I’m between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

  • thayerEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Sounds good. I don’t think the automatic background updates are enabled by default, at least they weren’t when I last installed it. To enable:

    1. Edit /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf and set AutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage
    2. Reload system service: rpm-ostree reload
    3. Enable the timer daemon: systemctl enable rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer --now

    Also, consider disabling GNOME Software’s management of flatpaks with the following:

    rpm-ostree override remove gnome-software-rpm-ostree

    The flatpaks will continue to be updated by the backend system, but you’ll no longer have to deal with the sluggish frontend UI to keep things up to date.