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Nothing wrong with Ubuntu if you just wanna get stuff done and don't have a genuine interest in (or time to spend on) tweaking your OS.
I use Ubuntu btw.
There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn't the place for it.
Debian here. IMO "btw" is reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.
When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can't deal with it at the moment.
I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.
I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu's gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up
I love a boring OS that just works for 90% of things and you just live with whatever the other 10% is - usually some driver quirks or peripheral funk.
I've never used the gui for upgrade but I also have a hard time remembering
do-make-release.Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora's rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.
Dude, right? I've thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can't bring myself to give up ostree.
Silverblue manages to be exciting yet boring.
As in, it is great for everyday work yet still uses newfangled tech under the hood.
I think I'm lucky in that I only had about 1.5-2 years of experience with an Arch-based distro (EndeavourOS) before switching to Bazzite, so I didn't have to unlearn years (if not decades) of traditional Linux work flows before trying to grasp the new tech.
And I love it. Anything that I've wanted to tinker with so far has been tinkerable, it's often just a different process than on a non-atomic or immutable distro.
And aside from that, it's insanely stable. It's almost impossible to break it by accident, and if you do, it has instant, failsafe rollbacks.
Anyway, I know I don't have to sell you on it lol.
The other day I was looking into "Blue Build" which allows to build your own custom Universal Blue spins, as I was wondering if it were possible to have Bazzite but with the Cachy kernel.
I think that's a bit over my head at the moment though haha
I love me some atomic spins....
What do you mean?
I hope this is close enough.
You’re so cooked now that I got your IP
oh shit, don't hack me bro!
Too late, I already know your username is
kieronWell I just changed my IP to
10.0.2.59so GOOD LUCK!No, that is mine!
It looks like you are running this to the AVR, wired or through wifi/BT?
So I have this old sony bravia that technically supports 120hz but only with a custom EDID, and somewhere along the line of making the EDID I screwed up the display name. But I have one HDMI going to the TV and one HDMI going to the AVR for audio (to minimize input latency). It looks even more absurd in display properties lol.
I do CrossFit btw.
As of the latest dumpster fires over there, they're wanting to hide it nowadays!
Dumpster fires? Do you mean the untrusted repository of user-submitted build scripts getting malicious user-submitted content? :P
Keep your official packages and AUR separate, if nothing else at least don't pull from both sources with the same command
I don't know how Arch works as a Minter here. That's good that there's a separation line... Not sure if Mint's Software Mgr has that...
I suspect Mint might just not have anything like the AUR.
AUR stands for Arch User Repository, and it's a place where anybody can create a package. But those packages aren't going into a regular repository, instead they're kept as build scripts, simple code that describes how to make a package.
This is useful for two reasons - it allows users to share packages that aren't making it into the official repositories (because not everything will, there's just too much stuff out there), but it can also have things which can't go into the repos due to licensing (because the AUR doesn't distribute the software, just instructions on how to automatically get it)
There's no official utility to install packages from the AUR - you have to find a package you want on the site, clone the repository, and run
makepkgto build and install it. And for updates you have to pull changes and rebuild it manually. And you're supposed to check yourself to make sure what you're installing is safe. But there are popular unofficial utilities that are intended to replace Arch's built-in package management, automatically finding packages both in the trusted repositories and the untrusted AUR, with no separation.Oh, so it's like a second, unofficial Software Manager. That sounds scary.
Well, yes and no. If you're using any graphical utility to install software, you're already using something similar, since the actual package manager in a distro is usually a commandline utility, and you're using a wrapper around it. Those unofficial package managers don't actually mess with your system files (at least for the most part), they just look at package lists, dependencies, and automatically build AUR packages as necessary before handing everything off to the actual package manager.
The scary bit isn't the package manager being unofficial, it's how it puts untrusted packages on the same level as trusted packages, letting you install it unknowingly.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. I'm sure something has been done about it by now!
I use Ubuntu at work. I don't even care, it's legit 500% faster than my work Windows laptop, despite being objectively lower-speccd.
I use nobara at home. Windows free in my personal life for like a decade at least now. I wanted something solid out of the box, not atomic (I like the idea I just think it's overkill for a home workstation. The sheepdog is a pet, not part of flock), fedora based with good brtfs support.
But Ubuntu is good enough. Not as if "better than windows" is a particularly high bar, though.
Same, one LTS to the next, and all online tutorials assume you're on it. My years of messing with fstab, alsamixer and such are long behind me.
(Started on mandrake in about 2001 btw)
Whatever, as long as your computer is free
I agree
I use Arch btw
What about snaps though?
Honestly asking since I've never actually used them
https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future <--- talks about snaps for a bit too
Oh yeah I forgot about those, I think I actually disabled the snap service, or maybe I have a couple of things via snap but only small gui utilities. I use apt and dpkg for everything else, but it was annoying that they made Firefox snap only since 22.04 unless you add the extra apt repository. Easy enough to work around it and move on though.
Fuck snaps.
I'm forced to use it so it's easy to hate it because of that, every little thing that I know isn't a problem or as hard to do on other distros just makes me long for those.