I've been a "heavy" user(/admin) of Linux in the server space for about 12 years now, but only recently through a new employment opportunity have I become a daily Linux desktop user. Last weekend - slowly coming to the realization that Linux can really satisfy all my personal needs (including gaming that supports DLL injection) - I thought I'd like to see how feasible this would now be for the kind of end-user that I encounter as customers and friends, family members etc. Having chosen CachyOS for myself a lot of my needs are now met brilliantly by the AUR, but of course I don't see this being a realistic proposal for an end-user. Flatpaks on the other hand I am now (and previously through my Steam Deck) encountering as a super straightforward way of covering a lot of ground in terms of the kinds of apps people may need, and having them remain usable across system upgrades and such. I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but with Flathub I feel that there's not just everything there that probably covers 95% of non-tech-savvy people's needs, there's even stuff in there that you can't get anywhere else with a simple install button. Like a youtube-dl UI for example. Anyways this isn't even the story I'm trying to tell, sorry for the tangent. So I thought if I'm ever going to recommend any distro to someone it's gonna have to be an immutable one, but based on what I just said I'd say any distribution (immutable or not) is going to be dead in the water if it doesn't come with Flatpak support out of the box. And so the choices in terms of popular ones (according to ChatGPT) were VanillaOS and Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. (Personally I use KDE now but I think the most approachable DE is always going to be Gnome hands down unless you're talking outdated hardware.) So I set up VanillaOS in a VM, latest ISO from their website, went through the installer, all went fine until the reboot where I was basically just met by a lengthy splash screen and then some GTK error saying it failed to launch or whatever and then the screen just remains black indefinitely. Obviously this isn't supposed to happen, it's probably something to do with my virtualized setup, but if there's any chance of this happening on the physical machine of a person in need of a digital revolution in their life then this is certainly not what I'm going to recommend to them. Next up, Fedora Silverblue. Went through the installer, the Fedora one is already a great starting point in terms of simplicity. Rebooted into a working Desktop Environment, so already winning on that front. I had one minor problem there where the last step of the Initial Setup process would just hang if I wanted it to enable Third party sources straightaway. If I left that off I could finish and finally get to my Desktop. Then I would open the Gnome "Software" app and it would basically ask the same thing in a more convoluted manner but basically that means there's a second "chance" to enable third party sources without having to find something in a settings menu. It's a little more fussy than if the checkbox had just worked on the Initial Setup but I guess I could see many people work through this if I told them "don't check that last checkbox and then check it in the Software app". It's weird that both avenues I tried came up with problems that seem way too on the nose to be overlooked. Or who knows what factored into those problems, but really they shouldn't even be within the realm of possibility. For a setup process to yield a black screen or hang itself if the wrong checkbox is clicked are the kind of things that (imho) are going to define when the "Year of the Linux Desktop" meme will stop being a meme. If you can give me an immutable Linux with Flatpak support out of the box which can be booted on a SecureBoot enabled computer and which will reliably install to a working Desktop then we're talking. For now, my recommendation is Fedora Silverblue. Slap that onto a USB-Stick and you have a somewhat attainable Linux installer that mere mortals can make use of.

Krita is nice. IDK how it compares to commercial products, but ctrl-c + ctrl-v works like you'd expect it to

I agree re: Fedora, especially the atomic varieties. I do think Zorin is good at what it is but it has a pretty specific use case. Also, had no idea you were also in this community. Pleasant surprise. Had the same thought, it's always nice to encounter a civilized person of distinguished taste and culture out here in the wilds. [image: 78186ce3-b3ba-414b-a023-56149e589776.png]

Not when it’s not installing because of the lack of swap

I had a Linux beginners class at my HS in 10th grade but I've forgot about Linux, until 12th grade when 2 of my really nerdie friends started shilling Linux to me, especially pointing out that now you can play windows games on Linux, and not too long after I eventually did the jump when starting my comp sci uni (19 years old) with Manjaro as a first, but I have found happiness in EndevaorOS due to Manjaro being unstable.

Sadly when the EU regulates, it's the same for everyone across the board. It's a mess. They require that small, one-man operations or simple corner stores treat personal data with the same diligence that banks do, under the GDPR.The concept of scale is something that is foreign to the EU. I have a few friends that work for the government in their countries and they say GDPR requirements is destroying their local municipalities. The only regulation from the EU that I've seen makes a distinction at scale, is the Digital Markets Act.

That's a nice graphic. I'd love to see something comparing it to a rolling release or fedora. Unfortunately, it wouldn't tell you anything because you'd compare apples with oranges. But since opensuse has a (multiple) stable and rolling release, how would it look there? More like the testing release?

Just leave it. Either they do something in the background. Then you'll get issues when they're missing, and you'll never know which package is missing for what. Or they don't do anything, then they just take up a few MB of disk space. "Cleaning up" is the most sure-fire way to destroy your OS, and absolutely not worth anyone's time. Trust me, I've made that mistake multiple times.

I never intended to insult you, I was merely explaining how my ADHD manifests. I made the incorrect assumption that you were coming from a more neurotypical perspective, and for that, I sincerely apologize, but nowhere did I insult you. If you took this as an insult, again, my apologies.

I used a lenovo x380 yoga with Fedora. I seldom used it in tablet form, but the keyboard appeared when swiping up from the bottom in GNOME. I did not like it as well as the windows one. I tried KDE as well, I had a better experience there as there are more config options for it. As for drivers and sensors like for the hinge positions, wacom touch stuff all just worked.

Ubuntu/Canonical gets flak for telemetry & Snap packages, despite PrivacyTools.io recommending it. Criticism stems from perceived compromises on privacy & a "walled garden" feel, despite being a better option than Windows/macOS. It's just a clash between open-source ideals & pragmatic realities.

xmodmap was meant to work with x11 so it shouldn't be a surprise that it doesn't work very well w wayland. instead, you'll want to use a combination of libinput and evdev along w gnome/kde tools or input-remapper/wlr-inputremapper if you're not using either.

That's a pretty unique feature to Go I think. Maybe clang has something similar I guess? Not that an attack like this is unique or anything.

If it's on peertube, I might follow it. On YouTube, even if I watched it, it'd be through yt-dlp and thus no views for you (at least not officially). Anti Commercial-AI license

Issue resolved! It was swhkd. Thank you very much for your insight and extremely detailed response! $ ls -l $(which swhkd) -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2583192 Mar 10 17:16 /usr/bin/swhkd Since we know what's causing it, can you make a "guesstimate" of what it's doing? Why are other applications are getting infected by it? And why is a keybind manager affecting permissions? I will raise an issue on their github. The project is already looking for maintainers.