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openQA
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make me one of yours
I use Tumbleweed since years and although rolling, its more stable than Pop ever was for me. Stable in the sense of daily use and upgrading in particular. Every update you get on OpenSuse is, as a TLDR version of an explanation, run through an automated AI process that checks if everything works, only then the update is pushed out. The AI analyzes pictures of the OS to check. For example, it goes through the boot process and sees if it works, then clicks on certain apps like yast and see if they open, comparing whats shown on screen with a reference picture. You can see whats currently going on in terms of testing here.
- PSA: Flatpaks are currently broken on Fedora. Here's a temporary solution.
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Choosing beginner-friendly distro for gaming and coding
For development, I really like Arch Linux because of the freedom and AURĀ¹, for gaming, I prefer openSUSE because of the rock solid performance and reliability out-of-the-box, and their automated QA platform helps to ensure new updates don't break the system, so, sometimes, openSUSE delivers the latest package first (while Arch Linux waits for the first patch version).
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When will Linux 6.0 come to arch?
Yes it does, my Tumbleweed installation already got 6.0, but most of Tumbleweed testing is fully automated so they have some advantage there, even though I did not expected openSUSE to have a more up-to-date kernel.
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I'm sorry if this was posted a million times but hear me out please.
for gaming I would use tumbleweed (rolling release) version as then you will get latest stuff (but unlike on Arch (-based), so its more tested / stable thanks to openQA and obs)
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Latest grub update on arch distros seems to cause boot issues
Yes, openQA is also use for Tumbleweed as well.
- Using the Same Arch Linux Installation for a Decade
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Unpopular Opinion: Flatpaks are overrated.
openSUSE Tumbleweed already does all of that using Zypper, openQA and Snapper respectively.
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Choosing an OS for a home Server
The daily Tumbleweed snapshots are tested in openQA
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openSUSE Frequently Asked Questions -- start here
openSUSE Tumbleweed follows a rolling-release model. A new "version" is automatically tested (with openQA) and released every few days. Security updates are distributed as part of regular package updates (except in emergencies). Any package can be updated at any time, and new features are introduced as soon as the distro maintainers think they are ready. The user experience can change due to these updates, though we try to avoid breaking things without providing an upgrade path and some notice (usually on the Factory mailing list).
Flatseal
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Flathub just hit 1 billion total downloads
And not only that, the idea of portals is, IMO, misguided. See this view/bugreport when a flatseal user understands that even though they restricted permissions to access a certain area, the flatpak, itself, can ask to open files there and if OK'd that will be allowed. Their expectation is that with the overrides say "no access" it means "no access even if the flatpak asks very nicely". https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/issues/196
- Flatseal 2.0 Released with GTK4/libadwaita UI - OMG! Linux
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Where to file bug reports about "portals" ?
https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal/issues is where you should go to ask for a "This will not and cannot impose restrictions on file choosers requested via the portal system" message.
Yes, filed https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/issues/196 a while ago, got no joy.
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the maddening truth of using Qubes
What about flatseal then ? https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
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So Ive bit the bullet.. and bought a steam deck and have a few questions
https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal (Also on Discover. For security reasons, the Discover store installs apps as sandboxed "flatpak" apps. This one is used to view what each up can do and change the permissions of apps. May be required if the sandboxing breaks something, though usually not required.)
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How secure is Steam's sandbox in terms of reading contents in $HOME ?
I believe it does. As an example if I try running Godot from the Steam flatpak, it won't be able to see any of the contents of my ~/Projects folder unless I explicitly allow the steam flatpak access to that directory that via flatpak's CLI options or using Flatseal
- Flatseal is incredible. It's a GUI that let you manage all the permissions that you want to give to each app installed via Flatpak. It's VERY good.
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I have some Flatpak questions:
Regarding "best practices / pitfalls"; OOTB flatpak doesn't offer a very user-friendly interface for the granular control over permissions. These flatpak permissions can -perhaps 'should'- be controlled through a GUI interface provided by Flatseal.
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Lutris now have support to Amazon Prime Gaming
I haven't run into issues with permissions on my steam deck, but if you're having issues you can try adding permissions through FlatSeal
What are some alternatives?
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
apparmor-profile-everything - deprecated - maybe replaced by: `apparmor.d`
snapstore - Obsolete super minimalist example "store" to serve snap packages
argos-translate - Open-source offline translation library written in Python
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
librephotos - A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
zoom-redirector - Zoom Redirector is a browser extension that transparently redirects any meeting links to use Zoom's browser based web client.
onedrive - OneDrive Client for Linux
freedesktop-sdk
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.