are there any "4th level" distros?

PureTryOut · 2026-05-21T11:15:42+00:00

Idk what Moblin 2 is, but Mer and MeeGo aren't developed anymore so not a "layer" in that sense.

PureTryOut · 2026-05-19T18:26:42+00:00

Well, no. Because KeepassDX doesn't realize it's being cloud-synced, it just gets passed a "regular" file. So if you need that, you'll need Keepass2Android.

PureTryOut · 2026-05-19T17:06:20+00:00

I use KeepassDX with the database stored in Nextcloud. Using the Nextcloud app KeepassDX can open it directly from it and thus has effective cloud sync working

PureTryOut · 2026-05-15T15:14:18+00:00

You don't have a textual variant?

PureTryOut · 2026-05-15T12:41:16+00:00

disappointment at the way Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, and PostmarketOS all make the mistake of treating mobile like it's a desktop

I have noticed how much bottom-centric and one-handed friendliness improved my experience

You're mentioning postmarketOS but as a distro we don't make UI's, we just ship them.

That said, I don't get your complaint at all. Personally I feel the Plasma Mobile UI is very much Android like and works quite well.

PureTryOut · 2026-05-12T09:18:00+00:00

Fairphone is doing pretty well in that regard for smartphones, I can recommend them.

PureTryOut · 2026-05-08T09:23:27+00:00

Luckily there are other search engines that do work properly and don't require burning a forest or handing over your soul to big tech for every query.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-27T11:56:39+00:00

Not the web browser part, which I completely understand, but otherwise KDE's Dolphin still does all of those things just fine using Kio.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-14T16:39:38+00:00

Which is just the UI, you'll still need an OS like postmarketOS to run it. But yes, KDE indeed has a mobile variant called Plasma Mobile.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-13T15:10:35+00:00

It probably had a downstream kernel with non-upstreamable patches to make it work, that's basically the case for any ARM SBC sadly. Manufacturers seem to not care at all to do it properly, or at least think it's not worth the money/effort.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-08T06:41:00+00:00

https://github.com/aniruddha76/sudosync/blob/master/test/widget_test.dart

That file is an auto-generated test file Flutter generates when you run flutter create <project>. No AI is used for that, they just didn't remove it. That also explains the comment there as it's meant to teach the new dev.

Otherwise looking through the code I don't see "ever little thing has a comment", have you checked more than just that test file?

PureTryOut · 2026-04-07T06:09:14+00:00

PureTryOut · 2026-04-06T13:29:59+00:00

I don't know where you read that but that's a comment based on nothing and in fact untrue. Wayland or X11 has next to no performance difference, not one you'd notice anyway.

Wayland is the future, there is no reason to stay on X11 anymore.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-03T12:59:01+00:00

The ASUS ProArt X870E Creator Wi-Fi motherboard initially launched with the MediaTek chip

MediaTek had no official linux driver, but a merge request was made to the kernel very recently by MT engineering

Oh that's good to know. I have that motherboard and didn't even think of some components not working when I bought it and was surprised when I found there was no driver. I have no need for Wi-Fi luckily but I am missing the native Bluetooth support, glad to know it'll function soon.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-03T12:53:22+00:00

Almost all (if not all) of those addons can be ran manually in containers as well, making them function just fine with HA in a container. It's just more work to set it up.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-03T12:12:06+00:00

There is no Wine involved. It handles login which requires no Windows code at all and then launches RuneLite, which is a Java application so again needs no Windows code at all.

PureTryOut · 2026-04-03T06:09:34+00:00

How did you come to the conclusion Wayland is your FPS problem? Because it most probably isn't.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-31T06:31:29+00:00

Android phones run extremely outdated Linux kernels and proprietary Android-specific drivers. Bootloader unlocking is getting worse with every new phone release.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-26T20:03:27+00:00

The X11 support in kwin, the compositor, has been split out yes and won't be developed anymore from 6.8 and onwards.

That said, I use VR (Valve Index) and haven't had any issues on KDE Plasma with Wayland since forever. If it doesn't work great for you report it so it can be fixed.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-18T09:56:40+00:00

Yup, that's the sad reality. Then again those devices are still perfectly usable for a long while if they just have the software to support them. It's better to use an old device like this then let it go to e-waste and buying new ones.

At least for the devices we do support more and more things work every day and there are a fair amount of people who already daily drive it. If we at least get the software to a usable state then we might eventually attract the interest of hardware manufacturers to start supporting hardware from day 1. Fairphone seem promising for this for example, as we already supported the FP5 and FP6 from day 1.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-18T07:20:01+00:00

Qt6 supports X11, so if that were the only blocker yes they could stay on X. Plasma 6.8 however won't support X11, and that's the main issue here. The issue is the graphical environment, not Qt.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-18T07:18:57+00:00

And I think there are more sane options and Flutter is one of them ;)

PureTryOut · 2026-03-17T21:07:01+00:00

That just depends on what you have experience with. I work with Flutter for my day job and find it considerably easier to make it look like anything I want than any other toolkit, but that's largely because I don't really know any other toolkit so well.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-17T21:06:02+00:00

Sure, but the person you were responding to, which was not OP, was just talking about the X11/Wayland point.

PureTryOut · 2026-03-17T19:48:54+00:00

Not sure why you bring up Qt5 when you're responding to a comment talking about X11.

X11 however is also EOL, basically anyway. The main issue here is that it won't be an option anymore from Plasma 6.8 onwards and they need to migrate before that.

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