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what are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?
target OS is debian or linux mint
anti-snap stance is anti-consumer
The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops....
Fedora Silverblue is the most frustrating distro so far
So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it’s the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping....
Wait... why does Linux-libre (and #Freedo) exist?
Is Linux not free software itself? I thought propietary stuff was added downstream....
Anyone using wayland with $XDG_CACHE_HOME set?
I’m a i3 user that has been trying to migrate to sway....
[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?
I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And...
Are we going to see arch based immutable distros in the near future?
Hi there folks, I’m still learning about Linux and have yet to dip my toes properly in any arch based distro. Have for the moment fallen in love with the immutable distros based on Universal Blue project. However I do want to learn about what arch has to offer to and plan on installing default arch when I have time. But have...
Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?
When I first started using Linux 15 years ago (Ubuntu) , if there was some software you wanted that wasn’t in the distro’s repos you can probably bet that there was a PPA you could add to your system in order to get it....
Do all DEs store the trash in the same place?
On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?
Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (futurism.com)
Stable diffusion on Arch Linux with a 7900 XTX?
Hello,...
Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey released (forum.manjaro.org)
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
Suggestions for filesystem.
Hello all,...
Don't dare to question Gnome (lemmy.world)
I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago…
I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project (slrpnk.net)