99% of Linux users don’t experience ‘random’ boot problems. Ever.

it would be important for fixing bugs, I guess?

I think this is where the sandbox~y nature of Flatpak comes in. It doesn’t really care for the distro-environment, because it creates its own distro-agnostic one; ensuring that software continues to work regardless of the shit-show going on elsewhere.

It is for this and other reasons that some developers vouch for Flatpak.

Very interesting! Thank you for mentioning this! I suppose including a link to the article in the main body would help alleviate this issue.

Honestly, I’m not familiar with the specifics. Can’t help you out further. Wish ya good luck!

I mean, like… To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?

Obviously, I’m not the author. But if I’d have to guess, their answer would likely be “Yes.”.

Author’s disclaimer:

“Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.”

Didn’t know Flatpak was a distro though

Author’s disclaimer:

“Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.”

Thanks OP for the clarification!

Unfortunately, I don’t think can I really help ya out here. However, I do wonder: Would a solution involving the (so-called) unsafe browser of Tails satisfy you?

OP, could you please properly vocalize what you actually want/need?

If you don’t know how, consider at least to answer the following:

• Do you need it to be amnesiac? The very thing that defines Tails*.
• What’s wrong with Tor? Is your threat model so paranoid that you (somehow) don’t even trust Tor? Or, are you not in favor of its (relatively) low bandwidth? Or, is privacy and/or security not even a thing you seek after to begin with? Or, at least not beyond what your average distro provides already*.
• What do you intend to do with it? Daily drive it? If so, do you need persistence?
• What does “Tails without Tor reliance” provide/offer you beyond a LiveUSB from any other distro? Or, rather, what do you hope it will provide/offer you?

FWIW, I’m afraid we might be dealing with a classic XY problem. Hopefully I’m just mistaken…

The only thing is that there’s not a lot of distro-specific guidance out there

I’m genuinely curious to hear what’s missing here.