When they’re pulling crap like this:
I’m on Nvidia with access to a high core count machine for my newer system, but my older system with only 6 cores won’t fare well with AUR and stuff and is also stuck on Nvidia.
It will be a while before I get my 6900 XT system running to potentially try Fedora, but what can get me by right now without dealing with Snap or Flatpak at all? (cause Nvidia hates both Snap and Flatpak)
It would help if you explain your use case a bit more but perhaps Alpine, OpenSUSE or FreeBSD might be viable options?
A daily system that can do some gaming and uses KDE Plasma.
Fedora KDE Spin + rpmfusion Nvidia Driver / Media Codecs
NOPE to RPMfusion. No chance to freeze the driver and manually install it for stability. I’ve run into many situations where updates broke things. The kernel on Fedora CONSTANTLY updates.
Nvidia and Fedora is also screwed on Pascal and Maxwell as they’re stuck with proprietary.
All Fedora regression testing is on Intel iGPU and AMD only.
I guess you could take a look at FreeBSD?
You have both Steam and Suyimazu available, I haven’t tried it myself though…
Must be chromium? Catch FF ESR yourself and that’s it…
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US
It’s just how to avoid the cancer that is Snap and (the NVIDIA cancer) that is Flatpak.
Then don’t use snap, flatpak, apt… download ff esr yourself and you’re done, or look for a chromium binary.
Snap comes baked in with Ubuntu now, and now that I see this is the default behavior for some apt packages, this is causing great concern.
Nobara Linux (gaming focused Fedora fork) from glorious eggroll himself…
Well that takes the gaming part of your issue. It has an official KDE spin as well.
Oh wait, it uses a flatpak too.
This should alleviate some of your concerns?
Edit: Go**amn it’s an April Fool and I fell for it …
let us clarify that it was a humorous post on the occasion of April Fool.
slackware or gentoo, seeing as you appear to be against the mainstream
*sigh*. See? The cancer remains.
No, just against Snap and Flatpak. Always against Snap, and against Flatpak specifically for my NVIDIA machines.
I hate tech April fool news
Opensuse is pretty nice with its out of the box snapshots and the odd package available from pakman if you don’t want flatpaks… and as for nvidia, Leap would be more of a safe bet, altho iirc the next iteration of it will be an immutable version called ‘ALP’.
Suse seems to generally be heading towards providing only immutable host images but that’s nothing to worry about just yet if you want to stay away from Flatpaks
you sound like you might enjoy using Arch.
for a pre-rolled gaming distro based on Arch you could even try HoloISO.
For a “newer Gentoo” experience, try Funtoo. No idea how it performs on gaming stuff though.
Another option might be Devuan. Basically, it’s Debian with the systemd cancer banned.
HTH!
