What are the benefits of statelessness storing things in /usr and etc instead of /home? I would have thought using a home directory is preferable to root because the home directory can be easily modified, partitioned and backed up.

Also what are the advantages of setting up things to remove /etc/passwd and grub etc. It seems to be you’re making it harder for the experienced user to manage their system and now they have to learn a new toolset.

Hopefully there this can be DE agnostic.

If someone exploits a service on the machine they can then connect outside that machine on any port. Ufw would prevent this. The router firewall would also likely prevent this unless they used an open port of the router or upnp was enabled.

Disclaimer, I’m not a network professional im only learning. But you dont need ufw since your router firewall should be able to filter majority of the traffic. But in security there is a concept of layers. You want your router firewall then your device firewall to provide multiple layers incase something slips through one layer.

So to give a simple answer, it depends how secure you want your network to be. Personally I think UFW is easy so you may as well set it up. 5sec of config might stop a hacker traversing your network hoping from device to device.

Yeah but they should still pay Ubuntu for using their os to make profit off.

Gimp doesn’t have a marketing problem. Its well known its just that not many people like it. It is not a nice program to use. I think gimp3 fixes a lot of the janky ui but I’ll have to try it out again

They ship a kiosk specific build if I remember correctly

I wonder if Wendy’s donates back to the project. Ive seen so many companies use Foss software and not pay anything and it pisses me off every time.

This isn’t a beginners guide, this is a bible. So many useful things in here for every Linux user.

Its unfair that breeze is such a dam clean looking theme.

That theme came out looking really good. It reminds me of the black windows media player theme.

Also Diinki has a very cool aesthetic going on.

This was a great write up by Roman. Pipewire is even cooler than I thought it was.

Its based on Arch packages (that are extremely out of date) and that doesn’t make it anything like arch. An arch package feels exactly the same as software packed by any other maintainer. What makes arch arch is that you start from a minimal install and choose your software. Another thing that makes arch arch is that you get the latest software updates on a rolling release. Another thing that makes arch arch is that you are responsible for your system and making sure it doesnt break.

None of those things remotely apply to SteamOS. A distro based on another distro doesnt mean they are they same. We dont think mint is ubuntu, we dont think ubuntu is debian, we dont think manjaro is arch.

I only push back on your comment because people echoing SteamOS is Arch causes so many issues in linux help discords with new users thinking their steamdeck is arch linux and fucking up their system and thinking that linux doesnt work because they followed an arch guide.

Its nothing like archlinux.

Yeah lemmy support would be so nice.

What more features does an email client need? It seems like a simple task that should be fully fleshed out by now.

“Add a feature flag which denotes AMD CPUs supporting workload classification with the purpose of using such hints when making scheduling decisions”

This sounds very interesting but over my head. Hopefully maple circuits explains this further in his 6.13 kernel video.

I always disable it because it makes games looks weird. I refuse to believe it’s realistic lighting

I don’t think Mint is “just works” or never has any issues. I think mint users face more issues than modern distro users.

I don’t recommend mint to people anymore because it breaks for almost every person who’s tried it(including me). A modern disto like Fedora + guide to get non FOSS stuff is far better in terms of stability, performance and hardware support.

You can always test a distro by putting it on a USB and booting into the live environment. This means you can check if everything works hardware wise without having to commit to installing Linux.