fedora is still clinging to their curated and much smaller flatpak repo, but it’s easy enough to disable theirs and add flathub.
but yea, having common drivers configured ‘out of the box’ is a huge bonus that most derivatives have.
i’ve been doing a lot of testing here on a newer system to see what works best on it. even debian is easier to add proper intel alchemist support than fedora.
not difficult at all, snapraid’s online documentation is very good.
i have three snapraids here. one with (what was at the time) new disks, and two made up of old salvaged disks like you’ve got–pulled from systems and laptops headed for the recycle bin.
the feature is older than firefox itself.
the custom shortcuts are so you can skip the profile manager when launching a browser window.
What were they thinking?
ima gonna go with “why tf didn’t we do this from the start?”
twitter (or rather, a bunch of little mini-twitters that can talk to each other), but without the billionaire poop-stain in charge of it.
same. only because it was the only one i could remember the name of when i was setting up the ‘mini tablet’ (which is just someone’s old phone. has no sim or service). it’s an old and slow phone, so it doesn’t get used often. i’d much rather be on a desktop.
that local server still has to get the data from somewhere.
kubuntu 26.04 minimal install: keep the ubuntu and apt you’re familiar with, skip the unnecessary or unwanted junk (including snapd) at install time, and get the option of using btrfs filesystem (which is not possible with the main ubuntu installer).
one note: you won’t even have a web browser out-of-the-box, and snap-powered ‘firefox’ package exists in ubuntu repos. so if adding mozilla’s deb repo, do not forget the step where you adjust your sources priorities so ‘sudo apt install firefox’ pulls from mozilla instead of ubuntu.
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image editor.
the people behind the appimage spec at https://appimage.org/
… have a listing of available software at https://appimage.github.io/
note that this isn’t a curated repository like your os repos, but rather a directory of community-provided submissions that pass some basic automated tests.
it’s been over a decade since canonical ended that little ‘experiment’ with azn.
afaik, it’s strictly opt-in. further reading: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-insights-how-telemetry-is-changing-on-ubuntu-desktop/73442
although they’ll still see web traffic from your system if you hit their mirrors for updates and package installs–as would be the case anywhere online.
2 months. lts or not, ubuntu’s freeze date is and has historically been about two months before release.
if the 2 year cycle between lts is too long for someone, they don’t have to stay on that ride.
just a reminder, kubuntu uses a different installer than ubuntu–one that offers btrfs (timeshift compatible configuration) out-of-the-box, as well as a choice of install type.
the ‘minimal’ option is not much more than the base kde environment. no snaps, no snapd installed. hell, it doesn’t even have a web browser (instructions for mozilla’s own repository is here
the daily builds were a trainwreck here leading up to the release, but somehow it all sorted out at the end. my test installs of release (ubuntu, cinnabun, studio, kde) went ok… with only a few minor issues, like the blueman applet crash in cinnamon.
i think gnome, suitably configured, is a great choice for a basic pc or chromebook|box alternative. simple windows, fewer options to get lost in or to screw up, big fat launcher buttons for the one or very few things that’ll ever get run. throw in atomic updates and flatpak only applications, and it’s near perfect for these users.
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