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pastermil,

I happen to have a Fairphone 4. It’s listed as supported, but not with all its features.

Anyone here tried PostmarketOS on Fairphone 4?

pastermil,

From what I read on the wiki, they’re mostly testing the mainline kernel. I wonder how the device support would be with vendor downstream kernel.

pastermil,

Makes me wonder if a 3rd party server for this is ever a thing.

pastermil,

Wow, I didn’t know Canonical apologist is a thing.

pastermil,

Not Debian-based, but Debian. With KDE.

pastermil,

Been using KDE since Debian 9. I’d say it’s stable enough.

pastermil,

OP said it’s been running fine until recently, so I doubt it’s the kernel.

pastermil,

Yeah, it’s like reinventing the wheel, one that’s been going strong.

pastermil,

AFAIK, the Linux codebase is actually open source in its entirety. However it has parts that are capable of loading non-free stuff like firmware. The linux-libre project makes sure those parts are disabled.

Personally, I think it’s a fool’s errand as it would render most modern systems unusable (in the reasonable sense).

They also don’t apply such harsh judgement to firmware that resides in ROM, and only to firmware updates. In most of these cases you’d have systems with outdated firmwares with neither QoL nor security updates.

pastermil,

Clearly you haven’t seen many open source developers.

pastermil,

It’s ironic that CentOS Stream (specifically the killing of old CentOS for the sake of it) is what made Enterprise Linux sucks in the first place.

pastermil,

Mainly a Debian user, but have used CentOS at times. Quite informed on the happening as well.

CentOS 9 was doing quite well until Red Hat shortened its lifetime. Red Hat also called the FOSS community a bunch of “freeloaders”.

I think the consensus these days is to use Alma Linux or Rocky Linux for enterprise stuff.

Speaking of stable, Debian and Ubuntu LTS easily provide 5 years support. Both Alma & Rocky picked up where CentOS 9 left off.

pastermil,

Updates tend to be an issue, especially when it comes to changes in application interfaces. We’ll never know what would break after a major update.

This is why point release distro remains the majority in enterprise world.

Perhaps immutable distros are there to provide that continuous update while having the ability to rollback.

pastermil,

Here’s something to get you started.

Don’t take my word for it, tho. Do your own research as well!

pastermil,

I dont think that app interfaces should break between releases?

If they have good reason, they totally should! In fact this is pretty common.

One prominent example would be how runtime files for PostgreSQL & MySQL are incompatible between major version. E.g. if you’re to upgrade from postgres 11 to 12, you’ll need to do migration.

A lot of command line programs change their default behaviors, deprecate options, etc. This may not be so for coreutils (cp, mv, ls, ln, et al.), but for the more actively developed programs.

In the end, it might not be complete bad to have rolling release on servers, but in most case, it’s not worth the headache.

pastermil,
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pastermil,

DMCA in 3… 2… 1…

Jokes aside, I’d love some proper open source DOTA game.

pastermil,

who hurt you?

pastermil,

fair nuf

pastermil,

That might be the problem with DE integration. I’ve been using KDE, and I’ve only had to deal with a single interface for setting wifi connection.

pastermil,

Interesting. I’m curious as to the exactl issue you were facing.

pastermil,

Yeah, it’s known to not play nice with dhcpcd. I’ve been using nm’s built-in dhcp client. Otherwise dhclient’s been known to work. Not sure about the wpa_supplicant part as it never cause me any issue by itself.

pastermil,

“You know what’s funnier? That theatrics you call User Access Control popup.”

pastermil,

As someone who’s been using KDE on Debian since version 9, I wholeheartedly support this!

I just wish they make it default. Yes, I know we can choose it and all, but the noobs wouldn’t know any better than to go with the default. Would be nice to bless them with better experience.

pastermil,

hexchat, also Konversation

pastermil,

Might as well ditch the Alpine base if that’s what they want.

pastermil,

Nothing could’ve prepared me for that

pastermil,

NixOS is anything but lightweight…

pastermil,

Been rocking Debian on my 30 series.

pastermil,

Wow, an actual GIMP tester. Not all heroes wear cape.

pastermil,

Count me in!

Multi-boot utility Ventoy updated to 1.0.98 - Fixes for Arch Linux, KAOS, RHEL9 (github.com)

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drives for ISO/IMG/VHD(x)/WIM/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the disk images to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can have multiple images on the disk and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them....

pastermil,

Interesting… I’ve never had any issue with Linux ISOs on Ventoy. BSDs on the other hand…

pastermil,

technically it’s possible…

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

pastermil,

Honestly, dude.

With all the time and effort in writing this ling post, you could’ve installed Linux. For Linux Mint (and probably Zorin OS), everything you see on the live boot (except the OS installer) should be there on the installed system as well.

If you encountered some issue that renders your system inoperable due to that Linux installation, you can simply use the live boot, which you said works well.

pastermil,

Hope they can get into the latex3 programming stuff as well!

What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?

I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?

pastermil,

You may get top-notch casing and chassis quality, but all the computing stuff would literally be two decades behind.

pastermil,

One-up for a fellow 30s series! Currently rocking a W530 semi-mobile workstation!

pastermil,

Man, I hope the BSDs would get some love on Ventoy some day :')

pastermil,

Nice

pastermil,

Framebuffers and TUIs: are we a joke to you?

pastermil,

… I actually use Arch. BTW.

FTFY

pastermil,

Nice

pastermil,

How’s it going so far? Any chance to use it as daily driver?

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@linux Sharing a 'small' inconvenience I had to fix with (I suspect is the same) - I couldn't launch snaps (spotify, bitwarden) after update - error was: cannot determine seccomp compiler version in generateSystemKey fork/exec /usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp: no such file or directory

The fix (I first tried re-installing, didn't work) was to:
a. locate snap-seccomp - was in /usr/libexec/snapd
b. symlink: ln -s /usr/libexec/snapd /usr/lib/snapd

pastermil,

Why not flatpak?

pastermil,

I would take this with a grain of salt. For me, as long as the package is available and functional for my prefered installation method, I’d go with that.

Take cerbot for example. For some reason, the cerbot developers uses snap in their installation guide. I’ve been using apt on all my projects that requires https, both personal and professional (yes, I get paid to do this, among others). Never had any issue with it.

pastermil,

the attack surface for something that isn’t officially maintained by the developers, and that doesn’t have more vetting (e.g. distribution packages) opens up room for malicious actors.

There are actors like out there.

Funny that Jia Tan was an official maintainer of xz until he was found to be problematic.

Speaking of verifying, you know you can’t really verify anything on the snap server since they’re proprietary, right? On the contrary everything on flathub is laid to bare for anyone to look at.

In the end, you’re free to choose. Since you’ve kindly provided your argument, I’ve provided mine in hope you’d reconsider.

pastermil,

What matrix space?

pastermil,

What are you doing step grub?

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