Comment by 👻 darkghost

Windows 11 drove my wife to Linux as well. We went with KDE Neon, an unusual choice but it seems to work fine on that hardware. (after some fiddling) It was Windows Vista that drove me to delete my Windows partition for good. I'm rather surprised at your choice as it is one that hasn't crossed my radar. How is the flatpak situation for additional applications?

Feb 25 · 10 months ago

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I almost never use flatpaks with text editors or development tools. It just never made sense, imo. I moved to Kinoite, which is what Bazzite is based off of, and I've been liking it quite a lot.

Btw, with Fedora 42, they are going to make a COSMIC desktop spin, which might be interesting to try out. I don't know if it'll have an atomic variant though.

Just as a point of clarification: DNF is replaced by rpm-ostree in Fedora Atomic as well.

Right, rpm-ostree in Fedora Atomic. I was thinking Fedora but then I was thinking I didn't want to confuse people about Bazzite's base OS. Thanks for clarifying!

And yeah, I'm learning that lesson with flatpak pretty quick! I was hopeful that the situation had improved with flatpak. Disappointing to see that it had not. I guess it never will be.

That's pretty cool about COSMIC! Hope they'll actually make an atomic version with that DE. The downside is if I want to switch desktop environment, I probably have to do a fresh install. I could try and rebase first if I'm willing to fresh install anyway :P

@darkghost Flatpak is fine as long you don't mind troubleshooting the apps after. And as clseibold mentioned, it is a little silly to install dev tools and whatnot via flatpak. Those don't work too well with sandboxing.

Hey, I have no judgment on which distro you and your wife went for! As long it works and don't give you trouble then I'm glad you guys got free of Windows!

It took me this long to switch because I skipped past Windows Vista. Went straight to 7. Plus the Linux gaming situation wasn't very good back then so I didn't really have that much of a choice. I'm glad that a lot of advancements have been made on that front now!

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