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[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fedora Atomic variants just differ in the desktop environments.

You can see Universal Blue stuff here: https://universal-blue.org/. But in short, Bazzite is for gaming and the others are for regular desktop uses. All have a “batteries-included” attitude. There’s also some images meant for servers.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

I can't understand this logic.

Assume as stated that a website is a copyrighted and protected. Sure, that means I can't redistribute it to others without permission or a license. But I can't see how me locally, privately modifying the site would be against the law. Should Crayola be sued because their crayons can be used to modify a copyrighted art piece? Is it illegal for me to watch a movie with a blue-light filter on because it modifies how the content is displayed?

Edit: After further thought, a stronger argument would be that it's illegal (in some places) to bypass DRM protections. That's because if I break DRM of some media (say, of a rented DVD) so that I can keep it forever, that would technically be illegal even if I never shared it with anybody else. So if a site tries to break ad blockers but an ad blocker works around that, that would be "breaking" DRM, therefore illegal. But I still find that to be an lacking argument.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Debian 12.7 is a year old. You’re supposed to upgrade to the latest version (currently 12.11) before doing the upgrade.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

For fastest hardware support, you will want a rolling distribution like Arch (requires a do-it-yourself attitude) or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (complete out of box, but some quirks, like missing codecs requires manual work). Fedora also has decent new hardware support, not rolling so not as good, but same problem as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. You can also consider derivitives like CachyOS (Arch, but has a nice installer).

Ubuntu and Linux Mint have OK new hardware support. Twice a year they release new "hardware enablement upgrades" to bring new support.

And worst is Debian. They don't do hardware ennoblement upgrades at all. It's something you have to do yourself by using backports. They bring new hardware enablement by default with new releases every 2 years.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

GrapheneOS is talking to OEMs to create a phone. Up to this point, they’ve only supported Pixels because they’ve had the best security. But with Android 16, Google stopped sharing important files that make it more difficult to continue supporting Pixels. Hence the desire to create their own device.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes. It’s not clear if this was photoshopped or a bug that has been around for years, I believe related to GeForce NOW streaming. The two clients share some code, and GeForce NOW does have an age requirement.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/572753/nvidia-app-accessibility/

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

We have to wait and see if it's really mediocre. Gnome Web certainly has performance issues, but those may be due to WebkitGTK.

Orion is not using WebkitGTK, despite using GTK and Libadwaita. Their port may not have the same performance issues.

And when I say performance issues, I don't mean benchmarks. Gnome Web actually does pretty decent on benchmarks, but things like scrolling with a mouse just don't feel smooth (but do with a trackpad).

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This also affects dnf since OpenH264 is distributed from Cisco's server's, not Fedora's.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can follow this blog post: https://yselkowitz.github.io/blog/2025/08/12/openh264-fedora-flatpaks.html

Should be fine with option 1. Just need to install flatpak-module-tools beforehand.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I don't believe that's the case, according to Aeon. The state of secure boot can be measured, so if you have it enabled/disabled, you have to keep it that way or else the measurement will fail and the TPM will complain.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

No, it requires a TPM2 chip. So the requirements for measured boot are to similar to Windows 11.

Poettering has a few blog posts and conference videos on it. And Aeon is a distro that implements measured boot as the default.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (8 children)

For Linux, the protection is weak.

But if properly implemented, it’s good. But it would be a hassle to do and would require users to register new keys and blacklist Microsoft’s.

Measured boot is a better solution for Linux. It’s decentralized and does not rely on Microsoft. It uses the TPM to “measure” various parts of the UEFI, bootloader, and OS to ensure they have not been tampered with.

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