Guenther_Amanita @ Guenther_Amanita @feddit.de

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I think what you mean with "neat" is the desktop environment (DE), which hugely defines how a distro looks like.
Most major distros (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.) have have the most major ones.

Here's my post about distro choices if you're interested, since it's mostly more about DE choice: https://feddit.de/post/9087676

yeah yeah there's flathub and stuff but that's more of a last resort, optimally, you want to get it the correct way.

Dude, there is no correct or wrong way. Many prefer Flatpaks, because they ship with all they need and work on every distro.

Also, you can just use Distrobox on any distro and use anything you want.

But calling Arch easier than Zorin or similar is just wrong.

OP still didn't describe in which aspect the images are bad.
Stacking (at least with astro software) only reduces noise, but even with stuff like focus stacking you can't turn a bad picture magically into a great one.
Especially since you need to plan that in advance and shoot under specific controlled conditions.

There's a reason why I always shoot in the shutter roll mode with my digital camera. When I have 5 pictures at once, there's always at least one that is sharp.
Playing safe is the number one rule of photography, hence why we always underexpose for example, since you can always rescue a too dark image, but if it's blown out white, you can't do anything.
Same with camera shake, focus, and so on. Even with all the AI shit and stuff, you just can't rescue some pictures.

I wrote a second comment in the section here with better instructions.

OP still didn't describe in which aspect the images are bad.
Stacking (at least with astro software) only reduces noise, but even with stuff like focus stacking you can't turn a bad picture magically into a great one.

There's a reason why I always shoot in the shutter roll mode with my digital camera. When I have 5 pictures at once, there's always at least one that is sharp.
Playing safe is the number one rule of photography, hence why we always underexpose for example, since you can always rescue a too dark image, but if it's blown out white, you can't do anything.
Same with camera shake, focus, and so on. Even with all the AI shit and stuff, you just can't rescue some pictures.

I wrote a second comment in the section here with better instructions.

OP still didn't describe in which aspect the images are bad.
Stacking (at least with astro software) only reduces noise, but even with stuff like focus stacking you can't turn a bad picture magically into a great one.

There's a reason why I always shoot in the shutter roll mode with my digital camera. When I have 5 pictures at once, there's always at least one that is sharp.
Playing safe is the number one rule of photography, hence why we always underexpose for example, since you can always rescue a too dark image, but if it's blown out white, you can't do anything.
Same with camera shake, focus, and so on. Even with all the AI shit and stuff, you just can't rescue some pictures.

I wrote a second comment in the section here with better instructions.

Another comment from my side: I think it would be best if you share some of the images, or at least describe what problems they have.

• Is the resolution not high enough? --> Try Upscayl
• Are they blurry? --> Good luck. Rescuing blurry pictures, either because of motion blur or lack of focus, is the hardest/ almost impossible thing in photography. You could try some "AI" tools, depending on how sharp the image is, but they usually suck.
• Are they noisy? --> Maybe try Topaz Denoise (paid and proprietary) or GIMP/ Darktable (FOSS, but not exactly as sophisticated or quick). Sadly, canceling out noise usually results in a "watercolor" look if overdone.
• Or do yo just want to recover information? -> Increase contrast, sharpness and middle tones.

Either way, since you asked specifically in c/Linux (which I find a bit unfitting personally, better ask in c/Photography), I can recommend 3 Tools:

• GIMP of course, maybe with plugins, for general editing, and Darktable for post-processing (color grading, sharpening, etc.) your images. The latter one works best with RAW images, which you probably don't have since you shot on a phone.
• Upscayl for Pixel interpolation (usually doesn't increase sharpness, just the pixel count if yo want to crop more or print a poster at higher resolution).
• And maybe Huggingface, which also offers quite some image processing AI stuff.

But as I said, please provide some pictures, or at least more information. Just saying "muh pics bad" is almost worthless for me.

+1 from my side. I use Siril constantly to improve the signal-to-noise-ratio of my astro photos.

But I highly doubt that the photos OP described were shot in RAW and under the exact same conditions

It now works, thanks!
Just as a small note, you have to export the .svg-drawing as .jpeg first, otherwise, it might lead to legibility-issues.

Read my post if you want to know more: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

You can build your own image easily using uBlue.
You change the system from top to bottom, not bottom to bottom like on traditional distros. Read my post if you want to know more: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

I sadly can't open it. If I click on the link, it leads me to the main page, and if I search for it, then the post doesn't open. Is that intended? I'm on mobile (Firefox) if that matters.

Definitely go for it. Just rebase (after reading what it brings) and see if you like it.
I personally see uBlue-main (with the DE of your choice) just as a minor "fix" of the OG Atomic.

You can try out different MacOS-like themes.
There were quite a few options/ flags for Mac theming in the documentation, and after looking at some screenshots, I find them quite similar and fitting.

Here are two popular ones: First and another one

You can switch to uBlue Budgie, which has Distrobox already baked in instead of Toolbx, with other QoL stuff also added too.

You can use my post as reference: https://feddit.de/post/9087676

You can use any distro you want for gaming. Maybe try to choose a more popular one, niche distros like Nobara often aren't as secure as major ones.

Very good read, thanks a lot!

I wanted to post one myself like yours, but now, I can just upvote yours and focus on other content.

As for Toolbx, I personally would recommend Distrobox instead, since it has more features, including the distrobox-export -a yourapp function, which creates shortcuts on your home screen for GUI apps.

I also began to prefer Arch as container over others, since I use zsh with the Arch plugin. Pacman and the AUR are both very minimalist, fast and great.

Right now, I don't want to use Budgie yet, due to the lack of Wayland support. When it is there, I will give it a try.

Since you have already used some distros, and aren't the "normal" case, I can't send you a link to my "Distros for noobs"-post I normally send to those questions.

I think you would benefit from image based distros, especially Fedora Atomic. Here's a link to my post explaining immutable distros: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

What comes to my mind in your case is Secureblue.
It's a Fedora Atomic spin that's focused on security and privacy, which has many hardening-tweaks applied, e.g. better sandboxing, memory allocator and an hardened kernel. It also offers Gnome as DE and still allows you to enjoy most freedoms other distros have.

Definitely check that out!

I have to admit that I didn't read everything thoroughly, but the issues you described with some distros seem to be more related to the DE or minor missing pre-installed software than the distro itself (e.g. package manager).

Here's a link to a post I recently made, maybe you can make some use out of it, even though you aren't a total beginner: https://feddit.de/post/9087676

I think you would be happy with either plain Debian (feels a bit more conservative) or Fedora Atomic, especially uBlue.
The latter one is more up-to-date and is part of a new family of distros, called image based distros ("immutable").
It's pretty much impossible to break and you can switch between different spins (DE variants) super easily if you aren't sure yet what to pick.

Both have a huge lot of DEs available, including Pantheon (the desktop of ElementaryOS, which is not based on Gnome btw), Gnome (which you can modify yourself how you want it to be) or Cinnamon, which sounds ideal for you.

Generally speaking, you're right.
But Bazzite is different. It's built on uBlue/ Fedora Atomic and therefore barely needs maintenance, both for the devs and the users. Keeping a distro secure and updated is a huge burden normally, but here, it's done from upstream via Github-actions.

Also, community wise, it already has a big one AND Fedora Atomic guides also apply to that, e.g. install scripts.

Another pro is that the Nvidia drivers are baked into the image, so if they break, they're instantly fixed by the devs, because then everyone has a broken system. But that's no problem, since you can just roll back in seconds.

For a pure gaming focused device like this one, a special distro makes sense. You'll get a better experience and performance compared to Mint for example, due to kernel patches, built in tools, etc.

+1 for Fedora Atomic. uBlue is pretty much vanilla Silverblue/ any other spin, but with some QoL stuff included.

You can't get a more reliable base on a relatively stable (in terms of update frequency), yet modern platform.