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Any beginner guide that advises against Ubuntu does disservice to beginners. It’s doing the opposite of helping beginners get into Linux. Ubuntu is still the easiest on-ramp to Linux today by far, despite anyone’s feelings about Canonical. Avoiding it harms Linux adoption.

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Windows used to break all the time, Microsoft was evil, that Ubuntu thing showed up.

Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

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Removing snap is somewhat unwise. Ignoring it is the safe way to go. Ubuntu might ship a system component you’re not aware of via snap. If you kill snap support you may end up with a broken system. To avoid headaches, simply ignore snap.

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Yes. However the level of difficulty increases.

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Solving problems is what becomes more difficult. There’s rarely issues with the happy path. The further away you move from mainline, the more components are different, the fewer of the solutions on askubuntu.com work by simply copy-pasting them. A novice user has no idea what the solutions do and why they don’t work. Instead they have to keep trying other copy-pasta hoping some would work. At best taking longer to solve it, and at worst some copy-pasta breaking something on their system.

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While you’re right, this expectation is unrealistic. Not only is it unrealistic for novice hobbyists, it’s unrealistic for people who use Linux to do other things, not for the sake of using Linux or learning its innards. For example my family members who use it for work an leisure. They couldn’t and won’t be bothered with learning how hibernation on Linux works. They want hibernate to work. The have me to make it work for them but folks who don’t will go to askubuntu.com, grab a well upvoted answer and copy-paste it straight into a terminal.

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archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

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My espresso machine runs Ubuntu. 🎤🫳

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XWayland

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Yes. It even pulls the image for you if you don’t have it.

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And yes.

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Whenever you get bored:


<span style="color:#323232;">~$ sudo docker run -it --rm archlinux bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[root@5452124778b3 /]# pacman -Syu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">:: Synchronizing package databases...
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> core downloading...
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> extra downloading...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">:: Starting full system upgrade...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">resolving dependencies...
</span>
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Use a package management system that supports this use case.

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Qt with C++ is a spectacular environment to develop UI apps in. Coupled with QtQuick it’s even better. It’s perhaps only outclassed by Flutter. As others have mentioned, there’s lots of inertia behind GTK+. There’s also past issues with licensing which made the OSS community prefer GTK+ to Qt.

I’ve no idea what’s involved in using Qt in Rust but people starting new UI apps in C and GTK+ today are likely doing a disservice to themselves and the larger OSS community that could contribute to development and maintenance.

New to Linux, have a few questions

I currently use Windows 10 and I’d like to try out Linux. My plan is to set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE tumbleweed and KDE Plasma. I’ve read so many different opinions about choosing a distro, compatibility with gaming and Nvidia drivers, and personal issues with the ethos of different companies like Canonical. I value...

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If you encounter problems you can’t find information on, do Ubuntu LTS next and use askununtu.com, help.ubuntu.com and wiki.ubuntu.com. The existing documentation and the largest community is what makes this the easiest option. Once you gain XP for a couple of years that XP is transferrable to Debian.

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I was joking. It’s not abandonware, however it’s an atrocious development toolkit compared to Qt.

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https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b674d64c-55f6-45ab-bde8-2920da26f0ef.png

Yup. I’m running the default size and mine’s at the line.

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Because Canonical bad.

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/sarcasm

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Serving files over HTTPS is not difficult to implement If anyone cared. Even if the cloud backend was open source you still wouldn’t use it. Downvote now!

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Ooof. That hurt.

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Apply the same argument to that.

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Upstart 😶‍🌫️

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Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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I like snaps.

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