FrameXX

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[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The only thing I still don't like much about recommending Linux Mint to beginners is that their Cinnamon desktop still uses Xorg which has some horrible display tearing on some Nvidia graphic cards (can be usually fixed with some tinkering and this is also only my personal experience), which is usually not a thing with Wayland and being Xorg it also means it has inferior touchpad gestures (surely not as smooth as Gnome or KDE) which can be important for notebook users. While being very user friendly it is one of the more resource heavy DE's I would say even more than Gnome or KDE. It also seems to have some problems with battery life? The official Gnome and KDE desktop packages for Linux Mint are pretty outdated, are still Xorg versions and aren't officially supported AFAIK (maybe there are some good community maintained packages). Otherwise I agree it's one of the best choices.

My personal favorite for beginners is Fedora Workstation or KDE edition, because it's up to date and fairly hassle free and stable (except the frequent kernel updates which sometime cause issues, but booting the older kernel is straightforward) and does not much modify its packages from the original or push their products on you like Ubuntu.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You could license it under the (A)GPL, charge for downloads in the Play store or for compiled binaries on ur website and ask for donations on F-Droid.

You could even do a freemium version where some features are locked in the binaries you distribute and need a license from ur website or smth (for those who don't want to use Google Play). (iirc SD Maid 2/SE does this)

Someone else could just compile the app themselves, unlock all premium features and distribute it to play store without violating the license?

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

You mean the margins between the rounded buttons?

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For TVs the manufacturers are the ones who control the bloated adware and make money off of it while on notebooks and laptops it is Micro$oft. Except maybe for TVs coming with Android TV OS, but I think even that can be modified to promote their services.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I have a good experience with CalcYou.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

Chrome or Chromium project?

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The kernel is open-source AFAIK, but anything built on top of it is part of AOSP which is licensed under Apache 2 and allows for proprietary modifications to be redistributed. To be honest I don't know how this licensing stuff works exactly.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There are no nearly custom ROMs for phones with mediatek processors AFAIK because the drivers are not open-source. Either that or there is a legal issue with modifying and redistributimg the modified drivers.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

There are plenty of custom ROMs for phones where the chipset drivers are open (usually Qualcomm) and the phone has unlockable bootloader. If these 2 conditions are met in many cases the community is able to do better job of keeping the phone up to date with newer Android builds than the manufacturer itself. My phone would be stuck with Android 12 if I did rely on the manufacturer, but thanks to the community I run Android 14 with security patch from this February and Android 15 is also available. The problem is of course that most users aren't going to flash their phone with a new ROM on their own anyway even if it is possible the ARM ecosystem unfortunately relies on the hardware manufacturer to keep the drivers and everything up to date (to work with the latest OS realease) and not on the OS distributor like most x86 ecosystem does, so you are lrobably right ARM is kind of cursed in this way. I know there are also drivers on x86, but the whole nature of things much more open. Correct me if I am wrong.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly what you are describing here would bother me too. For example on my notebook I rely on configuring grub to use kernel argument amdgpu.abmlevel=0 which fixes the screen colors getting washed out when in battery saving mode, but I doubt I would be able to configure grub on an atomic distro.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think maintaning a Firefox fork is pretty demanding especially considering you are already maintaining a distro. And there are already a lot of Firefox forks out there.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Do the "right" thing.

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