It’s more that the lawyers have a lot of power at Fedora, because America is a failed state.

I currently use Fedora but I’d swap to OpenSUSE if I didn’t already install Fedora. None of the software I wanted to install worked on OpenSUSE but I remember my time with it so fondly.

T495s here.

They’re a luddite, if the site wasn’t down then I’d doubt their credentials.

Get a separate device for work. You shouldn’t be working on your personal computer anyway.

I’ve changed DE multiple times, most of them are fine. KDE is a bit obtuse but it’s ultimately what I settled on because I want good built-in themes. If KDE didn’t exist I’d go with Xfce, followed by LXQt (never tried LXQt though).

In terms of how important a DE is, I think picking the right distro is more important. This basically means staying away from anything Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based because in my experience those are the least stable.

That lasted for 25 minutes before someone else replied saying it should avoid serving Valve’s interests.

https://lemmy.ml/post/42362847/23625426

Generally you can use use the GUI with things like Nobara Linux.

But most software install instructions are all “copy and paste these commands”.

Technically it’s the minimal requirements for GNU/Linux.

That default background is a horrible first impression too.

“It’s such poor-quality software and product, and I’m so surprised that it’s [spent] so many years on the market,” he said. “I can’t believe it.”

Based.

Honestly native builds are bad. Proton is where it’s at, preferably abolishing DirectX while they’re at it.

There’s already Trinity.

Don’t know what their stance is on Wayland but it exists.

KDE themes are scripts. A coding mistake in one resulted in someone’s file system being erased, it would be quite easy to distribute malware via that method.

There are plenty of reasons why themes are bad. They’re a security risk when downloaded from the internet, they’re often not updated alongside the desktop environment causing bugs, and maintaining support for themes is difficult.

But what GNOME does is eliminate choice, not themes.

You can technically buy a Chromebook instead. Apparently they kick up a real fuss if you try to install your own OS on it though, Not that I’ve tried.

Except they only help you with the install IIRC, so basically useless.

I do want that extra security. But I’m disappointed it can’t be automatic in Secureblue (even though I’d be using it as explicitly not intended).

I did some research and I see what you mean. Apparently using the Flatpak of a browser disables the sandboxing between browser tabs. It doesn’t necessarily make my device less secure but it would make my browser less secure. Firefox officially supports it’s Flatpak so it would be good if I could find some sources more reliable than various forum posts but all-well.

I’m iffy on having to manually configure my security but if I’m using Firefox on a distro that does not support it then there’s not much I can do to avoid that.

Thanks for your tips.

I ain’t sweaty enough to Arch. I run CachyOS on my desktop but I want my laptop to be more secure in which case Arch would be my only option. Overall Fedora (and it’s derivatives) are the only distros that meet my expectations for a distro.

In terms of gripes theres:

1. It’s prompting me to upgrade to the unstable Ubuntu 25.10.
2. It failed to upgrade me when I accidentally pressed the button.
3. Widespread consensus that Ubuntu doesn’t take security as seriously as Fedora/OpenSUSE.
4. That whole Xubuntu malware situation.

I’m pretty sure there was another big issue I had. But it’s not coming to mind immediately. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about Ubuntu and I think I ran into something like that but it wasn’t that important to me personally so it slipped my mind.