This guy doesnt use tabs

That only works on mutable distributions, it installs random binaries to the system that are not visible to the package manager and not removable (afaik?) And it also doesnt resolve dependencies (afaik).

So while source code is cool, it has all the above disadvantages

Hahaha no that was not my point.

Dont install random software from .deb packages etc.

You can use

• OS repos
• 3rd party OS repos
• 3rd party repos
• developer repos (like COPR, AUR or OBS)
• Flatpak
• homebrew
• Distrobox with a distro that has it as a package

So many options. There is an issue with 3rd party packaging, but at least for common software it is often better to use those, than a not updated official binary.

1. You shouldnt do that. If they dont have instructions on how to securely add a repo, their software will not update which is insecure.

I explained KDE Apps.

COSMIC is fine and a really great project. But they are simply lacking like 10 years of development behind KDE.

Not gonna say that once ready it could simply be better, faster, more streamlined, no cruft. But yeah, not in the next few years.

Interesting, thanks!

I know Fedora has some meta-theme package, they should add that to Workstation too.

It includes the breeze themes.

Then a flatpak env var or /etc/environment could work

LXQt is basically the up to date version of LXDE. Dont bother with LXDE I would say, use LXQt.

Lubuntu has the best theming.

Just download the ISO, flash it to a thumbdrive and install again.

apt search lxde

Is the better start

1. You dont download software from Websites
2. Use Lubuntu or other variants with LXQt or LXDE, dont do it yourself. They already have done the configs for you

Already did that. Those apps are themed horribly and are thus unusable. Afaik there is also no scaling setting for 3rd party toolkits in the COSMIC settings.

Ark can do more, like compress in detail, from the filemanager.

Gwenview is an image editor with many basic features you want.

Spectacle has another image editing feature, for some reason KDE has 4 implementations of that, Spectacle has the only good one. This can be used standalone with the Dolphin extension “annotate it”.

Dolphin is waaay better than COSMIC files, absolutely no comparison. If it is just a customizable GUI, custom icons for everything, extensions.

I dont ger Thunar. pcmanfm-qt is the best alternative to Dolphin I know. At least the theming works on KDE, may be different on other desktops

The thing is I need to configure, compile, package, sign and then layer, because I am on Fedora Atomic (and because that is the correct way)

And I dont know many of the steps in the middle.

A Github runner for this would be great, like a template where people can choose what kernel they need, which then packages it.

Tbh as long as COSMIC lacks 1:1 theming support for KDE apps, it is not usable.

I love KDE Apps. There are also some GTK Apps I use, but the big ones (Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, Ark, Spectacle Editor) are all KDE.

Thanks for the insight

Great work!

I am really excited to try it out!

On an Intel machine, this makes me want to compile my kernel so much

I should learn how to compile RPM kernels on COPR

Monolithic kernels and drivers are an issue.

I understand why its easy, but on Fedora Atomic I even have all the userspace drivers for intel, amd, nvidia and maybe more, even though I clearly just use intel…

Pretty cool!

Android and ChromeOS both also just use fuse for userspace (and user-files) encryption. This could totally be used too.

But of course, if something is not on your RAM it is not safe

Yes. No proof their LUKS prompt isnt tampered with

So how do you decrypt the LUKS vault when you have no sshd running as that thing is not up yet?

The name is misleading, but even if the core system was unchangeable, Linux desktops are all configurable per-user (i.e. without sudo) so even on SteamOS etc. this would be fine.