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Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11 (www.neowin.net)
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[+] 168 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)
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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    DuckDuckBuntu?

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years 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)

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  • [+] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Former Ubuntu, current Debian, considering Atomic.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    idk if im crazy but i tried like, all, of the commonly reccomended linux distros a few years back when it was my first time and really did not like any of them, and then i tried an arch derivative with plasma kde and then fell in love with arch based distros to the point that i absolutely do not want to use anything else. i tried endeavor os recently and have been loving it!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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