Are you sure you want pipewire and pulseaudio installed and trying to run?

Maybe replace pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse, unless I’m missing something from your post.

Different person, but I’ll try to explain some of what I know.

Traditional Linux:

• read/write root and usr
• only one version of a program can exist*
• packages are available immediately after install
• packages are imperative (you tell it what to do, it does that)
• files swapped in place (can lead to issues like kernel modules missing or Firefox not opening new tabs until restart)

*you might have python3.8 and python3.9, but those must be created as different packages using different paths in /usr

NixOS, Guix:

• declarative package management (basically config file and exactly these packages are installed)
• usr and parts of root read-only (afaik)
• packages symlinked to usr
• multiple versions of packages kept locally (though not all active necessarily)
• will keep using old package until restart/reboot, therefore not breaking on updates. New instances of a program can use the new package
• easy to roll back due to multiple versions kept

Immutable OS (haven’t seen one mentioned by OP, but it’s a category):

• often imperative package management
• using snapshots or multiple root partitions for easy rollbacks
• read-only root and usr
• packages might only be available after a reboot (depends on implementation and if system packages or something else like Flatpak, which doesn’t need a reboot, are used)

SerpentOS:

• experimental distro (ie stuff might change)
• imperative package manager
• packages installed to separate tree, but swapped live. Basically A/B root of an Immutable system that doesn’t require a reboot (according to the explaination in the latest blog post)

Not sure why ClearLinux is on that list of special distros and I don’t know half of the rest so yeah. Hope this explains some of it?

You’re right, it’s some FUTO license and has some limitations that make it not FOSS.

License

Yeah it’s common. I’m not confused by it, just like a normal g more.

The FUTO keyboard has swipe tying, but it’s not as fluid imo

Maybe Niagara Launcher, though I’m quite happy to pay the dev a bit of money (not required for most stuff actually, I only login on my phone)

Until recently I’d have said Symfonium for music playback from Jellyfin, but the Finamp beta gave me an OSS alternative.

Ideally banking apps, booking.com and TripAdvisor all had FOSS alternatives, but that’s not realistic.

I’m currently on holiday in Croatia and my car rental company, one apartment as well as one tour guide have communicated/provided info through WhatsApp.

The Fira family has a similar fancy g for some reason

Yeah, for the new Qualcomm chips they’re using in the Windows for ARM devices. Not sure if they still need device trees to work properly or if they have an UEFI like.

Thanks, I didn’t check those, but then there’s even less reason to not have some screenshots in the repo imo

Could you add just one or two screenshots please?

Where do you have to enable fractional scaling in KDE? Worked out of the box for me when I installed that recently. Sure you don’t mean Gnome?

I installed a GSI fork of LineageOS. Not sure if there are any device-specific ROMs for it, haven’t checked in a while.

Lenovo Pad if you order the unlocked versions from Aliexpress. Search for Xiaoxin Pad, anyone offering a global ROM version has unlocked the bootloader.

Most new devices support GSI ROMs

https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki

Lenovo M series/Xiaoxin Pad is about that price with 4gb.

I have the 8GB/128GB snapdragon version (Xiaoxin Pad pro 2022) and it’s much more performant and fluid than my Pinetab 2, also 8GB/128GB version.

I also have a Pinetab 2 and now after a year I’d say it’s in a pretty good state.

However, if you just want a tablet, a similarly priced Android tablet will run circles around it in responsiveness and feel. (I have a Xiaoxin Pad pro 2022/Lenovo Pad M10 3rd gen)

Re RISC-V: AFAIK the new SpacemiT chips are the first actually usulable ones. The older and more common JH7110 has half the cores and way lower feature level. Like, no floating points and other extensions that are essential for modern computing.

Pillars of Eternity 2 has been out for years

/s

You’re right, seems like GPLv2 is incompatible with AGPL. GPLv3 includes extra clauses to allow it.

From the GNU Licensing page

Please note that the GNU AGPL is not compatible with GPLv2. It is also technically not compatible with GPLv3 in a strict sense: you cannot take code released under the GNU AGPL and convey or modify it however you like under the terms of GPLv3, or vice versa. However, you are allowed to combine separate modules or source files released under both of those licenses in a single project, which will provide many programmers with all the permission they need to make the programs they want. See section 13 of both licenses for details.

I wonder why they didn’t go with AGPL, which is made for server-based software like Forgejo.

From my understanding GPL does nothing to force hosting services to open their code as long as they don’t distribute builds.