Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.

That looks like Bazzite Desktop with a different name. Even the contributors overlap.

FAQ says: “Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora all came in at different times, the result of organic growth. Don’t overthink it” … Very helpful.

Most people first installing Linux will dual boot to try it out first before fully committing

Good look having a newbie set up a dual boot system in times of BitLocker. Chances are they end up with single boot Linux because they cannot downsize the encrypted Windows partitions.

imo ubuntu is a good recommendation.

The reality is that SteamOS shaped the majority of developments for home users.

They expect to just get the stuff that’s on Flathub even if they don’t even know what Flathub is. Facts are:

• Out of the box Flatpak support has been banned by Canonical.
• Ubuntu 25.10 shipped with broken Flatpak support. That was known before release but Flapak is in the unsupported Universe repository and bugs in Universe software are not release blocking.
• Juggling PPAs is complicated.

Fact is also: Because software in Universe is not supported, whether or not a community member backports bugfixes is a coin toss. Mint, pop_OS, Zorin, etc. are just as affected by this and as such software used may contain severe security issues.

Rules of thumb I use:

• Good upstream support, so not a hobby distribution by guy or two
• No reliance on add-on repositories that can mess the OS up like RPMFusion, PackMan, EPEL,…
• App store-like software management. Users shouldn’t have to see traditional package management if they don’t explicitly look for it. Default repo and Flathub is enough for the vast majority of people.
• Good internationalization. Languages other than English shouldn’t be an afterthought (even SteamOS falls into this trap in desktop mode)
• Plasma Desktop because that’s what regular users are most likely to know or at least heard of or seen in videos about SteamOS
• No Ubuntu or derivatives (bad support by Canonical and derivatives fighting an uphill battle)

Currently that means Fedora KDE. I did not yet try Kinoite or Bazzite myself but I do like the download assistant on the Bazzite website that guides users through picking the correct ISO.

Missing feature is no longer missing

.ml user who doesn’t read past the headline. Name a more iconic duo.

I think her dad was a trial attorney.

Yeah, defended some minor sportsman. It’s not like the family name only got famous through the blood of innocent victims or anything like that. The Kardashians were picked up by MTV back then only by pure happenstance.

It began when they named their shitty island Great Britain.

Not all of them.

Scottish football fans are usually very fun in Germany, united in hate for the English.

what’s the most efficient way of backing everything up and moving across to a distro that’s more actively maintained?

Honestly, don’t migrate everything. Things can break when moving configuration files between distributions and you’d end up having more work than backing up the necessities (user files) and doing the rest from scratch. User IDs in the file metadata are the first thing to mismatch and things could spiral down from there (looking for files in one place but the new distribution places it somewhere else, for example).

Get an external hard disk, format it as ExFAT and copy documents, videos, downloads,… from your home directory onto it. ExFAT does not support Linux file permissions, so from your new distribution you can copy the files without any “permission denied” errors.

Sadly Ubuntu and its derivatives such as Neon are still often recommended to newcomers for historical reasons even though there are more stable and easier distributions around. Ubuntu fucking up Flatpak compatibility in its latest release is just another chapter in an endless saga. Fedora KDE should offer a good balance between long term availability, recent KDE software and stability. Personally, I’m more of an openSUSE guy myself but some quirks may be a bit much for newcomers.

I recently though about the fact that ever since Trump is being paid off by sharia law countries, all fear mongering regarding sharia law stopped. I’m sure he’s be told to get in line, should anyone make the connection of sharia support to Trump.

Try https://fedoraproject.org/kde/download using its own Media Writer. Pretty sure it’s Rufus that’s causing this. If Fedora works, you can try to use Media Writer with Xubuntu’s ISO if it really has to be Xubuntu. Personally, I would recommend against it because getting rid of that Snap shit is more hassle than it’s worth. Might just as well use a distribution that respects its users.

And former eastern block =/= communism.

I obviously used the mainstream meaning of that word.

Fact is, Trump opposes free market capitalism because he’s a terrible business man.

That’s funny because Trump isn’t a capitalist. In an open market, his businesses fail. He needs government interferencey China style.

It’s really no energy at all to just install Krita or Gimp to crop 5 images.

I did suggest many things, from how to crop in Krita, using ImageMagick, that Gimp is fully capable of cropping (OP refused to use Gimp for that task because it’s “shit” in his eyes), how to look up open source alternatives on GitHub (I found a bunch, including a python GUI application running locally), etc.

OP made a many BS claims, by insisting that he needs batch processing but when suggesting to self host, he refuses this by saying that he’s only cropping 5 images.

The completely insane claim was “The only infrastructure I’m using is the bit of Javascript and HTML”, meaning one could just save the page and run it fully locally.

This is of course BS.

You claimed that I was uploading and batch-processing images on the developers’ infrastructure.

“Um, achtually I crop images only locally and loading up Photopea in the first place doesn’t count towards freeloading other people’s work.🤓”

there are definitely problems.

Of course there are but the claim was that Lichtmetzger only needs to crop a bunch of images and Gimp is 100% capable of that and I say that as someone who can’t stand Gimp any longer and moved to Krita and others.