They are great if you want to stay on a certain version though.

That’s actually great to hear. If they support Bazzite, then Aurora would be the same as well, since both of them are Universal Blue distros.

Ok nice. This is exactly like Bazzite for non-gaming people. You can still game if you want though.

This is Aurora SPARC, not Aurora. Currently Aurora doesn’t exist on Distrowatch. It’s Bazzite’s sister. You can check how active it is from Github. Latest stable release, 5 days ago.

For you I suggest this >> Aurora.

Everything will work out of the box, you won’t get weird errors like Ubuntu gives, you can go back easily from GRUB if something goes wrong. Being an atomic distro may feel different but I’m sure you won’t mind.

A lot of banking apps don’t even run on a custom Android ROM and it gets worse. Haven’t tried CJK keyboards on PostmarketOS so wondering that as well.

I see. In that case I see no reason not to use antiX. It’s so lightweight it can run well on a 20 year old laptop. You don’t need latest drivers to play Minecraft (you can install them if you want like on any Debian base but there is no need for that). antiX is also easy on hard drive space since it’s smaller than most distros.

What use cases are you planning for it? I mean, antiX would totally rock on that machine. However having Wayland, being lightweight and easy to maintain is kinda tough to find. Lose Wayland part, it’s antiX. Lose lightweight part, it’s Pop OS, openSUSE Leap, etc. Lose easy to maintain part (for a newbie), it’s Arch (mostly derivatives that come with a GUI installer).

Though if I was preparing that device for someone else, I would probably go with LMDE.

Indeed. I hate it. But gotta keep it around until the device is dead. :/

iTunes just doesn’t work even for really old ones for just to put some music on iPod. Haven’t tried with Wine 10 but I don’t think that’s changed. This is the only reason I keep a Windows VM with an old iTunes in it.

European Union Redstar Operating System?

I can only guess. People really act terrible sometimes.

Actually haven’t seen the comments myself but I can guess at this point. Maybe he should’ve completely disable it for the article.

It seems Phoronix account-walled the comments section. Hmm.

Mirrors are fine since the official website is not accessible on every country. They just suggest verifying the file signature.

Normally there shouldn’t be a problem with packaging but Tor documentation recommends it like that to ensure security and authenticity. Even though it’s self-updating, they also recommend to delete and re-install it time to time, instead of just updating.

There might not be problems with other packaging but the point here is to not trust anything other than the official sources for maximum privacy I believe.

Well, for Tor Browser even AUR isn’t recommended. Just download it from official website and put it under somewhere like ~/.local/opt.

I don’t think so. This one has Android build but it seems to be in alpha stage.

This seems to be a Foliate fork. I have a blurry font problem with Foliate and couldn’t use it for a while, but this one doesn’t have that bug. Thanks for sharing.