If it’s a mostly self-contained app, like a game or a utility, then Flatpak is just fine. If a Flatpak needs to interact with other apps on the host or, worst case, another Flatpak it gets tricky or even impossible. From what I’ve seen though, AppImage and Snap are even worse at this.

“Decoy Bride” looks like once of those cheap, filler movies that actors do between big roles, and it probably was, but David Tennant, Kelly MacDonald, and Alice Eve gave great performances, the jokes really hit, soundtrack was good, and the romance didn’t feel forced at all.

I was on Ubuntu for years but the Snaps annoyed me and I was looking for alternatives so I went to Fedora (Bazzite). Couldn’t be happier. I installed Bluefin on my laptop (slightly different flavor) and that’s been nice too, although some things don’t work as seamlessly as I think it should.

How does this help though? If anything they would’ve helped themselves by porting more Linux commands to work natively in Windows. This move makes it easier for Windows admins and devs to switch to Linux. With the latest horrible moves in the Windows desktop space I can’t believe they’re trying to become the “RedHat of Windows”.

I mainly use my Bazzite machine for gaming and it was rough at first (~1 year ago) but it seems like compatibility has made leaps and bounds recently. I don’t play a ton of different games but I’ve had to do very little tweaking to make them work. 90% have been install-and-play. Usually ProtonDB can help you work out the kinks.

Bluefin and Bazzite have been good to me so far.

Pros and cons on the app store thing. Microsoft may curate a bit more but I think it’s inherently more dangerous. A malicious Windows app probably doesn’t have as many hurdles to get the necessary access to take over your system or otherwise cause trouble. To my knowledge, flatpaks can’t run with root permissions unless you executed as root (i.e. enter your password). Seeing that pop up should be way more of a red flag than seeing the “elevate permissions” pop up on Windows.

I think this approach is going to fair the best for mainstream adoption (i.e. Windows refugees). So I would agree that the “future” is going to involve immutable distros as a large, possibly majority, of all Linux installations.

No “what if”, you 110% can! I’ve been running Linux on a netbook for over a decade. It would absolutely choke under the weight of a Windows installation.

I’m using universalblue, a Fedora derivative, that defaults to, and maybe requires btrfs, and it’s been good. Because it’s important for the immutability and atomic updates I kind of feel like I shouldn’t do anything custom with it. I haven’t seen performance issues or other weirdness. If I had a choice though I would still use btrfs. It makes backups and snapshots very easy.

You don’t need a Microsoft account, or any other remotely managed account, just to login to your machine.

You wouldn’t be supporting AI-driven decision making in which Palestinian child needs to die next.

You won’t have AI shoved into places it doesn’t belong like a simple text editor.

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The one where they have to prove Data is sentient or else he’ll get dismantled by Starfleet. Seems kind of apropos now with governments deciding, on a whim, who gets rights and also how hard we’re trying to make AGI happen.

Baldurs Gate 3

Doesn’t even have to be the key necessarily. Could get in via some exploit first. Either way taking over the machine became a 2-step process.

I don’t know the support model for Framework but they should really be able to work through these issues for such a common distro. With the various things you mentioned it doesn’t sound like bad configuration, it sounds like a hardware issue. Given that Windows is so different from Linux it may be the case that Win11 does a better job masking the issues.

Upstart Crow is an excellent “period comedy” too.

Australia yes. Austria probably not.

Cool idea! AFAIK emails are just sent as text but the client renders them when you read them. Theoretically it wouldn’t be hard to send markdown and add a header that indicates the body is markdown. Hard part is integrating support into the client. Since HTML is more verbose than markdown, and you can often mix markdown and HTML, this could actually lead to space and data savings!

I’d say it’s the tooling that sucks more than anything. I’ve had installations fail because of bad caches (and resolved it by doing things NPM advised me not to do), installations that take forever and seem stuck on one dependency, conflicts with ES and Common modules, node_modules folders that dwarf other folders in size, nobody makes proper use of devDependencies, some odd dependencies on Java or Python, and so on. I think the ease of learning JS has done it a disservice as you get millions of devs contributing but not all are trained as devs or computer scientists and you get a flood of libraries that all do the same thing and often even reproduce built-in functionality.

I really do enjoy coding in it more than any other language but when it comes time to run or build is when my rage kicks in.

Wait… what were we talking about? Oh, yeah.

Shitty web apps aren’t really the fault of the underlying tech. This is a problem of design and I don’t think the programming language really has much of an effect on the usability.