thanks for the comprehensive answer!
But what about the other features?
(tbf looking at the github I don't see anything special but I have been seeing people using it swear by it so Im wondering what Im missing)
What has been your experience with Atuin? Is it something worth using?
For context Atuin (Github) is a shell history replacement that apparently provides a lot of extra functionality.
Has anyone used it? Im thinking of switching to it but Im worried about its impact on performance and if its worth it.
Its a lemmy alternative written in Flask (Python). Piefed has got more moderation features and is probably faster to develop being written in Python. Both lemmy and piefed can talk to Mastodon (and obv to each other too).
AMD and Intel both have very good linux support. On that note there shouldn't be much of a difference.
In fact, AMD GPU drivers are quite a bit ahead of Intel on Linux. And the AMD laptop has a significantly more powerful iGPU plus it has DDR5 ram. So it should give you noticeably better performance.
More problematic could be the wifi chip, fingerprint reader and maybe the camera.
Wifi nowadays works well on Linux so I don't think that should be much of a problem. Intel Wifi usually has better support though.
Cameras also mostly work though the IR sensor might not work.
Fingerprint support on linux is 50/50 (from linux-hardware, it seems fingerprint on similar models is not working unfortunately). If you know the exact fingerprint reader model on the laptop you can check if it has linux support.
Thinkpads usually have good support on Linux overall so I won't be too worried with either option. I couldn't find the exact models on linux-hardware.org, however I did find similar models:
All AMD models by this name (E14 Gen 6)
Intel pretty mutch only thinks about Winows
Where did you get that from? Intel officially supports their drivers on linux and has many engineers working on support for their products in the kernel and mesa.
thanks, is there any app that implements this function?
Lol good luck but I wouldn't recommend it as your daily os. Qubes is for those who have got a nation state on their back or something like that. For most people, default fedora is more than enough.
(see https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/qubes-overview/ and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop/)
Not Sunshine but I personally use Ark. PeaZip has a lot more features (its like WinRAR but FOSS) but I don't need them and so I use Ark which is more focused. I still keep PeaZip around in case I ever need it.
It has been in the works for a long time (since 2022): https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059
Yes, but maybe debian enables it by default? You can check by running cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
If the result is 0x0007, it means MGLRU is fully enabled.
Its written in Rust, is a completely new code base so not held back by tech debt, and is a clean DE while still being fairly customizable even now.
I personally don't care why system76 felt the need to code a new DE from scratch, Im just glad they did it. It has given us a whole new ecosystem of GUI toolkits, apps, etc. for linux written in Rust.
You are supposed to use /var/home/user instead of /home/user in your paths, scripts, etc (or /var/$HOME). Im not certain on the why but iirc its because on immutable systems only /var is writable so anything writable has to be under it.
Id say just recommend Photon. It works well on both mobile and desktop. I love voyager but two very different uis is going to confuse new users.
One way is to donate to devs who are working on some specific features in the Linux kernel. The two I remember are Hector Martin who lead the Asahi Linux project and Kent Overstreet who is the main dev behind bcachefs, a new CoW FS.
But I guess this only works if there is some dev already working on a feature and is accepting donations. I wish we had community linux project or something similar which was funded by donations and hired kernel devs to work on things the community voted on.
Its about Malibal, an infamous linux/windows hardware company. The person in the video is a KDE dev (Niccolo).
If you prefer peertube: https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/fcd71cf8-37be-41ad-ab66-bb7efaf44350
Distros ship with icons and themes system wide because apps running as root only load icons/themes that are installed system wide (you can check this by running an app as sudo).
It depends. On older devices there isn't much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than older version.
Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was really bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.
Yeah the docs are a bit misleading but they are mostly for complete linux newbies. Its basically saying that to scare away any newbies from relying on ntfs because ntfs on linux has quite a few issues (in general, not exclusive to Bazzite) and might break unexpectedly since it is reverse-engineered so it is not perfect.