Ich habe ja leider erst 2024 den Absprung von #Windows geschafft und nutze seitdem #LinuxMint.
Damals sollte der Umstieg möglichst einfach sein, und ich habe nicht verstanden warum viele Nutzer etliche Distros testen und ständig wechseln.
Ja, und jetzt? Jetzt habe ich hier einen ungenutzten Rechner stehen und frage mich welche Distro soll ich mal testen?
Empfehlungen? Sollte wieder möglichst einfach sein, #Flatpaks finde ich gut.
Ansonsten nutze ich meinen Rechner nur für Officekram, Mails, Bilder sortieren, Dokumente ablegen....

📦 Flathub grew over 21% breaking beyond 435 million downloads in 2025.

「 Core web browsers and communication tools led the downloads list, with Firefox, Google Chrome, and Discord ranking as the most popular individual applications. Among the games, Sober Play, a Roblox client, topped the download list, while classic titles such as Minecraft and Space Cadet Pinball registered significant installations 」

https://linuxiac.com/flathub-sees-over-435-million-downloads-in-2025/

#flathub #flatpaks #opensource

Flathub Sees Over 435 Million Downloads in 2025

Flathub recorded more than 435 million app downloads in 2025, with Firefox, Chrome, and Discord ranking among the platform’s most downloaded apps.

Linuxiac
Still loving #bazzite as nearly six months comes around as a full time #linux user. After a few initial teething problems (mostly file system weirdness) it has been an almost flawless experience. Every game I have thrown at it has worked with only an old one even needing a proton version change and the mantra of going for #flatpaks and keeping the command line out of the way is definitely the way Linux should go to get more people to switch over. Props to #KDE for a fantastic desktop also. :-)
@chpietsch Ich weiß, ich auch! xD hahaha. Sprich für Nicht-Debian-Systeme: Die Sache ist die, die #Flatpaks werden leider nicht von Signal, sprich der Whisper Foundation, maintained. Btw funktioniert es auch unter Tails 7.2, macht sogar Updates.  ✨ 💫 #Signal + #Tails == Win für Privacy und Security. ❤️ 💚 🙏
The world needs a #luks2 enrypted, #immutable #atomic #linux whith #selinux, #flatpaks and the #COSMICdesktop to attack Microsoft. Right now, would be perfect  #aerynos #fedora #opensuse
@rl_dane
- In my tower's
#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma #Wayland boot, both #AnyDesk & #RustDesk work well for my r/a to dad's windoze pc.
- in my tower's newest [3rd] boot,
#Fedora #Kinoite #Wayland, i simply could not get either of those to work properly, regardless of as #Flatpaks, via #Distrobox, or even layered atop the base system. However, happily, RD also comes as an #AppImage, which does work !!

note the above pertain to connections to dad's windoze pc only. otoh, my lappy also runs a Wayland DE, & it is impossible to connect to, afaict -- nothing i have tried works, coz Wayland on the remote pc seems to be an unsolved problem of r/a apps.

@jwcph @itsfoss You can use Warehouse by @Heliguy (thanks) to create snapshots and restore them on the other device - no terminal required! I used this to restore my #flatpaks with their data on a #Librem5 Linux phone after reflashing #postmarketOS.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.flattool.Warehouse

Install Warehouse on Linux | Flathub

Manage all things Flatpak

One consultant’s #toolkit: #openSUSE Leap, multiple browsers, #Flatpaks, encrypted drives, and no webcam. Real-world use shows Leap’s #enterprise-grade adaptability. #Endof10 #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/13/leap-powers-consultants-on-the-move/
Leap Powers Consultants on the Move

For tech consultants, life happens on the move. From airport lounges to boardrooms across Europe and beyond, the tool of choice for one tech consultant is Sl...

openSUSE News
In my Lappy's atomic immutable, Fedora Kinoite, in prior months when i was setting it up, ALL attempts to be able to connect to Dad's pc with either AnyDesk or RustDesk, via either Flatpaks & overlaid rpm pkgs, failed. Hence, now in Tower's KDELinux i've not even bothered with those two flatpaks, not to mention that this atomic does not have a(n easy) way to overlay. Happily i found recently that AppImage works well for VeraCrypt in KDELinux, so i wondered if any of AnyDesk, RustDesk, or NoMachine might have an AI option... & yes, RD does! Aaaaaaand... it works - both for remote-access desktop control, & for file-transfer - yippee!

So, now that i have found effective workarounds for the last lingering papercuts in
KDELinux, which hitherto stopped this otherwise lovely OS being able to be my fulltime daily system [remote-access ✅, VeraCrypt ✅, backups ✅, virtual machines ✅], i tentatively now conclude that henceforth i'll only boot back into either Arch or Sparky when i want to, rather than til now each time i needed to [for the preceding issues] 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️

The ongoing failure of the
ArchLinux Distrobox in my KDELinux [but no other DB] remains galling [not least that coz it does not work i had to find other ways to solve those tricky app issues], but now it is no longer significantly holding me back.

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
​ ​​ ​#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma ​​ ​#KDELinux
#SparkyLinux ​#Kalpa  ​#Kinoite
#AnyDesk #RustDesk #Flatpaks #AppImage #NoMachine
@Kroc #flatpaks still have a place for #FOSS software, particularly aging software. Trying to get old software running with contemporary software natively is often difficult or even impossible. Having an isolated container system, like a #flatpak, to run that application makes absolute sense. I use flatpak for packaging for #retrogames and old apps.