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But it was the X protocol that needed to be replaced.

Just be careful about trying to run your AppImages on a distro with for example only FUSEv3, because there are system dependencies.

I tried out Arch for a while. The AUR is a bit of a wild west and at least I found it important to vet packages before installing them. It was a hassle. The same reason I only use one package from the OBS on Tumbleweed now.

I don’t believe iOS and Android use immutable filesystems to the extent some Linux distros do, like openSuse Aeon, Fedora Silverblue, Nixos, etc. iOS and Android just make it more difficult to gain root access.

Today I was looking up how to do something in a game I’m playing, there were some videos about it, usual formula starting with “Sup guys!”, intros, ads for the channel, and fluff, “remember to press like”, oh and a bunch of videos that may or may not contain the answer.

The answer could be written in 5 words, basically what key to press.

I don’t really care but I have a 512GB drive, a few extra GB of NVidia packages or whatever means nothing. I just enjoy the containerization and not having to give it my root password to install things. I’m not on an immutable distro and not having an app invade my core system (in whatever way the packager felt necessary) feels really good.

I’m watching the immutable space though, once it matures a bit more might try it. openSuse has an elegant and simple take on it with BTRFS snapshots.

Also they’ve submitted not only bug reports but numerous fixes in many components not even belonging to them but applicable to any ARM systems and in some cases even AMD64. Their productivity is mad, their attitude awesome and they’ve benefited the entire open source community. Thank you to the Asahi Linux team!

There won’t be a joining of efforts but COSMIC seems like it may be the DE that many are looking for, it has a way to go though, we’ll see.

I’m not sure OP sounds like someone who into reading Arch News, learning about pacnew/pacsave, etc. that’s more for hobbyists. An ubuntu flavor or something like Zorin might be better for them and then stick with it and solve any problem that may show up.

It’s most like due to power governor and scheduler behaviors. If there’s background activity impacting the test it would more likely be Defender.

Kinda an Apple product. I was hoping for the Schlage Encode Plus with Homekit support. I’m quadriplegic and locking/unlocking my front door is really physically difficult. And maybe a Homepod that can function as Thread/Homekit hub.

Joplin is great for notes. I’ve set it to sync with a free Dropbox account and have used it on Android, iOS, Linux and Windows.

Or sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

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I don’t know how long it will take but it should be much much less work now that gnarly UI elements as old as GTK have been replaced with modern toolkit ones.

I got that problem on a ROG Strix G733ZM. The solution was to install “hdajackretask” (sometimes in an ALSA tools package, sometimes elsewhere), select “ALC285” and “show unconnected pins” and map pin 0x14 to “Internal Speaker” and pin 0x1e to "Internal speaker (LFE), then install boot override and reboot.

Oh and after reboot I went to Configure Audio in KDE and selected a profile.

It looks like this.

I found it randomly online, don’t remember where. I wish I knew how those pins were discovered in the first place because it may well be different for different laptops and also I really want to know…

Oh BTW, in case you need to know: My microphone was having an awful lot of static noise. The trick was to 1) reduce microphone volume to 50% and 2) enable the ladspa-rnnoise noise filter in pipewire (it was already in my distributions repo). I checked in Windows and it sends the mic through an “ASUS AI noise filter” - so they’ve basically saved money on the hardware and are doing the same thing.

I don’t get the issue with “maintaining Xorg”.

I think he explains it pretty well, he even gives some examples and mentions there are many others. For a company to support such a large component for its commercial customers has a lot of work and verification we wouldn’t consider as end users. His comment also explains why you can’t just maintain a status quo with it and make an automatic build and forget…

Same, I’ve used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

Not sure the lack of fan matters, as an app dev you probably wont be hitting hard both cpu and gpu simultaneously for long durations. You’ll just be bursting the CPU for app compiles and simulator startup, that’s not too bad.

I’d be more concerned about RAM. 16GB is probably a better idea than 8, especially if you have both web browser, IDE and simulator running. Look for a refurb or used anything with 16GB of RAM.

I don’t use Ubuntu on my desktop but in my experience it performs on par with other distributions and it is not a RAM hog either.

I thing “bloat” is a big mythical monster people like to throw around because it’s difficult to argue against and scares everybody.

I think snaps were slow to load to begin with but I also read that it was much improved recently, one can also install Flatpak.

So I think Ubuntu is a great distro, performant and stable.