erwan

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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are a few improvements in Aurora over Silverblue that you might like.

It ships with homebrew which is perfect for CLI tools.

It ships with distrobox instead of toolbx which is much better. You can install any distro while toolbx is just a Fedora. For example I'm using Arch in toolbox because of the number of packages and the fact that they're usually up to date (no need to wait for a major release).

So far I never had to use rpm-ostree, and for VSCode I use distrobox precisely because of the permissions.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (9 children)

For me atomic distributions are the way to go.

You get a rock solid base system that get updated automatically, and every single user has the same image so you can't get into a bug that's only reproduced on your system because of your combination of system packages. If for any reason you have a problem with an image update, you can always boot on the previous image from grub.

Then user apps come on top of that, and can't break the base system.

I know you tried Kinoite and got stuck, but there is always a way to unblock yourself and install what you want. If it's not in flatpak there is homebrew (for CLI), and if it's in neither there is distrobox. You can also do a rpm-ostree for native packages if all the others fail.

You can also check universal blue, Aurora in particular if you want KDE. It's based on Fedora Silverblue but with an improved out-of-the-box experience.

https://universal-blue.org/

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Yes, as a Gen X I'm sometimes surprised how tech illiterate some of my generation are...

Then I remember when we were kids and people like me using computers were seen as weird geeks and "normal people" wouldn't get close to a computer.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I have a new PC with a blank hard drive, what should be the install order?

Windows, then rEFInd, then Linux?

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's legal in US but not in most other countries

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

It's sad how you recognize that Apple tactics to artificially keep their users captive is working for you.

I would rather suffer an inconvenience than recognizing I'm captive of a company.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago
[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, Google back in the day was a great company. They were focused on putting the best product for consumer, supported open standards, kept ads at a minimum... A bit like Valve today. They really were "good guys".

Then I'm not sure what happened, they stopped caring and left the MBAs in charge maybe.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

vscode without any extension is very performant.

It's easy to get better performance when you don't have features.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They make the contrast smaller because they don't go over the bump. Also they can integrate it more seemlessly than this sharp 90 degrees angle.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes Mozilla is a good example. They're run like any other Silicon Valley company and spend more in C-suite develop their damn product.

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