I think I had this bug before where I had to change the tty to actually get into the graphical environment.

I used Aeon before, it wasn't bad. The default apps were better than Fedora Silverblue's (it had Tweaks preinstalled, didn't have Firefox installed as an RPM). It uses Distrobox rather than Toolbox, which is nice because Distrobox lets you specify a custom home for each box. Though Distrobox hasn't seen any development these past few months and their decision to use POSIX compliant shell script seems like a maintenance nightmare. Toolbox uses Go.

But my biggest problem with MicroOS is that I don't feel like the update mechanism is as robust as Fedora Atomic. At the end of the day, it's using zypper and btrfs snapshots. It doesn't have the same protections against configuration drift, you can only rollback to versions of the OS you've previously installed (with Fedora Atomic you can rollback to any specific commit, even ones you've never installed).

And Fedora Atomic's bootc is super nice for customizing your image.

Personally, I am not a fan of this proposal. I'm one of the few people who actually like Fedora Flatpaks. I like

• The focus on FOSS
• The focus on more open software (standards that are not patented or have royalties)
• More consistent build practices
• Security (all apps use the latest Fedora Platform runtimes, pull all their dependencies from Fedora repos)
• Better deduplication (vendored dependencies are all RPMs, Flathub dependencies may pull different versions or built differently which would limited deduplication)

Though they're not perfect. Perhaps the biggest issue is the lack of codec support. Personally, I think it would be better to rework this proposal to instead filter out the footguns in the Fedora Flatpaks, such as media players and browsers.

I also don't believe there's any plans in the proposal to allow the user to easily remove the filter in the GUI, even though there is a toggle to make Flathub available in the GUI. The two proposals would in effect make it more difficult to obtain software curated by Fedora.

Largely the same two sources as you describe.

• Firefox and Chromium
• GrapheneOS Web browsing

The first source mentions a couple of issues, Of those, the only one I see to be fixed is the GPU process not being sandboxed on Windows.

Sorry, meant to say Firefox OS.

Anyways, fixed it.

One thing I don’t like about Firefox is that its security is not great compared to Chromium. It has less sandboxing and weaker sandboxing.

Firefox sandboxing is especially bad on Android and Linux.

They they do make up for it a tiny bit with better support for ad blocking, which lowers the chance of landing on malicious changes.

Though realistically not many people care about security when choosing a browser. They use old versions and resist the prompts to upgrade.

As far as I’m aware, Wayland apps can only “steal” focus by going through the proper channel, the xdg activation protocol.

Or maybe it’s a bug with Gnome 43?

I think you need to use Wayland, focus stealing protection set to strict, and no Xwayland apps. Xwayland apps can bypass the focus stealing protection.

This is at least the third time this has happened. There was also a malicious app that was a cryptocurrency miner.

I don't know how Canonical can take themselves seriously when it comes to Snap. It's beyond embarassing. Their near complete lack of moderation has hurt people over and over again.

Clickbait. The VP Engineering for Ubuntu made a post that he was looking into using the Rust utils for Ubuntu and has been daily driving them and encouraged others to try

It’s by no means certain this will be done.

Overall, I don't think Mozilla is wrong. Without the Google Search deal, Firefox will have less resources to build a competent browser.

But Mozilla has also done a poor job at becoming financially stable without this search deal. It also doesn't help that Mozilla's CEO's salary keeps going up in spite of the declining market share.

It would have been nice is Mozilla was able to fill a niche like Proton: building a suite of secure and private services. But instead they're moving towards advertising.

Before Wayland, there was X Window System, created in 1984. X Window System was designed in a time where you had one good computer connected to multiple displays used by different people. X went through many versions but version 11 (X11) stayed around for a long time.

But the architecture just isn't good. It wasn't designed for modern needs. MacOS used to use X, but replaced it to fit modern needs. Windows didn't use X, but they too updated Windows to fit modern needs. But Linux and other OSs stuck with X for a lot longer, hacking it to make it work. Honestly, it's amazing how well it does work.

But isn't not great. It wasn't designed with security in mind, it doesn't do multi-monitor well. Behind the scenes, it considers everything to be one giant display; issues arise when it comes to mixed-dpi displays and when monitor refresh rates don't match. It's also just a bloated, old code base that people don't want to work on. Fixing X would not only be difficult, but would break compatibility.

So people got working on a modern replacement for X aiming to avoid its issues. Wayland is leaner, more opinionated, and designed for how modern hardware operates. Wayland itself is just a protocol (like X11), and there's many different implementations of that protocol: Mutter, Kwin, wlroots, smithay, Mir, Weston, etc. Meanwhile X11 pretty much only had one relevant implementation, Xorg. Wayland's diversity has its pros and cons. Pros include (1) you can create your implementation in any programming language you want rather than being stuck to just one, (2) an implementation can fill just the needs on the person making it rather than trying to generalize it for everyone. But cons include the fact that this fragmentation leads to scenarios where one implementation supports something that others don't and implementation-specific bugs.

Wayland's opinionated design is also draws criticisms. It gives a lot of control to the compositors rather than windows, which is how Xorg, MacOS, and Windows work. Nvidia's wayland adoption was also slow and terrible. It took many years to get it into the only decent shape it's in now.

I don’t get why this sort of picture always gets posted and upvoted when it’s wrong for most distros nowadays.