I will continue using it. For innovations, other distros are no innovation drivers either, they just maintain packages, and that the current team can and will continue. Josh basically did little in that way the past month anyway.

Arch is exceptionally ugly to use due to optional dependencies which are required for features of applications are optional, which leads to a bad out of the box experience, whatever the disribution above that.

Debian/Ubuntu based are slow as hell managing/updating packages and I never had a snappy experience, as is any deb or rpm based distro.

Solus will not face the same issues as when Ikey left. Though, more work on Beatrice means less time for things like sol or a software center rework, flatpak/snap integration there etc.

But it's not that those are really well integrated anywhere except maybe in Neon. But that is not really a decisive factor for mey I use one snap - Spotify.

I think it will have an effect on the project, but I do not see much changing in the current value of the distribution.

The "make it harder than necessary to contribute" I can not really follow. There must be an argument about that, but I found it exceptionally easy to contribute.

We'll see where this leads, but I do not have another disro providing an experience even close to Solus, so I'll stick with it (and I used Arch 2004-2017, tried it over the holidays again and it's just a mess).

I do not want to manually search for depends when things don't work I do not want to fiddle around, I want a system/Desktop that just works.

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A lot of people with pure Arch. Interesting, I have installed it lately again and it is for me still too much hassle to get to a sane installation for a desktop with all the optional depends I had to install to get everything I need working (starting from android phone connecting over printer and scanner, which was not as easy as expected even though it works out of the box on most other distros).

Probably I grew out of wanting to fiddle with the system. It will always have a place in my heart for being as much upstream as possible having used it 2004-2017. But currently Solus caters bettet to my needs.

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Was a fast year for me. A lot of work and home office, I discovered FFXIV, and a lot fewer hangovers due to bars being closed and not going out with friends.

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Quoting: STiATI actually never saw snap or flatpak as security layer but as a means to distribute a packaged versions regardless of the linux distribution and library versions available on a distribution.

The thing is that especially on dependencies they multiply memory usage by different versions of libraries, which I like to avoid where possible.

I will still use the obs-studio provides by my distro though, but it does make sense for me in example for Spotify or other stuff which may not find their way into my distro.

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You will spend more on disk and memory in both desktop and server scenarios.

I have a good amount of professional experiencing administering containerized applications. I do not love or hate them. They have their use-cases. In a desktop experience, I think the primary benefit for an end-user is convenience. For maintainers, support should be more routine because the problems people bring to you are the same thing over and over. You can write a troubleshooting guide for them. In contrast, the errors traditional packaging generates can be more unique to the user's setup and harder to diagnose.

In a server experience, the benefits are scaling the instance count of the application. That extra resource spending allows you to be lazier about planning your resource purchases because you don't need to custom build a server to fit an application's usage at peak times; you can add servers of varying capacities to your farm to host the same application and spread the load. You can also recover an unhealthy application by restarting it instead of the server.

What choice do I make on my personal computers? Well, I have avoided containerized applications. I also do not like the idea of redundancy. I make exceptions, for example the Unity Hub, and I will test out the OBS Flatpak to see if any features work better, but in general I don't like these application capsules on my desktop. I do use them on some of my servers but not the ones where I want more administrative control over all the components.

I actually have my issues with dockerized applications and kubernetes, I do not see a real benefit there but to be able to scale up and down for single applications fast.

To realize our shared web environment containerized has 10 times the RAM usage than before. On that size overhead, scaling for workloads would hardly be an issue on a more traditonal approach.

The good part is that you really can seperate them, which is the only real benefit there.

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I actually never saw snap or flatpak as security layer but as a means to distribute a packaged versions regardless of the linux distribution and library versions available on a distribution.

The thing is that especially on dependencies they multiply memory usage by different versions of libraries, which I like to avoid where possible.

I will still use the obs-studio provides by my distro though, but it does make sense for me in example for Spotify or other stuff which may not find their way into my distro.

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Using KDE, Wayland is not an option with NVidia yet anyway. Unless you want to move your mouse so that anything is done and rendered at all ... think this bug exists now since october.

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May be the next cloud they support with steamm play as the nvidia one, but actuall not featuring a windows client.

That looks it could be a lot of a closer integration and would certainly be interesting.

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord <3

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Quoting: Eike... but if your list is from half a year, I'm really surprised. I get my usual problem after updating nvidia drivers, sometimes write permissions when mounting my phone are wrong, but I think that's about it. I had a bigger problem with the database thing (akonandi?) going wild over my data in I guess the last but one Debian update, but that's at least half a decade ago. Maybe using Debian stable and not the latest release anymore is helping me.

That's for sure, debian stable is certainly stable, but as a software developer the base is too old for me.

The list is from the past 6-9 month, so those issues are really ones which either exist or existed (in example most of the dual-screen stuff is solved by now).

The file indexer thing you meant is probably Baloo - ye, I had my fair share of issues with it too, but that ended about a year ago.

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: STiATI'd like a competitor to Steam.

What would be the benefit of that?

Less costs for devs/publishers. I know AAAs usually csn easily afford that and still make millions, but indies often can't really afford it.

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