I’d appreciate that! Signal messenger support is honestly the biggest thing I can’t live without if I’m going to convert away. I’ve been considering a move to GrapheneOS soon without any Google Play Services and just using Aurora/F-Droid, but I’d REALLY love to move to a full Linux phone that isn’t Android-based, as I view GrapheneOS as just a stepping stone still beholden to Google’s whims.

Never even heard of that device before. Can you get Signal messenger on it?

Perhaps not, but there is no GNU/Linux distro that is “ready for primetime” as a mobile OS right now. I WISH there was, but UBPorts, PostmarketOS, etc all either have significant features disparity or are straight up still marketed as “developer experimental”.

GrapheneOS is a solid choice for now to provide an alternative, whether a permanent replacement or a stepping stone.

I use Debian on servers, because stable.

I use Fedora on desktops, because I game and I like having fixes for mesa, the kernel, and amdgpu for my latest gen AMD GPU. My laptop is for work, but it’s just easier having consistency.

This is common on Linux even with scroll wheels and trackpads. “Natural” or “Inverted” scrolling is weirdly the default on KDE, GNOME, etc. I turn that shit off.

I think of it as you’re “dragging” the page in the direction you’re scrolling as if you were putting your finger on it and moving it that way. I don’t like the inversion of that.

Yeah I’m sure it was an outlier. I’ve never had such a hard time installing a distro before.

I tried CachyOS. Took three tries for the installer to install without bombing on an error. Third time I got it after changing file system type to ext4 and not using full disk encryption.

Then I updated everything post-install. Black screen. No boot. AMD CPU and GPU.

Installed Fedora KDE. Works perfectly. Haven’t looked back in three months since leaving Mint.

I, too, don’t understand it. I’d rather install straight Arch. The archinstall works fine.

I don’t love GNOME, but if you use it…whatever. Linux is all about choice and lack of lock-in.

If you want to compile CDE from the 1990s and use it as your DE…you do you honey boo boo.

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JFC apparent CDE is still around and had a stable release 2 months ago. Holy fucking case-in-point right there.

“The K in KDE stands for Korrect”

You’re goddamn right it does.

Almost guaranteed a Flatpak thing. I know you said X11 versus Wayland was your issue, but likely some quirk of the two window managers was allowing it to work.

Adding the drive path in Flatseal or installing non-Flatpak Steam would likely fix it.

Snap and the stink of Canonical are the reason anything Ubuntu is not an option for me

I am an apt boi as well, but I recently switched to Fedora KDE spin. God has it been a breath of fresh air to have decently updated packages WITH stability on my desktop and laptop.

I’m still Debian all the way for server and “LTS” computers, like my HTPC, but Fedora is killing it overall.

Yeah it’s getting ridiculous.

Pixels so big, you can smell 'em

Know what else supports KVM as a backend? virt-manager

If you want to JUST game, SteamOS is great, like for a handheld, a living room gaming PC, etc.

If you want to do software dev, look elsewhere like Nobara, CachyOS, etc.

Luckily there is no way to install it either.

I mean you can unlock Linux terminal and application access on Chromebooks. I have installed GIMP and Krita on Chromebooks for students that were in art classes.

Does it kind of suck? Yeah.

Neon is great, but don’t use it for mission critical stuff. I’ve had updates brick my system before because it’s bleeding edge for KDE.

Mint is my go-to for when I want something to get work done and don’t want to fuck with it. Biggest gripe is the networking menu in Cinnamon kind of sucks for VLANs and it’s still on X11 until they finish making Wayland stable.