I tried GrapheneOS last Sunday and cannot male whatsapp work. Tried the play store, the aurora, github, official website, nothing worked, the authentication always failed. Unfortunately my whole social life and family are there, so for me it’s a no go for now.

Before Fedora I was using Bazzite and fell on the same problem. I can see the use case of an immutable distro, but it’s not mine ¯\(ツ)/¯

Yes: it was the only way to update the software inside. It was so old some pages refused to load, and was really slow. It was a painless and quick procedure and it has been working better than ever since then: decent hardware with (now) very good software.

My wife has a 2015 MacBook that was too slow/old with MacOs. I installed Fedora Kinoite, choosing an immutable distro because I wanted to make sure the base system always works. The only issue I had was (as always) with wifi drivers, but done that it was smooth sailing for the last year. She is not Linux savvy but every week says how much she loves the KDE interface. The system is quicker than MacOS and battery runs for much longer than before. It’s a work PC so I cannot vouch for gaming.

On my 2014 PC I’m using Fedora 44 with KDE, which defaults to Wayland: not problems whatsoever, but some applications say “Wayland support is experimental, beware”.

I switched to X11 after a suggestion to debug some issues with a game. The issues was not fixed, all the other applications I’ve tried are still working flawlessly. PLUS the KDE night light feature is working (was not in Wayland). So I stayed with X11.

On my wife MacBook (2015) I installed Kinoite, defaults to Wayland. Everything works, but Rustdesk renders VERY small. I have not tried X11 on that, and will not try it.

Try both with all your applications and setups and choose the smoother experience. Make security a secondary priority: if it was the first you have less attack surface sticking to terminal only.

It’s not, it’s a problem of every package manager that do not use sources and checksums, like rust and python. Take a look at this article that does a better job then me at explaining the situation.

I switched to Bazzite on my gaming rig a month ago and felt great. I managed to install and mod Skyrim effortlessly and yesterday I installed Tarkov and SPT with no problem whatsoever. Highly recommend.

But check if your favorite games are compatible, mainly the multiplayer ones: Tarkov can only be single player PvE, GTA is story mode only and forget about Destiny 2. Not a problem for me, plenty of alternatives, but you should check for yourself.

Thank you, but it won’t be necessary. I think my issues are hardware -related, or simply my NAS is under too much load from other applications 😅 Other than that I should try with the Chromecast as you suggested, maybe the problem was the shitty client application…

If I don’t succeed I’m still good with Plex, and I have a raspberry hanging around for an emergency Kodi.

In my case, I was not able to make jellyfin work: transcoding issues, lagging, client disconnection or unresponsive… Plex worked flawlessly out of the box with the same hardware and the same library.

From time to time I try Jellyfin again, but things never change …