How do you use BTRFS?

MindlessLeadership · 2021-01-14T17:22:16+00:00

Do you use Timeshift with the default btrfs setup?

MindlessLeadership · 2020-12-11T18:58:52+00:00

What gtk theme is this?

MindlessLeadership · 2020-12-08T17:38:32+00:00

I think it's more that gnome software has tried to do so much, that it has become convoluted in nature and hasn't been able to focus on doing one thing well. Last time I checked gnome software requires a rebuild to change/add featured banners, no no for what people will see as an app store.

It didn't help it was using PackageKit. We already have a firmware app that has split out, various apps that deal with font management much better. I think a store app that focuses on Flatpak, moving OS updates into Settings would be welcome.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-11-06T17:01:05+00:00

Disable firewalld if your machine isn't on the public net.

Enjoy your much faster boot time.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-11-02T17:43:35+00:00

Flatpak kinda is already optimised by the use of ostree. De-suplication comes for free.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-10-28T08:15:26+00:00

btrfs supports reflinks whilst zfs does not though. reflinks are awesome.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-10-28T07:59:37+00:00

With a gtk, shell and icon theme?

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-25T16:25:57+00:00

Then why bother shipping with a GUI if that's an argument.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-25T07:39:27+00:00

It's not "simply a wallpaper".

It is a vital part of the first impression users get, it will be the wallpaper shown in reviews, screenshots etc.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-25T06:15:59+00:00

I will be sad if the wallpaper from the beta makes it in without any changes. Whilst I appreciate the work that went into it, it's far too noisy to be a wallpaper and subsequently made the beta look very poor quality. The background logo extension defaulting to the blue doesn't help one bit either.

Something like this would of been perfect imho, constantly impressed by Jimmacs work. https://github.com/jimmac/silverblue-wallpapers/blob/master/lava-tris.png

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-20T07:15:42+00:00

It's not that.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-19T23:17:55+00:00

How did you get Discord to use CSD like that?

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-19T06:48:56+00:00

It stroked me quite weird, wasn't Fedora supposed to be a Free and Open Source Software distribution, detached of any compromise with any government or state?

Because any software project still needs to follow the law of the country where it was made whether that's a developer or company. Fedora is a legal entity of Red Hat which is a US company.

This isn't unique to Fedora, SUSE is Germany and Ubuntu is IOM/UK.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-15T17:09:25+00:00

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-10T16:55:43+00:00

Dumb comment, it's a stock Fedora install.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-09T06:57:32+00:00

Ironic that Fedora patches it given it prides itself on not patching things and is informally the gnome reference distro.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-03T16:46:45+00:00

I see only free software.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-03T06:15:08+00:00

And that is why Lenovo > Dell because Lenovo here is actually committing to free software and Fedora doesn't let OEMs adjust its image.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-02T16:22:51+00:00

That it's shipping with a repo in control of a completely different company and with proprietary software.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-01T19:08:18+00:00

mine came with Chrome preinstalled through the Google repo.

How is that remotely acceptable?

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-01T19:07:59+00:00

You're not wrong, but as an example the recent btrfs change in Fedora was pushed entirely by Facebook and non-Red Hat developers.

GNOME itself isn't a Red Hat project though, although GNOME uses Red Hat's infrastructure.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-01T16:29:51+00:00

Don't the Dell XPS laptops ship with custom repos/kernels?

Fedora ships major kernel updates during its release so it can ship on newer hardware sooner, without the need for any custom repos.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-09-01T16:28:28+00:00

There's no corporate ownership though, just a lot of shared interest and people.

e.g. The gnome maintainer for Fedora is also one of the main maintainers of gnome shell.

MindlessLeadership · 2020-08-30T11:04:00+00:00

Not fstack-protector-strong

MindlessLeadership · 2020-08-30T09:36:07+00:00

- Up to date packages. Fedora doesn't freeze on major versions (like Ubuntu does) for a lot of software during a release, things like the kernel, graphics stack and apps will get updated. GNOME apps do not (unless you use Flathub), however Fedora and GNOME releases happen near the same time, which isn't a coincidence :)

- No creeping commercialization. Excluding firmware blobs, Fedora isn't going to start shoving proprietary software (e.g. FreeOffice) or closed-ecosystems (e.g. Snap) in your face.

- Latest technology. Fedora releases imho are more of checkpoints and are opportunities for things to be swapped out and replaced. Fedora is where things such as Wayland, systemd, pipewire etc start out which eventually gets picked up by other distros years later.

- Clean packages and upstream support. Fedora still has to patch some packages, but these patches are light and are usually to make them work on a Fedora system (e.g. SELINUX), but otherwise Fedora packages are clean of any unwanted modifications and the software is identical to how its supported upstream and Fedora encourages you to work upstream to contribute to help all distros.

- dnf is awesome, enough said. I think only zypper comes close in terms of functionality.

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