"SO proof" distro
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You know the build scripts which turn Fedora Kinoite into Bazzite are all open on GitHub, right.....
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That is not a thing in userspace. No idea what you're even alluding to here.
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maybe not for a few months since they're gonna be launching COSMIC this year, which will likely be buggier than usual for a bit.
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Aurora gets a vote from me. I set it up for my technically repulsive father, and he gets on just fine with it.
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Sure but 22.04 is LTS without COSMIC and you'll have plenty time to upgrade to 24.04 with COSMIC
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Surprising amount of stuff requires root (or used to). It reminds me of this glorious rant from Linus from his less domesticated times (that he made on Google Plus hah). https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linus-to-opensuse-devs-kill-yourself-now.30414/
The highlight:
So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place.
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Aurora by Universal Blue. She will be unable to break it, and it's so freaking easy to use and install.
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This is old as hell, and on a locked down account. You don't need restrictions like this for a personal use machine, and a base install of any distro wouldn't have this type of issue whatsoever. It is not a modern concern.
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Friend, this is from my own system I'm running right now lol.
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Oh wild, I thought "No way!", but apparently yes way as I (Tumbleweed/KDE/Standard User) get all of this which I imagine would be disorienting to non-Linux users. Just going to Wi-Fi & Networking, not attempting to make any changes even.
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I've had my wife on Pop for 3-4 months now but she performed some update in the Pop Shop this week that totally borked the bootloader. I was not able to repair or even get it to see her hard drive.
I was able to mount the drive using the Pop live USB and backup her data. I moved her over to Bazzite, which is what I use.
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Don't have this issue on archlinux. I think there is a group, which if you are part of, you can change networking settings.
[moonpie@cachyos-x8664 ~]$ groups moonpie sys network wheel audio kvm lp storage video users rfkill libvirt docker moonpie -
Then your account is not part of the proper groups to control NetworkManager as integrated in Gnome. That's on you.
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Friend, that's KDE lol.
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I have PCs here running pop updated the same way, no issues. Are you sure it wasn't a hardware problem?
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OpenSUSE MicroOS
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Doesn't matter what DE it is.
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NetworkManager as integrated in Gnome
Uhhuh.
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The common theme with us and the complaint from Linus is openSUSE. Dunno why these groups aren't set up as default on Tumbleweed, maybe some old and dusty security policy. But this is the sort of stuff a user without root password might bump into that would cause them pain.
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I should probably clarify that I think my wife did something wrong and not Pop. I ran it smoothly for months before moving to Bazzite on my item machine. She knows enough to be dangerous and may have changed something without knowing what it did.
An atomic system would be more SO proof for me.
