I believe it is technically based on Fedora, but it’s not really clear to what extent (i.e. is it a fork from 20 years ago or do they keep it in sync?), but Red Star OS is a distro for which an exception can be made.

Red Star OS 1.0

Red Star OS 2.0:

Red Star OS 3.0:

Red Star OS 4.0:

Beyond the rather interesting design/visual choices, it has some rather unique features and functionality.

Aren’t both Alpine and NixOS really big in certain enterprise areas? And NixOS and Alpine are both relatively well covered in news articles and posts.

When I think niche Linux distro, something more like GoboLinux comes to mind:

GoboLinux at a Glance - GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that’s installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.

I disagree. You don’t have to be far left to oppose oligarchy, corruption and crime.

I honestly don’t under understand why Systemd’s addition of an optional age verification module was such a big deal. This is a smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything. I feel that this article aligns wioth my perspective on the issue (particularly the 2nd/3rd to last paragraphs).

However, I would like to emphasize a somewhat tangential point raised by this opinion piece:

Developers from all over the world may contribute to Debian, but all of its financials and trademarks are managed by Software in the Public Interest, domiciled in New York State. Fedora is part of Red Hat, owned by IBM, and we all know IBM. Arch Linux’ donations are also managed by Software in the Public Interest. The Gentoo Foundation is domiciled in New Mexico. The FreeBSD Foundation is domiciled in Boulder, Colorado. The NetBSD Foundation is domiciled in Delaware. Ubuntu is a Canonical product, a company headquartered in London, UK, a country with strict age verification laws for websites and applications. Hell, even Haiku, Inc. is domiciled in New York State. I could go on, but you get the gist: all of these projects manage their donations, financials, trademarks, and related issues in the United States (or the UK for Ubuntu).

This is not a sustainable approach. You can’t have much of open source be legally tied to the United States; a country that is almost certainly going to be dominated by oligarchs, chauvinists and regressives at least for the next ~30 years.

No disrespect to sane Americans, but if you live outside of the US you do need to take a more sober perspective on such matters. Especially considering the general human tendency to avoid rocking the boat.

That being said, a dependence on the US is a liability for any society that values freedom, democracy and having a happy society.

And open source is arguably an Achilles Heel against the American model, one that they can’t beat that easily.

I hate Electron apps with a passion.

They are always so heavy and inefficient. I sometimes run complex video encoding/upscaling tasks in the background that push my computer to it’s limits (for hours on end) and you can really get a feel for which applications are badly made. Electron apps always perform worse even if what they are doing is relatively simple.

And there are always weird edge cases with OS integration with Electron apps. Sometimes it’s done well, other times not so much.

I am guessing the AI framing is why this post got so many downvotes. Even though this is the most neutral (harmless?) use case imaginable: porting over a long abandoned open source app from 15+ year ago without any institutional involvement (commercial or otherwise).

This sort of petty acting out benefits no one.

That being said, I would rather deal with the unproductive attitude towards AI, than with the shills on Reddit. So many regressives parroting PR copytext.

This is a stupid reason to fork systemd, this is an optional features. I can think of totally reasonable use cases/situations where such an optional feature makes a lot of sense.

Mind you, while I don’t have children, I have no intent to restrict their usage of the internet. Teaching them critical thinking and providing them a broad cultural exposure seems like a much more productive approach.

I am not a developer, but I can definitely tell you that “native” apps tend to work a lot better when the system is under pressure (a complex video upscaling task in the background) and have better system integration and consistency.

FreeTube is a solid electron app, but they are cloning a desktop page (YT) so that makes things a lot easier on the UI/UX front. Performance and “micro-responsiveness” is bad, just like every Electron I’ve ever used.

I don’t have much to contribute but I can’t believe a terminal application was written with electron.

I hate electron-based apps with a passion. They run like shit, often look like shit and their user experience can often be described as shit.

Seems fine, I don’t see why a home/DIY user would stay on an Ubuntu LTS release for more than 5 years.

I agree that now is the perfect time get users to switch.

Justing saying, if you do have critical Windows only software (e.g. work), there is always the option to use Win10 (enterprise installs just get security updates, I didn’t even get a request to upgrade to Win11).

There is Windows 10, with the right approach (grey market keys) you continue to get security updates and Win10 will IMO be supported for a very long time (because so many people are going to keep using it). MS will be forced to provide out of band security updates.

I believe you’ll need a reader of some sort if you want to get the Pi running and you can’t SSH into it in its current state.

Try DietPi (Debian based ARM distro). It has an excellent set of custom CLI tools. They’ve been around for over a decade and have an active community and release cadence.

They even support Raspberry Pi 1/2 (I started with Pi 3 though):

https://dietpi.com/#download

Looking forward to checking it out, I mostly use the windows desktops client, but updates on all platforms are great!