Arch should not be used by beginners and hacking together a distro to make that happen was never a good idea. A team that cannot even figure out SSL certs should not have even attempted it.

Most of it speaks to their lack of competency. Issues like this are less frequent on arch and the whole point of this distro is that It’s supposed to be an easier arch.

it is in fact harder arch.

All of it matters, hard disagree, even if none of them are individually that bad it shows an insane degree of incompetence

the linux mint thing happened one time and was resolved, it shows no history of being incompetent, that’s why it isn’t mentioned, it’s hardly worth mention, one security breach in the entire history of the project is not a big deal.

furthermore i personally don’t think mint is a good distro either so, whatever.

https://github.com/arindas/manjarno

I really like dragon launcher but it’s not traditional at all it uses a system of rings to quickly launch things and does feature profiles and folders

buying a used tesla makes a lot of sense these days with everyone wanting to get rid of them

Charachorders are literally perfect keyboards and I will never consider using anything else for any application

It was actually pretty inconvenient because I found the syntax for “anonymous rules” basically undocumented.

xx-zones in particular is a huge deal for many very important usecases

dbus_annotations is huge for me, but ext-tray fair enough.

global shortcuts is also huge, plenty of people consider that mandatory.

xx-zones allows windows to place themselves

dbus_annotations allows menu items (like file, edit, etc) to be searchable by other apps

ext-tray allows tray icons to display things other than text in their menus (like sliders or whatever)

You could have used rpm-ostree for that. All of that, actually.

Xx-zones dbus_annotation and ext-tray get merged and implemented into kde and global shortcuts stop sucking and I’ll call it.

What exactly is harder or impossible to do with immutables? As far as I am aware it is basically all upsides and no downsides honestly.

Feel free to send me a message:

@communist:4d2.org

Do you have the issue tracker for kwallets issues? This is my first time hearing of these. Out of all the people I have given this to not one has had any complaints with kwallet, it’s possible these issues were resolved, although none of my users were using vpn’s.

libreoffice uses xwayland, so that’s really on them to fix and there are simple workarounds.

both of which are pretty quick fixes, kwallet can be replaced and the libreoffice issue is a toggle in the settings. I usually set people up and make sure they can do everything they need to, these issues seem very minor compared to the issues with cinnamon

A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite or aurora if you don’t like gaming is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

xx-zones, ext-tray and dbus_annotations are the only protocols I think add anything of value at this point, wayland is pretty close to feature complete, it’s on clients for the most part at this point

It’s significantly easier to use and I wanted to create a maximally ergonomic setup that I designed the ux for.

windows wouldn’t let me choose, linux did, also when linux has an issue it’s never because someone was doing something malicious, on windows it nearly always is.

Not for philosophical or scientific terminology.

He’s always lazer focused on the most important issues facing americans.