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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Windows is hell, i need to do something (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yo linux team, i would love some advice.

I’m pretty mad at windows, 11 keeps getting worse and worse and I pretty done with Bill’s fetishes about bing and ai. Who knows where’s cortana right now…

Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux and I’m open to try new stuff. I’m a simple guy and just need some basic stuff:

graphic stuff: affinity, canva, corel, gimp etc.. (no adobe anymore, please don’t ask.)
3d modelling and render: blender, rhino, cinema, keyshot
video editing: davinci
some little coding in Dart/flutter (i use VS code, I don’t know if this is good or bad)
a working file explorer (can’t believe i have to say this)
NO FUCKIN ADS
NO MF STUPID ASS DISGUSTING ADVERTISING

The tricky part is the laptop, a zenbook duo pro (i9-10/rtx2060), with double touch screens.

I tried ubuntu several years ago but since it wasn’t ready for my use i never went into different distros and their differences. Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.

Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No. This button is completely uninformative and enables only proprietary but free stuff like Chrome, Jetbrains, Steam and NVidia drivers.

It does not

enable flathub
enable rpmfusion

I use Fedora and I know what I am talking about. The KDE people are currently adding the same "add external repos" button to the Plasma welcome screen, at least something.

But you still have

"flatpak apps" but from the wrong source and sometimes broken (just imagine how confusing this is for new users. Having "the flatpak alternative" but its also wrong.)
no flathub
libavcodec etc. that interfere with ffmpeg
no nvidia drivers

[–] sixdripb 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

nope, since fedora 38 this button enables full access to flathub. it also lets you install proprietary nvidia drivers from gnome-software with one click. hardware decoding via ffmpeg also works for flathub apps that require it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh nice, didnt know that.

I am not sure how well that works, as NVIDIA drivers need a karg and a blocklist of nouveau.

ffmpeg needs to be installed mit --allowerasing

While yes for sure flathub apps have support, you still have a preinstalled Firefox and a flatpak remote that both dont have the nonfree stuff. This is just very confusing.

But btw Firefox RPM has support for user namespace sandboxes, allowing process isolation. So just using the official Flatpak is not a real solution.

[+] sixdripb 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes but again, Flathub Firefox has no process isolation with user namespaces. Something not easy to understand, but it simply removes a big security layer (between browser and processes, and between processes). It also adds the security layer between browser and OS, so not that easy.

Have a look at bubblejail, that is far away from plug and play poorly. But it allows to sandbox the browser like flatpak, but allow user namespace creation (a syscall) to also isolate processes.

Ublue is Fedora Atomic without legal restrictions or strange decisions.

But they also deleted their old website, so the only easily installable versions are Bluefin/Aurora (GNOME/KDE) and Bazzite. Which are also opinionated but I think in a good way.

[–] sixdripb 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

good info thx!