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Windows 11 is failing as an operating system (tilvids.com)
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00:00 Intro

00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar

02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now

05:20 What's the job of an OS?

06:51 Updates break systems. Often.

10:53 You have to adapt to it

15:14 It's highly intrusive

17:44 Debloating tools don't make it good

20:19 Windows fails at being an OS

21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect

27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS

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[–] 7 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I tried to get Nobara working on my pc and couldn't do it. I have installed soany forms of Debian/ubuntu and arch. I did get bazzite working, but I didn't like how locked down that os is.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    I hope you don't mind me asking, but how is Bazzite locked down? I have never run any Linux as a primary desktop, though I'm relatively familiar with Linux in general from my years of general nerdiness. I recently installed bazzite on a whim on an old laptop as a first step of potentially shedding Windows (because I like games and bazzite says it's for gaming). I very limited use it seemed fine, but that's basically been installing a few things and testing a few games.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Bazzite is an Atomic system. Most of it's files are immutable, and can only be modified with a system update. That's great for stability and working from a system exactly as tested, but lots of software needs (or wants) to add extra files to the system. In Bazzite you should basically spin up a VM for that (or a toolbox, those are cool), or "layer" it into the system which reduces the stability you get from the Atomic system.

    Both VMs and Layering are extra steps and can be complex depending on what you need, so it's more difficult to do otherwise routine things if you're not well versed already.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The other option is to make a build of the system yourself where you add the packages, IIRC i saw someone do it in a github repo and then having automatic builds, though i cannot say personally how easy is to do that and IMO it's just too much work for just installing packages

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago

    That defeats the big advantage of having a well-tested common source to build off of. It's basically making a new flavour, like Bazzite did with Silverblue. It's cool and all, probably great for deploying lots of machines, but definitely not an everyday solution.

    I think CachyOS is built like that, where you are intended to modify the build of the system like that.

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