What a journey! The watch looks so freakin' cool, but I already have an elcheapo smart watch that I don't even use to track steps and heart rate. I figure I'll die at some point with it or without it, lol.
I couldn't fathom going open source on a phone. Too many things now require 2FA that isn't handled well outside of things like Authenticator, or shitty third party apps that are their own versions of authenticators.
I know you can use things like bitwarden for that, but some institutions insist you use their own, closed source, closed and federated auth apps, no questions allowed.
Its harder and harder to do business without some of them.
I have seen people run several different distros on mac arm based hardware, but ... well, why? I think if my laptop were to die tomorrow, I'd replace it with another macbook air, because the form factor is really nice, and the keyboard really is outstanding.
(So much so, that I am often preferring it over my big boy mechanical keyboard on my desktop!) :(
Speaking of the desktop, when I'm through playing the stuff I have installed on my bazzite partition, I think I will image it, and then try Arch and hope for the best. I'm still having to dual boot into windows because Photoshop and PowerBI have no *nix alternatives that can remotely compete.
I hope you can daily drive that phone, it being truly open is an interesting thing!
The watch is pretty cool! I'm really hoping some appstore like thing that will make it easier for normal people to install things, there's a lot of PRs for watch faces and apps (including sleep tracking which is the thing I'm probably most interested in that the watch doesn't already have) which people are apparently using now but it requires some idea of what you're doing and the instructions for that just confused me.
I recently grabbed an authenticator app (which is just called Authenticator) which seems to have a very long provider list but I haven't actually tried it out yet as the only thing I needed an auth app for is Coinspot (I think).
I'm currently bouncing between very slowly trying to figure out solutions to the problems for the stuff I actually need and going through the iPhone to try and figure out what other stuff I also need infrequently enough to forget that I need them sometimes
The only whys I have would be fun or keeping a perfectly functional machine going past support EOL. Oh and I guess if they really like the hardware but not the software. If there's other whys I don't know...why XD
The Macbook Air form factor is really nice, though the keyboard on mine is much less so (maybe because mine is old, and also I'm annoyed as one of the keys is thingi and I suspect I will have to take it apart to figure out why). It's why I'm picking the Framework 12, it's as close as I'm going to get.
The only problems I've had with my Arch install so far has been nvidia, which might change with the next card seeing as Blender now apparently has better support for whatever their CUDA equivalent is. Is there something you're disliking about Bazzite or you just want to try something else?
Can they run in wine?
I really hope so too! And that I remember to do update posts XD
I have a 4090, so nVidia will be a problem. I'm not willing to downgrade to an AMD card. nVidia has gotten a lot better, but isn't as well supported. It isn't like I am currently playing triple A, latest release games at the moment anyway.
Bazzite has the limitation of being an immutable OS, so things like setting up numlock to be on at boot by default don't stick, and getting flatpaks to access network shares is a pain. (I have my NAS with several nfs shares that I use directly, instead of having the files locally)
I also loathe that there's no decent OneDrive / Google Drive support outside of the browswer. I've tried the onedrive binary, but it doesn't sync consistently and correctly, because when I set it up as a system service, the next boot its gone.
Bazzite is fantastic, but the immutable nature (being built on fedora atomic desktops) is starting to become limiting as a "daily driver".
Did you commit the changes? I remember J saying that a lot when he was explaining what he was doing with the Silverblue kiosk to me or grumbling to himself XD There was a lot of "I forgot to commit the changes" when something didn't after a reboot or "...committing the changes..." after he finished writing some script (the kiosk doesn't have a gui, basically it just turns itself on in the morning, spits up mvp at full screen and starts playing through a playlist, will reopen itself and carry on if people try to close it, and at the end of the day it checks for system updates before turning itself off).
These second hand experiences are making me reconsider trying Kinoite or Aurora on the laptop whenever I get around to getting it. I'm too lazy for the extra steps to "keep the base system clean" x_x
every now and again I go through my home directory and clean up old config files and things from apps I don't recognise or realise I haven't had installed for a while that weren't cleaned up when they were removed
I like OS integration myself (Nextcloud in Dolphin is extremely helpful for me) and also knew some people both in person and online who declared that everything should be doable in a browser otherwise it was bad design and they didn't want to know about it XD
Way too advanced for me. Haven't touched upon those sorts of things :P
I also like that OS integration, particularly for file management. Browser based file management is a cancer. :D
I can get around it by hosting something like nextcloud or whatever on my unraid box, but if I'm paying for Office 365 (excel is kinda a necessity, even though I made my budget web-app), I may as well take advantage of its included "cloud" storage - and I do!
It is just fumbly and awkward to do that on linux.
So you're not a fan of Konqueror then? XD
Doing some insane Excel wizardry that LibreOffice can't touch yet? I know there's a LO office app for Nextcloud but no idea what state it's in.
It's entirely possible the fumbly awkwardness is a purely innocent competence thing but I usually have conspiracy theories that it's all part of the vendor lock-in ploy.
Funny, I use knoquerer on my unraid box, but I much prefer seeing directories visually with icons and previews :P Particularly for images!
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