I disagree with that. The main problem is that Nouveau was stagnant for years because it just wasn’t feasible to use since NVIDIA blocked reclocking support, so it would only ever run at its base clock, resulting in terrible performance. So nobody wanted to use the drivers, all that mattered is that they worked well enough to let users install the proprietary drivers.
But now that NVIDIA allows reclocking again, there’s actual reason to improve the performance and fix bugs in it.
Flatpak recently got a method of preinstalling flatpaks.
A flatpak cannot install a snap on your system. Apt can install a snap because when apt installs and updates packages, it can also run scripts as root. That’s insecure and potentially dangerous, so flatpak doesn’t have that ability.
All of those, apart from loop devices, are not technical limitations, but results from Canonical’s poor management and monopolistic desires.
Snap is interesting for me it can do more things than flatpak and has some really interesting sandboxing features coming up such as permission prompts for filesystem access.
But Canonical management is a significant hindrance. The Snap Store simply cannot be trusted after so much malware got in and they still have not improved their processes. So many snaps including Canonical’s own, are still using core22 for some reason. And there’s the broken snaps Canonical pushed on users.
I would love to see a snap repo that takes the best parts of Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks. Because as a technology, I think snap beats flatpak (if you’re using AppArmor). But it’s Canonical’s poor management that really drags it down.
With archinstall, I largely agree. However, you still need to make a lot of choices. Which kernel branch? Which filesystem? Enable swap? Which desktop environment? And other choices that I forget, it’s been a few uses since I used Arch.
Gamers Nexus is very clear they want to avoid making decisions. They want to stick as close as possible to as possible, but that’s tricker since Arch doesn’t have defaults for those, unlike Bazzite. Bazzite uses the Fedora kernel (which follows the latest stable); btrfs; zswap; desktop environment they do provide a choice between KDE and Gnome, in which case is easier to choose KDE since it’s what Valve is pushing.
Ubuntu is in the same boat, 90% of its users are using the LTS version.
Arch isn’t that good of a choice either simply because it’s a DIY distro. It’s not meant to be complete out of the box and may require tweaks that Gamers Nexus is explicitly trying to avoid.
Yes. They were very concerned about head to head comparisons because the tools for measuring FPS and stuff works differently.
But as an actual option or not? I think OP is referring to those who say “I’m going to switch to Linux” like those politicians to pay so much lip service to freedom, democracy, privacy while at the same time voting to erode all of those. The implication being that they won’t actually ever switch to Linux.
You can tinker for the most part, it’s just done differently. In the Universal Blue world, that would be creating your own OCI container using their image template or blue build.
The nice thing is that it makes the OS much more reproducible than imperative commands and scripts.
Not a security issue, copyright/license issues.
In my experience, many Gnome apps make doing complex tasks pretty easy compared to third party apps. However, it is at the cost of customization and questions like “why can’t I do this???”
But in general, Gnome’s simple design works for me, most things feel clean and polished. I don’t need the vast majority of features offered.
In the cases where Gnome’s default aren’t powerful enough, often times the KDE equivalent isn’t good enough for me either despite offering more features and customization.
As an example, Gnome Text Editor vs Kwrite and Kate. GTS has the basics I need like line numbers (Apple’s text editor does not have this…) and that fits 80% of my needs. But what about more advanced things? Well, no markdown support but I don’t think Kate has that either. What about coding? I’d rather use a dedicated IDE than Kate or GTS.
The bar is meant to be very minimal and not distracting.
It takes up space, sure, but it’s close to the minimal height while still having easily readable time up top
No, it’s a limitation with swaybg so they created a tool that doesn’t have that limitation.
Sideloading or preinstalling?
Sideloading already existed, but only for ostree flatpaks. Flatpak also supports OCI flatpaks, but the support for those aren’t as good, hence the previously missing side loading support.
“We do <thing > because we always did before <thing 2>” is not a good point
I didn’t mean it in a “this is better way”. I’m just saying that Wayland was designed around the idea of client side decorations, not server side decorations. Gnome has stuck to the more purist vision of Wayland, which makes sense since I believe they were its biggest proponent.
That can be dropped eventually too. Compositors like Niri don’t implement Xwayland support directly, and instead use Xwayland Satellite.
The for argument is basically the following
I hope the performance significantly improves by then. Beta 1 felt pretty rough to me. And also, animations.
I went for the simplest option
Found it very simple. Avoided the tedious setup of samba and samba had weird reliability issues for me when copying large files. Took a bit to learn how ssh works, but very much so worth it.