yeah, but they use immutable system images that you can’t change even if you wanted to. KDE’s update system is integrated with a systemd component that does the installation after a reboot, I think nowadays that’s the best of both worlds

It’s interesting because instead of “display manager” it should be “graphical login manager”, and the current “login manager” should be called “session manager”. I don’t know the origin of the name, though.

and while we are at that, MPV also has a working reverse play implementation (though that’s like a slideshow), and it can very seamlessly do frame by frame playback, the hotkey of which just does normal playback perfectly while it’s long pressed

it literally has a lower CPU consumption, even when using hardware decoding. and even when playback is paused.

lower CPU consumption means more free resources for other programs, and lower power usage, which is more battery life.

it also seeks much smoother, I mean quicker with less delay

sure, then already open programs will start malfunctining left and right, because they assume they have x version of files and libraries on a path, but in the meantime it has been replaced with version y. firefox and thunderbird are especially sensitive to it, but are not the only one.

unattended upgrades work fine on a server with relatively simple programs, but on the desktop world things are different.

it would be pretty useful if we could do this with the more popular distros, but I think we may be stuck with the way where you create an admin account for yourself for maintenance, and when you give the machine to them you make a new account for them too.

but I’m curious. how will you solve keeping the system up to date? Especially the web browser, but all the other things too

where you can just start the installer and it does everything for you, including users,

that sounds exactly what OP does not want? especially because they still habe to wait it over until the installation completes, before they can create the users and show them around the computer

what do you use x-eyes for?

I wasn’t able to get gamescope working while I was using an nvidia card, and haven’t tried yet with amd

I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.

How long is enough,

well 2 years is obviously not old. 5 maybe.

apologies dont matter either right?

as I remember their “apology” was a very unnatural, visibly forced and offended thing

but complain about some old discussion

I wouldnt think 2 years is old, and its not like he changed his mind since then, in any capacity. what he did can’t really be forgiven, except if you don’t care about the safety of your peers. yes, I said safety, because people like vaxry often find joy in harming… anyone they don’t like.

perhaps systemrescue? It’s an arch based distro, but maybe built differently for better stability. it also does not attempt to start real graphics until you type startx

pressing the power button (to discharge all capacitors)

I think that does not happen anymore in modern PCs. I still always do it, but then I also wait a minute or more after pulling the plug

selfhosting libreoffice? what do you mean?

did you check it with VLC, or another player that uses hardware accelerated decoding?

thats fair, but that shouldn’t make you avoid sensible freedesktop dirs just out of spite.

a distro package is way overkill for this, and its also better to not litter the home directory with yet anothet dotdir, that’s why .local/bin is a good place, also recommended by systemd the freedesktop base directory standard: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

they are forcing it. if you are not determined, you won’t be able to get an offline account. many are not determined. many don’t even realize that it’s not for their benefit, even after onedrive starts announcing it daily that their drive is full

where I live they never really taught conputer literacy. some places teach ms office and that’s it