Been using it as my daily driver for the last couple of years and I am very happy with it.
When there are issues they are solvable, and the options for getting software, via apt, snap, flatpak, etc. Means that I can really pick and choose how I use my machine.
Even gaming is so much better than it used to be. A lot of things just work.
Very happy with it, and the latest update was quite a nice little refresh of the UI.
My absolute favourite part of the update is being able to save things to “Starred” files directly from the download window. I didn’t realize how much it bothered me.
Y’all making me want to try Ubuntu again. It was go to whenever I dual booted, but finally made the full time switch to fedora a while back. Maybe I should dual boot fedora/Ubuntu for the fun of it. Haha.
I don’t do anything in depth enough for those things to really impact me. I’m mostly a browser and Google docs person. Honestly, my biggest gripe with fedora isn’t even a fedora problem, it’s just that anytime I look up how to do something, it gives Debian based instructions and I get a little lost trying to figure out how to do it on fedora.
Usually it’s not that different, though substitute dnf for apt, and package names might be slightly different. If you find instructions for Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky, or Alma they’re usually all compatible since they’re all derived from the same source.
I know Steam works great on Linux because I’m currently on Fedora, but there are non-Steam computer things I want to use that have official support on Ubuntu and I’m thinking of trying it, but if Steam and xpadneo have trouble on Ubuntu, there’s no point in even trying.
I’m trying to find one distro to rule them all handle all my use cases.
Hu? I can’t think of any software only running on ubuntu and not other distributions…
Most of the time, the official website only tells you how to install on debian based distributions (either by recommending you to install a .deb manually (do not do that, plz) or by adding a source to apt (this is the correct way on debian based distros.)
On fedora, you can either find a DNF source or find a rpm package. apparently, you can as well convert a deb file to a rpm file using alian.
But to have the most compatible and most recent linux, I recommend using Arch with yay (AUR pkg-manager). Most easy way to get there, is to install EndeavourOS, since it preinstalls all you need to start your journey.
I didn’t say it wouldn’t run, I said it doesn’t receive official support from the company that makes it. I have used this software on Fedora, but it doesn’t work quite right and they won’t help because they don’t officially support the distro. I want everything I use to work as well as possible, and if it doesn’t, I want to be able to tell the dev(s) and they will actually look into it at least rather than doing nothing at all.
Been using it as my daily driver for the last couple of years and I am very happy with it.
When there are issues they are solvable, and the options for getting software, via apt, snap, flatpak, etc. Means that I can really pick and choose how I use my machine.
Even gaming is so much better than it used to be. A lot of things just work.
Very happy with it, and the latest update was quite a nice little refresh of the UI.
Until you realise that apt on ubuntu installs snap stuff
My absolute favourite part of the update is being able to save things to “Starred” files directly from the download window. I didn’t realize how much it bothered me.
Y’all making me want to try Ubuntu again. It was go to whenever I dual booted, but finally made the full time switch to fedora a while back. Maybe I should dual boot fedora/Ubuntu for the fun of it. Haha.
Don’t. I just set up a Linux Mint system for someone. I had a hell of a time trying to figure out the convoluted network and dns systems.
I use Windows on the desktop right now, but if I switched to Linux, it would probably be Fedora. I’d suggest sticking with that.
Linux mint is fantastic breh. You’re doing something wrong.
Probably. But it shouldn’t be that difficult to just set the damn DNS servers. Used to be you just edited resolv.conf and that was it.
Idk I’ve never needed to do that in a personal setting.
I don’t do anything in depth enough for those things to really impact me. I’m mostly a browser and Google docs person. Honestly, my biggest gripe with fedora isn’t even a fedora problem, it’s just that anytime I look up how to do something, it gives Debian based instructions and I get a little lost trying to figure out how to do it on fedora.
Usually it’s not that different, though substitute dnf for apt, and package names might be slightly different. If you find instructions for Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky, or Alma they’re usually all compatible since they’re all derived from the same source.
How is it with Steam? I started my Linux journey with Fedora, but some of the other things I want seem to have better support on Ubuntu.
Steam works great! And the games that run smoothly on Proton (Steam’s Wine type software to “emulate” a windows machine) goes up all the time.
I think there is no performance difference as compared to Windows for a lot of games now.
Driver’s for graphics cards are still finnikcy but once you get it right a few times it gets easier to know what you need to do
I know Steam works great on Linux because I’m currently on Fedora, but there are non-Steam computer things I want to use that have official support on Ubuntu and I’m thinking of trying it, but if Steam and xpadneo have trouble on Ubuntu, there’s no point in even trying.
I’m trying to find one distro to
rule them allhandle all my use cases.Hu? I can’t think of any software only running on ubuntu and not other distributions…
Most of the time, the official website only tells you how to install on debian based distributions (either by recommending you to install a .deb manually (do not do that, plz) or by adding a source to apt (this is the correct way on debian based distros.)
If on Arch, you most likely find the software you searching in the AUR, and on OpenSuse at https://software.opensuse.org/packages
On fedora, you can either find a DNF source or find a rpm package. apparently, you can as well convert a deb file to a rpm file using alian.
But to have the most compatible and most recent linux, I recommend using Arch with yay (AUR pkg-manager). Most easy way to get there, is to install EndeavourOS, since it preinstalls all you need to start your journey.
I didn’t say it wouldn’t run, I said it doesn’t receive official support from the company that makes it. I have used this software on Fedora, but it doesn’t work quite right and they won’t help because they don’t officially support the distro. I want everything I use to work as well as possible, and if it doesn’t, I want to be able to tell the dev(s) and they will actually look into it at least rather than doing nothing at all.