That’s amazing!

I get it, I actually use the exact same distros you mention: Pop!_OS, Endeavour and Fedora.

Had the same experience with Pop!_OS: those few things that did not “just work” but needed tinkering caused quite some issues. And yeah, somewhat more bleeding edge than Ubuntu LTS is nice: to use neovim on the 22.04 base, I’d need to use distrobox or build vim from source, but on Fedora and Arch, it “just works”.

I liked Endeavour, though I haven’t really used it with a DE, I went with Sway. So hard to compare, but the manual sysadmin intervention everyone keeps talking about has been minimal. AUR is amazing, pacman is fast and sane.

I went to Fedora because it is bleeding edge enough, but seems better tested and more stable than Arch. Also wanted to see how BTRFS is setup on there and test the rollbacks. The codec stuff has been terrible though. Even after enabling RPMFusion and installing a bunch of them, the Fedora source Firefox still refuses to do video calls in MS Teams. I’m using Flatpak browsers now but downloading flatpak updates is way slower than even the worst package manager for “native” binaries. Feels a bit odd to have to use a Flatpak for the browser.

If I had to install a new pc today, I’d go EndeavourOS with KDE (which I’m using on Fedora now), BTRFS and systemd-boot. I got to know systemd-boot in Pop!_OS and have tried a different boot manager (rEFInd), but systemd-boot is amazing.

Genuine question: what is it about Fedora that keeps you coming back? I have also used Debian based and Arch based distros, as well as Fedora.

Ubuntu does not require the model either. It’s an optional service that Canonical offers. They just market it in a weird way (inside the package manager)

I’ve been trying to explain that choosing to pay for this “extended security service” this is completely unnecessary if you just upgrade your OS every few years.

I think the average Mint user is not a wealthy enterprise with tons of systems they don’t want to upgrade so they don’t need to consider this, whether it’s available for their distro or not.

IIRC, Canonical is using Ubuntu to push an “extended security maintenance” program or something like that.

These kinds of services are all the same. RedHat does it, Microsoft does it, many others too probably.

The idea is: (stop reading if any of these don’t apply)

• You are a huge enterprise with lots of money
• You have a lot of computers with a lot of complex, (manually tested and badly designed) programs/systems that are strongly coupled to and dependent on the specific configuration of those computers.
• Thus, you HATE upgrading all these computers to new OS versions
• You would love to pay a company to give you a sense of security by providing monthly security patches so you can keep using your old OS
• You don’t really mind that this is fundamentally flawed and insecure because the cost of upgrading to a new OS version is too great for you to pay: you’d rather take a subscription for removedty bandaid.

IIUC, yes

Wayland Nvidia compatibility will be here soon™ Nvidia drivers needed explicit sync, which was not supported in Wayland. However, explicit sync has been merged into the Wayland protocol and should be here shortly. Gnome 46.1 already ships with it.

I do not understand fully but maybe drivers need a bit of configuration too to use this? I’m not sure of all the steps but it should be here soon

Could be a (too) old version if you’re still on the Ubuntu 22.04 base

Yes but at least Hue (and IKEA and LIDL and many other brands’) lights work well with open Zigbee coordinators, like deconz and ZHA in Home Assistant.

I wish there were more Zigbee and Zwave and less WiFi IoT devices too. I don’t even have a Zwave coordinator because I never found anything I wanted with Zwave support.

My guess would be 3rd line from the bottom: a systemd service named gnome-terminal-server is being started. Why is it being started? Maybe it crashed and is set to always restart? Not sure.

I though Ctrl+Shift+T also worked to restore windows?

This is excellent! Each step can be Googled but for a quick summary:

A wine or proton prefix is like a small Windows filesystem inside your Linux. This is how you run most games. Steam normally hides this from you, but it does this exact thing: one proton prefix per game.

On Nobara and Fedora, you will not need to worry about duplicating files and wasting space at all: they use a very advanced filesystem which (among other things) does not actually repeat files but just goes “this file is the same as the earlier one, just read that” and saves on disk space that way. You don’t see this in the file explorer, you can just copy a file a hundred times but it will not consume a hundred times the disk space. Very cool stuff. And very useful with proton tricks.

That’s a solid criticism. Firefox + uBlock Origin or Librewolf are good desktop alternatives. But what’s the alternative on Android? Last time I checked, there wasn’t any on privacyguides.

Btw I do always turn off all their rewards and wallet stuff and follow most of the https://privacyguides.org recommendations.

Thanks for your help in making privacy-focused software available on Linux btw!

Fair point, but the engine is important.

I understand their blog post, and if I were to build a browser today, I’d probably do the same.

But that doesn’t mean this situation isn’t problematic. It’s similar to car-centric infrastructure: in this situation, for any individual, choice X makes sense, but that will make the situation even worse for the whole population. A cumulation of many tiny Prisoner’s Dilemmas.

Do you mean Safari?

Name one other browser that is not based on Chromium. If it is based on Chromium, it has to deal with what Google throws at them.

I say this as an enthusiastic Brave user. Brave is great at what it does currently, but the more terrible stuff Google builds into Chromium, the more patches they’ll have to maintain. This can make it harder to maintain their fork.

Worse than that, most Chromium-derivative users aren’t Brave users. Many web apps already don’t work as well with Firefox’ JavaScript Engine (Gecko) as they do with Chromium. This gives Google immense power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium

Happy to help! Hope we all didn’t overwhelm you too much and see you in !python@programming.dev , !programming@programming.dev , !learnpython@lemmy.ml

Good points all! I think OP, like me, is not afraid of manually messing with config, reading archwiki and getting your hands dirty.

But I would’ve never looked at dracut when setting up Arch. I’m really happy Endeavour set that up for me. It’s nice to have a good base. Btw, thus dracut also meant I didn’t have to do anything with the mkinitcpio change you are linking. Although I was reading the wiki, forum, and looking forward to it.

Excellent, I think you’ll love Arch. EndeavourOS provides a solid base with sane defaults. Having dracut set up out of the box prevents a lot of mistakes. Combining that with systemd-boot should be a reliable base.

As a Python dev, I think I may understand your desire to get away from Windows. I have often encountered Python tools and frameworks that don’t work on Windows but do on Unix (Linux and MacOS), like Flask, but can’t recall seeing the other way around.

If:

• Your laptop is still receiving security updates from Apple and is performing well,
• And your main focus now is to learn Python

I would not mess with it and just stick with MacOS.

If your laptop is no longer supported or it is getting too slow, or if you want to play around with Linux, that would be a good reason to move away from MacOS.