Love it when people speak with authority and are confidently incorrect. Eugenia is right.
You could potentially use flatseal to grant the flatpak the necessary permissions, and you might find out what those permissions are by looking for other users experiences with the flatpak version.
Or, you find the .deb file and it installs natively without being sandboxed. OR, you can find a PPA repository for it, load said repository and install your software.
But those things require learning a little. Linux rewards self starters who can use a search engine and forums. Hope this maybe points you in the right direction.
I would recommend Linux Mint. Yes it’s faster to update than Debian, but it doesn’t push the envelope nearly as fast as Fedora or Arch based distros.
Linux mint is just super easy, user friendly, you could use Mint without ever touching a terminal if you wanted. BSD would be a great pet project to fiddle with, but if you’re looking for a rock solid backup machine with zero fuss, Mint is perfect for that.
I spent my first year of Linux installing a new distro, or same distro with a different DE probably every other week, sometimes more than once in a week. The Linux ecosystem rewards self starters with curiosity and the ability to search for answers.
LearnLinuxTV is an amazing YouTube channel, high quality distro tours and reviews, as well as tutorials at various levels of mastery. ItsFOSS and Phoronix are great sources for Linux news that help you build some awareness and vocabulary. The official forums of almost every distro are extremely helpful places to find solutions to problems. You just kinda have to be motivated to seek out the answers you need as they arise.
That’s one thing I find particularly neat about Fedora, it has all of these software package groups that can be either added on at install, or installed at any time, including:
<span style="color:#323232;"> 3D Printing
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Administration Tools
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Audio Production
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Authoring and Publishing
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Books and Guides
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> C Development Tools and Libraries
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Cloud Infrastructure
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Cloud Management Tools
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Container Management
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> D Development Tools and Libraries
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Design Suite
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Development Tools
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Domain Membership
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Fedora Eclipse
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Editors
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Educational Software
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Electronic Lab
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Engineering and Scientific
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> FreeIPA Server
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Games and Entertainment
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Headless Management
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> LibreOffice
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> MATE Applications
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> MATE Compiz
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Medical Applications
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Milkymist
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Network Servers
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Office/Productivity
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Robotics
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> RPM Development Tools
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Security Lab
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Sound and Video
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> System Tools
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Text-based Internet
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Window Managers
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I got a laptop with a touch screen for a young kid in my family, installed Fedora Workstation with its native Gnome desktop, and touch worked great without any tinkering.
Gnomes workflow is a big departure from windows, but with its gesture navigation on a trackpad, I think it’s a highly superior way to use a laptop. My desktop gets KDE Plasma, but if I had a laptop it would use gnome
I have that issue with every SuperLuminova watch that I have, which is part of why I went for this one. All of the applied markers are tritium gas vials, so they glow violently, but only for 10 or 15 years. I have pistol sights one a few of my guns that use the same tritium vials for low light shooting. I love the stuff. Check out the rest of Ball’s line, almost all of their watches use tritium.
They’re stupidly bright too. I can put it under a T-shirt in the dark and still see it shining through. Stupid levels of legibility for quick glances in the dark.
Very. It’s functional though. In my line of work, you’re often in the dark with your hands full. Quick glance legibility is what I was after with this one. But also LORGE statement piece.
My last two big buys were a tegimented 836 and tegimented U1. I’ve got a Ball Engineer Master II Aviator on the way, but, uh, maybe I need another pilot now.
I totally, wholeheartedly agree that there is NO ethical consumption in the modern day. Every first world pleasure I enjoy is taken at the barrel of a gun. As a union worker I buy American, or buy from places less likely to have sweatshop conditions, when it makes sense to do so.
But none of that has anything to do with what we’re talking about. You’re a deranged misanthropic accelerationist, please seek therapy.
So, during a state of lukewarm war, hotter than cold but not quite hot, America should just let a Jewish community get massacred by ISIS because it would leave egg on the face of our rival?
The world is pretty fucked up right now, I’m sorry for what it’s turned you into. Hard to keep your humanity when so few seem to care about having any.
Why bother with Pop!_OS when you’re comfortable with Arch? Arch is, in my opinion, better for gaming just due to its newer packages, and certainly its newer Kernel. I’ve been running EndeavourOS which is basically just pre packaged Arch, and it handles all of my gaming and productivity tasks more to my liking than any Ubuntu based distro, certainly better than Pop! did.
Also, I see no reason why you shouldn’t delete all of your old partitions and start fresh, but when you do, give EndeavourOS a whirl and see if it handles all of your dev tasks and gaming. I think you’re over complicating your system and not getting any tangible return from dual booting Pop!
Yeah, let’s be real, if you like manjaro, okay whatever, but no one should be using manjaro when EndeavourOS exists.
Which makes me wonder, if manjaro tanked, what other twists on an Arch based distro aimed at gaming and content creators could spring up in its place? Something with the level of execution of EndeavourOS but with its own comprehensive GUI tools?