So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it’s the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping....
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Now you have a standard Fedora command line system that shares your home folder but otherwise has its own filesystem.
There’s more options (like using other distro’s), but it’s really not complicated.
To install CLI stuff that needs to access your host system’s root files, use rpm-ostree (but if you need a lot of that, use a non-immutable distro instead).
I actually use neither anymore. My stuff I want to edit is in home, most programs I use are GUI and I have no need to tinker on this system, cause it just works.
Any program with an install script makes assumptions about your system, if it doesn’t work it just isn’t compatible.
Either modify the script, package the software for your distro or find out if someone else has done it.
My first instinct would be to look if it’s in the AUR and install it inside an Arch Toolbox.
I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
Yes, if you don’t have a computer that literally came out this year, don’t have 2 separate graphics cards and don’t need HDR, or specific Windows-only software, Linux generally just works.
I got it up and running but the Touch Bar didn’t work, the Wi-Fi didn’t work, all kinds of issues.
That’s because Apple doesn’t release drivers for all those components.
Running anything but a Mac OS on a Mac is a nice pet project, but you can’t expect Linux to work.
If you follow general newbie advice and install Mint, the kernel is older than your laptop and may not support everything.
Fedora, EndeavorOS or Manjaro would be a better choice then.
I know. But I wouldn’t consider that “just works”.
It would mean installing the most popular beginner distro, finding out it doesn’t work, and then first having to google what is even a kernel…
A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
I know that. It was one of the worst marketing decisions of all time.
Twitter still had some of that “instant, independent news from people on the ground” image left.
x.com sounds like a porn site that spreads malware.
I’ve been using many apps and from few months, It’s seems I’m quite stable so I think it’s time to share a list of awesome Android Apps I’m using everyday as I’ve removed Google from my life!
Unfortunately the Pixel is the best phone for degoogling with the widest support of alternative ROMs.
The irony of giving money to Google in order to degoogle is pretty harsh.
Not directly related, but if you convert the units, 73 km/s/Mpc are 11.16 meters per year per AU (the distance between earth and the sun)
Somehow it blows my mind that the distance between the sun and earth increases by 11m per year due to the expansion of space itself.
But I still don’t really understand how we can measure that expansion.
If space expands, wouldn’t everything we can use as measuring stick expand as well?
Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...
Fedora Silverblue is the most frustrating distro so far
So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it’s the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping....
Linux really has come a long way
I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
Without saying your age, comment down your favorite film(s) that released the year you turned 18.
Naming is hard (sh.itjust.works)
from each according to their abilities (slrpnk.net)
Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)
A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
MAGA 'Prophets': God Thinks Trump's Conviction Was Rigged (www.rollingstone.com)
Eating 10 puppies to spite dog lovers (www.youtube.com)
Anon thinks about CPUs (sh.itjust.works)
Trump, in his first post-trial rally, demands that appeals courts reverse his felony conviction (apnews.com)
'Cyber terrorist' who reported fake 911 calls across US and Canada sentenced to prison (komonews.com)
Android List Apps for a de-googled phone
I’ve been using many apps and from few months, It’s seems I’m quite stable so I think it’s time to share a list of awesome Android Apps I’m using everyday as I’ve removed Google from my life!
TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years. (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
Donald Trump's "foamy saliva" in campaign video raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Russian MoD defensive plans for Crimea have leaked. What's our move? (sh.itjust.works)
No, new measurements can't relax the Hubble tension - There are two different ways to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, and they don’t agree. And no, new measurements don’t help. (bigthink.com)
Linux on old School Machines?
Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...
Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?
We’ve all heard it before: People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line....