google has a dumbass @ the helm

That's nice. Hopefully it getting more notorious means that HW companies will support it better. But, at the same time, if this is just from the Steam Deck, then, kinda fugged

Fedora has COPR, Opensuse has the OBS (which also works for other distros), NixOS (my beloved) has overlays...

I mean, sure, it works... But USBC would also just work. They already use it on their laptops (with them being huge proponents of thunderbolt and USBC), and iPads.

Nixos. For all its complexity and dilemmas and issues it has given me, it's the comfiest for me and gives me really cool features

NixOS is as mature as arch, I'd say, but because of its nature it has issues here and there, but rarely so.

That said, the learning curve for nix/nixos is very very very steep, so good luck learning. It took me a while for me to use it nicely, and even then, I'm nothing more than a beginner. Even so, I'm quite comfortable and pretty much can't use any other linux distro.

Sometimes you need a quick/clear fix and the documentation doesn't help with that. SO, though, is.

Every single platform has them. From anything centralized to decentralized.

That's so nice. Husky for Android (pleroma/akkoma/soapbox) app works nicely, but is broken in some places and aesthetically outdated.

Things are getting better as snaps and flatpaks gain popularity, but both of those systems have lots of issues of their own, and arguably aren’t anywhere near as good as a proper native package for your distro. Flatpaks don’t really work for CLI tools. Snaps are stupidly slow. Both snaps and flatpaks still struggle with theming. Applications installed with either take up way more space than their natively-packaged equivalents.

Flatpaks would beat native packages if they didn't have a trillion papercuts and issues. I'm on NixOS because I want to avoid using flatpak.

Same. Exactly. Packaging can be a bit more complex, but once you get it, it's great. There's even the NUR, but I havent used it.

Xiaomi and Motorola are still out there making new phones that have usbc and use usb2.0 inside them

For many it's a radical change in paradigm, and I assume many just want to understand it well

unironically i would like to get it. seems sexeh and kino

Thanks, I used to use Bing as my default search engine for a while and it sucked for anything if you needed more than the 1st page of results

It is a win, but it's more of a Steam Deck win than a plain Linux one.

Sort of. On the fediverse I saw that they are mostly just defederated, because the insults and stuff they can hurl far surpasses anything that someone on twitter/facebook/etc can say.

It's so kino. Incredibly hard to learn and much more to master, but much more powerful. Nothing beats easily modifying a derivation's source, or adding patches or build options or whatever you want.

I can't really comment about Google because I live in a 3rd world country that doesn't get any official love from Google, and well, Sony left this country years ago too. sigh

I wish I knew. I learned of it and started playing with it last year, with me using it full time since Feb of 2023, with a couple of hopping and then coming back to NixOS