This is a very good point, and it’s one of the reasons I don’t use my old laptop as an always-on server.
This is a very good point, and it’s one of the reasons I don’t use my old laptop as an always-on server.
Plasma has a Win 11 menu clone as well, iirc. I forget what it’s called.
Oh, so it’s not just me either. It’s one of the reasons I’ll never install Ubuntu.
Oh, nice! Might give it a try myself!
Look into:
All are preconfigured for gaming. Bazzite and Nobara use the fsync kernel, not sure what Chimera uses, and Garuda uses the zen kernel.
Otherwise, Arch is still the most popular choice for gaming if you look at the statistics.
I see someone every now and again on !pop_os@lemmy.world asking about random Cosmic bugs, which is why I’m hesitant to recommend it to someone green.
I know Cosmic is there, but it’s not even in beta. I can’t yet recommend it in good conscience, especially for OP, who is new enough not to know the difference between a distro and a DE.
(And if you’re reading this, OP, that’s nothing to be ashamed of.)
The word you’re looking for is Desktop Environment (DE). KDE Plasma is one such DE. Distro is the underlying system.
To install any of them, search for the project and see if they have an installation guide for your distro. If not look up “how to install <DE> in Fedora.”
That’s very true. I think Bluefin might be a better choice. Good catch!
Maybe Aurora. It automatically updates, you can install everything via flatpak, and it’s pretty intuitive. Set up the admin account for you to do any maintenance, then set up a non-admin account for them to use.
It’s Atomic, though, so if you’re unfamiliar with ostree-based distros, it could be an admin headache for you when a problem arises.
Thanks, that’s awesome.
It’s great to see Linux projects getting some funding.
Doesn’t exist. You’d think that after several years of customers asking, they’d have one.
Their OVPN performance isn’t as good as WG, so it’s really just a backup solution in my mind.
But my main point is that there exist edge cases like that where “install it in a distrobox” isn’t a panacea. You either have to learn podman
and how to forward your network traffic through the container or learn how to pack your own flatpak/appimage/RPM.
Yes and no. WireGuard configs are still not something they offer, despite customers asking for the last several years. They have often said they would do it, but they have yet to deliver on that promise.
OVPN configurations are an option, but the main benefit of the client is the ability to change tunnel configurations on the fly. If there’s something you want to change, such as connecting to a different endpoint, you have to go back to the website to configure that tunnel and generate the config.
So you basically get 40% of the service you pay for if you try to use PIA with an immutable distro like Bazzite (which is not the various distros’ faults).
Okay. There’s no flatpak for PIA’s client, so that doesn’t help me, and I don’t know how to create my own (not for lack of trying). Same deal with RPMs and Appimages.
Also, just FYI, the flatpak for ProtonVPN is unofficial, in case you weren’t aware. Make sure to double check the source files.
I really like the idea of Nix, but the fact that the learning curve is so high and the skillset isn’t really transferable keeps me away. Also, you can make your own declarative build using BlueBuild, the template provided by Universal Blue, Vanilla OS, etc., so its unique use case isn’t so unique anymore.
I have yet to successfully install the Private Internet Access client on Bazzite. It does a lot of system modification at runtime, which doesn’t play nice with the immutable system.
There’s definitely limitations like that one, so I’d say there’s a solution for most, but not all cases. Hopefully, that will become a non-issue when bootc
is fully ready.
Spiral Linux. It’s like Endeavor, but it sets up Debian with sane defaults for people who want a GUI installer experience.
I liked that it basically felt like any other distro, but it was surprisingly fast to boot and shutdown.
Yeah, I’d agree with that. Also zypper
has fun arguments, like zypper up
I would actually recommend Spiral Linux if somebody new wanted to go with Debian. It’s the Debian analog to Endeavor.