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Hm, my trusty old Laptop which I considered toast a few month back somehow came back to life. It sill has some BIOS issues (likely a new battery will help) and booting it up is trial and error at times. BUT over all it is still working. So what best to do? Yes! Continue my Low-End Linux gaming series I started on that thing. Today: Alien: Isolation a game 1 years younger than the system it ran on. youtube.com/watch?v=WIxptH0iVWI #Linux #AeonDesktop #PCGaming #LowEndPC #LinuxGaming

Finally reinstalled my laptop to Aeon Desktop. Just added nerd fonts. Enabled fingerprints unlock. Ptyxis looks like a great terminal too. And love GNOME 48 and the new font.

The saddest part was when the brand new Seagate HDD suddenly died during the backup restore process. 😖

My best guess is I've installed at least 100 different distros in the last couple of years.
None has been so smooth and effortless as Aeon, which I will take for a ride again this month. Imho by far the best Gnome atomic out there. Three minor niggles for me, but none is system blocking or so. I was triggered by this talk by Richard Brown:

FOSDEM 2025 - Being different takes Aeons - A tale of the endless RC
youtube.com/watch?v=zcGAJAdJFf

Ich bin ja großer Fan des #AEONDesktop und habe nun auch auf meinem #NAS inzwischen überall #OpenSuse #MicroOS installiert.
Default-Einstellung: Die Updates werden zu festen maintenance-window gefahren und dann muss neugestartet werden, um sie anzuwenden (stabiler: während Ausführung, fähig zum automatischen Rollback).
Inzwischen gibt es die Option #SoftReboot, so dass das geupdatete OS-Image eingespeist, aber kein kompletter Reboot/nur der userspace betroffen ist: microos.opensuse.org/blog/2024

openSUSE MicroOSIntroduction of soft-rebootIntro

I said this yesterday and I repeat it #ptySix by @chergert is such of Burst that will shift the whole #Linux terminal concept, I absolutely Love it ... even if my distros of Heart @Solus and @opensuse #Tumbleweed doesn't decide to ship it by default I'll still grab and use the #flatpak of it ... BTW, @sysrich is considering to set it as default for #aeondesktop, a project I strongly recommend as it lays the ground of what Linux is to become in a near future.
check the website and join the @matrix server to know more and help the thing grow ... and do not forget to strongly support @chergert for his amazing job!
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to install PtyXys: "flatpak install flathub app.devsuite.Ptyxis"

discover Aeon Desktop
aeondesktop.github.io

Phew, I am pretty thankful for #aeondesktop based on #opensuse 's #microos and #tumbleweed .
A faulty update occured ( bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug ). That wasn't great, but because it uses #btrfs #snapshots for the #immutable os, I just changed back to a working snapshot and had a working #linux system again.
At first it didn't want to boot into the last working snapshot. But I found out in the forums, that you have to press "F8" while booting (after the #uefi was ready).
Big thanks to @sysrich !

bugzilla.opensuse.org1228659 – Snapshot 20240730 - unbootable after transactional-update dup