lwn is a paid subscription site, they don’t need clickbait… it’s simply a joke

NAT may be insecure but it keeps chugging on

Connect it to a spare access point, create a custom filtering rule on the router…

Weird, must be regional

Whenever I create a redirection on my domain it’s always instantaneous, but it still warns me that “DNS records may take up to 24h to propagate”

Can you open the website? I can’t:

The dev has a specific vision and that’s it. If you don’t like it you can use something else.

Yes, that’s what I wrote as well.

Valetudo is not a community is on the website.

If your answer to my comment is: “well, you can create your own community, with blackjack and hookers!”, well… There’d be so much to discuss that I don’t think it’s worth it.

And as for the second paragraph, communities aren’t “nice”. They’re communities, made of people, who are all flawed, just like everyone is, in different ways, but manage to make the puzzle of human interaction fit. If all you want is people communicating and behaving in a specific way that you approve of, that’s not a community.

Nobody’s forcing you out of your space and I’ve never proposed it, I just said that I won’t be using your software, we’re both making our choices, hopefully in respect of each other.

Yeah, the one cloud-connected device I had in my house, my Neato D7 Botvac, was lobotomized just last week when Vorwerk switched off its servers. I’m quite pissed off. It still works if I press the button and let it roam, but I lost scheduling, cleaning maps, no-go zones… I’m MORE than quite pissed off.

Idk, the dev seems… hostile. And prevents the project from becoming a community effort. Also:

Feature-parity is a non-goal for Valetudo, and if you’re wondering which features “you might lose”, Valetudo is not for you.

I mean, I do wonder if I will lose features, therefore I guess I should look elsewhere.

Unplugging the internet is also an option…

Found this on the issue tracker, it tells you to try deleting the wine prefix, also from the error it does seem like a wine problem (can’t load a dll, those are windows libraries), not a system problem.

So right now you’re on Bazzite? And you’ve run this in distrobox on a fedora container? What happens if you run it directly on Bazzite, ignoring the dependency installation (those packages are all already on Bazzite, if you want you can check yourself with rpm --query --all | grep -i packagename).

BTW, asking for help is an option, they have a discord.

If you explain, maybe I can point you in the right direction

Well I disagree. I tried Bazzite on my desktop and then installed it on my laptop, even though I seldom play games on it. I’m a long-time Linux user and a tinkerer, and so far I haven’t found anything I wanted to do and I couldn’t.

I can compile software with compilers from distrobox, I can design and slice 3d parts and send them to my printers, manage my servers, customize my system… Sure you can’t easily change your DE, although I guess it would be somewhat possible with rpm-ostree, but other than that I don’t see many limitations.

The main difference is that you should refer to Bazzite’s docs FIRST, because if you just search the web for your issue/goal, you’re going to find instructions that may not be compatible with an immutable distro.

Agree on distrobox and I’d put it before homebrew

Don’t take this wrong, but you should refrain from commenting on what you don’t know. Immutable distros have to fight a lot of disinformation already.

Yeah, I don’t understand OP’s post, in good part because it’s really not saying anything, just mentioning some vague “problems!”, what are those problems, that distrobox can’t handle?

but for desktop use it limits you a lot

For example? Because I’ve read this repeated a lot by people who don’t understand immutable distros. Of course you can’t “dnf install clang”, but you can use distrobox for that, ends up fairly similar.

Hmmm, yeah I think it’s mostly that documentation online isn’t compatible with immutable distros.
For example the login screen background can easily be changed from the KDE Settings, but if you search online docs it probably tells you to edit something in /usr, and that’s on the immutable part of the filesystem, changing that need an overlay I think.

May I ask:
Are these your first Linux experiences?
What is it about Bazzite that you didn’t like?

I’m asking for future reference, I’ve got friends who are getting curious and to me Bazzite seems quite beginner-friendly, but I’m not a beginner so maybe I’m missing something