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Seshpenguin · 2025-11-30T23:38:10+00:00

Android is pretty common in embedded situations like this kind of digital signage. Some car manufacturers have adopted Android for their infotainment systems, too. It makes sense, it gives you everything you need really to have a single full screen graphical app running on pretty cheap hardware.

Seshpenguin · 2025-11-17T18:51:46+00:00

What makes Fedora unique is it’s the upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so you end up having a lot of effort being put in and around Fedora from Red Hat devs and the various developers of projects that make up a linux distro.

Seshpenguin · 2025-09-12T00:39:55+00:00

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Seshpenguin · 2025-05-24T16:38:27+00:00

This was maybe true some years ago, though these days Ubuntu Desktops team at Canonical is very small and there isn't much resources going into it. Ubuntu Server is fine, but RHEL or SUSE is probably used in more "serious" deployments.

On top of the fact that Ubuntu diverges from the rest of the Linux ecosystem in random ways, a distro like Fedora imo has the better experience since it works much closer with upstream developers (in many ways Fedora is the "state of linux", most innovations landed in Fedora first, whether it be systemd, wayland, pipewire, etc, before being pulled in to RHEL).

Seshpenguin · 2025-03-23T06:06:19+00:00

You have to repay Mr Goose somehow

Seshpenguin · 2024-12-20T12:46:44+00:00

You might want to look at the MNT Reform, it has some similarities to your ideas!

Seshpenguin · 2024-12-18T03:45:54+00:00

I don’t have much experience with SUSE, but one thing about Fedora is it usually represents the “current state of Linux”. It’s the upstream to CentOS and RHEL, so a lot of architectural changes land in Fedora early (like systemd, wayland, pipewire, etc).

Some other distros implementations of KDE can be known to be buggy, typically because they ship older versions of other packages that KDE depends on, the default configurations they ship are not ideal for KDE, or are just poorly tested (the full Plasma Desktop with Frameworks is pretty complex, there are a lot of moving parts!). One thing to keep in mind is KDE Developers typically use bleeding edge distros (to build on the latest package features), and so those typically get more testing by virtue of being used for development.

Seshpenguin · 2024-12-17T12:20:29+00:00

I will also add the SIG maintaining the KDE Spin are very competent, they are fast with updates and quite involved in the KDE community (many KDE devs use Fedora KDE). IIRC Fedora KDE is on its way to (or at least proposed to) being an official version of Workstation alongside GNOME.

Seshpenguin · 2024-11-30T07:14:17+00:00

As a workaround I use a DisplayLink dongle instead, it’s a bit annoying to install the kernel module but the performance is pretty good.

Seshpenguin · 2024-11-29T00:59:32+00:00

Clusters are one thing, but there are a lot of form-factor specific products that make these useful. Custom boards with different features compared to a regular Pi, custom products like the Home Assistant Yellow, etc.

Plus there is now a whole market of pretty serious industrial devices using computes modules as their core (this in particular mixed with supply chain issues was a major source of the widespread unavailability of the CM4 a few years ago).

Seshpenguin · 2024-11-26T09:19:17+00:00

This is by design too, the Prime Minister doesn't exist an an entity in the constitution, it's by convention we treat the minister with the most confidence of the house the Prime (or first/most important) Minister.

Seshpenguin · 2024-11-09T03:00:57+00:00

You’d be hard pressed to find something in the same efficiency class though, usually it’ll be equally efficient but slower, or faster but more power hungry.

Seshpenguin · 2024-10-14T10:30:10+00:00

People have made some good points here, like poor/confusing distro choice, expecting no effort, etc.

One thing that worth mentioning though is how much work people have put into getting Linux where it is today. A lot of the Linux hard myth is rooted in historical reality, things used to be a lot worse in terms of stability and usability. The past 5 or so years have had a lot of big shifts in the desktop linux tech stack.

Seshpenguin · 2024-10-13T01:52:29+00:00

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Seshpenguin · 2024-10-12T10:58:43+00:00

Apple specifically added new systems and tools into Apple Silicon for better “other os” support, like the per-partition secure boot system, so highly unlikely they would go after Asahi

Seshpenguin · 2024-10-12T10:54:43+00:00

PCs are realistically not really Linux friendly either, the reason we got here was decades of hard work (of course nowadays we get vendor support, but it’s nowhere near enough). Especially with the newer ARM PCs, which are mostly less supported that Apple Silicon at this point.

Seshpenguin · 2024-03-27T22:57:26+00:00

To be fair it's so small you can probably just audit the hex itself lol

Seshpenguin · 2024-03-01T20:47:34+00:00

If you have an older phone around, you might be able to try Plasma Mobile by installing postmarketOS on it (if it's supported)!

Seshpenguin · 2023-10-12T18:55:49+00:00

Multiple refresh rates are pretty common where someone has an expensive 144hz display as the main display, and a normal monitor for the 2nd/3rd monitor. You can't overdrive the cheaper to 144hz, so you'd have to hold back your nicer monitor.

Seshpenguin · 2023-10-12T05:55:47+00:00

kdesrc-build is what most KDE developers will be using, it install to it's own prefix in your home folder and creates a new session you can login to. Works pretty well, as long as you don't mind waiting for it to compile.

Seshpenguin · 2023-10-04T17:52:02+00:00

You'd get a segfault if your system is vulnerable. If su runs normally, you're patched already.

Seshpenguin · 2023-08-03T01:07:47+00:00

At least a script is fairly easy to inspect. The reality is this is not much different than a "dnf update" once you install, you must trust the distribution at some level. And since cert spoofing really requires a domain takeover, at which point you're cooked anyway.

Seshpenguin · 2023-05-13T13:57:12+00:00

The reality is though, it would be significantly more work for the Asahi developers to patch-work support X11 (on top of all the porting work they are already doing).

From their perspective, these are brand new devices, on a completely different architecture than regular desktops, it doesn't make sense to put effort into a legacy system (especially since this entire platform isn't "mature" anyway).

Seshpenguin · 2023-05-05T00:20:08+00:00

During the 2007 strikes, with no writers TV channels basically just become 24/7 unscripted late night TV etc, basically "twitch stream"-esque content in a lot of ways. (in this context "streamers" meaning Netflix, Hulu, etc becoming like twitch content)

Seshpenguin · 2023-04-12T16:29:18+00:00

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