I’ve been zwifting exclusively on Linux for a few years now with this: https://github.com/netbrain/zwift

It’s pretty distro agnostic. I’m using it with Podman on RHEL 9.

Still requires you to use the companion app on your phone for your Bluetooth connections, but it beats keeping a Windows machine around. Good luck!

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Reminds me of the KDE guy who quit Red Hat when they used to do exactly that (make KDE behave like GNOME) 22 years ago.

https://www.theregister.com/2002/09/26/kde_red_hat_spat_escalates/

They were a pain 20 years ago and they’re a pain now.

Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker… Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.

The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service’s enshitification… While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.

Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.

The distro you’re using and the model of laptop and a link to the bug/commit would make it easier to answer what you can expect.

You assume everyone has root.

On a system I don’t administer, I can compile and install software in my home directory (or shared directories that I have write access) by using:

./configure --PREFIX=/home/myuser/software/

make # to compile

make install #without sudo, to install to ~/software/bin

So when you say “only in (B)LFS”, you’re overlooking a VERY common use case - especially in HPC and other systems NOT running on my desk/lap.

How about just basic network home directory support? It’d be nifty if I could still open Firefox when my home directory is NFS/autofs

Wouldn’t the larger ones be the ones you’d get the most benefit from compiling?

For the uninitiated, does “gen” imply source/compilation somehow?

On 22.04 LTS, you can’t even open Firefox if you’re using NFS/Autofs home directories.

How is that not taken seriously as a major bug?

• old laptop
• windows 11
• tech illiterate

Something doesn’t add up, or only 2/3 are true.

Cool. But will we again be able to open Firefox on an NFS/autofs home directory?

Don’t become so concerned with if you could, that you overlook if you should.

I would buy a larger drive.

I promise I’m not a troll, but I just don’t understand the appeal. That’s a crazy expensive piece of hardware to run a currently only mostly working distro.

Even when the hardware is 100% working, it’s still ARM, so anything that’s not open source won’t run because it’ll be x86_64.

Definitely a chicken and egg problem on availability of ARM software.

I’m asking in good faith - am I missing something?

The primary thing that makes FOSS popular is that you can fork it. You’re saying that people need to not do the main thing it’s designed to be able to do!

Snap is that bad when it doesnt work on network home directories, and both firefox and chromium (included in tbe distro) have been moved to snaps… So the included browsers can’t even open.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1884299

That’s the app OP is talking about ‘selling out’ to advertisers.

Can you point out the wild bugs that kernel panic the OS? I’m an admin for a large number of RHEL machines and our team has talked about switching to Stream. Would love to know more about these bugs.

This all falls apart as a “reason” when you consider Windows Home vs Windows Enterprise.

The better reason is that Windows Home sucks.