There was a video from Collabora talking about Valve, immutability and different possibilities of deployment. I don't have the time to find and rewatch it but I'm not sure this article confirms that they will just do regular updates even if they say they are small. It could be interpreted in many ways. Maybe the video was only about the Steam Runtime.
Yeah no. You want to stick with the established base Linux distros that have corporate backing or people that know what they are doing. Don't swim down the river and like hardware peripherals don't use anything that associates itself with gamers.
>Maybe with the steam deck it will become so battle tested it will turn into the most stable distro ever.
Being a rolling release goes directly against that. It might be the most stable rolling release together with openSUSE Tumbleweed. When you combine it with a modern filesystem and features like snapshots it really feels solid.
In the context of the Steam Deck they can just test and hold/fix bugs so that's a very different scenario.
There are just too many changes everywhere and different hardware, software combinations, to expect a bug free experience. Not even Apple with a different release model can manage that and they control everything and have most of the hardware combinations to test. Many DEs and bigger applications need a few point releases to be better but maybe you're talking only about the base distro if it's even possible to make that distinction.
I like Arch because it's a "containment" distro just like Manjaro. It keeps a lot of the most toxic gamer and ricing community isolated in some form. Thank god Valve picked that. Don't get triggered by what I'm saying, there are plenty of great people in the Arch community and the software is great but what I said is still true in many ways. The forums and even their reddit is very hard to interact with, I always had to walk on eggshells. Another great thing is their wiki and I use it all the time.
Weird that the article doesn't mention KDE Plasma as I believe it's another reason why they need rapid development. They are finishing some huge migrations like Wayland and refining their theme and applications so it's even more accessible to less technical folks. I was scared to death when the reviewers were using Plasma docked because it needs a lot of testing before it's ready. That's natural when you are making big changes.
What are you even trying to say. You're not any better when you leave bait in every single thread even remotely connected to open source. Now go on a tangent like always and watch me not reply.
Pragmatic people install them in a VM or inside Flatpaks and make the permissions more restrictive. Dual boot between two encrypted isolated distros is also possible. It doesn't seem so overkill when you have to use not only proprietary software but also things like npm and containers.
Many pretend they don't use proprietary software while they still install what could be called malware directly from Steam. We're all forced to use proprietary software inside our CPUs and other hardware anyway. It would be easier to fight back if more people used and supported free software and hardware to move society to a better place. By the way I'm not implying that being open source or not has something to do with software quality.
Client side anti-cheats are getting disrupted anyway. You can already buy ML and external hardware cheats that are obviously impossible to detect using the same old methods. It can work for games being streamed locally or over the internet, Stadia, game consoles, anything with a screen.
- SteamRuntime: A runtime environment for Steam applications.
The next generation is/will use Flatpak related technologies like Bubblewrap. It's what you target.
- Flatpak: there's close to no overhead, you can try the Steam Flatpak and see for yourself. It's aimed at desktop applications and the sandbox gets better and better. There's a FUD website called flatkill that has already been torn to pieces so don't even bother linking that. You can't instantly make all closed source or old software work in a sandbox without compromises. Flatpak-override and Flatseal exists.
- AppImage: nobody cares about AppImages they had almost two decades to try and prove it can work. It doesn't. The main developer is now trying to integrate Flatpak runtimes with AppImages and that's all you need to know to ignore this project. One of the most popular video players tried to use it and it kept crashing or having issues, and they know what they are doing.
tl;dr only Flatpak matters, SteamRuntime uses Flatpak concepts and tools, "huge overhead" is FUD
- Mark as read on scroll
- Title customization I don't like the font weight
- On thread view an option to hold a comment to hide its child comments. I think sync moved to single tap for the other actions
- E-ink friendly options like pagination instead of scrolling
Great app thanks for open sourcing it