Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?

edit: oh this is fun. https://thecybersecguru.com/news/massive-attack-ubuntu-canonical-313-team-extortion/

On my system, I wanted Firefox profiles to feel like their own browser instances. Meaning, their own app icons and to not be grouped together. Almost like how it is on MacOS.

To do this, I had to make multiple .desktop files. Here are the contents of that file. This targets flatpak, but it should work for traditional Firefox installs too.

I called this profile "Personal". Note that this says --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal". In this, "personal" is a symlink to the real profile folder name located in the same directory.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run >--env=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=Personal >--branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox >--file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal" --name org.mozilla.firefox.Personal >--class org.mozilla.firefox.Personal @@u %u @@
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Icon=/home/USERNAME/.local/share/icons/firefox-heart.png
StartupWMClass=org.mozilla.firefox.Personal
DBusActivatable=false
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/json;application/pdf;application/rdf+xml;application/rss+xml;application/x-xpinstall;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;audio/flac;audio/ogg;audio/webm;image/avif;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;image/svg+xml;image/webp;text/html;text/xml;video/ogg;video/webm;x-scheme-handler/chrome;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
Name=Firefox (Personal)
Comment=Fast and private browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer;
X-GNOME-FullName=Mozilla Firefox

[Desktop Action new-window]
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run >--env=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=Personal >--branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox >--file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal" --name org.mozilla.firefox.Personal >--class org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --new-window @@u %u @@
Name=New Window

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run >--env=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=Personal >--branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox >--file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal" --name org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --class org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --private-window @@u %u @@
Name=New Private Window

OC by @novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de

Today we're checking out a Linux distro created by a group of Windows bootleggers from the mid-2000s! So maybe not surprisingly, it looks a lot like Windows XP... at least at first.

StartOS/Ylmf OS: https://archive.org/details/ylmf-os

FYI: It's often overlooked but the umbrella project of popular gaming distribution is Universal Blue and Bazzite is merely one of three flavors: https://universal-blue.org/#images

woaw

also a good blog post about it https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

The fix: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/merge_requests/127

I started using Linux at university, and my first distro at home was SuSE in 1997, because my father got the CDs at work. Then I ran RedHat for a while, because that's what my friends were running, then Mandrake, then Knoppix, then Debian. Loved Debian and AfterStep.

About 10 years ago I moved to Ubuntu because I had a hardware issue that was solved in Ubuntu but was a pain to fix in Debian. I liked that as well.

But this year I bought a second-hand ThinkPad T490, and it was randomly locking up (mouse still moves but nothing else responds). Googling and trying to troubleshoot by looking through logs wasn't working, and I'm pretty sure it's not a pure hardware issue, because I've got it as a dual boot system because my girlfriend's son uses windows on it, and hasn't had any issues.

So yesterday, I decided to back up my home directory and install Debian Forky. It feels like coming home. And so far, no lock-ups...

Built for Rapid Upstream Delivery

Rolling releases with upstream tracking bring new RISC-V features and fixes to you sooner—less waiting, less rework.

Built for RISC-V Developers

Stay close to upstream to reduce backports and forks. Easier reproduction, faster debugging, smoother upstream contributions.

Built for Early Validation

Surfaces firmware, platform semantics, and Linux interoperability issues early—so vendors fix faster, reduce divergence, and reach mainstream OS compatibility sooner.

If you are using a rolling release distro like Arch, you might have noticed that your home directory now has a new member, a new folder called "Projects".

For as long as I remember, Linux has always had a set of default folders under the home directory. Usually they are Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos and Downloads. Templates, Desktop and Public folders are also there.

Now we have a new addition in the form of "Projects".