpose.
You'd prefer to run the flatpak version of audacity with the spyware on? I don't buy that.
Flathub is designed to allow developers to publish their own software in the way they intended. So Flathub and Flatpak are doing exactly what they're designed to do
Okay, so it's another way to phrase that you really preferred the version of flatpak with the spyware, since it's the version intended by Audacity. With flatpak and flathub you are alone.
Fedora and their maintainers offer you a layer of no-nonsense, you should think twice before writing it off. I don't think that you fully realize the quality of what you have right now in your hands in term of desktop. Popularity has a price and Windows users paid the price for it.
I've also been on immutable Fedora for a while, and the biggest complaint I have is that I need to reboot after removing software from the base system. Otherwise I quite like Flatpak for the ability to set granular permissions per app. KDE even has Flatseal built into the settings app now, which is super nice.
System76 just sells rebranded Clevo/Sager laptops, at least for now, so as long as those chassis are available in Europe I can't imagine it'd make shipping too much worse. If it does, though, there's always Tuxedo, which I believe is based in Germany.
Also see asec.ahnlab.com/en/54647/ which links to Ahnlabs more technical description. Seems like it breaks in by guessing passwords and trying to log in via SSH.
One thing I suggest is:
You're trying to get something working but it isn't going anywhere? Try again later.
First, because of the obvious calming down, since stress can affect the person's capacity to solve problems.
Second, I've noticed how many things on Linux have some degree of similarity and/or relation to one another. So trying other things in the meantime can give you the needed insight for solving a previous problem.
And don't skip over reading things! I also run Arch with KDE and honestly with almost all problems I have, if I carefully read through either the Arch Wiki (this will probably be your most valuable tool) or the error message that comes up, the answer is usually in there somewhere, it just needs digging up.
Also: if something with a GUI crashes and doesn't give an error message, try running it in the terminal. So like, if Firefox crashes and doesn't give any info, try opening up a terminal and running firefox from there and the terminal will tell you everything that's going on. (It'll be a different command if you're using a flatpak but that's the general idea.)
I'll probably need a few more lines in Python, but I can do everything i want and don't have to deal with the cryptic syntax. I once had to use awk because some extra pigheaded sysadmin refused to install Python on an AIX machine. Glad i don't work there any more.
Python isn't really a fantastic drop-in replacement for them, IMHO, though there is some overlap.
There are a bunch of Unix tools that let one concisely put a lot of logic into a single command line. They lower the bar to throwing a lot of logic into that single line.
Python's whitespace-sensitive and requires newlines. I guess theoretically you could use a HEREDOC or something, but realistically, if you use Python, you're going to go author a throwaway script and then execute it, which raises the bar to just including it in your command lines.
I think that Perl is probably closer to a middle ground between "application-oriented programming languages" and "single command line use". I think that it'd be reasonable to simply use perl -pie as an alternative to awk especially, though having sed's conciseness is still nice.
it's not that important if you know what you're doing and don't break your distro.
That may be true for intermediate level users.
Let's go about it this way: Arch for sure is the mutable distro that requires the least fiddling when using it for many years. Much less than any distro that doesn't roll and/or relies on 3rd party repos could ever achieve. Arch only ever has very small hiccups, almost never actually breaks. And yet, after the hundredst time of upgrading the keyring first, recompiling some AUR package because some library changed under its butt or whatever tiniest annoyance, you grow tired of it.
After a decade of usage you know all these things, you have explored every nook and cranny of your OS, the excitement for messing about is over. You just want your computer to take care of itself, because there's nothing entertaining/surprising/interesting in it anymore.
An then an immutable distro becomes very attractive. You get an OS that does its thing, no manual intervention required at all. You can concentrate on the stuff you want/need to do. The OS is not the joyful toy with productivity benefits anymore, just a plain tool. Also here and there you may finally discover some interesting new kinds of bugs or challenges that arise from the new paradigma of containerizing literally everything.
Hobestly, I can respect that. They seem to be fairly open about the motivations of that decision and who it's targeted it without devolving into vague fluffy corporate speech too much. You can sense the author was a bit pissed by the reactions.
And I do agree that many of the reactions to the news seemed overblown and I think the actions make sense from their point of view without being super shady, even if it still has some negative repercussions for the open source world as well.
I agree as well. People are well within their rights to refrain from using current/future products completely and voice their frustration, but there's also this undercurrent of people who want to be as vitriolic as possible and try to twist the knife on the way out of the door. It reeks of insecurity and an inability to regulate their emotions.
There's a kind of similar undercurrent/echo chamber in certain areas of the fediverse around Reddit as well, and I say this is a person who was actively using teddit pre-APIgate and has drastically reduced my reddit-browsing time as of late. Changing all of your comments to expletives about the current CEO is not as revolutionary or well-received as most people think it is
That’s because they stab us in the chests while smiling about it. People are fed up and trying to lash out - it’s hard to injure faceless orgs otherwise.
Corporations like IBM have been twisting the knife for years and according to you, it’s only a problem when people do it…
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