Laughs in Debian Stable

Bro how about this? Sounds pretty interesting to me

probably olimpia splendid

That helps, yes. Thank you.

That really sucks, sorry to hear that man. It seems honestly pretty bad and I really have to stay away from this distro.

Only RedHat could have conceived something this evil. Of course is RedHat, who else could it have been?

But...!

but, i read a history that happened a bug in ostree, in the early days, and the devs needed to ask the users to fix it manually, but was when in the start of silverblue

This. This is really giving me hope. It kind of confirms what I was saying too. You see? It almost never breaks. But when it breaks, oh man! It breaks very hard indeed.

Never give up mate, that thing is gonna break somehow, sooner or later. It has to.

The server seems proprietary to me.

No, they stopped updating the source code of the server at some point, but then they started again. Anyway Signal is far from my favorite messagging app, I actually don't like it at all, but it's still e2e encrypted, so it's (kinda) fine for me.

The bridge is still encrypting stuff

It is. But for a message to be bridged it have to be decrypted by the bridge first, then re-encrypted. So there's a step where the message is in plain text and you have to trust the matrix server which manages the bridge. Don't get me wrong, that's surely better than to trust Meta and other big corporations, but still not ideal.

Anyway thanks for all the useful insights, I'll try to remember to update! 😄

But well, if that helps, look at the bright side: while it's true that it'll almost never give you problems, I think it's true that the time the problems will happen, they will be pretty hard to solve, so it might break very bad. That's great, isn't it?

Don't tell me that this thing just cannot breaks. If that was even possible, that'd be tremendously evil.

Welcome to the very reason I'll never ever try Silveblue 😄

Thanks mate!!

On the bridge thing I 100% agree, although for the way they works you'll have to deal with your messages being unencrypted. On WhatsApp (and Discord, I guess? I don't use it) this probably is still far better than having the app installed, on Signal it's a bit of a shame because it's the only app with proprietary-level usability while being real FOSS and e2e. So using it with the bridge kind of defeat the purpose of e2e I guess, but still I'm definitely gonna try it again.

I have a OnePlus 6 and a Poco F1, so I'll just choose one and give pmOS another go :)

Please, don't listen to this kind of nonsense and keep using whatever you're happy with.

While I personally don't love Ubuntu, it is a perfectly fine choice and if you're comfortable with it that's just great! Period.

So, congratulations for making this choice and don't hesitate to ask if you have questions. You'll find that the Linux community has much more to give than "you shouldn't use X, use Y because I say so". Just ignore this.

Keep it up, enjoy the ride and welcome!

It is :)

There's a very useful and friendly forum at https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/ and it is very easy to replace openbox with any other wm of your choice, as long as you're fine with X11.

If you want Debian, just install Debian.

Maybe if you're into wm setups and you'd like to not have to do everything from scratch you can install Bunsenlabs instead.

It's just plain Debian with preconfigured Openox, that's all.