I was thinking about using graphene OS, but I’ve read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google (an advertising company)....
The word is complicated but for sure, I may rephrase that. Not sure if this will mess up the results though, it may create a second question out of it.
Git repos have lots of write protected files in the .git directory, sometimes hundreds, and the default rm my_project_managed_by_git will prompt before deleting each write protected file. So, to actually delete my project I have to do rm -rf my_project_managed_by_git....
Give it a shot, Aurora is fine. May have some packages you dont need, but it is fine.
They remove Firefox for whatever reason, which makes no sense. The Librewolf and Firefox Flatpaks are probably okay, the Librewolf RPM is completely broken
You want your browser to update more often than your operating system.
Then why do you base on Fedora and have daily auto updates by default?
I shutdown my laptop every day and update every day. That is fine for me.
Fedora Firefox has some hardening flags that official Firefoxn has not. It is built for Fedora and works really really good.
I did benchmarks some time ago and it is also actually very performant.
Flatpak Firefox does not have the ability to create user namespaces for tab process isolation. This is due to all Flatpaks using the same badness-enumerating seccomp filter, there is no additional hardening possible and they still block userns creation.
Firefox can still isolate tabs via seccomp-bpf but this means it has 1 of its 2 security barriers removed when using a flatpak.
Seeing browsers as an app, it is good to have additional security from the browser to the OS, by sandboxing via flatpak.
But seeing the browser as a platform, passwords, bookmarks, credit card details etc may all be stored in there and a sandbox escape not necessary to steal peoples stuff.
Removing Firefox prevents people from reinstalling it (due to the rpm-ostree bug), and apart from the tarball (which has no desktop integration and is some random binary ran from some random location, likely without SELinux protection (unconfined users)) it is the best browser on Fedora.
installing it with distrobox.
This makes no real sense.
Pro
it can update separately from the OS
it works even with the current rpm-ostree bug
it is the Fedora RPM
it is kinda isolated from the root OS
Con
updates are not automatic and need to be configured
not sure if it has access to user namespace creation because it already runs in a user namespace container
it adds additional boot time and constant RAM usage due to having a container
distrobox does not allow Fedora DNF system upgrades so you need to nuke it and reinstall on a version change (at least every 13 months)
Using the tarball and placing it in /var/usrlocal/bin/ may be better. But still cumbersome.
There are many relevant issues and it is not a clear choice.
Irrelevant. Not everybody does.
Yeah and nobody knows about user namespaces or seccomp filters. This is about at least 2 user groups and one is not necessarily more important than another.
It is again not a clear choice.
a way to continue to prevent it, I will.
in your opinionated images, I hope.
You start to sound like a GrapheneOS dev. It makes no sense to prevent users from reinstalling removed packages.
Which btw also include the Fedora Flathub repository.
Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...
Straight forward question, there is no Wayland output option in display output configuration in parole so how to get it working on wayland either by having Wayland output or simulating X....
Then try Celluloid Flatpak or Haruna. Celluloid in GTK, Haruna in Qt. Haruna has more GUI options but some big things are broken or buggy, so I use Celluloid.
works fine as one would expect. Not that self explanatory, I wonder how
install Vivaldi as a flatpak and was not able to get it to talk with keepass.
No the native messaging portal is missing
What is mean by that line of reasoning?
Makes no sense. The Flatpak is official and more isolated than native packages. Reduce the number of system apps as much as possible.
See my thread on the methods but they are all hacky. You could copy the KeepassXC binary to the Browser flatpak container and launch it from there. But this needs to be repeated on every update, but it is possible and can be automated.
I tired Linux a few times in the past, but didn’t really start using seriously until 2019. I love poking around old OSs and distros, and I want to spin a few up in some VMs my next free evening....
I know the title sounds a little strange but hear me out. The time tracking software I use for work doesn’t work on Wayland, unless I’m using Gnome as my DE. They have an extension that allows it to work in this case. Personally, I don’t enjoy Gnome on my desktop (I use it on my laptop). Is there a way for me to get the...
I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I’m pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn’t want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But...
Here is my small project which I created to tackle down the issue. It is still the same, the config is really small and just tries to reinstall firefox, which was removed in secureblue.
directly use recipe.yml in the recipes folder to specify other .yml files to be used in building.
Hear me out, the big players in the Linux space I.e. Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE could release trailers commercially on TV and social media to general users who may not be tech savvy or have a “basic windows” lingo in IT....
The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops....
There already is Flatpak. Many proprietary apps are shipped as Snaps, which helps with Flatpak packaging as the binaries can just be packed into a different container.
Snap developers kinda help with making the whole portals, isolated apps stuff work.
Just had this idea pop up in my mind. Instead of relying on volunteers mirroring package repositories all around the world, why not utilise BitTorrent protocol to move at the very least some some load unto the users and thus increase download speeds as well as decrease latency?
So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it’s the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping....
Rebasing refers to an OSTree remote which is like a git repo, but with binaries and producing bootable systems. There are some differences there.
The idea is: there is a remote that has the exact wanted configuration, your system mirrors it. All the package manager does is similar to git pull.
If you rebase, you switch the upstream remote, and your system gets the diffs, downloads them.
The cool thing is, that these updates are atomic, so you stay on the current system and the rebased one is only set as the system you boot in after a reboot. You can still sudo ostree admin pin 0 before rebasing, and your current system will be saved forever to switch back to.
Note that /etc is writable so you might still accumulate duplicate or redundant configs.
I always use all:unset in my css files and I did the same when configuring the swaync notification but somehow when using it inside global selector *{} it doesn’t show the volumeslider which is shows in a notification, related pictures will be attached. I wanna use all:unset and so I want to know how to re-enable volumeslider...
I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
what foss phone OS do you use and why?
I was thinking about using graphene OS, but I’ve read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google (an advertising company)....
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I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE....
Linux users survey! (pad.tchncs.de)
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Can I remove a git repo without resorting to `rm -rf` ?
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Silverblue vs uBlue
I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years....
The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)
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what are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?
target OS is debian or linux mint
Bootloader equivalent to Rufus
I’ve been trying to find a linux programming similar to Rufus to flash images of OSes on a thumb drive....
[HELP NEEDED] Parole media player on Wayland
Straight forward question, there is no Wayland output option in display output configuration in parole so how to get it working on wayland either by having Wayland output or simulating X....
Can a browser and keepass both be run in flatpak and work?
Hey all!...
Nostalgic Distros?
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Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable (puri.sm)
Gnome extension on KDE?
I know the title sounds a little strange but hear me out. The time tracking software I use for work doesn’t work on Wayland, unless I’m using Gnome as my DE. They have an extension that allows it to work in this case. Personally, I don’t enjoy Gnome on my desktop (I use it on my laptop). Is there a way for me to get the...
I'm going to reinstall linux on my computer. What is it like to run something Silverblue based these days ?
I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I’m pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn’t want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But...
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anti-snap stance is anti-consumer
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Why does no distro utilise BitTorrent to distribute packages?
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Fedora Silverblue is the most frustrating distro so far
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[Solved] Swaync volume slider not showing when using all:unset
I always use all:unset in my css files and I did the same when configuring the swaync notification but somehow when using it inside global selector *{} it doesn’t show the volumeslider which is shows in a notification, related pictures will be attached. I wanna use all:unset and so I want to know how to re-enable volumeslider...
Linux really has come a long way
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