Fallout from the XZ issue, a question to our users

[marioroy]

I use Google Chrome, installed via rpm2cpio. I also have Chromium Browser installed similarly. Ditto, VSCodium installed via rpm.

Chrome on CL. Again

Some time ago, I stopped sharing scripts due to time constraints maintaining them. This one installs Google Chrome the first time, otherwise updates on subsequent use. I run it periodically. At this moment, Google Chrome is current on my system. $ ~/bin/upd-chrome-stable Google Chrome stable 117.0.5938.149 (current) upd-chrome-stable - Installer/updater combo #!/bin/bash #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Install and update script for Google Ch…

Bah… This is horrible. I’m at a cross point with Clear Linux.

1. Recent GNOME 46 (gnome-terminal specifically) does not work reliably on Xorg. Terminal input has 1 second lapse, randomly. This caused me to rolled back to 41270.
2. The NVIDIA driver has not reached reliability on Wayland (particularly Xwayland). Supposedly, that may not happen until NVIDIA releases version 555.
3. Now this xz problem.

Checking to see how much further to roll back for older xz 5.4.y e.g. Clear 41210. The problem is that there were many broken Clear releases and unsure which one to roll back to. This is until the NVIDIA 555 driver. Perhaps Wayland/Xwayland will work better.