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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 2 months ago (17 children)

Gonna repeat something I said a little while ago.

If you're planning to try Linux but have no experience with it, the best piece of advice I was given is this. Learn how the filesystem is structured. It will make everything else you try to do easier.

You're also going to get a ton of conflicting advice on which distro to use. Pop OS or Mint are my suggestions. [email protected] is a good resource to know about too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Honestly, even if I don't like Snaps that much, Ubuntu/Kubuntu ain't so bad after all. I've been running it as a daily for months now on my Linux-only gaming PC and it's working quite well. There's good support for proprietary drivers and media codecs out of the box.

And personally, I'd advise on using the Kubuntu version because KDE is so much closer in terms of desktop paradigm than Gnome.

And Fedora ain't bad either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Canonical (Ubuntu) bastardized their own OS. I recommend Mint Debian for noobs; Mint is what Ubuntu used to be when it was good and going Debian gets away from Canonical entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait what did they do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Snaps, their own app-in-a-box format. Which would be fine, except they're provided only by Ubuntu's closed-source Snap Store, have larger size and inferior performance because dependencies are redundantly rolled into each one, and the worst part is that they started turning nearly every app in their OS into a Snap. If you sudo apt install firefox, you get a Firefox Snap instead of a native package.

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