There will always be limitations unless massive changes occur such as Google open sourcing their Play Services as part of AOSP. MicroG has limited resources to implement compatibility.

Are there any downsides to this? There has to be, right.

SailfishOS userland is proprietary software. AOSP is more open than SailfishOS. The Android compatibility layer of SailfishOS is based on AOSP, so the stack to get the most important 3rd party apps working relies as much on AOSP as any Android ROM.

Upside of SailfishOS: There is a decent chance that the upcoming Linux ARM version of Steam + Proton will run directly on that device.

The thing with open source is that there doesn’t need to be a “partnership”. Motorola/Lenovo can just take the code and make the necessary changes on their own.

Looks like shitty photoshop of stock images to me.

Nextcloud uses a token and login is one time via a web browser. Nextcloud shouldn’t need to put anythin in KWallet.

If you want your wallet to unlock automatically anyway without any interaction, just remove the password from the wallet. As long as your disk is encrypted, there is not much of a security impact.

Lineage/Android

Only the kernel is called Linux. The userspace is completely different from GNU/Linux but the actual software named Linux is being used. Alpine Linux isn’t GNU/Linux either.

Fire causes air pollution. News at 11.

YouTube is full of Bazzite tutorials. Whatever is out there at documentation is also quite recent. When people ask ChatGPT about how to do something on Ubuntu or Mint, the answers are generated from 15 years old forum posts. Often not only unusable but also damaging. My expectationnis that for immutable distributions LLM answers in 15 years will not break the OS. At worst it’ll recommend some tool deleted from Flathub and it’ll merely not work instead of breaking everything.

It reminds you of that because it’s the same interface. It’s literally just a different web view that checks the browser’s user agent string.

Alternative: https://flathub.org/apps/rocks.shy.VacuumTube

The UI is regular YouTube for TV but bundles plugins such as SposorBlock.

IMO using a distribution within Distrobox is an alright choice to keep options open for stuff from outside Flatpak. I keep my SteamOS immutable.

I started suggesting Bazzite to Linux first timers, simply because there is more stuff to find, should people hit trouble. Sure, they might not be that interested in gaming stuff but at least they can enter that name into YouTube and get up tp date video tutorials.

Standard Bluefin is based on Fedora.

I don’t get Universal Blue’s desire to give slightly different flavors and entirely new name. With the non-LTS option, what is the difference between Bazzite Gnome and Bluefin? Preinstalled code editors instead of Steam and Lutris?

LMDE is not based on Sid, it’s based on Debian Stable

Oh wow, you’re right. Did that change at some point and I just didn’t pay attention? My bad!

You sure you had the right ISO?

I had the correct ISO and the experience with the lady’s notebook was as described. Maybe the notebook needed newer kernel code?

Your first mistake was attempting to unarchive to / in the first place. Like WTF. Why would this EVER be a sane idea?

It’s unlikely that an already properly installed bootloader just breaks. The base is Sid, Debian Unstable.

Just because breakage doesn’t happen all the time, there is still a higher than average chance. Sid is Debian’s beta test branch, not a rolling release distribution. It just wasn’t the right choice for the lady at the repair cafe.

I was corrected that LMDE is not based on Sid. I redact that part of my comments. The experience I had installing LMDE on a lady’s laptop at a repair cafe was as described, though.

gzdoom just simply banned ai code

You got that wrong. Graf Zahl added AI code and all the other contributors left to fork it to create UZDoom.

But SteamOS is Arch?

No, it’s an immutable OS based on Arch. Also not rolling release.

So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

You were also suggesting regular Arch and that’s irresponsible.

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they’re going to get a better experience on Wayland.

That’s different than outright suggesting Arch.