The good and bad of release often could be no more evident than this week. Also there is something wrong with the Linux platform and is System76 doing the right thing.

Release often means having an enoumous amount of trust in the providers and 3rd parties. It also means that at some point your platform librarian has a lot of work and whether it’s timely… frankly it can take you out as it did me.

What is the relationship between Pop_OS and Ubuntu?

Something happened about 10 days ago and my desktop started throwing memory errors when running the Chrome browser in a flatpak. I have other laptops with the same basic OS configuration and they are not having the same issues which also makes this interesting. One would expect all the systems to have the same release level.

So I’m coming back to the idea that ChromeOS is still the way to go. It’s simply better tested and more reliable. Sure it has some quirks but ones that are livable. But as I want to move back to ChromeOS from Pop_OS I’m wondering if Android is actually better for me than ChromeOS.

ChromeOS has some severe limits in OpenVPN and ipsec. When I connect to my customer’s site I do not want to route all my network traffic. I only want their traffic to go that way. I think a complete Android solution is in my future. The hardware demands are pretty reasonable even more than ChromeOS.

While I like ChromeOS terminal and wish that android had one I could trust… it’ll be better than my Linux issues.