I am using an atomic distribution (uBlue) and installing packages with homebrew is much more convenient than overlaying them with rpm-ostree.

“Come on, Valve. Do something!”

Any alternatives for learning Japanese? I have already learned about 500 words and 20 kanji.

From Merriam-Webster:

especially : widely and unfavorably known

I believe “notorious” is used in negative contexts, and was curious why Switzerland being respectful of privacy would be a bad thing.

Why “notoriously” though?

Your post is very confusing. Is this meant to be a tutorial?

I think it would fit in linux_gaming@lemmy.world or linux_gaming@lemmy.ml more.

Fedora version has been packaged by Fedora Linux developers, while the other is published by LibreOffice developers themselves. The former may be only slightly out of date. Choose whichever one you feel comfortable with.

Cheers!

Kind of. Atomic versions of Fedora are designed to be set it and forget it kind of distro. New releases can cause issues with third party packages.

• dnf-automatic looks a like a package designed for non-Atomic versions of Fedora.
• libreoffice is available as a flatpak. You should avoid layering packages as much as possible.
• A VPN app makes sense to have layered. I assume it comes from a third-party repository added to /etc/yum.repos.d. It is possible this package does not support Fedora 42 yet. You can try removing it to see if the update succeeds.
• rpmfusion is a repository providing packages that often cannot be pre-installed due to some legal reasons. Unless you need/installed a package from there, uninstall it.

Do you have any layered packages? Verify with

~$ rpm-ostree status

Flatpak applications run in a sandboxed environment with limited permissions. Steam, being a proprietary app, was never made with flatpak sandboxing in mind, so you need to poke holes in it’s sandbox for it if you want it to see your files. Most people do not store their games in a separate location, so the default is pretty constrained.

Applications can have sandbox holes by default. Just checked Heroic’s permissions and it can see flatpak Steam’s directories. I don’t know what might have went wrong for you.

What problems did you have? I have been using Steam and Heroic as flatpaks for a long time, and never had any issues.

That must Gear Lever, pre-installed. Pretty neat program.

Garuda Linux was one of my first distros when I started three years ago. It is fine, but I generally prefer customizing my system to my liking, including installed applications. I switched to Arch Linux (which is what Garuda is based on) after a few days. After using it for two and a half years, I realized I was spending way too much time customizing it. Then I switched to Fedora and it was a really tame experience. Now I am using uBlue Aurora, which is a fork of Fedora Kinoite (Atomic variant of Fedora KDE Plasma spin). It updates everything automatically and in one go (similar to smartphones) and I download all my apps from Flathub. It is practically the opposite of what I was doing with Arch.

Glad to hear that. Which distro did you choose?

I was recently looking for a decent WiFi 7 router to replace my aging Archer A6. Then, looked up the table of hardware at toh.openwrt.org and almost none of the WiFi 7 routers from mainstream brands was supported. Glad to see something first-party releasing soon. I’ll definitely buy one when it releases.

Can you check the system journal (just like before) to see whether there were any logs about it?

Most graphical system updaters (e.g Discover) use packagekit instead of calling on apt directly. This may lead to them having conflicting list of upgradable packages. Updating through either way will eventually refresh the cache and things will go back to normal.

I have never had to share a computer with other people, so can’t really comment on that.

I did try messing around with my Plasma desktop to try and replicate that, but did not find that option. Though, I am sure that’s configurable and you changed it accidentally. You should ask around KDE forums about that.

I understand your frustration as an end-user, coming from other operating systems. But, you should keep in mind that Linux is just the kernel and it was made to be as modular as possible. Since you can use it with many different desktops, there needs to be a common way apps from those desktops can perform this. I believe Gnome can do this graphically through its Disks utility, which just edits the /etc/fstab file in the background. You could request this feature from the KDE developers though.

Edit: sorry, I now remember KDE Partition Manager and it can do the same, like Gnome Disks.

Since you are new to Linux, the differences Fedora and Ubuntu will have for you will come down to the package manager (dnf vs. apt), and since you prefer to update your system graphically, you shouldn’t notice any difference.

You can find your kernel version by searching “About this System” in KDE Plasma, or using the following command:

$ uname -r

The latest version of the kernel can be found in the official website of the Linux kernel.

I bought a Steam Deck with my first paycheck ever, and it was more expensive than my salary. Zero regrets.