I tried it, looking for something for my wife’s 12 yearold laptop, and really liked how clean it looks and that you have 4 easy click ways to alter the desktop workflow. They are also working on Grid? as a deploy and update system for businesses wanting to manage multiple machines centrally. The only reason I didn’t keep it was the machine it was intended for will not boot a deb based OS. It throws a hardware bug that deb based distros don’t work around during install or reboot. So ended up with NixOS on that machine. Which has been awesome too.
This was my first distro! It’s very beginner friendly and customization was very easier without requiring knowledge of GNOME extensions (which aren’t hard to set up once you know they exist). The Wine integration is nothing short of fantastic making it very easy to install Windows apps and it even recommends some native Linux equivalents (Heroic Games launcher if you try to install Epic Games). I have since switched to Fedora Workstation Edition, but Zorin is a good way to dip your toe in the Linux pool while you learn more about it
@lily33 Yes. There are a number I believe that fit these criteria hosted on Hugging Face I feel. Bloom is the first one that came to mind.
Ironically I asked ChatGPT this question and it responded to check out EleutherAI. I do not know anything about that group but looks like they may have helped worked on Bloom, so maybe they are worthy of consideration. Anyway here is Bloom.
@lily33 like Github, HuggingFace is a private company that can host public models. I'm pretty sure this one is fully public. But you're right that it does look like someone from HF started it so perhaps it does not meet your criteria after all. My apologies if so.
I was (am?) of the understanding though that Bloom is being researched openly such that it can be reproduced locally (and contributed to on HF)
I want good text rendering and windows and buttons with rounded corners. I want my laptop to work correctly when connecting it to external displays or projectors without a lot of futzing around. I want vsync to work with my monitor out of the box, I want to be able to watch video without tearing, and I want a desktop that has first class support for high-DPI displays. I also want to have some basic integration with the other system features provided by my distro, which increasingly means high-quality integration with NetworkManager and different systemd components. I want to get integrated notifications when a program segfaults on my computer or in case there’s an SELinux AVC denial.
Definitely the framework laptop, check it out, it’s completely modular, thin, light, performant, and insanely repairable, they even include qr codes on every part to help replace them and they will ship the device to you with no os for a discount and disassembled for a much bigger discount.
I can throw in a vote for Debian stable as well. I’ve recently installed Debian 12 and I’ve been blown away by how great it’s been compared to my recent Fedora 38 experience out of box.
What kind of hardware are you running it on? I’ve started using Debian for servers, but I’m still using Fedora for laptops, currently. I am always curious about different options.
I don’t use wifi however it did work out of the box. The only thing that required additional setup was the Nvidia card but the driver was available in the repos.
If you do end up testing it out on a laptop let me know how it goes. I have a Windows laptop lying around here somewhere that could use some love.
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The AUR is nice and all, but the reality is that most people will be served just fine (if not better) by the more curated repositories. Fedora’s bundled repositories are more than enough for my dev work - and thanks to Flatpak and AppImage, closing any gaps is pretty easy.
Unfortunately, last I heard this was still years away from being ready. I think the specifications in Wayland are being worked on. Then once that is complete specific implementations of Wayland will need to build it out. Then once that is complete applications will need to build out the functionality. So I’d say optimisticlly 3 years but realisticly I’d guess at least 5 years
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