• thepineapplejumped
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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      5 hours ago

      Until you realise that apt on ubuntu installs snap stuff

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      10 hours ago

      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.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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        8 hours ago

        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.

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      10 hours ago

      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.

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        4 hours ago

        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.

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          2 hours ago

          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.

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        9 hours ago

        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

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          8 hours ago

          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.