This is one of those times I’m glad I use a dotfiles repo

Sure, there are workarounds, but most people aren’t going to jump through all those extra hoops just to use an app.

To @irotsoma@lemmy.world’s point, could a phone app be made to :

• Record tower eNBID, signal strength, and GPS coordinates on a regular basis
• If, near a given GPS coordinate, eNBID is now different, or the same with significantly changed strength, alert the user

Theoretically this would allow a device to notify on a new “tower”/etc. Oddly enough I’m going to be around a bunch of telecom people in the coming weeks, so I might ask about this.

Debian is basically Ubuntu without Snap.

You can switch. Just sayin.

Yea, running from repo there are updates, but yea, sad it has stagnated for releases. It’s why I’m starting to look at Lawnchair again.

They were acquired by Branch Analytics, and right after the APK went up in size by 150% with no visible changes.

It then asks for location and accessibility (to see notifications) permissions.

They then got rid of most of the staff, leaving a sole developer.

No one knows what it sends back home (at least not the last time I read about it, which was years ago).

I stopped using it years ago when it got bought and immediately injected with spyware. Neo Launcher or Lawnchair are very similar to Nova. Lawnchair gets more active development, but I use Neo because it’s nearly the same as Nova.

For the record, WinApps makes menu shortcuts/etc.

Hey, I made that. Fun 😆

I agree it’s great, but woah.

Nothing says Linux is easier than you think than 23 screens of a guide 😆

Honestly, I’ve had access to tons of Nvidia cards (1050, 1060, 1080, 3070, etc). All of them worked great for gaming whenever I tried in Debian or Ubuntu, using whatever drivers were latest at the time.

The ONLY place I had issue was specific settings (HDR + 120hz over HDMI) in Bazzite. I wanted a new card back then anyway so I got an AMD. But I’ve heard their Nvidia image is great, now.

“Immutable”: A term to describe Linux operating systems that do not follow the traditional filesystem layout where every single file can be removed by the user with root privileges. It is more nuanced than this in the case of Bazzite, but is still considered “immutable” from the point of view of the extended Linux community. The Bazzite team would not describe Bazzite as an “immutable” operating system.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/terms/

I’m a big fan of Bazzite, but as stated in the docs, “immutable” is a term the community uses to describe it.

Education is the key to reducing confusion, not pretending a system architecture doesn’t exist or matter.

Pretend your running a live OS off a read-only USB, yet any changes (app installs, config changes, etc) you make are saved to the HD. A new version of the OS comes out, so you write a new ISO to your USB, and upon booting it, all you changes are applied on top.

This is a simplistic view of immutable distros, but thwy wrk more like snapshots. It allows for rollback. So you install v1, then v2 is a newer snapshot of the base OS, v3 is another, always building.

The catch is they often require apps to run under things like flatpak so you don’t have to alter the OS packages. Personally, I’m not a fan for a daily driver, but it’s great for distros like Bazzite.

Wut? You’re responding to a trend graph for Fedora’s immutable (Atomic) forks.

Built on Fedora’s rpm-ostree system, Bazzite uses an immutable design with atomic updates and rollback functionality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazzite_(operating_system)

But yes, since the trend chart is showing immutable distros and how Bazzite is growing, I am saying the fact that Bazzite is immutable has nothing to do with it’s growth.

Edit: Reading again, I realize you might not know that Fedora Atomic is the immutable base. 😉

But “being immutable” is not why Bazzite is growing.

The upward trend is not because Bazzite is immutable.

Bazzite is not growing because it’s immutable.

Misinformation. Debian 13 is brand new. Backports supports new hardware as needed.

My like 10 year old, way out of date, note taking app for Owncloud that I forgot about just got a PR. So I guess perfect is different for everyone.

It said following before. Comment OP edited it (mentioned in their other comment)