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  • Yes, I know. She has a Framework Chromebook? Or do you actually run ChromeOS Flex on a Framework?

    Both options are... interesting XD

    Yes I would enable complete auto upgrades for the container. Maybe that could be hacked a bit by placing desktop entries somewhere.

    Linux apps are running in a virtual machine that runs a Container. But they have access to storage, so it is relevant.

    But I agree that ChromeOS is really well made. But a Tracking Hell full of Google too.

    FydeOS is the only one you can use with a local account. Not even Android sucks that much.

  • You can? And then it still launches the Plasma session?

    That may be an XOrg thing, which Fedora dropped. But the apps could still run on Xorg.

  • Hm, the compositor stuff just works

    The packages also dont interfere with others, probably? So on Fedora, just add the COPR and try them

    COSMIC is extremely stable. I had a single crash or something, and that was a while ago. It is mainly just lacking features, but that is likely already at least as good as most Window Managers like Sway, that are extremely barebones.

  • No way. Then better use FydeOS.

    Note that while ChromeOS is really really nice, beautiful and intuitive, it has like no support for running apps normally. You get Android apps and Debian in a container.

    The performance sucks, you should setup unattended-upgrades.

    But yeah, after that it could be great. If they never touch the terminal they cant break anything.

    And while you can run Android and debian browsers (I tried Android Mull and Brave, and Debian Firefox and Brave both from their official repos), Chrome is always there and mostly the default I think.

  • Bluefin is GNOME on Fedora. It always changes and breaks stuff, Extensions maybe for the last time (was the change of how they should be written already?)

    CentOS Bootc will be SO great. It will be the atomic rock stable workhorse that never ever breaks.

    Also CentOS Stream 10 will get Plasma 6 afaik

  • And in KDE you can tweak it how you like.

    Save the Wifi passwords unencrypted to the system, then you can use autologin without needing KWallet

  • Absolutely.

  • Cosmic is already more usable than most Window managers, that literally just manage Windows.

    I mean, it has apps... and GUI settings...

    There is a guy called Ryan Brue that packages all the COSMIC apps. He created a SIG and in the channel there are some COSMIC Devs helping out.

    There is a uBlue variant with COSMIC, working pretty great.

    COSMIC just breaks KDE Apps a bit. Will have to see if some package may fix them, as they are so themable that missing packages make them use aome shitty fallback theme.

  • Dude I recommend you to watch a few Youtube videos about what is a desktop, a window manager and a distro ;)

    No, you cant get i3 on Plasma.

  • I found that out way too late, but luckily didnt need root.

    Yes, AOSP sucks, but at least its damn secure

  • I mean I could list you at least 5 things that kinda suck on Fedora Atomic. But yes the core principle is so much better.

  • Multiple reasons why this is not a good option.

    • no fwupd
    • no flatpak
    • still requires sudo
    • mint uses XOrg and is very limited
  • I mean...

    They have GUI system upgrades, this is kind of a pain in Debian

    Okay, now I updated 12 laptops from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and...

    • it always hangs at "swap deb Thunderbird with snap", like, always. 12 times.
    • the wallpaper is gone after the upgrade, every single time
    • there are like 10 buttons to click
    • you need to be a sudo user (the updater shows but just vanishes when being a nonsudoer!)
    • on 2 machines some random repo issues caused a silent error. Needed to apt update in the terminal, fixed
    • there are tons of snap packages, and all are outdated, yay! Installing those on a sudo account causes them to fail on the nonsudo account.

    Damn this is bad. And this is like, the best of the best distros?

    Doubt that. Fedora Atomic has way more potential, while only being user friendly as uBlue.

  • I never got clipboard sharing working, on Fedora 40 KDE on Wayland. Probably a Wayland issue.

  • I think VBox is more user friendly? Virt-manager would need a GTK4 (?) update and a few UX improvements.

  • I tried ChromeOS today, and while it looks awesome, has some really great UI elements and integrations, I would still say uBlue with KDE Plasma comes close to it.

    I would prefer sane atomic updates though, like twice a month. Fedora is not that good in that regard, you want to update every day as you get fixes every day.

    Also, OCI images are consuming tons of bandwidth currently, so ostree is still better.

  • The app is called "carla" and is a plugin host for jack plugins that works with Pipewire

  • So you dont know german, this changes some things.

    The person explains

    • Alsa
    • pulseaudio
    • jack
    • pipewire
    • audio hardware
    • jack plugins
    • common types of audio modulation (compression, limiting, amplifying, equalizing,...)
    • how pipewire combines all of those