I’ve had no issues with the ProtonVPN flatpak on Fedora Silverblue.

The Change proposal has been withdrawn by the author: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-wide/156330/57

Fortunately this update won’t require additional porting work over 1.21.6. It’s just minor fixes.

I’m not a fan of how they do drops either. Makes updates feel less special, I can barely remember the names of the drops, and makes things more complicated for modders.

I believe some of the other toolbar buttons also stop working.

Fedora and Red Hat are innovating image-based operating systems. Universal Blue builds on that work.

It would take effort to port that work to Arch. Arch is also a rolling distro, not updating means not getting security updates. Fedora’s release cycle allows them to get more stability, they don’t have to be using the latest version.

Updated the title

You can check if you are using Xorg or Wayland in the Settings -> System -> About -> System Details page. If you’re using Wayland, you’re all good, nothing changes. If you’re using Xorg, you may notice some changes. If you’re using NVIDIA on Ubuntu 24.04, you’ll be on Xorg by default. If you’re using a later version or AMD/Intel, you’ll be on Wayland be default.

To keep it short, X11 was the old protocol for creating and managing windows. Xorg implemented this protocol. But both the protocol and implementation have many shortcomings that are difficult to address for a multitude of reasons (breaking compatibility, poor code base, a ton of work, etc).

Rather than putting lipstick on a pig, a new protocol, called Wayland, was created. It was designed for modern needs and tries to avoid the pitfalls that X11, Windows, and MacOS have. It doesn’t just copy what those three did, it’s more opinionated, so some people love it a lot (like me) or hate it a lot because it changes the way things have to be done and simply does not implement some functionality, either purposefully or because the work hasn’t been done yet.

You could install Linux Mint onto a flash drive. Though keep in mind that flash drives aren’t that robust, the flash chips are cheaper and will fail faster than SSDs.

Their plan is to stick to OpenGL. But if they need to, they might implement Vulkan.

This also also affecting me. Though it was just because I was unaware of the USB wake function. Since I have, I made it a habit to suspend, then immediately lift up my mouse to turn it off. Though I guess that’s not an option for wired mice.

Keeping the search terms in the URL bar rather than replacing it with the URL is nice. Should help with searches on web engines that don’t support bangs.

I hope the https hiding doesn’t affect copying the URL.

The battery life is still better than most laptops, but yeah, not as good as MacOS.

It’s meant to be an upgrade over the old system. If both are accessible, that just means they didn’t remove the old code.

The touchpad would be very unresponsive for several minutes after waking from sleep. It would still work, but had a crazy latency. Happened in both Windows and Linux.

I believe I could’ve hacked around it with this command.

I use Silverblue and MacOS daily, I enjoy the former so much more.

Unfortunately my relatively new Lenovo laptop has a small but also major driver bug that hasn’t been fixed in all the time I’ve had it. Bad to the point I got the Mac to have actual working hardware. But I do not enjoy MacOS in the slightest. At best I can say it harasses you less than Windows and respects the user a few degrees more than Windows.

Not by default, but you can optionally enable it.

Major people of the project had moved on. It’s being maintained, getting security fixes, but pull requests are slow to be merged.

Don’t believe so, best that’s currently available is skimming through the video to look at the slides.

Here’s my short summary of the presentation, I tried to denote what’s being worked on (open PR), what’s kinda being done (WIP), and things stuff they’d like to be done in the future (wishlist). May be somewhat wrong.

• Flatpak is stagnant
• Red Hat is working on a better way to preinstall flatpak apps (open PR)
• Flatpak should is slowly moving towards OCI and away from ostree (more tooling available, don’t need to maintain their own tools)
• Better permission handling that is more backwards compatible (open PR)
• Should directly use Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio (WIP)
• Allow user namespaces in flatpak sandbox (WIP)
• Move dbus proxying into dbus brokers (wishlist)
• Improve network sandboxing (wishlist)
• Improve drivers handling, currently drivers need to be built for each runtime, could cause issues if using EOL app on new hardware (wishlist)
• Work on portals directly improves flatpak

Unfortunately, it’s not in a great situation. Flatpak is stagnant. There’s a lot of cool things in the works, like a stronger sandbox, preinstalling flatpaks more effectively, etc, but merging things is hard.

Please tell me Wayland is enabled, even if it’s not the default.