Fedora Atomic! Kinoite rocks

Check out the Fedora Atomic distros Silverblue, Kinoite, etc. You can just run arch in a distrobox for your arch needs while keeping a clean and stable core.

In my distrobox bitwig set up with Wine 9.21 I am using the following with no issues

• Melda (various including MSoundFactory)
• Native instruments (including Reaktor and Massive X)
• unfiltered audio / plugin alliance including battalion
• psychic Modulation
• all arturia
• all Valhalla dsp
• Adam Szabo viper and jp6k
• lese smear And a bunch of others with no problems.

Usable with some issues

• Newfangled audio - plugins work and sound great but GUI hangs or is extremely laggy

Not working at all

• some eventide plugins
• all aberrant DSP
• all UVI

This is all under a unified wine prefix - o might try playing with different prefixes for different plugins and see if I can’t fix some of the above or some of the QoL issues

I’ve been fine with proton pass but maybe you’re referring to specific autofill use cases?

My primary use case is for audio production. I love that my DAW is native (Bitwig Studio), it runs like a charm. I ran into a lot of issues implementing it with Wine and yabridge with the flatpak install to still use my windows only plugins (I have a large collection of really cool tools)

After building Bitwig in a distrobox with Wine and yabridge I was successful, almost all of my windows plugins work - some as smoothly as Windows, some with some wrinkles. A few of my favorites just dont work at all unfortunately, and after looking into this, its an issue with JUCE8 and wine - specifically,

full support for Direct2D feature level 1.3 in Wine.

I’m novice level with Linux and pretty advanced in Audio production, I’m hoping we can get some folks from the audio world together to contribute to wine to try to make this happen… I want me Aberrant DSP and Eventide plugins working properly!

Thankfully, many whose GUIs are broken can still be somewhat utilized due to Bitwig exposing plugin parameters in their own wrapper - I can tweak from there, but it’s not ideal.

I’ll continue to pressure developers to offer Linux native support as well, but so far its mostly crickets with a few noticing an uptick in requests and considering adding it…

I’m on Kinoite for a host of reasons but one reason I chose an atomic distros was isolation / containerizatoon. I’ll take a look at what secure blue adds and see if I can manually implement any of that in Kinoite

Not at all for me, but my primary use case is audio production. Everything recognized and sync’d on first boot - audio interface, controllers, synthesizers etc. No major driver or codec issues at all.

I use Intel Arc for my GPU and it picked that up right away no need to layer any additional packages. Definitely check around if you’re on nvidia I think that’s the bigger codec issue that is solved by ublue distros

I did run into some issues trying to run my DAW as a flatpak and now have it working well in a distrobox, but that’s largely because I am set on still running some windows plugins via Wine and yabridge…

I migrated from W11 to Kinoite and NY workflow is similar - flatpak, distrobox (right now I have Arch and Ubuntu boxes for different programs) and only layer essential system wide packages to the ostree.

Its very stable and I seriously enjoy using it. The *how Linux should be" piece is mostly resolves and enhanced by using distrobox.

KDE plasma is awesome and a great DE for a beginner like me.

Can you share how you did this? Did you have to seat beacondb as your location services in iode or in the app itself?

My experience is that Zood cnnot find me unless I’m using default (google) location services, and I haven’t been able to find a workaround for my set up

I had great success with Zood on stock android but no luck on Graphene using non - google location services. I’ve reached out to the Dev for integration with OSM and/or beacondb support with no response.

If anyone has Zood running on Graphene without switching to google location services let me know I’d love to use it

Osmand+ is definitely the right answer for customizability and power; however CoMaps has made the GUI decisions for you in a nice way and is ready to go out of the box.

Osmand+ added secure location sharing to their roadmap for 2026 which is something my family really misses - so I will he using and supporting when that drops.

Laslty, open street maps have one fatal choke point - search is pretty terrible. Even inputting a correctly formatted address often yields no results or too many confusing results. Searching by place name is hit or miss, mostly miss. The only workaround is to verify address and get lat long coordinates for that address- I typically do this from a third party website.

After flitting around to different ESS readers ive settled on NewsBlur. I really really like it - the free version is fully functional, but the paid has awesome quality of life features.

Available in browser and from F-Droid

Removed by mod

Nominated!

I personally found it very easy to install Graphene and get it up and running.

That’s great news! I guess i should switch to nightly

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think we are still waiting for true tab process separation.

I love IronFox and use it alongside Vanadium. When Fission is confirmed I will bump IronFox back up to most browsing - vastly prefer Gecko browsers as a user but concerned about tab isolation and tracking.

iIRC IronFox has Fission already but there was a dangling question regarding an inability to still isolate processes.

This isn’t on the IronFox devs either - it really needs to be fixed upstream by Mozilla

We desperately need a stable implementation of fission / true tab separation on android.

Just piling on to say that I have been unable to join any Matrix servers despite having set up two accounts successfully.

And why are there no usable android clients for spaces?

Just bought a 9 for Graphene. Up and running - works like a charm. Devs are not announcing end of the line for Graphene development- they are making daily updates on their way to bringing out Android 16. At this point I’d grab a 9 rather than wait for the 10. Get yourself up and running before Google tries to lock us out of more apps - right now everything I need runs fine without any play services whatsoever. The OS is solid, Vanadium is really good - I could go on and on. If you are onboard and interested in the project its 100% worth it from where I sit.

Nothing is ever perfectly future proof