It’s basically Nobara, but properly done. (If you choose the desktop version)

It gets updates automatically (max one day after upstream Fedora), has everything you want ootb in the first start wizard, is more secure, and much more.

I was very sceptical at first, but after trying it out, I really noticed some minor performance improvements in games and many QoL improvements, e.g. the preinstalled LACT, which allows me to set up fan curves and over-/ underclock my GPU.

Setting up my new PC took me about half an hour maximum.

9/10, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smooth gaming experience.

I can’t tell you if Void or any other minimal distro is significantly faster relatively to something more comfortable than Fedora.
But even if it is, then I would still use something “bloated” because it just works and requires less input from my side.
Booting takes just seconds anyway with NVMe disks, so why bother if it takes 4 or 5 seconds, if the PC runs smoother for the next days it is powered on?

Use whatever distro you like more, and install your packages with Distrobox. Here’s a post I made a while ago about it: https://feddit.de/post/8018330

I personally enjoy Fedora Atomic even more than the mutable version, but in your case, you would have to decide for yourself.

I would recommend you to use Fedora Atomic, namely universal-blue.org.
It’s the stock Fedora Atomic, but they offer a Cinnamon spin with baked in Nvidia drivers.
If you don’t know why you should choose an immutable distro, especially as content creator, who wants everything to be always working, check out my post here: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

With that, you can use Distrobox and create a CentOS/ whatever container, which DVR officially recommends and will work best.
You can also check out my post here: https://feddit.de/post/8018330

Definitely. Having SELinux or AppArmour is very important.
Image based distros still offer some security and reliability benefits, because they are reproducible and therefore issues can be fixed quicker and easier. Also, at least now, due to the read-onlyness of the core parts of the OS, you can’t install malware as easily.

• On Linux, you don’t download random stuff from the internet, e.g. a new browser. You get it from a central source, usually package manager, where it is verified and secure.
• Most stuff is open source, therefore we can check if it does weird stuff. Proprietary software is often seen critically in our community.
• Linux is usually always updated because of the central update mechanism, so that vulnerabilities are fixed very quickly.
• Linux has more granular permissions. There’s no “allow nothing” (but still too much) or “give random software access to the whole device” like on Windows. Linux software is written to need only as many permissions as needed, but not much more.
• Containers are big and crucial, especially when immutable distros grow more popular (even better security!). Many of use use Flatpak because of those pros. With them, we can give or remove every permission, like network access, file system, etc.
• Antivirus is almost useless, it won’t always work reliably, see it more as an additional measure. Many AVs are close to being malware themselfes. They may act as indicator, but not as safeguard for viruses.
• If you share stuff with people using Windows, ClamAV is still handy.
• We aren’t safe from viruses too, but we try to minimize our attack vector as much as we can with those methods mentioned above.
• Windows viruses can still be executed with WINE, so use Bottles (container for WINE) when running Windows software.

Yeah, but it sucks. Most XWayland-apps are blurry. So, I have the choice between not being able to read something because of my screen resolution at 100% scale, or activating fractional scaling and having half of my apps blurry.

There was the talk about font scaling a while ago, where UI elements also scale with the font size. Has something happened there?

While most changes (file manager improvements, etc.) are cool to have and are just improvements to the overall experience, what’s up with the “fractional scaling and Mutter improvements”?

Why does nobody explain them more? At least for me, fractional scaling is the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking about what Gnome needs the most.
And performance improvements are also good to hear, but in which aspect? Triple dynamic buffering?

Does anyone have further information?

I think what you mean with “neat” is the desktop environment (DE), which hugely defines how a distro looks like.
Most major distros (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.) have have the most major ones.

Here’s my post about distro choices if you’re interested, since it’s mostly more about DE choice: https://feddit.de/post/9087676

yeah yeah there’s flathub and stuff but that’s more of a last resort, optimally, you want to get it the correct way.

Dude, there is no correct or wrong way. Many prefer Flatpaks, because they ship with all they need and work on every distro.

Also, you can just use Distrobox on any distro and use anything you want.

But calling Arch easier than Zorin or similar is just wrong.

OP still didn’t describe in which aspect the images are bad.
Stacking (at least with astro software) only reduces noise, but even with stuff like focus stacking you can’t turn a bad picture magically into a great one.
Especially since you need to plan that in advance and shoot under specific controlled conditions.

There’s a reason why I always shoot in the shutter roll mode with my digital camera. When I have 5 pictures at once, there’s always at least one that is sharp.
Playing safe is the number one rule of photography, hence why we always underexpose for example, since you can always rescue a too dark image, but if it’s blown out white, you can’t do anything.
Same with camera shake, focus, and so on. Even with all the AI shit and stuff, you just can’t rescue some pictures.

I wrote a second comment in the section here with better instructions.

OP still didn’t describe in which aspect the images are bad.
Stacking (at least with astro software) only reduces noise, but even with stuff like focus stacking you can’t turn a bad picture magically into a great one.

There’s a reason why I always shoot in the shutter roll mode with my digital camera. When I have 5 pictures at once, there’s always at least one that is sharp.
Playing safe is the number one rule of photography, hence why we always underexpose for example, since you can always rescue a too dark image, but if it’s blown out white, you can’t do anything.
Same with camera shake, focus, and so on. Even with all the AI shit and stuff, you just can’t rescue some pictures.

I wrote a second comment in the section here with better instructions.

OP still didn’t describe in which aspect the images are bad.
Stacking (at least with astro software) only reduces noise, but even with stuff like focus stacking you can’t turn a bad picture magically into a great one.

There’s a reason why I always shoot in the shutter roll mode with my digital camera. When I have 5 pictures at once, there’s always at least one that is sharp.
Playing safe is the number one rule of photography, hence why we always underexpose for example, since you can always rescue a too dark image, but if it’s blown out white, you can’t do anything.
Same with camera shake, focus, and so on. Even with all the AI shit and stuff, you just can’t rescue some pictures.

I wrote a second comment in the section here with better instructions.

Another comment from my side: I think it would be best if you share some of the images, or at least describe what problems they have.

• Is the resolution not high enough? --> Try Upscayl
• Are they blurry? --> Good luck. Rescuing blurry pictures, either because of motion blur or lack of focus, is the hardest/ almost impossible thing in photography. You could try some “AI” tools, depending on how sharp the image is, but they usually suck.
• Are they noisy? --> Maybe try Topaz Denoise (paid and proprietary) or GIMP/ Darktable (FOSS, but not exactly as sophisticated or quick). Sadly, canceling out noise usually results in a “watercolor” look if overdone.
• Or do yo just want to recover information? -> Increase contrast, sharpness and middle tones.

Either way, since you asked specifically in c/Linux (which I find a bit unfitting personally, better ask in c/Photography), I can recommend 3 Tools:

• GIMP of course, maybe with plugins, for general editing, and Darktable for post-processing (color grading, sharpening, etc.) your images. The latter one works best with RAW images, which you probably don’t have since you shot on a phone.
• Upscayl for Pixel interpolation (usually doesn’t increase sharpness, just the pixel count if yo want to crop more or print a poster at higher resolution).
• And maybe Huggingface, which also offers quite some image processing AI stuff.

But as I said, please provide some pictures, or at least more information. Just saying “muh pics bad” is almost worthless for me.

+1 from my side. I use Siril constantly to improve the signal-to-noise-ratio of my astro photos.

But I highly doubt that the photos OP described were shot in RAW and under the exact same conditions

It now works, thanks!
Just as a small note, you have to export the .svg-drawing as .jpeg first, otherwise, it might lead to legibility-issues.

I sadly can’t open it. If I click on the link, it leads me to the main page, and if I search for it, then the post doesn’t open. Is that intended? I’m on mobile (Firefox) if that matters.

Definitely go for it. Just rebase (after reading what it brings) and see if you like it.
I personally see uBlue-main (with the DE of your choice) just as a minor “fix” of the OG Atomic.

You can switch to uBlue Budgie, which has Distrobox already baked in instead of Toolbx, with other QoL stuff also added too.

Very good read, thanks a lot!

I wanted to post one myself like yours, but now, I can just upvote yours and focus on other content.

As for Toolbx, I personally would recommend Distrobox instead, since it has more features, including the distrobox-export -a yourapp function, which creates shortcuts on your home screen for GUI apps.

I also began to prefer Arch as container over others, since I use zsh with the Arch plugin. Pacman and the AUR are both very minimalist, fast and great.

Right now, I don’t want to use Budgie yet, due to the lack of Wayland support. When it is there, I will give it a try.

Since you have already used some distros, and aren’t the “normal” case, I can’t send you a link to my “Distros for noobs”-post I normally send to those questions.

I think you would benefit from image based distros, especially Fedora Atomic. Here’s a link to my post explaining immutable distros: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

What comes to my mind in your case is Secureblue.
It’s a Fedora Atomic spin that’s focused on security and privacy, which has many hardening-tweaks applied, e.g. better sandboxing, memory allocator and an hardened kernel. It also offers Gnome as DE and still allows you to enjoy most freedoms other distros have.

Definitely check that out!