Ah I was getting it confused. At one point Steam stored everything in ~/.local/share/steam and symlinked ~/.steam to it. Doesn’t appear to be the case on Ubuntu 22.04, though I used to use Debian and grab the .deb from Valve’s website. My bad! :)
No, .cache is similar to a temporary directory (or at least in theory) where important data isn’t supposed to be stored there, instead only temporary files that might speed things up (e.g. images in a browser or thumbnails in a file manager). In this case it looks like all of my AUR packages had their source files cached, which added up over the ~1.75 years that I’ve been running this distro
If you do enable the packman repo, expect intermittent dependency conflicts when running zypper dup. When it happens, wait a day or so for repos to update.
Just try it out and see how you like it. It’s been around as long as it has for a reason. And if you don’t like it, there are other fast moving distros. Fedora and Arch/Endeavour have similar packages.
I made the same switch earlier this year. The only real issues I can recall were learning to update flatpak manually because it holds up the other updates if I don’t do that through the Konsole first.
Granted, that might just be my system, but I generally have had far fewer issues with Tumbleweed than I’ve ever had with Mint.
Oh, and my art tablet gets tagged as a game controller for some reason, but it works for what I need it for so I haven’t bothered to fix it.
Default? Top left. It should be visually appealing to most people, and it would honestly just be odd to have the default wallpaper be cartoon styled. And the bottom left looks too much like W11. But I think they should all be included as options.
I second raptir’s note about running zypper dup in the terminal to do system updates. Zypper’s a bit slow because it lacks parallel downloads, but it provides good info if there are any issues.
If you plan to use flatpaks, add the flathub repo with the --user option, and use that one to install. If I didn’t go that route, it prompted me to enter my password for every flatpak app with an update. I’m also a deplorable Plasma user 😜, I don’t know if the same behavior happens with Gnome software, it may be a weird Discover thing (shrugs).
Also, if you need the non-free multimedia codecs, run the following commands:
zypper install opi
opi codecs
Automates adding the Packman repo & switching the relevant packages.
Those are the main quirks I learned with Tumbleweed.
Love your analogy. However I must say windows looks terrible. Then again so do suits, so it holds up. I had to run a win10 VM a while back in order to flip the developer bit on the oculus (don’t even get me started on that PoS). Hadn’t used it in years. Felt like some kind of money grab freak show. I couldn’t even mount an iso without having to visit several pushy sites and use one of those creepy installers. That’s when it hit me how digitally spoiled I truly am.
While I too like the analogy, and agree that Windows is becoming increasingly money grabby, I feel the need to be fair: as an OS it has supported native ISO mounting since Win7, just right click an ISO file and choose “Mount”…
What are you referring to exactly by “suits at home” in terms of OSes? I always thought that using Linux is about doing whatever you want / whatever feels most comfortable to you.
Ah right okay. I definitely agree with you, aside from work, I try to use Windows as little as possible. I honestly wish I could use Linux at work too lol.
The problem is, like you said, the suits won, and everyone sees Windows as the default OS. Its preinstalled with most home computers, and that’s what most people know how to use.
If more home computers were installed with an easy flavor of Linux, there would definitely be more users.
Basically MacOS is high end fashion wear that is only workable on a runway and is outrageously expensive. It’s worn as status not for function. You wear it like the designer thinks it should be worn not how you want it otherwise your wearing it wrong.
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