i think it’s simpler than that. It merely stores the latest security update you had when you locked your bootloader and doesn’t allow you to rollback to an earlier version,but anything newer - regardless of the ROM being official or eOS/iodé , would allow you to relock it.

TLDR: flashing ROM security patch version > your existing security patch version.

if you run Windows 11 on 4GB ram, it’s just to stare at a UI. The ms you click anything, it crashes.

This guy is a joke. USA is no longer a beacon of anything, let alone democracy.

Go back to your continent Vance! no one wants you here!

Yes, it does. i recently installed a bunch on crap and decided I don’t need any of it, so I just rolled back to the snapshot I created manually, before starting the process and my system was simply restored.

Just keep one thing in mind, rolling back automatically makes the filesystem read only so You need to remount.

I’m glad I stuck with Librewolf.

Learned from America? That’s funny.

This was my take as well, so I ended up with vanilla Void.

i actually ended up installing vanilla Void. I messed it up before with seating and  bash_profiles, but following strictly their documentation, it took me  10 min to get  a fully xdg-portals powered system with plasma.

https://archive.ph/kSmTG

Truthfully, it’s because I’ve become increasingly lazy lately,but I’ve been looking for a reason to move away from systemd ,as I am not a fan of hard dependencies like that anymore - been using arch for years and am looking to try other init system to sort of break away from monopolies.

You’re right of course,however, I find the Void documentation very lacking TBH and getting a minimal install with plasma and pipewire so what I need.

Edit: thanks for the recommendations. I completely forgot to check distrowatch.

Linus No Tech Tips.

I can’t for the life of me get used to Gnome on my desktop. I tried so many times, but I always get the feeling of using a tablet.

I like the concept, but it’s simply a laptop or tablet centered DE, at best.

This is the sensible comment.

Void Linux with runit, here I come!

it looks like there’s a new generation of “I run cachyos BTW”. While you are free to choose whatever distro you wanr, the passion with which you defend cachy is adorable.

Cachy is nothing but hype, surrounded by fanboys without much experience, who are willing to believe a governor and a couple of tweaks gives them the best os on the planet - I know, cause I used it and went back to arch because I prefer something that is real and the result of hard work, not a hacky job,that looks like someone just had fun hyping the shit out of “performance gains”.

You can keep your 1% gain, and the bloat.

JSYK the differences are marginal between a vanilla arch install and cachy. You have you dig really deep to see any difference in performance.

iMO cachy is a good marketing arch distro.

i recently went from an iPhone 12 Pro to a Fairphone 6, because reasons. However, good god… The iphone keyboard is atrocious. For anything other than English, it’s like Apple think languages don’t have words in them.

Worst experience I’ve ever had with a soft keyboard was iphone’s. Never again.

Edit: words.

I guess a Pixel 7/7a would fit your criteria. It’s between 100-130€ on Vinted for example.

Nothing much. now WhatsApp can’t be installed on any custom Roms. if you installed it a while back, it should still work though.

Whatsapp no longer works on any aosp ROM, even with locked bootloaders. It requires attestation and bootloader lock, so the only way to use it it either with stock ROM, or - like I currently am - with matrix bridge (which pretty much sucks).

I wish I could convince relatives Signal is the same, but better, but they are still on Yahoo and Facebook, so they are a completely lost cause (even my wife doesn’t want to, as she says she already has WhatsApp and that’s enough).

Edit: End rant. You might not even use WhatsApp and then you can be happy. i suggest you install and use the Sapio app to check some of your apps compatibility.