The Gnome store on Debian worked pretty okay for me, though it is a bit slow and always like, reloads the page you’re on after installing something, which is annoying. It uninstalled apps fine, AFAICT.

It had access to the entire Debian repo for me, so I’m not sure why only 3 things were showing up for you.

The Mint store has flathub enabled by default, but you can flip it off in the preferences. If flathub is enabled, it’s show both the flatpak and the native version from the repos, if available, allowing you to choose.

The Linux Mint store has been the best IMO. Perhaps one day Cosmic’s store will out do it.

Linux software repos can usually be trusted to a far greater degree, and never come with odd malware toolbars or weird 3rd party ‘downloaders’ like windows install wizards can come with.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.

Few other sci-fi books do as good a job of depicting how a gift/library economy could work like in practice. It’s quite a hopeful vision of where we can collectively go in the future.

No. I find virtually all AAA games for the past decade or so to be unsatisfying. I only pay for indie games nowadays.

Flohmarket is just the name of the software, which as another said, is the German word for flea market. I suspect the creator is German.

Anyone who self-hosts their own flohmarket instance can call their instance whatever they want.

Movim is a federated Discord alternative, though not part of the fediverse/Activitypub, as it is based on XMPP instead. It’s still a bit clunky in the UX department, but is currently the most full featured federated alternative.

Also @HubertManne@piefed.social

Valve has a history of hiring modders and making the mods official products (counter strike started as a Half Life mod). Black Mesa was originally a free mod, they then approached valve about selling it later, which Valve then approved. Had the devs not asked permission, Valve probably would’ve shut it down had they tried to sell it.

The CEO of Commodore appears to be completely out of touch on people’s perception of AI use, as they’ve been using it a fair amount in videos and the advertising for this phone (AI music and AI video generation) since buying Commodore, and poorly justifying it in the comments of their videos with links to their FAQ.

AFAIK they’ve already fully paid off the commodore IP acquisition from C64 ultimate sales, but as you say, that cannot sustain them forever.

The phone is pretty much entirely just the CEO’s personal opinion of what a phone should be, which he’s been making videos about from before the acquisition, and they appear to have done almost zero market research what the customers would want and be willing to pay…

CoMaps (which uses openstreetmaps) has the option of adding a link to a menu for restaurants, though I don’t think it has reviews.

I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.

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Embarrassed to say I completely spaced that 26.04 is actually released (and the article even says it’s based on that too, d’oh). Completely invalidates what I’d said above.

Thanks for pointing that out 😅

I believe the version of KDE used in Kubuntu 24.04 is still 5.27, while this distro uses KDE 6.6, which I assume is added from a PPA. Oopsie!

Per the Drauger page:

like it’s namesake, it requires maintainance from time to time, and issues cropping up are not uncommon. Drauger OS is developed by a small, passionate team who don’t get paid anything for their work. Therefore, users who are new to Linux may want to look elsewhere to gain experience before taking the plunge with Drauger OS.

This being said, any sufficiantly advanced user can easily use Drauger OS to do anything from streaming, video editing, and audio production to everyday usage. However, you may encounter issues in the process due to the gaming-related optimizations.

So I’m inclined to believe it is less stable than a normal LTS Ubuntu or any other LTS flavor, as that combination of old and the new added from their backports repo/PPA has not been as tested compared to the standard distros.

EDIT: I’m an idiot and forgot 26.04 is the current LTS.

It’s essentially a hobby project from people with a fairly high chance of abandoning it at some point. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not a distro that would be good for an average user, it’s only intended for an experienced enthusiast, as they mention on their project website.

Though I’m not sure how much overlap there is of experienced enthusiasts who are specifically interested in an experimental LTS distro that has a high chance of breakages, as that defeats the purpose of LTS. As I say, it just seems to make more sense to go with Arch or Fedora at that point, which would probably be more stable in comparison.

Not sure why someone would want those old LTS packages with a more up-to-date DE if the stability of using an LTS is mostly lost.

I would’ve hoped that the CEO of a privacy company would’ve already known that both corporate parties of the US have demonstrated they are anti-privacy.

His comments also don’t really make sense, since Trump’s first term only ever removed regulations on big tech and monopolies, while Biden’s second term appeared to be taking at least some actions towards regulating and reining them in.

If we assume Yen really did believe that the second Trump administration would somehow turn a new leaf, then we must also then assume he is either extremely gullible, extremely misinformed, or both. Not something you want to see in someone running a privacy service someone may rely on.

We’d already had Trump’s last presidency to know that he wasn’t going to reign in big tech, so the CEO’s positive thoughts and hopefulness for the republican party and Trump’s picks were already insanely out of touch at best, IMO.

One thing worth pointing out is the storage requirement. Drauger OS lists 32 GB as the minimum, with roughly half used after installation. That feels heavy for a niche gaming distro, especially when many users may only want to test it in a virtual machine or on spare hardware.

Now, the important caveat: Drauger OS still feels like a niche project rather than a distribution with a strong, proven release track record. It has been around for several years, and the developers clearly understand the problem of gaming-focused Linux distros disappearing over time.

That is a fair point, but it does not make Drauger OS a mature or battle-tested choice. The release cadence appears slow and irregular, and the project warns users it is not meant for everyday desktop use.

That’s a shame. I think there could be a case for an Ubuntu distro with a more up-to-date version of KDE, as from what I’ve heard Kubuntu’s quality has kinda gone downhill (and includes Snaps) and KDE Neon is more of an unstable development platform.

However in the meantime, I think KDE enthusiasts are better off just going with Fedora, an Arch based distro instead, or even Debian Testing instead.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

it came as a surprise last month when Proton CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party in a post on X, declaring that “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.” When the tweet went viral, Proton’s official Reddit account posted a now-deleted comment stating that “Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.”

In response to a request for comment, Proton reiterated the claim that it is a “politically neutral organization,” then went on to state that “regardless of one’s views about the wider Republication platform, if you agree that action is needed on antitrust then the appointment of Gail Slater is a positive thing,” referring to President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Proton further stated that “Big Tech CEOs are tripping over themselves to kiss the ring precisely because Trump represents an unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.”

No prob :)