Bummer! It’s kinda neat to use, but yeah, they dropped older hardware support (though it’s still fairly young, so maybe it will be a thing in the future).

Not planning to publish a game, but packing up an app has been mystifying. Hopefully this guide can dispel some of that!

Not sure, but it’s supposed to be near-bleeding edge for everything. I couldn’t get the Hyprland version to boot in a VM, so I can’t be sure

Try PikaOS.

It’s Debian for gaming. They use the CachyOS kernel (rebranded), BTRFS, the Debian Sid base, and they do the package optimization thing that Cachy does. They also use a lot of the same UI tooling from Nobara, like the welcome screen and icons, and the update GUI is based on but an improvement over the one from Nobara. There’s also the same Kernel Manager and Scheduler selector as what you’d find in Cachy.

Like Arch, it’s a rolling update distro, and they have some kind of automated process that builds/optimizes new packages every day.

It’s admirable what they’re trying to do, and I’m currently considering making a bare-metal switch.

like what if linux still was open source but had a lot of proprietary dependencies and packages…

At that point, it’s not really open source anymore. Once it has proprietary dependencies, it’s no longer open.

but it still would let you use any desktop environment and there would be a new proprietary desktop environment which was like gnome but easier

What you’re describing is a closed-source version of Pop!_OS with a closed source version of Cosmic, their latest DE still in Alpha.

Businesses and software companies don’t make software for operating systems based on their openness or proprietary-ness. They make it based on market share. Your idea would still have to compete with Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and it would have to get a better share of the market than at least Linux before businesses would even bother making software for your closed system.

The reason Linux is as successful as it is, is because it’s open, and hobbyists can and do contribute to it for free. When you close that off, you then have to pay for development, and you’ll have to overcome the gigantic barrier to entry set up by the likes of Microsoft and Apple.

I also check the open issues when I judge a repo, and there’s only 22, with nearly all of them being feature requests and not bug reports. Also, the majority were opened by the repo owner, and they’re checklist items for future functionality (like making less common ISO’s work).

It could be that it’s abandoned, or it could be that the maintainer just doesn’t have the time or drive to include edge cases like “NixOS” and “Fedora 37 clones” right now.

rpm-ostree is not really a dnf wrapper. It’s more of a wrapper for ostree with some additional dnf functionality.

Iirc, Bazzite (for example) uses fwupd during their update process after rpm-ostree finishes.

GLIM is an option that is a little harder to use but has the ability to load up multiple ISO’s, and it is fully open source.

https://github.com/thias/glim

Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this comment. I would be concerned about SSD longevity if my swap was doing that, but zram kind of negates that problem.

That was funny. Thanks for sharing

Joke’s on them. I can’t even see downvotes on my instance.

linux has this problem of experienced users raining downright useless and often counterproductive advice on noobs.

Not to be rude, but you might want to take your own advice. I see a lot of hyperbole in your two, frankly, rants. “Greybeards” might have ruined your experience, but most people around here just want to help.

Might want to ask in !opensource@lemmy.ml, since you’ll probably get a wider audience than asking in a KDE-specific community.

How’s it been? I see mention of Orange Pi more frequently these days.