Weird. I would be interested to know what actually happened, but I am not smart enough to troubleshoot hardware to that degree! At least you found something that works.

TBH, Red Hat focusing their attention on business isn’t that problematic for me. RHEL is specifically for businesses, and Red Hat needs to make money to keep operating. Kind of a necessary evil, if you could consider that evil. However, I completely understand why the capitalist realm makes average people squirm.

But that said, I usually prefer community projects myself (Fedora spins included), since they tend to have modified setups that are more in line with what regular users would want or need.

Thank you for the history lesson! I can see why their decision might chafe some people or cause them to be a bit more wary (given that many of us live in an end-stage-capitalism hellscape), but as is often the case, real life details are usually mundane.

I’ve personally been impressed by their Atomic distros, and they’ve come a long way since I first tried vanilla Fedora with Gnome many years ago.

I always forget about Aurora and Bluefin. Thanks for the reminder!

One of these days, I’ll have to give Universal Blue a look for general computing. Bazzite is excellent, but I don’t imagine my MiL is going to care about having Steam and gamescope installed out of the box, should I ever have to do a fresh install for her.

Curious how your atomic distro broke, since you can rollback and rebase pretty easily after a problematic update. I’m running Bazzite on a 10yo laptop, and it’s been great; I even rebased to a completely different DE, then did a rollback when I decided it didn’t work for me.

Not implying anything, but why don’t you trust Red Hat? Because they’re a big company, or because of some other reason?

Podman, from what I can tell, is the result of people wanting a wishlist of fixes/upgrades from Docker and being met with hostility at the notion.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/04/24/how-to-run-systemd-in-a-container#enter_podman

Great writeup! I have a Brother laser printer, too, and it never occurred to me that I’d need to worry about compatibility when I fully migrate (and at least three immutable distros have been in my top five candidates).

Something else for me to keep in mind!

It’s more the other edge of immutable distros, in this particular case. The entire point is that the system files can’t be modified, but that means working within those restrictions via layering can be tricky in certain cases.

Agreed. Depending on the business sector, the PR damage could be worse than the cost of litigation.

My company has a very expensive software product they sell to other businesses (to the tune of millions of dollars a year per customer), and the cost is a hurdle the salespeople have to overcome. If there was litigation against them over trampling another business, that doesn’t exactly instill confidence in a trustworthy business relationship. So they pay their licensing costs.

TBH, I use Powershell on my Windows install, and they’ve made some good improvements over the years. I forget that it also works on Linux.

Shame v1.0 ships with new installations, and you have to manually go out and install the latest versions to get the benefits. Dunno why MS doesn’t just automatically update it with everything else.

Or it could be as simple as forgetting to renew the domain registration. Maybe they’ll make a statement

funkwhale.agapimou.top is a Funkwhale instance, and it seems to be running, so it must just be that one instance.

I wonder if it got hit with some kind of dmca shenanigans.

Funkwhale is part of the Fediverse. The site they mention is a single instance.

ETA: It’s a single instance, but also the main landing page for feeding people to various docs and instances.

I’m all for it. Glider Pro for MacOS 9 and below released its code in a sort of “as is” state a few years ago, and thankfully, some skilled devs took it up and ported it to modern systems.

It’s a game I would have sorely missed, having long since left the Apple ecosystem (and that game was also PPC-only). We’ll still lose even open source games, but at least people would then have the option to preserve them.

I like it, though I’ve used it very little (just no need, ATM). They have some decent practice examples to go through, but it’s definitely a unique way of thinking about package management.

From what I gather, it’s very similar. They’re both containerization tools to install software in a container overlay (someone mentioned to me before that they both even draw from the same Docker images).

Toolbx environments have seamless access to the user’s home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc…

I’m not familiar with the finer details, but here’s some example use cases.

ETA: Based on the examples, it reminds me of how NixOS uses nested shells to do things.