Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

If we are, maybe you could explain? Because I'm seeing no indication. All I saw was a guy calling me tech illiterate and lazy. Which, true enough, but the way techies say that kind of stuff betrays a misunderstanding of what computer use is for.

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When I think Spy vs Spy I think Mad magazine . . . there was a game?

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Quoting: Talon1024If we're lucky, Linux users will still be able to play these games via cloud gaming services like GeForce NOW, even if using such services requires a sizable sacrifice in terms of control and privacy.

Eh, not that much of a privacy sacrifice compared to having a rootkit on your computer.

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Quoting: DesumWhile it had a few minor bumps, the upgrade from Plasma 5 to 6 was much smoother than the one from KDE4 to Plasma.

Come to that, wasn't 3 to 4 pretty rocky? So pretty good release this time then.

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Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGotta say, this sounds kind of . . . mutable.

Not really any more than functional programming being able to represent a changing state despite immutable values. Some people just don't have a good grasp of what immutability in this context means, because it definitely doesn't need to mean that nothing is ever allowed to change.

Given the actual plain meaning of the word "immutable" I think that's kind of understandable. What I find weird is deciding to go Humpty-Dumpty and use the word to mean something that's apparently completely different.

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: ToddLWould the removed packages come back if a new Bazzite update is available and installed on the PC? I know that Steam Deck likes to reset any of the changes you make on the immutable portion of the OS.

Nope, different kind of immutable. SteamOS fully swaps the root filesystem with a new image, rpm-ostree puts down a base image and then applies your overlays on top, including package removals and additions. So, you are fully free to install and remove packages as you need and want to, with the only caveat that if those packages cause conflicts, updates may fail to apply.

Gotta say, this sounds kind of . . . mutable.

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Quoting: dziadulewicz

Quoting: Fester_MuddVideo playback don't work! In any of the mainstream sites i tried. I recall this has been an issue with Fedora a long time

If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..

Indeed. It's an absolute shitshow. It is mandatory to use terminal and somehow *know* commands and what else. You are expected to just *know* there is this thing called RPMFusion (that you have to manually enable, and from where to start with, also a mystery as not any website or link is given). The installer doesn't express any of this. You also need to install additional codecs.

Fedora doesn't ship patented media codecs by default as for example Ubuntu and Linux Mint do.

It is beyond any normally thinking user *why there are no couple of simple boxes to tick* during install to achieve this totally basic functionality to watch videos.

So basically a new comer "can't watch YouTube, Dlive and Twitch on Linux" OOTB if you happen to choose Fedora as a first distro.

Ooookay. Well, that lets me out, not gonna fiddle with all that just to watch a video. But I guess the point of Fedora was never to be for people who just want to not worry about having an OS. Glad Mint is there for people like me.

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Plot twist: Carolina turns out to be twins, "North" and "South".

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Iron Roads seems like an oddly harsh-sounding name for something that, with the soothing music and charming animals, feels like the Stardew Valley of train sims.

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