Oh thanks, didn’t know there was a Qt counterpart, it looks pretty good!

Ah that’s annoying, so as I understand it should just be down to having persistent sink and routing right? Not sure if this what you want as I haven’t tried, but could this thread be helpful?

Great! I agree it’s a little rough for now, and it seems development is kinda slow, but it works for what it tries to achieve already

It’s probably the pulseaudio provided by the pipewire backend, it is there for compatibility with apps that still rely on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#PulseAudio_clients

You can also use Helvum, it’s a patchbay native to Pipewire

Nick is a real one, I’d be lost without his tutorials!
It’s really telling of how much great software needs great people to showcase it for it to become more widespread, just like Blender for instance

Really putting the fed in the Fediverse!

I’ve been loving it honestly, I used to mess up my systems pretty often in a way that upgrading to new releases had to be done from the command line because of random repositories I added, so things felt unstable.
Immutable systems on the other hand are dumbass (me) proof and I can still do what I used to do with those repos in safe environments or Flatpak now that it has become so ubiquitous for packaging.
Immutability is not a must, even though I really like the philosophy, in fact, if you’re comfortable with what you have, you might be fine just converting over your current OS to btrfs.

Good luck, whichever option you try!

You can try doing an in-place conversion, here’s a guide and the official documentation, remember to BACKUP and TEST your BACKUP at least twice, if things don’t go well, you’ll be able to fall back.
If you want to avoid all the setup headache, just reinstall with btrfs by default (I suggest Fedora Silverblue or openSUSE Tumbleweed for that) of course you’ll still have to backup, just your data though, to be restored on the new system

That sounds like a job for btrfs snapshots, they’re provided by default in openSUSE

More than 2 even! No idea what they’re talking about

I like it, though it feels like a slightly different spin on 43’s wallpapers

un-Linux-able

Damn, that should be fucking illegal

Shouldn’t that be a FreeBSD user?

Relevant:

To put it simply, no.
It’s really exemplified by Chrome OS users, that is pretty much a browser bootloader, sure there’s more to it than that, but the majority of users isn’t going to even find out about crostini and whatnot, because if they can get all the applications they need on the browser then they’re good to go.
So, as long as the browser is able to tap into the hardware in a performant enough way to enable all the kinds of applications that were once thought to be native only, the potential for the browser to replace all other apps is there.

For those who care about the technicalities there will always be value in choosing an OS with specific features though

Performance is a little lacking though, on the other hand it is very very featureful, it certainly has that going for it.
For when I need the speed more I enjoy using Olive a lot

You should be able to avoid getting flagged if you encrypt your files with something like cryptomator.

can’t easily d/l mp3s from youtube music

You can with yt-dlp and any of the GUI frontends based on it. I suggest these:

• Linux/WSL: Parabolic
• Android: Seal

(Anyone who knows any, feel free to suggest more)

What does it do with it then […] is an orthogonal question.

Hm, ok if we take the word “distribution” for it lexical meaning then maybe, although wouldn’t that be “distributor”?
In this field “distribution” is the set of things that constitute the software package, by extension, in the case of free software, it is more a synonym of “flavor” since anyone can redistribute with their own changes added on top. You wouldn’t call a supermarket a Cocacola distribution, it’s a distributor, but the drinks themselves are the distributions (tho in my mind “distributed” sounds more fitting at this point).
If having a system of OS and server, both property of one maker, where the server distributes a form of an OS x (even just the source code) and the client OS can download those files, make the OS a distribution of x, then I can set up a computer with e.g. OpenBSD (with my own modifications to make it mine) that downloads an Ubuntu ISO from my server, then I load up that ISO into a virtual machine and now I magically turned OpenBSD into an Ubuntu distribution??