boredsquirrel

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boredsquirrel ,

Me!

boredsquirrel ,

Our unofficial Linux repost bot!

boredsquirrel ,

I am thinking about Fedora IOT or uBlue Core. A lot of stuff needs Docker, even though I think SELinux and secure packages make more sense.

Also keeping an eye on CentOS bootc, which is way more stable but continuously integrated fixes, atomic updates, reversible...

boredsquirrel ,

I literally once rented a VPS, installed Debian 12, configured automatic updates, installed tor, set the max limit to the VPS limit, enabled the tor relay server.

And now I am unable to login and that thing is just running lol. For the good of the Tor network?!

boredsquirrel ,

Yes you can do that. Keep an eye on blocking mode as that may be unavailable

Why openSUSE?

First, let me be clear up front that I'm not promoting the idea that there should be one "universal" Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there's lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE....

boredsquirrel ,

I have the same result in my current survey. Nobody openly talks about OpenSUSE a lot.

That doesnt mean they dont have many users, but they are not really active in general online forums.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/b6990d2e-66ed-41f8-bddf-6d8a0912b8c3.webp

There was also not a lot of people moving from it to something else.

OpenSUSE to SEL is similar to Fedora to RHEL. I dont know why Fedora gets more focus.

This is often random, and I think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed may be better than traditional Fedora, as they use BTRFS snapshots automatically.

Meanwhile, Fedora Atomic Desktops are WORLDS better than their Kalpa and Aeon, and you can also see that by their forks /variants.

OpenSUSE has Aeon and the barely maintained Kalpa, Fedora has tons of variants and way more inofficial ones. Especially uBlue made cool user accessible tooling and they are good at shipping tailored distros like Bazzite or Bluefin/Aurora.

boredsquirrel ,

I dont like that Yast competes with the KDE Settings, but having everything in a GUI is key and distros should fork it.

boredsquirrel ,

and broken btrfs systems don't stay broken for longer than it takes to reboot

Not true. Fedora and others use BTRFS too and just dont deal with snapshots at all.

I dont care about traditional Fedora but that is pretty bad. TW is way better here.

boredsquirrel ,

I think there is. KDE settings deal with Bluetooth, devices etc. Discover deals with repos and more.

boredsquirrel ,

Yes traditional Fedora is useless in that regard. Their offline updates also dont really work reliably.

Rpm-ostree ("Fedora Atomic Desktops") Fedora meanwhile is really really nice.

boredsquirrel ,

OpenSUSE people are awesome at gatekeeping.

Just jump into the Aeon or microOS Matrix room and ask how to add a repo or install an app as RPM.

boredsquirrel ,

I use it with Fedora Atomic KDE, rpm-ostree is not meant for that and a pain to use so I remove the package.

The Flatpak integration doesnt use PackageKit and works well, but it doesnt display the data nicely and is too slow. GNOME software is way better for Flatpaks, COSMIC Apps is way faster.

It is useful for fwupd but at the same time a bit bulky for that.

It is also a frontend for all the KDE Extensions and works very well here.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Thanks!

boredsquirrel OP ,

Over 700 ;D

boredsquirrel OP ,

Thanks. It is hard to do an objective survey and for sure I asked some things that I am interested in.

And that doesnt mean that some questions are not tricks ;D like people use Android but no immutable OS?

I will do an evaluation some time soon but votes are still coming in

boredsquirrel OP ,

770+ so absolutely!

boredsquirrel OP ,

I kinda escalated but that form feature is supercool, those are not really 62, they expand depending on what you select.

For example if you use GNOME and used KDE before, it asks for reasons.

Thats probably a bug

boredsquirrel OP ,

Every of these questions is optional and has a "not saying anything" answer.

boredsquirrel OP ,

No I am honestly curious as I have the feeling there are tons of people with ADHD and Autism in the Linux community, myself included.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Some answers are phrased so that they all make sense, I am more interested in the most important reasons.

Just everyone selecting everything is not that useful.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Sorry, wrong formatting. Will edit that.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Yes true. It was dependent in the gender, because I didnt yet try to evaluate the results so having these answers just for non male people would give more exact results

boredsquirrel OP ,

Fixed it

boredsquirrel OP ,

Added

boredsquirrel OP ,

This is a first run, doing an overhaul currently (no idea if this breaks things).

Then will post to other lemmy forums and general matrix discussions.

Then in 2 weeks or so the results

boredsquirrel OP ,

The questions are optional, valid points but I think they make sense.

I added a note

boredsquirrel OP ,

Added them

boredsquirrel OP ,

Fixed

boredsquirrel OP ,

I see someone trying out the options ;)

Yes for sure not the perfectly scientific method, but I used things that are known. Like Snaps and Ads for Ubuntu, too old packages for Debian, and "I dont know really why to use it" for OpenSUSE lol

And yes, NixOS to my knowledge has a huge governance issue.

I will do another survey about exact distros, and could have used specific ones here too but didnt want to for now.

boredsquirrel OP ,

No this is "focusing on minorities".

As you can see like 95% are male, and that is important.

Also how can something be discriminating if you dont even get anything. You are free to post anything here or use other methods.

This is like the most subjectively picked survey on earth as it has tons of specific questions which can only be done with A a huge list of questions or B a subjective scope.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I dont know I think so? There is a "numbered list" option

boredsquirrel OP ,

I put a note in the top text

boredsquirrel OP ,

You can edit your votes as I made some fixes. I decided against a second version.

And yes I forgot the ranked voting, this would make a hell lot of sense.

I will do a second one

boredsquirrel OP ,

This will get a new post to be more visible

boredsquirrel OP ,

Thanks, I will read your reply.

it would be much harder to single out individuals.

It is all anonymous, I dont get any individually sent data. Which is pretty problematic as it would be interesting to combine certain types of people, traits, behaviors etc.

For example "people using Ubuntu back then and staying with it tend to use X11" or whatever.

This question should also probably be in its own survey.

Yes probably, multiple smaller ones make way more sense.

This also applies to disabilities or any trait that could put them be used against them.

As the ratio is so extreme, I disagree that focussing on just non-male people is wrong.

It is a scope though, and you cannot make a fair and representative survey.

But I agree that other disabilities could have been added.

You are welcome to join, I and maybe a few more people plan on doing more, smaller surveys in the future.

have a look at the surveys by the Linux Experiment.

Yes but I didnt find it that interesting. We can argue about discrimination, but in an anonymous survey it is not problematic to ask for "sensitive" info and tons of people gave their answer there.

These just interested me, and they are more personal than Nicks for sure.

Lastly, you should offer a other button with a custom response.

Yeah for sure. I want to make a followup especially on the "other" boxes that got tons of checks.

But CryptPad seems to not have that feature.

As a test of this feature I think it is interesting. I will try Limesurvey and Nextcloud forms the next time.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I experimented with the platform.

The "anonymous" feature means I cannot do a lot of things one would normally do. For example I have no idea "users that use ubuntu and stayed with Ubuntu will likely dont care about xyz". Because there is no correlation.

Having questions depend on the previous answers makes it possible to filter out groups of people to get more interesting data.

And for sure the questions are biased, try to do an unbiased survey that is still interesting or funny. But I tried my best.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I am not sure haha, I think versioned means there is a certain amount of stability but closer to upstream, while stable is like "I run Kernel 5.14 and do my patches myself".

It is the same but with a slight difference in how extreme it is.

boredsquirrel ,

But dont forget on Android any app can block screenshots. So their feature would work well better and be way more secure.

ChromeOS is extremely well made. It is very very secure, especially compared to Windows.

They can do that as they build the platform.

Still a stupid idea of course.

boredsquirrel ,

Grub is a bootloader, not the firmware/BIOS which is used to initialize the hardware

boredsquirrel ,

I wonder what will happen when that war is over.... nothing? Just continue to produce weapons?

boredsquirrel ,

If you want peace, dont buy Russias oil for decades.

boredsquirrel ,

Uhm I just symlink the files hahaha

Is there a better way? There are quite some issues where I need to copy instead of linking.

boredsquirrel ,

I see dockable Qt bars here, so it also has Wayland support.

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