The main issue is all the closed source hardware firmware for basic things like the microphones, cameras and radios.

The UI and OS is the easy part. It reverse engineering the firmware that is the issue

Pretty big price actually.

It needs help from regulators to break up the monopsonies in the manufacturing of smarphone parts and regulate open firmware standards.

They also don’t understand their customers.

But they do understand what they care about. Short term “Shareholder value”

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They are not as restrictive as people make them out to be. Ostree works quite well for installing a primary app like a different browser.

If you want to avoid dependency conflicts entirely, You can have a look at distro shelf. It allows you to run a container for nearly any distro, install packages and then export those apps to run like native apps. I use it all the time when something is only supported via package and not flatpack, or some other distro only.

The container still maps to your same home folder for file and config access.

I have 3 containers, a fedora workstation one for standard apps I don’t want to do via Flatpak or AppImage. An Debian one for deb packages. And lastly a Arch one, which is for the more experimental apps. If I end up breaking something, I can just wipe the container and start again.

Bazzite has lots of customizations built-in if you download the Asus spin.

It could also be that they decided to change the criteria for what they identify as a Linux device. Especially when they don’t have enough metadata because of good privacy settings.

What did you struggle with?

Debian for servers and fedora for desktop for me.

Some people I will put on Mint for desktop use, if they are super non-technical.

The disk battle is the wrong one to fight.

The correct battle is that buying=owning not leasing.

Ubuntu (which is based on Debian) can be too slow to adopt newer software.

Arch on the other side is too quick.

Fedora is a good balance in-between.

Nearly all other distros are derived from these 3 families.

That and Ubuntu’s obsession with Snaps is unhealthy. So many people recommend Debian or Mint over Ubuntu, if you want something very stable.

He is dead already. They are hiding it so the governer can’t appoint a replacement.

It is worth noting you can only move partitions into a empty space larger enough for the full partition. Its a copy/delete process not a shift process.

In this case it should work. Delete first two windows partitions. Then move the Linux boot to first part. Then move the root partition Then move the home partition Then finally expand the home partition to the rest of the disk.

You will probably need to fix grub and do an initfs(?) Since the order of partitions have changed.

I agree with this approach. It results in the cleanist install that does not require setting up everything from scratch.

You can even backup your / as well if you want to copy some configs from the current install.

Nano

The “results” portion they got rid of is credibility of the results based on cross linking i.e. people linking to useful resources. It was the thing that made Google the best search engine.

Noe they prioritise what sell the most ads as the top priority.

I tried it on my main desktop after dumping windows. Tried ot along with CachyOS and Bazzite.

CachyOS was too bleeding edge for me.

MX was very easy to work with, but I could not get a lot of my gaming stuff working with my limited skills. Things like HDR was not working well on my monitor, everything just looked washed out. Could not get it converted to Wayland, etc. It did not support 5.1 audio over Spidif on my sound card.

Settled on Bazzite with plasma which was similarly stable, while having the gaming, display and audio stuff correctly configured out of the box.