I think its hitting a critical mass, that much upward growth is very encouraging to see. I was able to convince a handful of friends to switch to linux due to windows getting so bad, they liked the extremely simple approach Bazzite has. I think its better than Mint in this regard, Fedora has come such a long way.

Gangbang? 😲

Mmm sometimes if you don’t update for a long time you can’t really update at all without following specific instructions. Nobara for instance had a major breakage between 41 and 42 versions that required you to debug from a boot drive iirc. One of my friends just had debian break on their not very used laptop and it can’t upgrade. Bazzite will not have these issues, image based upgrades solve the broken upgrade and config drift problems. And if for some reason it does break, it’s always solved by a one line rpm-ostree rebase command. Whereas with other distros the process to fix it is very involved usually

Its not particularly crazy, most things can be installed via flathub. If something isnt there, install it through distrobox (you can install things through the AUR, packages like rpm and deb, etc). And if that doesn’t work, install the app directly through rpm-ostree (only thing I did this with was a vpn app, you can point to a .rpm file for this). I use flathub for the vast majority of things, I think I only have two apps installed outside of it.

What’s great is nothing ever breaks this way. Ever. It all works. Broken upgrades haven’t happened to me after a year of using this, meanwhile I had plenty on debian and small distros like manjaro, mint, cachyos, nobara.

Yeah I think mint advice is extremely dated, Bazzite or base Fedora is the way to go

It’s truly a fantastic distro. Fedora atomic is very much an attempt at making Linux as easy and secure as Android. I recommend it for beginners and experts alike, truly awesome tech going on.

Bazzite

Maybe a field for number of servers currently?

More than you think, half of hexbear is trans for instance

You don’t necessarily need to make your own NixOS flakes, you can use ones maintained by others

It’s great for homeservers

Frankly the open source ai projects for krita are better than Photoshop

Yeah that’s fair

Just use duckduckgos alias it’s unlimited

A genital covering is the only cultural universal, although it can sometimes be overly revealing by Western standards, like with penis gourds.

retvrn

all software should be open source 😏

Do an atomic distro like bazzite, all the nerds are basically open sourcing IT with it by preconfiguring everything for you for every update.

As simply as possible, it (mostly) locks down system files and confines users to the user directory. This makes the operating system very stable and hard to break, it also creates a reproducible testing environment which significantly helps developers with bug testing software. For the vast majority of users, this is a positive, though users that want to tinker with the system files a lot may run into a lot of blockers. Upgrades are likely to be very stable, and you will not have system file config drift issues that often break long running traditional linux distros and force the user to intervene.

wonder if theyll add flathub

Pretty ridiculous take I can wire sniff everything coming out of my house and Linux (I use fedora Atomic) and GrapheneOs solve any sort of tracking issues. Then you just have only your ISP to worry about, and that can be solved with appropriate vpn, vps, and/or tor setups

Edit oh you’re a bit account

Isn’t calyx dead now