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Dont install random stuff to your system guys (lemmy.kde.social)
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flatpak remote-add flathub-verified --subset=verified https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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[–] 56 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I love flatpak but if you aren't using the AUR on arch what's the point?!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I love Arch but I hate installing and configuring it.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I might have something shocking to tell you. There are distros with good defaults!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Can you recommend a rolling release distro that has good defaults for hyprland or sway?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago

    I can recommend a semi-rolling distro ;D wayblue has some defaults, but I have not tried it. There also is a hardened version of it under the secureblue images. Although I think the maintainer has horrible control issues, I cant deny that the product is near perfect (apart from opinionated Chromium enforcements and some hacky parts like LD_PRELOADing a different allocator) and use the kinoite variant daily.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    The installation script fails much too often, so you have to do it manually.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I just want new packages and Tumbleweed sucks, and don't even get me started on Fedora and their codec nonsense. Every time I tried Fedora I run into issues. You can't even use their packaged version of VLC cause they don't also package the correct version of ffmpeg. Fedora is a joke. Nobara even worse cause that one is outdated on top of it. Arch is the way and you are all wrong.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Agree on the Fedora problem, but the solution is pretty easy.

    # install the RPM packages, your system is auto detected, the packages take care of updating the repos
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

# enable cisco-openh264 to be sure
sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264

# install ffmpeg with allowerase
sudo dnf install ffmpeg --allowerasing

# or, if you just want videos, without uninstalling anything
sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld

    Thats basically it. On the Atomic variants, installing libavcodec-freeworld is just as easy, but allowerasing doesnt work so you need to uninstall everything manually to unbreak ffmpeg. Or you just use uBlue where it is already done and default (this will also avoid any rpmfusion incompatibilities to happen on your device and on the server instead)

    Yes this is annoying, but you do that once and afterwards have a current release more stable than Arch, and an old-supported release that is even more stable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    but allowerasing doesnt work so you need to uninstall everything manually to unbreak ffmpeg

    There we go, that's probably what I should have done. Utterly ridiculous! That's too bad since Kinoite is the best immutable distro out there right now IMHO. (No, I don't count NixOS)

    And we can go deeper still, cause I have also tried uBlue! And what do you know, even uBlue sucks. I swear to you I had issues I could not figure out how to solve on every single Fedora 39 thing I tried. Yes, I will admit that a user who is used to the Fedora way will have probably easily solved all those, but not me. And I could say the same about Arch, only on Arch I actually know how to solve my problems. And on Arch people would assume having to fix stuff manually, not on Fedora though. Fedora should be an "it just works" distro like Mint, but it's SO GOD DAMN far from it. Anyways, I honestly believe the entire Fedora eco-system is straight up cursed.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    Agree, fedora atomic is the best OS base there is. I am also testing COSMIC which is now under the ublue org.

    discussion.fedoraproject.org is there for problems.

    I agree that Fedora variants need more tweaking, but processes are so damn slow. For example setting up external repos would very well be possible, but they will add an intransparent "add external repos" page to Kinoite. At least that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thank software patents for the codec trouble, not Fedora / Red Hat. They just don't want to get their asses sued for free software

    Anyway I can use VLC and ffmpeg just fine with RPMFusion, idk what ur issue is, but judging by that

    you are all wrong

    i probably just wasted my time on a brainless troll like you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They just don’t want to get their asses sued for free software

    How come the other distros don't seem to care? Does it just come down to them being based in the US?. They can't be the only distro mainly based in the US, can they? VLC would not play ANYTHING. That was installed from RPMFusion in Fedora Kinoite 39. But even IF it were to work, this whole RPMFusion thing is ridiculous. If I had to install a bunch of codecs and drivers from the AUR I would say the same about Arch. That would absolutely kill the distro for me.

    i probably just wasted my time on a brainless troll like you.

    Hard to argue with that ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    What sucks exactly with TW? For me it is Arch in easy mode πŸ˜‚

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    πŸ€” never had that issue on my TW machines

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