Communist

the simplest way to think about is the distro is your app store

what versions of apps available and how many as well as when they’re updated are determined by distro

the desktop environment is the thing you interact with aside from the installation of software, the entire gui

Linux mint is a common recommendation but I think a bad one (for beginners anyway), I highly recommend bazzite with kde, I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to do infinite troubleshooting if you add me on matrix (which is on my profile) I’ve onboarded many people and this is my experience with beginners

in short, linux mint is bad vs bazzite with kde for 3 reasons

kde is much more well supported and developed than cinnamon, it’s not even close especially if you care about security

immutable distros are much more forgiving for new people, immutable means that the core OS can’t be modified.

and finally bazzite has more up to date software, linux mint is a “stable” distro, stable in the linux context means unchanging, not unbuggy

if you don’t know what any of that means, go bazzite over mint, you’ll have an easier time.

It being merged means If you compile it from source it’ll work, there hasn’t been a release yet, and that release also has to be in your distros repos, so it’ll be bit

people say this all the time but the reasons they give are always nonsense in my experience, sandboxing alone makes flatpak better

no I’m just saying that didn’t happen and I’m not a tankie… you’re making tankies look good with this nonsense, it’s embarrasing

That isn’t what happened.

you stated this probably had an impact on the number of users, I stated I doubt that, you have no idea what’s going on do you?

My avatar is the anarchocommunist flag

I did not defend hexbear, I just said they likely didn’t have much impact on user count… you sound like a conspiracy theorist

Dude what I just said it probably didn’t have much to do with user count

I’m an anarchist… literally the opposite of a tankie…

Tbh not a chance

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3102

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/749

here’s your issue trackers.

I must say though, this seems like a strange feature to draw the line on, is it really that important to you what image format is used?

exactly how is it ruined?