Thank you!

I felt the same way about the flatpaks and snap. But having used flatpaks a bit I realized how great it is for desktop apps.

What I like the most is that you don’t have to pull in a ton of dependencies for them to run. For example, when using a Gnome app in KDE.

I also appreciate the sandboxing. Especially for web clients like Firefox and Discord for example. I’m using Flatseal to configure the app permissions like you would Android apps. And the Flathub acts like an app store. The software there is often more recent than what’s in the repo.

I highly recommend it.

Hello there!

It’s funny, I just made the switch this Monday. I got fed up with Microsoft’s bullshit being shoved down my throat. I was going to keep Windows 10 for as long as possible, but a recent update that installed Copilot on my machine was the last straw. I have been a Linux user since 2000 and have been using Ubuntu (and switching flavours) since 2004.

I had a big conversation on the Linux Gaming community about choosing a new distribution as a daily driver. You can see it here.

I wanted to get people’s opinion and it started a big thread with lots of responses. It led me to try many distributions to see which ones would be the best fit and read a lot about people’s experiences with them as well. In the end, I decided to stick with Kubuntu which was already installed as a dual boot on my system even though I didn’t use it much except to tinker from time to time and it was doing a great job. Gaming on it was also working fantastically well. And I knew that every time I booted into it it would always work unless I really started messing with system files and didn’t know what I was doing.

So Monday I had a day off and did the jump. Backed up my system, downloaded Kubuntu 24.04.1, booted off the USB stick and wiped the whole system clean.

But I learned something about Kubuntu (and Ubuntu in general) during that experience that made me regret keeping that distro. I knew that Canonical had developed their own sandboxed package system like Flatpak: Snaps. They were already available in 22.04, which I was running, but I didn’t really pay attention. Upon installing Kubuntu 24.04, I realized just how much Canonical insisted that Snaps be used. Some software is now exclusively available as Snaps and nothing else. This unacceptable for me.

To be fair, Snaps aren’t THAT bad. It’s pretty comparable to Flatpak in general in terms of features except for the fact that they are stored locally in their compressed form while Flatpaks are uncompressed. So the startup time of Snaps is slower. But they both offer sandboxing and therefore an added layer of security. This is great for apps like internet clients (browsers, email, etc.) or even servers or any kind of software, especially in an immutable system meant for IoT. Baeldung’s website explains the differences pretty well.

I’d probably use snaps for certain scenarios, but I think Canonical is pushing the limit by forcing people to use them. And also they’ve said they wouldn’t support Flatpak in future releases, even though it has become very popular and is being adopted much more than Snaps by third party software providers. I’m fairly certain Snaps are going to go the same way as Bazaar and Unity over time. In any case, I’ve been able to get around Snaps enough that it’s tolerable for the moment.

So now I’ve been considering starting over with Debian stable instead. I’m already used to Apt and .deb packages and the Debian way of doing things. I’m looking for stability over having the latest and greatest software and honestly, a 2 year release cycle is not that bad. Plus there’s backports as well. Almost everyone is saying “Debian is too far behind! Packages are too old!” but what’s “old” anyway? 6 months??? Honestly that’s not a big deal for me. I just want my system to boot and be very confident that it’ll work and won’t break during my next apt-get upgrade. Debian offers this peace of mind. But, after using Ubuntu for so long with all its quality of life improvements, Debian looks pretty rough around the edges in comparison.

I think I’ll stick with my Kubuntu for a bit and see how it goes and if I really get frustrated at Snaps, I’ll switch to Debian. But, right now I’ve spent enough time setting up my system that I feel too lazy to switch.

Interesting. I’ll follow your advice and roll back my changes then.

Yeah but I don’t like their desktop environment. Same with Linux Mint. They’re awesome. But their desktop is lagging behind in look and feel. KDE is what I want.

I really don’t see the point in Immutable distros. I see no real advantage over a regular distro.

if you don’t mind packages being tested first before rollout.

No actually. I don’t mind. In fact, that’s what I’m looking for. I want something rock solid that I can install and forget and expect it to boot every time.

You guys should check out !asklinux@lemmy.world

Give that community a bit of love.

There’s a group of DevOps engineers somewhere that are having a very bad time right now.

Is Qtile installed alongside another DE? Maybe use the other DE just to configure your Wayland and switch back to Qtile after.

But again, Qtile still has issues with Wayland, so maybe either don’t use Qtile or don’t use Wayland. Pick one.

Can you be more precise?

Hold up…

According to the specs on your CPU its max resolution is 4096x2304 @ 120Hz on an integrated flat panel. (Assuming you have a Laptop.)

Otherwise, on the HDMI and DPI output, the limit is 60hz. It can’t run at 240Hz. It’s like 4 times its max framerate for an external display!

Make sure your Wayland configuration is set up so that all your displays have the same framerate of 60Hz

If you want to have your display work at that framerate, you’ll need to get a proper GPU.

Yeah, but since my external drive is formatted in exFAT, I can’t simply rsync to it. I gotta either partition it, or create a mountable ext4 filesystem image on which I can.

What graphics card do you have?

What graphics card are you using? AMD? NVIDIA? And what distro? Version? Wayland version? Desktop Environment? Can you please provide more details?

I know this really isn’t the answer you’re looking for, but maybe don’t use QTile yet? Their documentation states that “some functionality may not yet be implemented”. Or revert to X11?

Hello,

I have a desktop PC which I’ll be running Kubuntu 24.04 LTS as my main OS. No Windows dualboot or anything.

I have 2 hard drives.

• My main one is a 1TB SSD NVME disk which will contain my Linux OS on a single BTRFS partition.
• My second one is a 1TB HDD NTFS formatted disk which contains only my data files (Pictures, Documents, Downloads, Desktop, Music, Videos, etc. Symlinked in my /home/user directory to replace the folders of the same name)

Since I’ll be using BTRFS, I’ll be performing snapshots (daily, weekly, monthly) with a certain retention for each.

But I want to also take snapshots of my whole system on a monthly basis or so on an external 8TB external backup drive (one of those big ones as big as a book that’s permanently hooked up to my PC) for safety’s sake.

My external USB backup HDD is exFAT formatted (out of the box).

Doing an rsync from from my NTFS data drive to my external drive won’t be a problem. But I can’t do an rsync from my BTRFS SDD to my external drive because of permissions, ownership, etc.

What do you suggest I do in that case for my SDD drive?

I was thinking of creating a mountable ext4 disk image of maybe 2-4TB and mounting it at boot, then doing an rsync to that disk image on a monthly basis.

Another option would be to straight up tar bzip the drive, or at least select directories like /home and /etc.

And lastly, just straight up use dd or clonezilla to create a snapshot. But I want to be able to mount it and view the files though.

What do you think?

Wow! That’s big news! Congrats on the Arch team!

Thank you

I’m so fucking sick of this shit.

You can compare this to Russia or Nazis or whoever the fuck you want. They don’t give a good God damn about it. By they I mean Israel, the US and every fucking Western country that enabled these barbaric fucking murderers to do these massacres.

How much mistreatment and how much torque and how many dead Arabs does it fucking take before this becomes a fucking Holocaust?

Instead of commenting on some fringe social media that the masses or your government representatives won’t ever read, call your government representatives and let them know that it’s about fucking time to start imposing sanctions against Israel and to hold their leaders accountable for severe war crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide. Stop sending weapons, ammo and armored vehicles. Put out fucking arrest warrants and arrest anybody that was involved from the smallest foot soldier to the very president of Israel as soon as they set foot in their country.

Demand this shit or threaten with a god damn nationwide riot.

Ah ok. Maybe I’ve done it the wrong way. I’ll try again.