I hope so, using fish automatically makes you a better person in my humble and completely unbiased opinion

You know, I think it’s kinda weird. Chatbots are all the hype and yet people hate terminals. Maybe we just need a very over-engineered terminal that insults your pitiful attempts at bash before they are cool again.

For a second I didn’t not get why you’d want to point out to not be affiliated with KDE so explicitly… Then I read the name again. I’m not seeing it anymore man. They have broken me…

Compared to Arch(-based): Accesing the latest packages. It’s not impossible, especially if you go for Debian testing repos, but it’s definitely extra work.

Compared to special-purpose distros (i.e. gaming, portable, high security/privacy, pen-testing): Whatever their special purpose is will usually be harder to achieve.

Compared to huge corpo distros (SUSE/Fedora and derivatives): Ease of more intricate setups and maybe some security testing.

Compared to Ubuntu: Paying a corporation to not withhold security patches from you.

Ingl, this sounds like exactly the thing I want. Immutability aside, this is how I use EndeavourOS right now, but more sophisticated.

I’m sold on it.

Ingl, the amount of dislikes made me grunt a little

I’d be much more exited for vertical tabs and tab groups. As much as I hate to say it, but IMO only Edge really go it right with their tab game

In short: No. It’s getting better, but Flatpak is by no means secure. Think of it as a Windows .exe or .msi with some (not that hardened) rights management.

In addition, Flatpaks afe often community made and not even “signed” (which is not really a thing in Flatpak to begin with (yet) ((afaik))).

Something really secure would be a container, something really, really secure would be a VM, something really, really, really secure would be a separate machine. Flatpak is less secure than the least secure thing in this enumeration.

I’m not a criminal! I mean, I kinda am, but not because I use Linux!

That is mostly correct, although this is not a true cycle, since you can find packages that are strictly optional depencies, i.e. not a hard requirement for anything.

Well, I did preconfigure Endeavour a bit, but still, it runs just fine :D Being on KDE is a huge help, Windows users feel pretty much right at home.

I threw my brother and my dad into EndeavourOS and Garuda respectively. So far, they are swimming. My brother even does almost all his gaming on Linux.

(Well OK, apart from my dad generally yelling at everything tech. I guess that’s where I got it from.)

Can’t reproduce.

No, seriously, please date me 🥺

I think you’re forgetting where Linux was the most successful by far: Servers and Android. Server guys do what they want, if you tell them they can only use software you allow them to, they will laugh at you and buy their data center elsewhere. Android has had locked bootloaders forever (I actually think even my very first phone had one).

So maybe development would have been harder? I mean, we don’t have looked bootloaders on desktop even today, not really locked at least, so it’s hard to tell. Linux’s main audience would not have cared I think.

It’s 2000 series, so they are supported by the new OSS driver, no?

I don’t really get the argument of Microsoft being cemented. I mean, firstly they are pretty much everywhere, so I can’t see how it’s getting worse. Secondly, the German state partly uses Linux, even outside of servers, which is already more than I expected. You can’t expect a state to “just switch” to anything. We are talking hundreds of thousands of users and computers here…

Isn’t there also some EU cloud thing going on?

Their new, open driver only supports 2000+ series, so I guess that also applies here.

What an extremely complicated way to voice a single, vague concern.

You can reinstall stuff without uninstalling it first (yay -S <package>). To add to the other comment suggesting a driver reinstall, you can use downgrade to revert back to old versions (and also to keep it fixed till you wanna give it another go, don’t forget if you do so tho!).

Moreover, set up snapshots! They provide a very straightforward way to recover from failed updates.

If you are on btrfs, you need: snapper, snap-pac, btrfs-assistant (optional, but provides a GUI and more automation…)

If you are on ext4: timeshift, timeshift-autosnap

Im both cases you need to create a profile for root (/), although when it comes to Timeshift I think you need (/ want to) exclude /home. (On the default btrfs setup, you don’t need to do this, because /home is it’s own subvolume).

There are some FOSS SMS clients tho. I used to use Simple SMS, but there were no updates for 12 months.

Maybe try Deku SMS: https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

It seems to have at least some traction for what it’s worth.