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I've been using it since the weekend and it's so great! My favourite feature is that it's all flatpak, allowing smartphone-like permissions for each desktop app — both first-party and any third-party from Flathub. I like it way more than snap and am glad there's an Ubuntu fork that works so wonderfully with it.
Question, best solution for running it on an M1 Mac?
Running Linux natively on Apple Silicon is not ready for daily driving.
Their own apps similarly look ok at first, and then you go to use them and you realize it’s all very bare bones.
My system also froze/locked up a lot at random, and I don’t know why. Installing Ubuntu fixed that issue. Not sure what happened there.
Again I don’t blame them; not sure how many people are working for them, but creating a modern desktop and all the apps you’d expect from scratch is a huge undertaking. I hope they do well and provide Linux a real alternative experience. I’d love to see some way that they can extend into apps to make their look and feel more consistent somehow (gnome/kde skins? Something much more? Their own forks of popular apps?), and that the community ends up focusing around them so we get a distributed effort.
The main things keeping me from using Linux as a daily driver are: 1) My personal desktop has Windows for games 2) My laptops (personal and work) are Macs because Apple simply makes the best laptops When I've dual-booted in the past it's been a huge pain, and I didn't end up bothering to switch to Linux very often in practice anyway. Linux laptops exist, but they tend to be spotty in terms of build-quality and power.…
On the desktop front, I've been hearing about virtualizing windows on Linux with a framebuffer that maps directly to the GPU. Then you get to keep something like 95% performance. I forget what it's called, but I remember seeing a subreddit for it. FBIO?
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> As someone who's released commercial software on linux before - having only 3 solutions to target is actually pretty delightful I think that speaks to a particularly huge failure of Linux Desktop more than anything else.
In what sense? If you mean the fact there are multiple solutions, I don't think it's anything to do with Linux Desktop. I don't think that's even to do with Linux. More the plethora of alternatives in general when using FOSS. But that to some is its strength, not failure.
When it comes to platforms[0], you need to be able to depend on certain things being there and working a certain way. Fragmentation of a platform is bad, and Linux Desktop is so fragmented the various distros style themselves as entirely different OSs!
[0] As opposed to applications. Part of the problem is that historically there has never been a clear delineation in Linux Desktop.
- Their 70/30 split is higher than what Apple currently offers (85/15) for revenue less than 1m (which is going to be everyone on eOS)
- While I like macOS, I think it's a shame they chose to (more or less) copy it, rather than try a new direction. But perhaps that would be too risky.
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Xrdp can be configured to do this, we have it setup this way for our jump boxes.
I did google around but couldn’t get it work reliably. It seems have something with which desktop environment I use. And the performance isn’t great. Also, I am not sure what you mean “jumpbox”, but it sounds like you don’t use the remote machine locally.
Performance seems okay for me as long as you don't use fancy backgrounds. Not as good as native windows RDP, but definitely usable.
These are secured jumpboxes in our lab/production environments we RDP (or SSH) into via the VPN, but we used to connect to them from the office LAN back in the days when we actually worked in an office.