Amazing stuff, having Whatsapp on desktop linux would be nice.

Holy shit, Maxima is coming to Heroic ! Nice!

If you ever get tired of fixing broken things, try Bazzite Nvidia spin.

Can it add mods to steam as a non-steam game?

Yeah, install the distro, done. No more thinking about anything. The distro does it all for you.

Bro, I distro hopped between 10 different distros. Bazzite is the best, hands down. If you game and do non-dev work on it, it’s the best thing ever. It just gets out of the way. It’s very hard to brick your install. It freaking rocks.

I’ve been on Bazzite for half a year, and I’m moving my secondary PC to Bazzite tomorrow.

Instant letdown. I’ve switched my 4 PCs to Linux.

I don’t need the iGPU, my dGPU is a 3080TI.

I didn’t know about Quadlet. Looks cool.

The selfhosted photo management boom happened when Google announced paid plans for Google Photos. That’s why there are lots of alternatives aiming at replicating every feature.

In my case, I don’t want to manually tag anything. I want a FOSS Google Photos. Nothing more, nothing else. If Immich was orosuction ready I would have akready switched. I haven’t read much about Ente, but I have no interest in the rest because they lack some key feature I really appreciate.

They should support Flatpak.

Unity desktop: Ubuntu’s DE

Absolutely, what’s the chance of Java Edition requiring the latest updates to VRR / HDR / Mesa / etc. ?

Steam OS was Debian based in the Steam Machine era, Steam Deck uses an immutable Arch based image, and it’s not rolling release. They moved to Arch because Debian took ages to update. Now they release quick and stable updates, That’s the ideal compromise.

Regular Arch is bleeding edge, Debian is old. Fedora sits in the middle. And Bazzite makes it rock solid.

About the Bloat: after installing, you are greeting by a first run wizard, where you choose what gets installed. If you don’t install anything else, you are left with KDE & Steam, nothing more. Where’s the boat?

Two options: java edition, or mobile bedrock. Both have launchers available.

https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/

Currently there is no voice or video support in any Spacebar instance. This is a very difficult feature to get working, especially given that we must implement it the exact same way as Discord.com for client compatibility. We would be incredibly thankful for any assistance.

Damn.

For gaming you want the latest updates. Of all the major distros, only Arch, Suse and Fedora provide that. Arch requires you to learn to about and fix breakage. Fedora has a gaming spin which works like a Steam Deck: Bazzite.

I’ve distro hopped between 10+ distros, and Bazzite has been the only one that gave me a rock solid stability and latest drivers simultaneously. It’s not purely immutable, Fedora calls it Atomic.

I suggest you try it, and tell me if there was anything you couldn’t do.

Also: I don’t support Canonical’s walled garden

Such a disappointment

They just mean you now really have to pay to get private data. 🤣

I asked about the same in the past. There’s a lot of hate from people who dislike the DE or the attitude of some core contributors.