Thank god SDDM is a nightmare

Sounds like he just made way for a knee jerk response to do the opposite, see Canada

Which desktop environment did you do

handhelds are really great with it too. i use it on my main pc tho because bazzite-dx simplifies a lot for me

mullvad is a better choice anyways. you can also download a wireguard config and load it directly into the network manager

Yeah I tried out Origami I just felt the philosophy for the distro is a little strange lol. Cosmic itself was nice, it ran way snappier than GNOME and KDE on one of my really old computers, so thats interesting

you can layer vpns via rpm-ostree install [.rpm location]

fedora distros have a thing called countme that pings their servers so they can measure general trends in how many people are using the OS and the various spins, which can be helpful for determining what to focus on. some amount of the userbase opt out of it

could be bazzite users are more/less likely to take the hardware survey or are likely to opt out of countme.

iirc it doesnt track ip, it just sends a ping for counting, the unique ID is when you installed your distro. its easy to opt out of. in the past it used IP but they changed it because they didnt like the privacy implications of it. regardless, you should use secureblue if you want a fedora atomic image focused on privacy and security. personally i consider the risk of being included in the count negligible (and on par with pinging timeservers imo, so unless youre making your computer completely silent its kinda nonsensical to worry about) so i keep it running. you still ultimately pull data from fedora/bazzite servers for updates (and thus, show IP) so i dont really understand consternation over this.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/counting/

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/infra/sysadmin_guide/dnf-counting/

Yes.

what a bizarre and racist/colonialist thing to say

yeah i know all the semantics around this. it is nice though.

secureblue is pretty good, fully recommend. immutables take a lot of the effort out of things

for a long time i had a lot of windows machines and linux machines, but as of late ive fully committed to linux. i started doing linux back in like 2002 or something, and i mostly liked it for keeping old machines working on low specs and while remaining fairly secure (i wasnt the richest kid growing up so i was constantly trying to squeeze juice out of everything i had available). i still use old 2003 hardware for simple tasks like displaying pdfs for cooking in my kitchen.

these days, it can more than handle being a daily driver, i think that started around 3-5 years ago. there are no issues in the vast majority of applications and games, open source has caught up to many closed source applications in many contexts, and proton is so absurdly good at what it does now. the only thing it lacks are games that rely on excessive kernel level anticheat, which frankly you shouldnt play ever for security reasons. and soon enough, through lepton itll be able to run android apps as natively as possible, which will make it fundamentally the most versatile desktop operating system.

rpm-ostree status

rpm-ostree reset

rpm-ostree rebase

idk i love rpm-ostree man

I do agree it’s likely more secure, but the tradeoff for common use cases (gaming, development) is steep. I could see using it solely for browsing and messaging people

You can also just slot secure blue into a qube I believe

I think Secureblue + GrapheneOS are the most reasonable choices imo. Qubes is highly hardware intensive for what it does, it will frustrate most people.

can we start calling him a fascist war criminal and a murderer 👼

afaik theyre parasitizing microsoft this way by compiling and distributing everything on github, makes it cheaper too. they have a way for local computers to distribute software as peers at least so you only really need to download it once if your server or w.e. runs it too