boredsquirrel (he)

Yes very weird. It was merged into master the same day but has not arrived on any of my machines which are all on unstable.

Yes but that is the big benefit of flatpak

Set aside that all the dependencies used by verified flatpaks are not verified so it is kind of a weak measure

Thanks, very useful list!

Still waiting on NixOS unstable

Immutable in the actual sense yes, it is basically a product and every other software is installed aside from it.

But you can also have better managed systems like nix or ostree, that reduce entropy or at least make it fully declarative so theoretically finding and reproducing issues is easy

Never used homebrew, that doesnt sound good.

I am trying to use nix and firejail only, but it is pretty rough and barely documented which is kinda insane as firejail is THE tool. Unlike crabjail, bubblejail and what else is out there

Also, do you need that long battery life? If yes, ARM or really new intel processors with energy saving cores seem to be the way to go.

Check how much of the hardware Asahi linux supports. But I would avoid buying Apple hardware for this. It is not repairable and they might refuse to help if you run Linux or something. Luke Rossman can tell you about how shit apples customer support is.

No, official packages mean packaged upstream by the creators of the software, so if issues occur you can talk to them directly.

Cool

Damn, I dont even know how to do this without KDE XD

KDE Connect

All of the methods have big issues but I would still prefer them over messing with a mutable system

• snap is likely the most secure by avoiding user namespaces, using AppArmor only and thus being very flexible (also for use for kernels, drivers, browsers …) but it is proprietary, nobody likes it and Canonical doesnt wanna stop somehow.
• flatpak has the biggest amount of officially maintained packages, but packaging is often really bad, runtime extensions arent really a thing, instead people just put ffmpeg binaries in their packaged and think that is fine. Flatpak does consume quite some disk space and more importantly RAM for the duplicated things
• nix doesnt have any of these, but sandboxing is hard, there is either stable or unstable, changing and configuring things is very complex. Likely no official packages. Still the method I prefer.
• homebrew idk? Never tried, mac focused and with more and more linux features like sandboxing. No idea
• distrobox/toolbox is pretty hacky, relies on entire distros running in parallel with no shared anything (currently, afaik bootc deduplication is kind of planned but kind of difficult too). Updates dont really work so either you go declarative with podman compose or distrobox-assemble, or you use rolling distros. Also they share your homedir by default so they will clutter and mess up your dotfiles which is a problem nobody deals with. Dotfile backup tools exist but are kinda complex. Distrobox has a config but the creator doesnt seem to want to make it the default, neither do downstreams.
• Appimages just suck, back to the windows way but without developer signature verification (like Windows) or secure updates (like .apk files on Android)

Also Nix, Flatpak and a few more fully depend on Github. Same with uBlue, Secureblue and a ton of other projects. Really scary actually.

Well technically localsend is not native, uses dart and flutter. Something native would be cool, but it should be interoperable with localsend I think.

Localsend is great, absolutely no issues with it design-wise

Still waiting on NixOS stable, even though it is in master since some time.

I guess I should be happy because of stability, and maybe even skip the first version.

Yo AI whats up?

Oh damn. I was at a shitty startup once which uses macs/windows with google everything and additional external services. Worked through thunderbird and drive also through KDE’s KIO.

While I wouldnt want to maintain these things (similar to exchange support in thunderbird or DRM support in Firefox) they are extremely important for harm reduction.

Kinoite kind of is KDE Linux but better. Ostree relies on grub which is a bit annoying (NixOS uses systemd-boot but limine would be nice too) and they support more things like kernel modules.

Oh but Kinoite will switch to bootc some day, which currently is worse and looks like it will always be. Container people vs git people. Flatpak still uses ostree just fine.

Tbh if you run qbittorrent you can manually give it as much as you got in the settings.

But then you need a player on each platform, that works with m3u files

Which is very few, and buggy.

I use “Anrimians Simple Music Player” and Gapless/G4music, but songs are randomly disappearing from playlists. Also you need to usw default directories for the files.

Interesting! Gapless is the only modern one and it is fine-ish