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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

  • secureblue: Hardened Fedora Atomic and Fedora CoreOS images

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  • You could rebase to Secureblue, but that would replace Bazzite.

  • Small frame phone, privacy respecting

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  • I have no idea about any smaller phones.

    Is the phone size a problem because it is hard to hold? If so, maybe try one of those things that you stick on the back of your phone as a handle (pop-socket?)

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  • Hypatia, and all other Divested apps, are dead. The Dev (Tavi) is done with their Android projects.

  • A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.

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  • A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.

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  • Mostly because Fedora is more popular. I like both.

    openSUSE Tumbleweed gives you much more control of what gets installed by default (you can customize every package during the GUI installer). It has been the most stable distro ive used. It is a "rolling-release" distro, meaning that packages usually get updates quicker from upstream. If you dont like getting frequent updates it may not be for you. A key feature of openSUSE distros is the system management apl Yast, which allows you to manage a lot of stuff from a GUI.

    Fedora is also quite stable. I think it's more user-friendly in my experience. After Debian/Ubuntu based distros, Fedora is the most likely to have packages built for it by developers (I'm talking 1st-party builds, not repacks). Fedora is a semi-rolling release, meaning updates are frequent but not constant.

    Fedora is currently my distro off choice, but I may soon use Tumbleweed again. I daily drove Tumbleweed for a year on both my general PC and my admin computer.

  • The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming

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  • glibc == gnu C library

    It is the standard C library used on GNU/Linux systems. Basically, it is very important. I've also heard that the code is a rats nest. I wish standard distros would move to musl libc.

  • New permissions requested by Sober (The main Roblox linux client)

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  • I saw this as well. I just use Flatseal (or KDE's builtin Flatpak permission manager) to remove any permissions I don't like. I do that for all apps.

    If I was on my PC, I could reply with my Flatpak overrides. If I remember I'll reply here.

    TL;DR Yes, go for it it'll be fine.

  • Are you in this pic?

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  • Build it yourself source-driven distros?

  • A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.

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  • Bazzite is great Fedora-Atomic-based distro, especially for nvidia users. I had a friend move to Linux and that was the distro that worked. But in general, if someone is a programmer/Dev, they want to learn how to use Linux, or just install a lot of packages, I'd avoid Atomic.

    Don't get me wrong, I use Atomic. But it isn't as straight forward as a traditional distro.

    The equivalent of Bazzite but traditional Fedora is Nobara

  • A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.

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  • For a distro, I recommend Fedora KDE Spin. Fedora is beginner friendly, is widely supported, frequent updates (so less outdated packages), rock solid stable, works with gaming or anything else.

    People recommend Linux Mint often, but I am just not a fan of how outdated the system is and its reliance on X11 (deprecated and insecure display server). I've daily driven mint before for like a year and it was good but I'm not a fan of cinnamon DE.

  • A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.

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  • When you mention Visual Studio, do you mean VSCode or Visual Studio. Cus VSCode is supported on Linux but Visual Studio is not. Confusing right?

  • Winapps for work stuff

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  • It also has a Flatpak release, which I prefer for the ability to restrict permissions like internet.

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  • Actually, in the case of a web browser, Flatpak weakens both Firefox's and Chromium's internal sandboxing, possibly allowing for breaking of cross-site or site-host boundaries. Firefox is even weaker then Chromium as a Flatpak because it can't use the zypak fork server. Both are weakened, best to avoid.

    For basically any other app, Flatpak can be beneficial as a sandbox.

    Basically, don't sandbox browsers because its like wearing 2 condoms. The only sandboxing tool I know that doesn't interfere with the browser's sandbox (and also doesnt allow for the possibility of privilege escalation, like Firejail) is Bubblejail

    PS: Since you mentioned you are on Fedora, Bubblejail is offered through this COPR repo from the Secureblue team. It provides a sandbox without interfering with the browser's sandbox. It comes with profiles for Firefox and Chromium. Only issue ive experienced is that the sandbox works, aka it means I can't access files from my home directory unless explicitly given permission to a folder.

  • 'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

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  • Zig is designed as a successor to C, no? So i assume it does syntax and things quite similarly. Rust is not a C-like language, so i dont think this a fair comparison at all.

    But in the end, learning syntax isnt the hard part of a new language (even if it is annoying sometimes).

  • 'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

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  • All the different tests ive seen comparing Rust and C put compile times in the same ballpark. Even if somehow every test is unrepresentative of real-world compile times, I doubt it is "order[s] of magnitude" worse.

    I remember watching someone test the performance of host a HTTP webpage and comparing the performance of Zig, Rust w/ C HTTP library, and Rust native. Rust native easily beat them out and was able to handle like 10s of thousands more client connections. While I know this isnt directly relevant to Kernels, the most popular C HTTP library is most likely quite optimized.

    Memory related vulnerabilities are consistently in the top reported vulnerabilities. It is a big deal, and no, you can't just program around it. Everyone makes mistakes, has a bad day, or something on their mind. Moments of human fallibility. Eliminating an entire class of the vulnerabilites while staying competitive with C is a hard task, but entirely worth doing.

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  • OP mentioned that it was the Flatpak version, which doesnt add anything to root owned parts of the filesystem.

  • Firefox loosing its full screen on gnome. Anyone else see this.

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  • Yes. I dont remember the word exactly but it might have the word "performance" or "hardware"

  • Linux is now FASTER than Windows!! Linux vs Windows - 2025 Gaming benchmarks

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  • Manjaro was buggy in my experience (used it for a year), and seems to be a well hated distro at this point. I am not suggesting that will fix your issues, just mentioning. I had a friend switch from Windows to Linux for the first time and Bazzite was the one that worked the best for their Nvidia card. As the other commenter said, dual booting on the same drive with Windows makes it a headache to manage.

  • It was so peacefrule...then they fixed it :(

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  • While I haven't had to deal with much of the bad .ml users, I had a long comment thread with some conservative guy who got so mad he changed his bio to say "after the last experience, proudly homophobic". I reported it to the admins of the instance and they didnt ban even after all that shit.