I use it. Itās fine. Livepatch is nice, not needing to reboot to apply kernel updates can make the āboot computer, install updates, reboot computerā cycle a bit shorter. Maybe Fedora also has that? Arch and friends certainly donāt do it.
Snap is an annoying feature that mostly just makes life harder for people starting out on Ubuntu. If youāre here, chances are you can run the three or four commands to rid yourself of Snap. Snap has also gotten better in terms of performance, though the store situation still sucks.
Snapās RAM impact is minimal. You end up with multiple versions of the same dependency in memory (wasting tens to hundreds of megabytes) but the same is true for Flatpak or Docker or AppImage. My biggest annoyance is snaps mounting on boot and taking a few seconds, but itās really not that bad. Actually, thatās a lie, my biggest annoyance is the (ćą² ēą² )ćlowercase āsnapā folder in my home directory į(ą² ēą² į) that you canāt remove or snap will break.
The Amazon search thing was what, ten years ago? Just click no on the ādo you want to submit debug logsā prompt.
I personally use the default desktop. Gnome is fine. Some people are married to their Windows clones, for those Cinnamon or KDE is also fine.
I would indeed recommend Ubuntu stable. Being able to install the OS and not risk breaking anything for half a decade is pretty nice. Certainly beats my Arch-derivatives experience. Ubuntu and Kubuntu both come with the standard suite of tools youād expect for those desktop environments. You can even install both (though youāll have tons of duplicate applications if you do).
Fedora does more frequent updates, with more changes over time and more stuff possibly breaking. If you want the latest and greatest, Fedora may be better. Software is generally less supported on Fedora though. I also kind of trust IBM even less than I do Canonical to do the right thing, so thereās that.
The biggest problem with Ubuntu is that itās popular and has been for years. A lot of old āhelpfulā forum topics will have you open up a terminal, paste some random commands, and break your OS next time you try to update. Iād recommend avoiding any terminal commands for as long as possible when it comes to troubleshooting. The GUI does most things pretty well these days.
No Fedora doesnt at all have livepatching. I think APT distros are great at not needing reboots, Fedora sucks. Its offline installer doesnt work well enough to excuse the reboots.
Fedora Atomic Desktops meanwhile offer awesome unbreakability. I use Kinoite daily and dont plan on switching. Even though using latest Plasma, it just doesnt break.
I would choose a different Distro though, if I didnt want rpm-ostree. Just not sure what? Kubuntu? No. Arch? Hell no. OpenSUSE Slowroll with KDE probably, yes that would be it.
Lutris seems really cool. I couldnāt get it to work.
Iām on Arch and I tried both the native package as well as the Flatpak version. None of them worked. Something going wrong when installing some shit in an automated installer, I dunno. I wish I could find a good guide. Iām usually handy with these things but I donāt understand the error messages, soā¦
I have not, although I might. The only HMD I used was a Windows Mixed Reality one, which they just torpedoed support on Windows anyway. I hear it works on Linux, so that might be a weekend project
Itās been a while so my info is likely out of date- but my vive worked perfect with Linux, steam VR support was great. Meta/oculus support was non existent.
The meme is mostly a relic from the days when installing Arch was a very involved and mostly manual process ā it wasnāt to the level of LFS, but you had to configure most of the base system, and it would leave you with a pretty bare-bones setup (no GUI by default, etc). So it was a pretty big hurdle and successfully installing it did give you a bit of nerd cred, though even then the āarch BTWā meme was tongue in cheek.
These days itās just one of the most well-supported rolling release distros, and itās got automated installers and GUI spins just like any popular distro. The two biggest assets are the AUR and the wiki.
NixOS does kind of feel like the spiritual successor in terms of effort to set up, and in that immutable OSes are kind of the next big thing, like rolling release was fairly unconventional when Arch was taking off.
Theyāll probably use another mediocre modem that will again make cellular reception mediocre. Until they fix that problem, there is no reason to take that phone line seriously.
I donāt want to be a pain, but itās not ābasically Mint running on an M1 iMac.ā itās Asahi/Fedora running Cinnamon. Also, youāve connected an external monitor for an M1 iMac? Do you mean itās an M1 Macbook instead?
For most things I usually just wait with the original price in mind until a sale comes along. I donāt need most stuff with any haste. For events, hotels, and the like Iāll do a quick coupon search on the internet but it usually doesnāt exceed 5 minutes.
I was asking myself the same. As everyone talk about these I used them until I discovered ChekMK, and others. Now Iām no longer using Grafana and Prometheusā¦
Thatās like seeing the Otaku gang, deciding to give this Anime a go, watching Dragon Ball and asking āwhatās so special about this?ā.
Some people make some random thing their personality, others enjoy the same thing without making a big fuzz about it. Arch is great because of the wiki and the AUR, other distros have their own pros and cons.
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