Hahaha no that was not my point.

Dont install random software from .deb packages etc.

You can use

• OS repos
• 3rd party OS repos
• 3rd party repos
• developer repos (like COPR, AUR or OBS)
• Flatpak
• homebrew
• Distrobox with a distro that has it as a package

So many options. There is an issue with 3rd party packaging, but at least for common software it is often better to use those, than a not updated official binary.

1. You shouldnt do that. If they dont have instructions on how to securely add a repo, their software will not update which is insecure.

LXQt is basically the up to date version of LXDE. Dont bother with LXDE I would say, use LXQt.

Lubuntu has the best theming.

Just download the ISO, flash it to a thumbdrive and install again.

apt search lxde

Is the better start

1. You dont download software from Websites
2. Use Lubuntu or other variants with LXQt or LXDE, dont do it yourself. They already have done the configs for you

The thing is I need to configure, compile, package, sign and then layer, because I am on Fedora Atomic (and because that is the correct way)

And I dont know many of the steps in the middle.

A Github runner for this would be great, like a template where people can choose what kernel they need, which then packages it.

Thanks for the insight

On an Intel machine, this makes me want to compile my kernel so much

I should learn how to compile RPM kernels on COPR

Monolithic kernels and drivers are an issue.

I understand why its easy, but on Fedora Atomic I even have all the userspace drivers for intel, amd, nvidia and maybe more, even though I clearly just use intel…

Yup.

Yeah probably. Installing Mint and GNOME or Plasma on there will be waay easier.

Haha no, not even KDE devs use it.

I am on Fedora Kinoite and happy. But this was about Ubuntu, and Fedora simply serves a different use case. Kubuntu and KDE Neon are both Ubuntu LTS.

I would never use dnf Fedora again, it is an unstable mess.

I am on Kinoite since a year or more? Works great. Fedoras Packages are awesome, stable and often better than Uwuntu or OpenSUS

But dnf upgrades simply were extremely unreliable.

It doesnt matter how your distro looks, thats the desktop.

It matters how it backups, upgrades, recovers.

It is. I also wonder if there was a model that accomplishes the same thing but with less image copying.

Like, make snapshots every day, but manual installs are not snapshotted but still tracked with ostree. So you can revert them, display them transparently etc.

Appimages are crap too, but at least there is progress with AppMan, repos and that sandboxing solution.

Snaps are only sandboxed with Apparmor and snapd only allows a single repo (which contained malware multiple times) so get the hell off my lawn XD

Shitlord is surprisingly common

Because it is not a particle

True one can install it on Mint. But at that level, just

• install Kubuntu
• add timeshift
• run unsnap (removes snap, installs flatpak and flathub, installs apps as flatpaks)
• add the new official deb repo for Firefox
• remove a possibly installed Firefox Flatpak (has missing sandboxing) and install with apt

Linux mint has no GNOME or KDE variant, so while they fix many Ubuntu issues, they are still on XOrg.

Installs Thunderbird snap and the dialog crashes, on 12 identical upgrades