Is there a dumb-proof installer to run a matrix server in an offline LAN party?

I work with figma using the browser. What are the benefits of the desktop app?

Right now on Linux, it’s only possible with Nvidia, right? I have an old 1060 on my server. (all-AMD on my Desktop).

ELI5?

I haven’t tried it, but check this out:

https://github.com/elegos/Linux-Arctis-Manager/

If we all spent that money on gimp, scribus and inkscape, they would be so much better in just 2 years.

I couldn’t find the source nor the license. But if it’s not FOSS I wouldn’t even consider it.

A FOSS app focusing on privacy should be released on F-droid.

Can someone ELI5?

If you want to try a distro that can just work for you, instead of reading about it, do this:

• Aurora if you don’t do gaming.
• Bazzite if you play games.

They are both from the Universal Blue family of distros which are based on Fedora Silverblue.

They are all immutable and atomic. They won’t break. They will be more stable than windows. It will be easy. And it will come with batteries included.

Also, if you do gaming and are also a developer, there’s bazzite-dx which will be releasing soon.

KDE Plasma.

It has been great for gaming, adopting Wayland protocols at a faster rate than other DEs due in part thanks to Valve’s contributions.

I freaking love GNOME & Adwaita, but I’ll switch back when I deem it better than Plasma.

My advice is don’t take any advice. Just download the ones you are most interested in and then flash and try one by one until you feel at home.

Identify your Windows drive and your secondary drive, install Bazzite (bazzite.gg) on a secondary drive, you’ll be able to test how it runs on your hardware. If you want to keep it, then just chose whatever you want to boot to using your bios. You can set one of them to default, and you can temporarily boot to the other by pressing your motherboard’s designated boot key (usually F11 or F12, look up yours).

I’m sorry Bazzite didn’t work out for you.

Your use case sounds like a better fit for Arch, since you have very specific needs like adding uncommon device drivers, gocryptfs, udev rules, etc. For anyone else, wanting to try Bazzite, I’ll answer the rest of the topics:

Flatpak apps with external devices

All apps I’ve tried support external devices just fine, in the event the app you need doesn’t support external devices out of the box, try adding USB device access through the app’s permissions in the System Settings app.

Distrobox Freezes & dependencies

I have an all AMD desktop PC, and an intel laptop, Distrobox runs perfectly fine. Every package will rely on dependencies inside Distrobox.

Edit: after writing this post, I realized I needed someway to de-drm my Audible books, so I installed the Libation RPM in my Fedora Distrobox, it failed to launch because it needed libicu or something like that, so I opened the Fedora Distrobox terminal and typed sudo dnf install libicu, done. Launched perfectly like it was installed on my base Bazzite installation. But all the dependencies remain isolated, unable to crap all over my system if something happens. My system remains shielded from dependency apocalypse.

Encryption

Bazzite supports LUKS full disk encryption.

corectrl

Use LACT, you can install it through the Bazzite Portal (that’s Bazzite 1st run app, you can run it anytime though)

RPMs are needed for any external devices, like drawing tablets, etc…

Any external devices would be a great overstatement. I have the standard PC Peripherals, then I have: xbox 360 controllers, xbox series X controllers, Thrustmaster Wheel, Logitech x56 Flight Stick, none of them require any RPM and just work out of the box, unlike on Windows. For drawing tablets, there are tons that are supported right out of the box without any additional driver, for example Wacom.

For any developers out there wanting to customize Bazzite to fit your particular use case, you can even easily fork the distro and build your own and still get auto-updates, with any additional device drivers, RPMs, and whatever else you want to fulfill your edge use case. Follow this link here.

Look. I’ve been there. I started my Linux journey with Arch based distros, then distrohopped a lot, and finally found the best for me, and what I personally consider the best either for normal users or those that don’t want to do any maintenance.

It’s the Universal Blue family of distros: Bazzite (gaming / KDE / gnome) Aurora (standard / development / KDE) Bluefin (standard / development / gnome)

Set it and forget about it. It just freaking works. For GUI apps install from the Discover app store (which uses Flatpak), for cli apps use Homebrew (brew install whatever). If you can’t find something, open Distrobox (already included) create an Arch container, install whatever you want from the AUR, and use it like you’re used to. It works like freaking magic.

If somehow you manage to brick your installation, when you reboot you’ll be able to boot to a past snapshot.

You just can’t fail with this. It’s the best of the best IMHO.

He’s right. As I stated at the beginning of my comment, I was only speaking about Bazzite and Aurora, I wholeheartedly recommend you try them.

I will answer to your annoyances from my context: I use Bazzite on my gaming rig and Aurora on my work laptop.

1. I only use Flatpaks for GUI apps and Homebrew for CLI apps, things are stored in their respective folders.

2. My chosen distros are atomic / immutable, only user files can be changed, the system is shielded from breakage. You just can’t brick it unless you really want to.

3. Caps lock works the same as windows.

4. Desktop shortcuts rearranging, didn’t happen to me / haven’t noticed.

5. Firefox restoring session no matter what: I’ll try that and get back to you.

6. Bazzite & Aurora are very polished.

7. Flatpaks are the best, for CLI apps I use homebrew.

8. Bazzite / Aurora have automatically generated rollback images.

Honestly, if you want something that works for you and not the other way around, I suggest you use an Universal Blue distro.

lol, what a shitshow. A product from the same company is distancing from the stench. Good on them, but it shows who did some things wrong.

Kde’s Spectacle is awesome

This is in fact a professional editor. If OP is looking into getting balls deep into ebook editing, this is the answer.