Out of curiosity, what apps were you unable to get from the repository that can’t be found in discover/software/whatever?

Those apps are front-ends for the OS’s package manager so as long as it’s in the repository, it should be in there.

Yeah and It’s used in iOS.

I feel like there’s another issue going on here because I print from my iPhone constantly and never have this issue.

I had used 95, 98, and 2000 at that point. All of which I mostly enjoyed. Me I used in my grandmothers computer and yeah…it was rubbish.

However I’d say it was less of a “Big leap” and more of a “Quick give us something that’s almost as good as 9x!”

Because Windows XP was a hot pile of garbage.

One day, my network driver broke. None of the discs worked. None of those incoherent “wizards” Windows loves to use worked. Reinstalling Windows broke more things. I couldn’t get online for about 2 months.

One day I was at the bookstore and saw a Fedora Core book with an OS disc. I thought it was cool so I convinced mom to get it. Went home, blundered my way through the install and everything just worked.

I cannot for the life of me understand how XP is routinely loved by everyone. It looked like a muddy fisher-price toybox.

No, I didn’t. Probably because you never said you did. Weird how that works.

Now, had you said “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable” I probably would have given my input.

Well I’m glad you would go into the depth of researching the economic viability of something when you think “I’d like to have this amenity”.

But I don’t. Because why the fuck would I?

If someone wants to go through the work of researching the costs of setting up such a service, layout the costs, and make some proposals and how much they’d need to charge to the community I’d happily contribute.

Until then…dude you took an offhand “Hey I’d like to see something like this” and turned it into some weird obsession with making me name how much i’d spend on something.

I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab and then wildly insult the community for not doing it themselves?

without any reward

It is called a business. Someone sees a potential opportunity (through, i dunno. People talking about how much they’d like it), does the research, determines if it’s a viable investment on their part, and either starts it up or doesn’t.

Of course I didn’t respond to it. Because it has nothing to do with my point. Im not going to go out there and do extensive business research just to satisfy your weird demand.

It’s something I’d like to see someone take on. It’s something I’d wager other people would like to see take on. The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.

Regular auditing of the infrastructure" seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.

That’s the entire point. Offer a premium service when compared to the alternatives and you get to bring in revenue.

Currently, every instance essentially makes a pinky promise that our data isn’t being used maliciously. An audit provides assurances they are.

I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances and do things like paying for regular auditing of their infrastructure to give us some assurance that our data is actually secure.

I’d legitimately pay for that.

The 3DSXL is the best. Hands down. It has native support for 3DS/DS games as you’d expect, however it also has native support for GBA games (As in not emulated).

Obviously not for GBA carts, and you do need to do a bit of fuckery to get them to work, but work they do.

And that’s not including the emulators.

As the other person said, use the version of Bazzite that defaults to the SteamUI (it’s what I use on my media center). I think it’s called Bazzite-Deck

But what are you trying to compile? You just need Steam, gamescope, and pass it some parameters to boot directly to BPM: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam#Big_Picture_Mode_.28with_a_Display_Manager.29

See Section 5.6

It was abandoned for awhile but a few months back someone has taken up working on it and made a bunch of headway. Looks significantly better than the screenshots on that website.

That said, I think the UI of choice for Linux machines is going to be Steam Big Picture Mode. I’ve been using it as my SmartTV for awhile now and I really can’t think of anything else I’d want. The excellent controller support just makes it untouchable.

wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out

I mean, you don’t like BlueSky, fair. But Jack Dorsey left like…over a year ago.

That’s a really dismissive way to say “It’s an OS built to fit a demand that wasn’t being met by the other distros”.

Bazzite is the option for Windows converts that want a gaming focused Linux desktop. A lot of people are going to nitpick it to death, because they want “Literally Windows but without Microsoft”. Which isn’t happening while Linux has the market share it has. You either accept a few annoyances (while advocating for those annoyances to be fixed), or go back to Windows and accept Microsoft’s authoritarian control of your computer.

Bazzite is a solid desktop that’s going to be really hard for a regular user to break, comes with Steam, Lutris, and Heroic built in, proprietary nvidia drivers installed, and is based on Fedora (Modern, stable, well supported).

The only downside is KDE can be really easy to break if you’re a new user unfamiliar with how customizing it works, but if you leave it default you’re fine.

Won’t hear me knocking it. Stellar OS. I just wish Linux compatibility was a smidge better. There’s still a handful of programs that don’t run well.

Now that I think about it, I believe Slackware actually uses a BSD style init if you want to try and bridge the gap. It’s been eons since I used it so not 100% sure

It really depends on what init system you want to learn.

Right now, you’re learning BSD init. Which is not the same as the non-sysd init systems in use on Linux. Perfectly fine system mind you and they share some overlap with their Linux cousins.

As much as a very vocal subgroup hates to admit, systemd is a pretty core aspect of modern Linux.

That said if you really want to learn an alt init system gentoo lets you pick, and I think Slackware is still sans systemd.