Distrohopped to CachyOS
After the recent upgrade to Pop_OS!, a few things broke enough to push me into changing distros this evening to CachyOS
There was enough friction and graphical problems switching from whatever the old default was to COSMIC that it was interfering with my workflows.
But the real problem was Flatpak. I wanted to put a policy on my Brave installation to prevent mucking about with the extensions. I like to block my system off in the late evening, so I don't fall into rabbit holes and lose sleep. I use Freedom to do this, but it is trivially easy to shut off the extension with Chromium-based browsers unless you set a policy.
A policy would add extra steps to do it, and enough friction to have to think about it and stop myself, but no matter what I tried, I could not get the policies to work with the Flatpak version, and I could see no option to install Brave with the built-in package manager.
So I did what most people who use Linux do and burned my OS to the ground when it defied my will. It did give me a chance to move my home directory to a separate drive and do some other ought-tos. It will also let me try Firefox again (which did accept my policy file) and see if it cooperates better with Google Drive. Sadly, unless I leave my job, I'm stuck with some Google products.
There are still some things I need to fix or find, but I have enough reloaded to do work tomorrow.
I also added the Bear Blog trending posts to a feed inside Betterbird.