Quoting: GuestThe steamos solution to that is to use flatpaks, which is pretty much only for _released_ graphical software (and few cli tools, but no libraries). So steamos and immutable distros in general are for consuming, not producing. Which sucks because some people see the steam deck as a possible laptop/desktop replacement, but this immutable part forces you to throw the whole distro into the trash and install another distro instead.

Not really? I've been layering my stuff to the Bazzite image just fine (both directly to the image [External Link], and on top of the image with `rpm-ostree install`), and for everything else, I just use Nix Home-Manager [External Link], Distrobox [External Link], or Conty [External Link] which allows me to still use whatever I want, however I want.

The only thing that's annoying to do is when you need something like kernel mods and dealing with stuff like DaVinci Resolve and VMware or GPU-Passthrough. It's doable, but I just don't want to read all that stuff, man.

Personally, I've been really loving it. Makes updating much easier - I don't even have to monitor it, I just let it run in the background. Sure, sometimes issues occurs, but I can just ignore it since if it didn't build it won't get shipped to me, until I have the time to look at it. I actually got an email about a build failing 3 days ago [External Link], ignored it, then finally read the log today, then fixed it. The log makes it clear and means I don't have to immediately attend to it since it was never shipped to me!

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Quoting: SoulThiefDo you have any sources on that? This is the first I've heard of it and don't want to support the project if that is the case.

The HoloISO devs are Russian. They mostly give updates on Telegram. See https://t.me/HoloISO/467 [External Link]. Additionally, see https://t.me/HoloISO/415 [External Link] - and, look, I'm a proud BA enjoyer, but even I don't want that kind of memes in update & announcement communication channel.

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At that point just use Universal Blue's Bazzite. The devs has much clearer track records and works together with various other project. Plus, you can easily clone a repo where you can layer in your own packages and user files to pack into a custom image of your own.

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Quoting: Deleted_UserYou can see the irony here, do you?

That's what's the emoji's for :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, I suppose if you want to both own a Steam Deck and be a tinkerer, they become issues. One use-case's feature is another use-case's bug.

Which is exactly why the Linux landscape is the way it is, and it's better that way. People should fork or spin software to allow for alternative use and viewpoints, even if there is also a need for centralized way of shipping authoritative official end-user software. And this is why Nix + Flatpak are indeed the superior way of shipping packages :smile:

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Not even a surprise. Even as a hobbyist, AI is interesting. Once you see its potential, you start seeing it as a tool, and once you see it as a tool, you start thinking about how you can use it in your workflow. Just like how nowadays I'd rather just ask ChatGPT over going to Stack Overflow, people are going to use AI for the most tedious or things that they don't find to matter too much for them.

I, for one, find creative fulfilment in writing a story - I don't find creative fulfilment in proof reading them for grammatical error. I don't mind some prose suggestions either, even if I am the final arbiter of what I want to convey. Now, apply that to every creative endeavour, and you find that there's a lot of room for AI, especially when time and money are involved. You just need to make sure that it doesn't become a large issue or infringe on what you actually are passionate about, which isn't hard to do.

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Quoting: raggytherecondHere's to improved and future launchers that don't use the accursed, bug-ridden Electron and Chromium like Steam and instead use native GTK and Qt

Not gonna happen. Even Bottles are throwing in the towel, going to Electron for their main launcher in the next major version, while the GTK is going to be secondary priority. Like it or not, Electron seems to be easier to develop with and ship to end-user, in many different environment. I don't suspect that to change unless Qt 7 has just that much better of a tooling and have good supports for the languages devs want to write in.

This isn't going to change anything in terms of the GUI launcher situation, as it seems to be more of a back-end type of project.

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Nice. I'm currently testing out Nobara, and it's been fine on my hardware... but I just don't need the full mutability. uBlue is just too convenient.

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I love just how much of a mess Wine, by itself and combined with other components, are that we need multiple projects to make it usable for most users.

Edit: Oh, I get it now - this is more like a combination of protonfixes and Lutris scripts. You can pass GameID manually, so even as a SEA gang, that's going to be useful.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI've lost confidence in PopOS, unfortunately. It looked like a great alternative to Ubuntu until they decided to make their own DE.

It really depends on how their 24.04 release goes. Part of the issue had been their mixing of their own repo and Ubuntu's repo. That's not an issue now, and I'd imagine their move towards yearly releases should further help make sure there's more testing.

In addition, the main motivator for Cosmic has been how their Cosmic-Gnome was such a mess of extensions and modifications. So far, the only people who really can maintain customized Gnome with minimum issues has been Ubuntu, and that's only "minimum issues" because the past year's releases has been much better than the year before that.

With them having Factory Reset in GUI and systemd-boot entry (and updated with new ISOs all the time), I think it's a sensible first distro as people play around with it and factory reset it when needed. Time will tell, but I'm pretty optimistic on it.

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