Hello community!

I come to you for advice. Using an m1 macbook air since 2020, I installed popos on my old 2013 macbook pro and I was quite happy with it but… I bought a steamdeck two weeks ago and exploring its desktop mode made me reconsider some choices. Using distros based on different systems, with different commands, desktop environment, etc. gets a little confusing for someone like me, who doesn’t use linux as my main machine. Do you have any advice for me? From what I understand, steamos is debian-based while popos is ubuntu-based: is that the biggest part of how a distribution works, ie commands, etc.? Good ui/ux is important for me so i should maybe use nitrux or deepin, that are debian-based, or is it a bad idea to choose a less common distro for a amateur like me?

Thanks in advance, I’m a bit lost.

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. I’ve just started using SB a few days ago AND decided for Mullvad. What a coincidence…

    AFAIK you can just install the rpm via rpm-ostree and reboot. I have to look if this also works with tool- or distrobox.

    Or, if you don’t rely on the client, just set up your connection using the native import function of Gnome/ KDE.

    But for now, Silverblue is great and I don’t feel like it restricts me at all tbh. I just wouldn’t recommend it to newcomers, since you have to find a few workarounds and try other approaches as with Ubuntu for example.

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      1 year ago

      rpm-ostree installs the client, but it hasn’t worked for me as the service is blocked, it’s the same with the ovpn/wireguard method using gnome’s network manager. Could be something simple I’m missing with Nix I had to enable it as a service, I haven’t used SB for a fair while now but have recently used micro which had the same issue.