Same as any other distro. Best practices.

…until people who don’t know better start googlin’

It’s a gateway to SNAP, which is why it’s bad.

The dumbest possible choice, IMTO

Dude straight up says “SteamOS doesn’t work on everything” and in almost the same sentence says “Bazzite is cool”. This guy does not understand puters AT ALL 🤣

Also, the rant about the terminal while complaining about Arch about made me laugh so hard I’d sploosh.

Using a tool for a job you don’t understand will yield unexpected results, fool. 😘

Those aren’t fonts, those are icon sets.

TLDR: the team sounds like they’re running pretty low in the dorale department, and need some more resources

This model appears to be 15 years old. The battery is just dead and won’t hold a charge at this point I’d imagine. No replacement out there is going to be worth the risk in buying. At least it still works when plugged in I guess?

I’m not saying that whatever happened to you didn’t happen. I’m saying that your assertion of “deb based distros not working with specific types of hardware” is 100% NOT a thing. Package managers DO NOT interact with hardware.

If you had issues, it was not because of deb packages or apt and your particular hardware, it was because of incompatibilities with the software versions being installed. Has absolutely nothing to do with deb packages.

Is there a question in there somewhere?

That sounds like you had other issues going on. That has nothing to do with packages.

There is nothing about Linux, package managers, or packages themselves that is somehow incompatible with specific combinations of each along with the hardware it is running on. The kernel is where all the compatibility layers meld.

The kernel either runs, or it doesnt.

Absolutely not a thing 🤣

Where did you get this idea? Packages are compiled by architecture.

This article is getting so many things wrong for new users 🤦

Example: It would be more productive if they explained the difference between how Windows detects and installs drivers vs Linux to let people know there may be extra steps. There are no functional differences between any distro detecting hardware on the same kernel version, but some do load Nvidia drivers during install by default, as an extra point.

This fix looks absolutely crazy to me from the diagram (if that’s accurate), and I’m assuming the code interface was the big problem. I’ve never run into one of these chipseta however, so does anyone know where they are primarily used? Curious.

Did you check your power saving settings in your BIOS to make sure it’s not set to do something odd like this?

There’s lots, but you probably want to have a look at Darktable

Edit: Also just learned that Canon does provide Linux drivers for some models.

Oh, nvm. You said Pi5, which isn’t officially supported. See if this works though: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/RaspberryPi#Raspberry_Pi_5

Did you update the EEPROM first?

TP-Link is not secure

That’s a good move, but like a decade late. I’ll be interested in seeing how this stacks against Fedora’s Kickstart, which is very mature, or Canonical’s offerings.