One thing to keep in mind is that Framework makes it easier by directly selling in Europe. With S76 there're import fees etc that make it less straightforward. Especially in case of an RMA.

But Oracle? How are they better in any way? RedHat still writes FOSS software. Oracle just profited off it being easy for RHEL customers to migrate to Oracle Linux. They do add on top of RHEL, but they could built a distro themselves too.

This article reads to me like satire from Oracle.

PS: I don't like what RH done either.

In short, Google limits extension API access, which blocks extensions like uBlock Origin from reaching their full potential. Firefox doesn't.

Snaps are used for Ubuntu's IOT distro, and also for their upcoming immutable desktop. They even ship kernel and mesa as snap, which makes updating less likely to break a system (in case of a crash while updating, user error, ...).

That's why they push snap. Canonical doesn't mainly aim to make a apps available to all distros like flatpak does. Just like now where all distros need their own packages, snap will coexist with other package formats.

For the user it's unimportant how apps are installed, as long as they're available.

NixOS has benefits not just for developers, altough being familiar with programming is helpful.

For me the main benefit of NixOS is being able to keep multiple systems in sync. For that I have 3 config files, the first containing all general config and packages I want to have installed. The other two are for my laptop and pc respectively, which allows me to make system-specific changes. E.g. tlp is only enabled and configured on my laptop.

And NixOS isn't just rolling release, it also has bi-annual stable releases, which is great for servers.

Rollbacks are also awesome, altough I used btrfs snapshots a few years back with Arch for a similar result. With a bit of setup they are bootable from grub.

I did use it more than half a year ago for a few math problems. It was partly to help me getting started and to find out how well it'd go.

ChatGPT was better than I'd thought and was enough to help me find an actually correct solution. But I also noticed that the results got worse and worse to the point of being actual garbage (as it'd have been expected to be).

Flatpak is mainly for packaging desktop apps, whilst snap can update the entire distro (kernel, mesa, system apps, cli). Snap does things Fedora needs rpm-ostree for.

In my opinion docker isn't as useful for cli tools. I need easy access to many little tools, and this results in me having one container with everything. But that doesn't work well with network capture etc. In the end being able to install packages system wide quickly is really useful.

IIRC organic maps uses OpenStreetMap data.

Arch updates going bad is much more likely to happen if the system goes without updates for a long time. So I'd really not recommend it for a seldomly used laptop.

But regularly updated Arch is fine. Even if something breaks it's usually easy to deal with.

I agree and also use flatpak for many apps because they work on many distros. Flatpak works even on distros like NixOS that does not adhere to the fhs and alpine that doesn't use the GNU coreutils.

Distrobox or Nix are great for cli stuff, since they allow package installation independent of the system package manager.

These tools makes using any distro mostly the same.

RedHat already has no-cost RHEL licenses. The disadvantage is that it's necessary to create a developer account, and one account only supports 16 devices.

https://developers.redhat.com/...

Apple uses DXVK and their own DirectX 12 to Metal translation layer. VKD3D is not used.

Yes, it's good that they make money with such services. Services like hosting are a great way.

Waylock, because it keeps sway locked even if the screen locker crashes.

If it works, don't switch distros. There's always an OS which does sth. better.

The instance or the project? How could a interface violate a license?

Trying sth new is never a bad idea. From live cd's, over vm's or distrobox containers, it makes you more comfortable in switching between environments.

It is an immutable distro, altough it isn't image-based like Fedora's rpm-ostree.

NixOS basically replaces Ansible because the Nix package manager achieves the same goals already (configuration, deployment, ...).

But I agree, the work necessary to put into this non-standard distro makes it hard to recommend for a casual user.

LTT also did videos about PiHole and YouTube Vanced, so I personally don't think it's hypocrisy advertising VPN's (as long as those VPN ads don't lie about it's benefits).

I do believe that Linus once again uses words in ways not commonly used. I.e. if they define piracy as

consuming content without paying how the creator intended

then blcoking ads is piracy. But the commonly used definition is more like wikipedia's

[...] Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission [...]

PopOS is great and it would have been great if I knew about it. My first try to use Linux on my PC was short because I didn't manage to install the nvidia drivers correctly.

Everything should just work without any changes. Altough you might need to enable adaptive sync/VRR/gsync if your system supports it.

Edit: And if you need to solve a problem, also look at docs for other distros. E.g. the Arch wiki has many examples that work (similar) on PopOS