lol, what a shitshow. A product from the same company is distancing from the stench. Good on them, but it shows who did some things wrong.

I have experience doing exactly that with Bazzite, Aurora and Bluefin. Booting from a USB, it works perfectly out of the box. If you want to switch between any of these distros, with one command you can rebase (switch) to another distro without losing any data. Except when you switch between different desktop environments (Bluefin is GNOME based). This is how I use Linux on my work laptop, on a daily basis. I settled on Aurora on an M2 caddy.

To install it to a USB drive, you’ll need two USB drives, one to boot to the installer, the other one is the target for the installation.

If you are more security minded, there’s also https://secureblue.dev/ but I haven’t tried it to be able to recommend it though.

The home dir on all these distros has persistance enabled.

You know what just works ? Bazzite. It’s as easy to use as a PlayStation.

OCI CLI apps can also be obtained from brew

The build instructions for all flatpaks are in one repo, you could build it yourself and maintain your own registry if you wanted.

You’re just not the target user.

The whole OCI mindset is geared towards absolute noobs like me, and cloud native devs that develop inside containers on a daily basis.

Take me for example. I use Bazzite, it’s the first distro I couldn’t break. On top of that, flatpaks, appimages and brew are my only options for software. Since Bazzite is an atomic distro (think immutable ) I could also use Distrobox but I don’t want to deal with it.

Everything just works for me, I don’t care about anything. I broke so many distros before. Sure, I don’t control every nut and cranny but I don’t want to.

If you know how to not break your stuff then that’s great, but I don’t, and I don’t want to learn that. I just want to learn other things.

Kde’s Spectacle is awesome

No. Betterbird adds random features.

Which one is the server, I couldn’t tell.

Is File selfhostable & FOSS ?

Why don’t they use the official fdroid repo?

Every measure is a deterrent, it may not stop people like you, but it may stop lazier people, or bots.

So, better leave your house wide open since you can be tricked into opening it, right?

If you want, post what you are looking at and we can help you chose.

What about credit cards and bank accounts ?

Just get an all AMD (CPU & GPU) build and flash a thumb drive with Bazzite (bazzite-deck), your PC will be very similar to your Steam Deck.

I did this, best decision ever.

This is in fact a professional editor. If OP is looking into getting balls deep into ebook editing, this is the answer.

This. Or a window manager to code the whole thing.

Great news

This. Arch based distros have understood this a long time ago, most ship with no GUI for their package managers and if they ship with one they throw you to a terminal to solve anything, as it should be.

I don’t want to deal with any of that, so I run Bazzite, do flatpaks only, and use Distrobox for whatever I can’t find on the homebrew package manager.