To be honest they also kinda suck for not promoting coreboot at all.
They gave some coreboot devs a few laptops, didnt like the result and gave up. Meanwhile people are still working on that in their free time, apparently it isnt even that complicated and kinda just works?
I would generally not recommend running official google apps at all. MicroG works quite well for the things you actually need. I would research on how to flash microG with adb and add the correct elevated privileges.
Or if you need to flash gapps, use this file to only flash the needed apps like playstore and play services and nothing else.
Then afaik you can still disable them on the main profile and only use them in work profile (shelter, island), which would be a big privacy advantage
uBlue also has other variants like Aurora or Bluefin
This was an about:config before, didnt actually need a patch
Somehow remove edge
I am in the EU and the removal doesnt do anything. WinUtil and BulkCrapUninstaller both fail too
Yes I am also a fan of atomic desktops for mass deployments of tailored systems
I just dont like the main ublue images or Fedoras main ones. I used kinoite-main from ublue for 2 years or so, and added a bunch of changes as overlays. It was kinda bad but also kinda good. Things like no longterm kernel being available at all for example.
NixOS is waay harder to use, also less secure for example from the perspective of a non-wheel user, like they have no polkit rules. You have snapshots, automatic updates etc though. And I just replaced my kernel with a longterm cachyos build which also works!
Fedora atomic desktops are fantastic, I really like ostree (which they get rid of, well...) but as soon as you need to change something, you have problems.
I have 3 machines and all have different configs so not even there could I use the same image really.
Well, I tried installing MicroG before and that doesnt just work. You need to flash it as privileged module and put an xml file somewhere to give it elevated permissions.
I found this issue, there seems to be a hole in the docs. The same user also opened another ignored issue that does seem to match my impression of very lacking docs and a low focus on security for microG too...
It is the fastest, nothing more
No transparent compression is important too, you will need more storage than when using BTRFS with zstd compression
Also no deduplication, so again more storage
I can recommend universal blues base kinoite image as it includes distrobox, all video codecs and has an nvidia variant for the poor nvidia users
Works, fedora atomic desktops with ostree and no changes. If you want changes using rpm-ostree that will become really slow.
NixOS is also immutable and if you dont stumble over something that needs compilation as it is not in the binary caches, it runs very fine on lower end hardware like my Chromebook. Not a potato but pretty damn slow
Framework if you dont mind relying on the Community for coreboot support.
Otherwise System76, Novacustom, Starlabs, Nitropad, ... there is a handful of sellers of coreboot laptops which is a market you should totally invest in. Coreboot is amazing and there is quite a variety!
Also not to forget Chromebooks, but they are extremely limited and mostly unrepairable.
There is a microG compatibility table, it is only a limited subset but by far less invasive than google play services