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Now that’s what I call… Hard evidence.

I’ll show myself the exit

Say it with me: KDE neon is a testing ground; there is a reason people work on KDE Linux; Ubuntu LTS itself is already a frequent source of problems; KDE killed LTS releases for pretty much the same reason - backporting stuff sucks.

So far they have only made me more gay

KDE Plasma, well known for its very limited customisation options

The nice thing about GNOME is that you immediately get it, on a fundamental level that is. The not so nice thing is that lots of stuff is an add-on, and it’s entirely possible installing the wrong one will brick your desktop

There is. EndeavourOS fundamentally is Arch Linux. You could replicate the exact thing by installing Arch, adding the EOS repos for their utilities, and setting it up to be the same.

Manjaro diverges from Arch in that package versions and the time of updates are manually controlled. This means the project is generally not using the same software as an up-to-date Arch system.

Manjaro promises to be more stable like this, however their approach can lead to compatibility issues with AUR packages, which generally assume up-to-date Arch. It also kinda goes against the philosophy of Arch to invest time in extensive system tests. These issues are why many Arch users don’t particularly like Manjaro

He used to be, but he has become surprisingly chill from what I’ve seen. Maybe it’s just coincidence, but I’m under the impression that “no compiler warnings” thing, as well as the introduction of C11 and Rust played a role in that. In all three instances he made an open minded decision, all of them after he realised he was wrong on numbers one and two

You are right, it’s more like zombieware. No noteworthy DE wants to support it anymore, yet is has not been dropped completely

X11 is dead, stop wasting time on it

I’m sure laptops with only 1 NVMe slot exist, but you can just not buy them

Girl? Do you even Linux?

KDE Plasma offers a UI similar to Windows out of the box, I would say that’s a good start. Introduce them to the endless customisation options and they might start to dig it. Maybe take a distro aimed at gaming like Bazzite.

Other good options inlcude OpenSUSE or Linux Mint, the latter with another, but also similar feeling desktop.

Although caution is advised, this is a slippery slope to becoming a programmer.

Any intel on affected, high-profile software?

How does your boot setup look? Reinstalling the bootloader or regenerating the boot image could help. Should be easy, not matter whether its GRUB2 or systemd-boot. Config is managed separately. Might want to have a look at that as well.

With Dracut it’s also very easy to generate and configure your boot image. Don’t know how it works with that Arch native tool.

I think the main complaint is that it seems like Canonical is trying take control of Linux packaging. Don’t they handle their stuff in a way that pretty much prevents third party ‘Snap Stores’? Like, their backend being closed source and their software only accepting their own signatures?

Aren’t they installed by default on Mint? Definitely are on some distros, I think EndeavourOS and Garuda Linux for example

“That’s neat, I wonder whether I can configure it…”

Pointieststick, Itsfoss, GamingOnLinux, KDE Blogs

Linux basically cannot damage hardware in any way that Windows couldn’t. The hardware/firmware decides what interfaces it offers and what you can configure. If any hardware puts these roadblocks only in the driver or some UI, and (for whatever reason) only the Windows version, I guess you could.

Would be a really strange thing to do tho, since most just implement a generic driver that works everywhere and then at most an interface on top of that.

Package: Uses version of other package dev told it to

User: Complains