This is simply because

1. Google has an OS
2. The OS has the map app preinstalled
3. Everyone has an account
4. You are nagged to add info about POIs afaik, even by shop owners

Meanwhile OSM has nothing. OpenPlaceReviews is confusing as heck. There is no centrally available image host (and you cant just upload insane amounts of data like videos of everything, like on Google).

Things that could lift OSMAnd (which is more poweful but also more confusing and slower than OM) to those standards:

1. “Just upload a photo” to some host.
2. A review system that works
3. API integration for public transport services like DB. Those already do navigation really well, but no routing directions etc.

*OSM

That only works on mutable distributions, it installs random binaries to the system that are not visible to the package manager and not removable (afaik?) And it also doesnt resolve dependencies (afaik).

So while source code is cool, it has all the above disadvantages

Hahaha no that was not my point.

Dont install random software from .deb packages etc.

You can use

• OS repos
• 3rd party OS repos
• 3rd party repos
• developer repos (like COPR, AUR or OBS)
• Flatpak
• homebrew
• Distrobox with a distro that has it as a package

So many options. There is an issue with 3rd party packaging, but at least for common software it is often better to use those, than a not updated official binary.

You shouldnt do that. If they dont have instructions on how to securely add a repo, their software will not update which is insecure.

LXQt is basically the up to date version of LXDE. Dont bother with LXDE I would say, use LXQt.

Lubuntu has the best theming.

Just download the ISO, flash it to a thumbdrive and install again.

apt search lxde

Is the better start

1. You dont download software from Websites
2. Use Lubuntu or other variants with LXQt or LXDE, dont do it yourself. They already have done the configs for you

The thing is I need to configure, compile, package, sign and then layer, because I am on Fedora Atomic (and because that is the correct way)

And I dont know many of the steps in the middle.

A Github runner for this would be great, like a template where people can choose what kernel they need, which then packages it.

Thanks for the insight

On an Intel machine, this makes me want to compile my kernel so much

I should learn how to compile RPM kernels on COPR

Monolithic kernels and drivers are an issue.

I understand why its easy, but on Fedora Atomic I even have all the userspace drivers for intel, amd, nvidia and maybe more, even though I clearly just use intel…

Plasma 6 got a ton better. Like remarkably.

Still some bugs though.

I thought Bigscreen was abandoned?

Very true. Discoverability is a huge no-go

I find Lemmy and Mastodonunusable without an App, because of all the “lets redirect to your main instance” stuff.

Also, I find Mastodon pretty strange, have like 15 retoots and likes in total after using it since a long time, using hashtags (which I miss in Lemmy) and following many people.

I just cant get Twitter so Mastodon is equally bad. Lemmy makes more sense to me.

And I dont really get how decentralization takes off load off servers, as in the end every server should at least proxy all content of the entire Fedi. Otherwise you get sync issues and servers are not shown, and you need to force your app to force the instance to federate (I guess) by using ! Links

They used something else instead…