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[–] TK420@lemmy.world 166 points 1 month ago (18 children)

As all the cool kids keep saying, now is a great time to try out Linux.

No, I’m not recommending a distro for you, that is what DuckDuckGo is for.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 35 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 1 month ago

Literally why I chose Debian as my first distro for daily use.

[–] intro@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh god, what did they do? Do they show ads on the gui?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

I see they have the lobes for business.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let's stick to the facts.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair point.

Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I agree.

They're a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don't hate it personally, but I see why people don't like it.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

way too difficult to set up, i don't have a lot of free time so i need an "out of the box" distro

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LMDE? The comfort of Mint with the stability of Debian. I picked it for my wife, who doesn't want to mess with configs and tinkering around. I play tech support for her system when something goes wrong though.

Seconding LMDE, been on it for a year on my study laptop. Literally never ever had a problem so far, and being an "out of box" distro there's minimal work needed to daily drive.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

i currently use mint and only want to switch because cinnamon has this weird thing when you have a game running, window resizing is laggy. i often have btd6 running when I'm working so it bugs me. kde doesn't suffer from that.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Q4OS is debian with KDE and it's made for ex-Windows users

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

never heard of this one. definitely going to try it!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

i have tried fedora and nobara a few times but they randomly make my hdd unmountable and it's difficult to get it back. even after installing a different distro.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Not sure I'd want to see that, tbh. It would only introduce more avenues for DDG to make questionable choices when they're already on thin ice.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)
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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

No, I’m not recommending a distro for you

Don't worry, everyone else does

[–] Astral08@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Can you run windows games on linux without it being resource intensive like using a vm or something?

[–] Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Gaming in Linux on a windows VM isn’t viable for most systems. Most games run really well through proton with little to no effort. Some even run better on Linux than on windows. You just can’t play a lot of the most popular competitive online games because it flags their anti cheat.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Most of the time, yeah. Check ProtonDB for the particulars regarding any particular game. Games with intrusive DRM or anticheat probably won't work though.

[–] Mosfar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, some on steam, others on wine/bottles/lutrix/etc

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Running software designed and compiled only for XYZ system is always going to incur overhead when translating or emulating to ABC system.

Game authors and publishers who only build for Windows are giving users a big middle finger and essentially saying "You must suffer through Windows in order to enjoy our product hassle-free lol".

What worked for me (which may or may not work for others) was to wean myself away, at first with only playing games that were built natively for linux.

Then moving the line in the sand to only DRM-free native linux builds.

Then advancing to only open source games.

These days, I just don't even play games and I find that it really frees up what kinds of things I want to do on my computers, such as daily driving exotic CPU architectures (and also I have so much more free time for actual meaningful pursuits like learning new skills).

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[–] amongstthetrees@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Many distros nowadays have decent support forngaming accessories and a mix of Lutris and Steam/Proton have given me a near seemless experience on Linux. Smooth enough for my partner to hop ship to Bazzite for their ROG Ally.

Sometimes there are small quirks, like controllers on Bazzite just work™ but on Vanilla OS 2 my xbox controller wouldn't be recognized by Steam or games wirelessly (wired worked) but my DS5 controller worked flawlessly (including the trackpad that I never got to work on Windows).

Most of the Steam library will work well and ProtonDB is a great resource for compatibility. Furthermore there are Decky plugins for setups like Bazzite and Chimera that embed the ProtonDB rating into the Steam game page.

[–] patak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
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