AppImage is a lot better than Flatpak because it isn't a walking security nightmare (http://flatkill.org).
But yeah, I got a build working with the PR. I'm not on my computer right now, but it's a pinned PR in the GitHub issues for the WebCord project. You go to the fork with the branch, you run a couple of quick npm commands and then you can do a build.
I did have to remove a few of the package makers because they'd set it up to do a .deb build, and I haven't used apt in years. I vaguely think they had a Flatpak or a Snapcraft package maker in there too, but I don't use those.
You run the make and package commands which you can find in the package.json file, then it outputs a built application for you.
One thing that annoys me about discord is the screenshare popout, ideally I’d like to pop each screen out individual instead of only being able to popout the entire block. For example I’d like to keep webcams on my left monitor and have someone’s shared screen in full screen on the right. I get round this by having two accounts but would be good to have a native solution
The Devs had also upgraded a lot of Electron stuff and security problems that the official Discord client doesn't do, as well as fix a lot of bugs and issues that Discord haven't bothered with.
Oh, and if you're using KDE Plasma, it uses the Qt file picker and not the GTK one.
It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?
Distros that don’t respect your privacy are hard to find, so privacy isn’t really a factor here. You’re just going to get everyone’s favourite distro here, regardless of whether it fits your other requirements.
What kind of hardware do you use?
How stable or fresh would you like your distro to be?
What wind of desktop experience do you prefer?
Also note that the apps you use (on your PC or in the browser) usually far outshadow the OS w.r.t. privacy intrusion.
Nice to hear, that privacy is less of a problem with linux!
I'm using a "middle-class gaming tower" I think. (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB VRAM, 16 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2400G).
Isn't fresher always better?
I already found out, that it's possible to change the desktop environment, which is great I guess. So I think at first, I'd like to maybe stick to the "windows-style".
Due to the nature as a community of tech enthusiasts, normal end-users can easily get software that is a bit too fresh. You probably don’t want to be a beta-tester unless you don’t mind updates frequently breaking your system.
Usually, default settings put you a few levels down from that, depending on which distro you go for. This doesn’t keep you completely save from some developers doing stupid shit (Manjaro), but this shouldn’t be a concern for any distro I’ve seen recommended here.
Potentially a somewhat unsatisfying response, but it doesn’t really matter.
Most Linux distros are similarly excellent when it comes to privacy and similarly not-necessarily-excellent for gaming.
Obviously, they do have their nuances, but you’ll only start caring about that, as you understand more of the details.
What’s kind of more important, is the choice of desktop environment. It determines the look and feel of the whole OS.
Distros generally come with a default desktop environment, so your choice of desktop may ultimately play into that.
You can just look at a few videos to determine what desktop environment you like. Popular desktop environments (along with a reasonable distro shipping them):
KDE: very feature-rich, very customizable, rather Windows-like out of the box (Distro: Kubuntu)
Cinnamon: reasonably feature-rich, reasonably customizable, quite Windows-like (Distro: Linux Mint)
GNOME: rather feature-rich, not as customizable, more macOS-like (Distro: Ubuntu)
Pretty much all of them, as they’re almost all open source and use similar components (drivers, kernel, userspace). I’d recommend Fedora or Debian just because they are relatively easy to set up, but check out other options on https://distrowatch.com/
I run AMD kit (not the latest) and install the KDE desktop, Steam and Crossover.
I choose Debian because its packaged extremely well and I want an OS/Applications to be things that just work.
The only bugs I suffer are Proton issues playing Windows games and the recent steam ui update doesn't seem to work with steam link from a wayland desktop (has to be x11).
I read the explanation about this somewhere on the Nobara website, but I can't seem to find it. Someone else was asking about this so I'll just paste what I said there. This is a paraphrase of what I read on the Nobara site. If anyone can find the actual explanation it would be better, but this is how I understood what he said:
The way it was explained to me was Fedora = RHEL Alpha, CentOS Stream = RHEL Beta, RHEL is Stable, then there are downstreams who build against RHEL. Only those who are downstream of REHL are effected by the changes. Both Fedora and Cent are necessary development platforms to support everything that eventually makes it down to RHEL in stable condition. They both depend on RHEL for funding, but RHEL depends on them for testing.
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This is just standard boilerplate language, and whether a particular product or company includes it or not is entirely a function of that company's legal department and has no bearing at all on the future behavior of the company.
That is to say, everything in here is true of everything, whether they tell you that or not, and literally zero information is gained from seeing it explicitly stated. If they'd completely left it out, it would still be true.
It has to do with companies that are publicly traded, at least in the US. You need to be careful about statements about the future that could impact the stock price.
The idea is that you must tell people that you can't guarantee the results.
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