Cats & Linux
Hello. What type of distribution do you prefer in Linux, an enterprise-based distribution (Ubuntu) or a community-based distribution (Debian)? Do you think that enterprise-based distributions benefit from higher quality development and offer a higher level of security?
I use Lollypop and I love it. I would like it to have more information about the track being played. Which audio player do you recommend for Gnome that is in GTK4? Thanks
If you want technical support, of course you do. Just because a code is open source does not mean it should be free. Developers need to eat too. Another issue is that there are distributions such as ZorinOS that charge money for the right to use a pro version, when in reality it is the same version that you can configure yourself and that ZorinOS belongs to a company, not a user community.
KDE & openSUSE is one of the best combinations for Linux.
Arch has control over its own repositories, but CachyOS, EndeavourOS, etc. do not.
It’s great if you know how to configure important system elements such as security and quick and easy system restoration in case of failure. If you don’t know how or don’t want to configure the system, it’s better to use distributions such as Manjaro if you want to use an Arch derivative, as it’s a distribution that has control over its repositories. I don’t recommend using a distribution that doesn’t have control over its repositories.
Several countries in the European Union have already switched to penguin mode. 😎
I believe that the main reason for recommending Linux, in my opinion, is because it is open source code that can be audited. And the second reason is so that the EU can have greater digital and technological sovereignty.
Manjaro is a great distribution that has had its share of controversies in the past, but in my opinion, it has something essential: control over its own repositories. I would not use any derivative distribution that does not have control over its own repositories, nor would I ever use a rolling distribution that does not have a system recovery system configured by default in case of failure. Manjaro has control over its repositories and Timeshift configured and ready to use as soon as the system is installed. If Tumbleweed did not exist, I would probably be using Manjaro.
In my opinion, the best way to get started with Linux is still through Ubuntu, because I would never recommend distributions that do not have their own repositories, as is the case with many easy-to-use Debian derivatives.
Using democracy to gain power and then eliminating dissent and democracy itself was already used in the last century by German politicians. ;)
My message does not say that FOSS project leaders are MAGA, but rather that there are increasingly more FOSS projects with MAGA leaders, such as Brave.
Brave is one of the best-known FOSS projects in the world of web browsers, and its leaders are MAGA.
I’m gonna re iterate what I said about the FOSS community the first time I came across this.
As a whole FOSS has a nazi bar problem and it needs to be addressed.
That’s what I think. Fascism and MAGA ideas are increasingly being introduced into FOSS projects through the leaders of those projects. The biggest example is Brave Software with Brendan Eich and Peter Thiel contributing money to Brave Software. Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.
It’s great news that allows users to get SLE enterprise level code through Leap and with 2 years of community support. It also comes with the new modern Agama installer. No wonder more and more people are using openSUSE with the amount of new distributions the community is offering under the openSUSE project.
Ubuntu->Manjaro->Tumbleweed
SUSE has its line of business in servers and cloud computing. Opensuse has desktop users as its main asset. Not wanting the company’s name to appear on the distribution is because the typical users of the two are increasingly different, as well as suspecting that Leap will not continue as SLE’s 1:1 solution.
Suse’s decision not to have its name on the distribution means that it will be increasingly distanced from the community distribution, which is primarily run by Suse employees, so it is the company’s decisions that will shape the future of the distribution.
A company’s decisions are based on the benefits of its line of business, not on the benefits of the community outside its customers. This is a statement of intent that in my opinion breaks the relationship of trust between company-community.
It is time to look for another distribution, the chameleon has focused on its profits rather than on the benefits for the community.
My experience with Arch+Gnome has been problematic with Gnome version changes. When I upgraded to Gnome 46, the system wouldn’t boot. I have had several problems related to grub and aur, so a few months ago I decided to abandon Arch for good. I need a distro that works for me, not me for the distro.
Great news, but I would put more effort into making Anaconda a faster and more intuitive installer.
Distributions of corporate origin such as Ubuntu, Leap, Fedora, etc., i.e. distributions that exist because there is a company supporting the development community. More specifically, is it more advisable to use a distribution supported by a company that contributes a large part of the system’s development?