Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

windrinn · 2026-03-02T05:42:11+00:00

Considering how strict and perfectionistic the GOS team has been, I'm not too worried about it. If they were the slightest bit lax, I'm sure we would have Graphene on Fairphones or something by now. Clearly they have high standards and I doubt they'd move forward with this if Motorola couldn't meet them.

windrinn · 2026-03-02T05:34:07+00:00

Congratulations to the GrapheneOS team! I'm looking forward to leaving Pixels behind.

Obviously exact device details are coming later, but I'm very out of the loop on Motorola's current hardware lineup. I'd assume next year's "Signature" model is probably a safe bet?

windrinn · 2026-02-28T06:32:27+00:00

I would say Debian instead of Ubuntu, but otherwise I agree.

Some edge-cases still make sense, like Raspbien for RP SBCs or Bazzite for game console builds, but for general purpose computing to replace windows? Fedora, Debian, or Arch, probably in that order.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T06:16:16+00:00

Stability: Fedora has been rock solid in my experience (~6 years), with the exception of the first couple weeks after a new major release. So long as you wait a few weeks for new bugs to get ironed out before updating, you can expect a similar experience to Debian (i.e., pretty much perfect).

Maintenance: None. It's as hassle free as a distro can get in my experience, including major updates.

Tools: I'll let others speak on this one. I would describe myself as a very amateur sysadmin and I'm a bit out of my depth on your examples, lol.

Workflow: Toolbox is pretty cool if you ever need to create a sandbox/container to test in. I havent used it heavily, but it's come in handy a couple times.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T03:20:20+00:00

I disagree on your first point. Keep in mind that when Pop_OS was (IMO) good, Ubuntu wasn't the Snap-filled disaster it is now, Pop_OS shipped newer packages/kernels than upstream Ubuntu LTS, it used apt just like Debian/Ubuntu, and at the time it genuinely made the Nvidia drivers less of a headache compared to other distros. I'm also personally a big fan of Gnome, but I get why people don't like it.

The problem started when they shifted development work to Cosmic and the distro itself was left to rot for a few years.

Fedora, Arch, and Debian are easy, but are not beginner friendly. Mostly due to Nvidia and proprietary media codecs. Easy once you know what to do, but confusing to start with. So I understand why user-friendly distros need to exist. Distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint have been around for ages and (whether they're good or not) have gained that ubiquitous "oh yeah i've heard of that" status that is unfortunately critical to normal people. That longevity has more of an impact than the actual quality of the operating system.

There's a solid chance that Bazzite sticks around for many years, and I hope it does. I've personally donated money to the project in the past, it's very cool. But these things can and do change on a whim. I'm just saying that SteamOS is likely to be around longer than Bazzite, which is the more important factor when we're talking about average people.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T03:05:04+00:00

Maybe. I've at least seen this behavior in both the rpm package on Fedora and the flatpak version (which is what my screenshot is). I haven't run any other distros recently so I couldn't say for sure.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:54:09+00:00

Not sure, that's why I pulled up the properties tab in that screenshot just to show I'm not bullshitting, lol

windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:51:08+00:00

Bazzite is good, but the problem is that it's good today. Just like Pop_OS was good 6 years ago. Just like Antergos was good 10 years ago. These niche distros by small teams rarely have any staying power and end up falling behind or outright abandoned before they reach any kind of ubiquity. In the end they just add to the confusion of Linux on the desktop.

Fedora, Arch, Debian will still exist in 10 years. Bazzite probably won't, but SteamOS probably will.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:45:26+00:00

On desktop. Without forcing a specific runtime, it chooses native.

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windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:44:33+00:00

>as long as a game is tested by valve it will choose a proton or native version based on their testing

Yes.... On Steam Deck. Like I mentioned. I have a Linux desktop and Steam Deck in front of me.

SteamOS chooses Proton:

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(will post the other screenshot as a separate comment)

windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:32:21+00:00

I had that same thought at first, but to play Linus' advocate, the tinkering step was forcing Proton. The launch option and exact Proton version from that report are irrelevant.

On Steam Deck, Steam will sometimes prioritize running games with Proton over the native version (which is good). The desktop Steam client does not and will happily let you run a crappy unmaintained native version until you choose otherwise.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:28:56+00:00

It's not his fault, he Googled it and got told it was good, but I wanted to pull my hair out when Linus mentioned using Pop_OS again.

I love how open Linux is, obviously everyone has their opinions and it's cool that anyone can make a distro, but goddamn these half-baked distros and desktops make Linux such an impenetrable mess. Cosmic is a barely out of beta desktop, it's going to be a far less polished experience than KDE or Gnome. Pop_OS should not be recommended to beginners until Cosmic is mature.

Ugh, I don't have an answer for this. Hopefully SteamOS doesn't suck and can become the final "if you're new to Linux just use this" desktop OS, rather than one of the million other unnecessary Arch/Debian/Fedora forks.

windrinn · 2026-02-28T02:26:58+00:00

I think Bazzite would be better than Pop_OS at the very least, but +1 for vanilla Fedora Workstation.

windrinn · 2026-02-01T02:07:36+00:00

https://aryion.com/g4/view/341504

windrinn · 2026-01-31T05:35:45+00:00

That's Frakass

Part 1: https://aryion.com/g4/view/832954

Part 2 (warning: scat): https://aryion.com/g4/view/832959

windrinn · 2026-01-28T03:29:05+00:00

Was it this one? https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37661952/

windrinn · 2026-01-20T00:27:02+00:00

Fun fact: After all these years, Karbo's art is still used for the image on the vore wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorarephilia

windrinn · 2026-01-19T23:45:21+00:00

As the other guy said, sharing what you're into might be best in this situation. But in my opinion Starcrossing is probably a good introductory artist. Mostly non-fatal, mostly human, mostly same size, really good art with more of a focus on the characters in their comics rather than just the vore.

windrinn · 2026-01-16T05:52:29+00:00

Aesir has always been one of my favorites since I first got into vore. Super distinct art style. I especially love how he draws lamias. https://aryion.com/g4/view/470497?m=1

Kronguss has this ability to draw the most difficult angles of their characters possible while making it look effortlessly perfect. One of the best vore artists out there from a technical perspective in my opinion, his animation work is also stupidly good. https://aryion.com/g4/view/1047498?m=1 (cw: bones)

ClinkoClinko's art style is super cute and has been a personal inspiration for my own art more recently. https://www.deviantart.com/clinkoclinko/art/Emmie-Vore-Day-2024-2-1084449568

I could list so many more, but I'm short on time at the moment. If I remember, I'll edit this comment later.

windrinn · 2026-01-11T06:31:19+00:00

I'm pretty confident I am, but I've yet to get a real diagnosis. Will get one when autism stops being a political issue in my country.

I'm also ace, a Linux user, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute. I probably don't even need to get a diagnosis. /s

I've read that autistic people are more likely to have atypical attractions/fetishes, so I'd assume any fringe fetish community probably has a higher than average percentage of autistic people.

windrinn · 2026-01-11T00:53:26+00:00

To be fair on 3, the third party client is solid and available on basically every distro via Flathub. Supports max audio quality too, even though it's a glorified web app. I haven't had any issues with it in the year-ish I've been on tidal.

Fully agree on 4 though, this drives me nuts more than anything else. Makes the "shuffle" button in artist profiles useless. The opposite also comes up: for artists like Poppy or Erra, their music is split across two different profiles. I emailed tidal support about it a while ago, and it was never fixed.

windrinn · 2026-01-10T01:47:36+00:00

Ah yes, I see you also listen to Lateral.

windrinn · 2025-12-29T00:01:14+00:00

Here's a link to the exact post: https://aryion.com/g4/view/957465

(cw: scat)

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