It looks like silly fun, but as they say on their own page, they don’t recommend it as a daily driver, specifically because it was designed with humor in mind, not maintainability.
Could be worth spinning up in a VM or giving away on an old laptop, though…
Meanwhile, I read stories from other users here on the Fediverse who had grandparents who got fed up with Windows and installed Aurora; they just figured things out as they went and stuck with it.
So like you say, don’t go too crazy right out of the gate. Get used to the new system, and learn a new way of doing things.
CachyOS is great, and it’s my daily driver on my main rig, but I put Bazzite on a laptop specifically so that anyone in my household could use and maintain it. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a good use case for anyone who wants to set it and forget it.
As far as I know, Private Internet Access will continue to offer .ovpn files.
I am still currently a customer, and I’ve had no issues with them, however be warned: they have a bit of a sordid history regarding who eventually bought them (Kape Technologies). Also, they’re based in the US, which has been sliding towards Digital ID enforcement and fascism.
It also nuked some of the popular Gnome extension integrations. It also kept the “test mic” channel open, even after I had closed it. Needed to restart to fix it.
Overall, it seems to come with some functional bugs, in addition to the UI changes.
Lists should be like this
1. Apples
2. Oranges
3. Bananas
And it will show up like this:
This is precisely what I do on my current system. All games live on a separate hard drive, and Steam knows that’s the default library.
We all have different knowledge bases. You were close, I was just providing a little more clarity. No snark meant or intended!
Have a nice day!
So what I hear you saying is: install PikaOS, a Debian-based gaming distro.
(h/j 😉)
Distrobox is there for other software and works for most cases. The only time I personally had trouble was with VPN software clients.
There’s definitely a learning curve with atomic distros, and I agree that it’s worth trying to surmount it.
This is what I would suggest, as well. Rebasing is one of the best features of atomic distros.
Bazzite locks down a lot of parts to ensure it works for games.
This is not entirely correct. It’s a feature of atomic distros in general. Bazzite doesn’t lock anything down any more than its upstream Silverblue and Kinoite parents do, it’s just that most of the system files have been set to be immutable to ensure repeatable and standardized deployments.
This is great for scalability and ensuring the most uptime. Not so great if you want to do a lot of system tinkering.
The other issue is that a lot of existing software needlessly installs itself globally, rather than making use of the user’s local access. It’s a paradigm that needs to change, since most software doesn’t need access to most of the system directories to function.
VeraPDF seems like the best option when it comes to openness, being free, and having Linux support (really it uses Java, so it’s just platform agnostic).
A second option might be this one:
https://pac.pdf-accessibility.org/en
I’ve never used it, and it only has a Windows installer, but you might still be able to make use of it with Wine/Bottles/etc. Also, it’s free, so testing it out shouldn’t cost anything but time.
Forking isnt a magic bullet.
No, but good projects have come from forking away from bad decisions.
It was and has been thus far. Has a lot of great features, but this might be a good reason to fork the project.
I don’t see a question in there. What are you asking?
I’ll add that if you want a more bleeding edge experience, similar to CachyOS, but still within the Debian world, PikaOS is the Debian-based (not Ubuntu-based) analog of CachyOS.
Edit: clarification