[PLUG] Linux for non-computer person

Patrick O'Connor refugia at zoho.com
Sat Jan 4 21:09:08 UTC 2025


You have to love autoincorrect. Cellphones get mad when you try to type bash. 

I think you need X11 to run compiz. It doesn't work with Wayland. I have a lot of fond memories of compiz.

Most people will suggest giving luddites ubuntu but honestly they eventually have issues with package conflict. I don't think that will get better until they get rid of PPAs. 

Fedora is much better at avoiding problems in between version upgrades.  

You should really consider a linux that uses ostree images to update the operating system rather than a traditional package manager if you want it to be problem free.

Project bluefin is the linux I've seen with the most focus on the framework hardware. It's a derivative of fedora silverblue so you have that corporate support plus community support from the bluefin developers. Two of the community supported distros on framework's website are from project bluefin. They have the specfic drivers for framework laptops included.
https://frame.work/linux

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/framework-13/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMkePEflqpk

It's a nice project because you can use it like a chromebook for other folks computers that you support or you can use it for yourself to have access to all the packages in any distro. The rollbacks work perfectly. You can turn off automatic updates. You update the operating system image via a rebase rather than update the OS during runtime. 

It's a safer update mechanisim.

For package management I use a mix of flatpak, container images via distrobox and homebrew. 
https://distrobox.it/

You can swap your desktop enviroment via images without having package conflicts like you would on a standard linux distro. On my laptop I swap in between DEs depending on if I am using a dock or not. That would totally cruft up an traditional linux distro.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/list-of-community-created-custom-images/340

Saludos,
Patrick


 ---- On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:42:39 -0800  Chuck Hast  wrote --- 
 > Cheese.... I am going to take a stick to the spell checker, I think this
 > machine got infected by the cellphone...
 > .... Put that one on here should be Put that one on her.
 > .... apr should be APT...



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