He specifically mentions containerization, Flatpaks, Docker and Toolboxes, which these suggested Fedora Spins are designed to integrate with as tightly as possible, so completely relevant.

Also, Bazzite is completely the opposite of an OS designed to run one app at once, which means you haven’t tried it before rubbishing it as a suggestion.

p.s. Don’t take this the wrong way but the phrasing in your comments here make them sound quite aggressive and could lead them to be interpreted in the wrong way. Would you speak to someone like that on the street?

Might be controversial as it is usually intended for gaming but: Bazzite (Gnome Edition). It is like Fedora Silverblue but has distrobox and virtualization baked in without fiddling AND… built in Waydroid so you can run Android apps. I am incredibly impressed with it.

Doing the Lords work.

Really brave of you to share this with us. I bet posting it was no small feet.

Totally agree. It’s not the fault of Firefox at all. This is just being trigger-happy on new standards before they are ready and unwillingness to fix a problem in a different way.

p.s. He is called Vimes outside of Germany. They, uh, “we” renamed him for German reasons.

Found the German!

I do this. It’s the “heap system”. After a couple of months it gets full and I create a folder called “crap” and move everything inside it. After this, the process repeats itself and often leads to folder trees like C:\Users\dh\Desktop\crap\crap2\more crap\crap\important crap\crap.

This usually continues for the life of my computer and then, one day, it just gets wiped because buggered if I know what’s in the crap folder…

Good choice! Me too! Workstation on the PC and trying to learn Silverblue on the laptop. Have you played with Silverblue?

The use case is more for server and linux-type operating systems but I bet there are some crazy folk who use it for their desktops. No idea!

I find this happens a lot on software like this and people kind of assume visitors know what all the buzzwords mean or are in the same bubble as the developers, which is a shame really as I assume it scares a lot of people off.

TLDR: it lets you automate installing an operating system and software, mainly used for servers.

Backend Dev here. 500 is an HTTP sever response, so requires a working connection to happen. If the app isn’t connected to the network, in almost all cases, you would experience a different error, such as connection timed out, but not a 500.

Just jumping in to say I would recommend trying something other than a StarLabs laptop. Not impressed with my Starbook MKV at all (good on paper, cheap quality in person and loses battery when the lid is shut), so I need to constantly charge it. My next one will probably be from purism.

If you weren’t so right it wouldn’t be so sad.

His joking?

Depends. Are you waking up at the crack of Dawn?

I had never tried it and was super happy after seeing how lightweight it was.

Can’t ignore 2000! That was one of the best!

Ooh ooh! I know this! Alpine! I run this together with MS-DOS on my Pentium 3, but FreeDOS should be no problem too.

I have seen your Debian/Arch addendum, but since it’s meant to be easy and for simple media consumption only, how about Fedora Silverblue with a couple of Flatpak games for kids? You’ll barely have to look after it as it’s immutable, will update itself and the stock Fedora Gnome setup is pretty basic and simple enough for a smart kid. Plus he’s two- I doubt he will need anything outside of Flatpaks and a paint program.