Ah I see. Man I hate how things have become now thanks to AI.
Even YouTube videos now are made by AI with a virtual author and full AI generated animations. It’s crazy.
The worst part is seeing my colleagues work and deliver code that they don’t even know themselves what it does because they got it from GitHub Copilot. It’s insane. I have to sit down with them to review the code so THEY know what their code does.
I’ve never encountered these problems with Ubuntu. And the Wayland as default?? They’ve only started imposing it now in 26.04. So I don’t know what you’re talking about.
If you use the *.10 non LTS you can expect trouble. They tell you so. I’ve only ever stuck to LTS versions and never had issues. It was the best distro around until now.
Thanks for your feedback.
I think I might stick with Debian after all. Tumbleweed is nice and all, but I quickly ran into some issues for finding third party proprietary software packages. There isn’t as big a user base either. So finding help when things go bad is a bit more difficult. Otherwise I think it’s a great distro. Much better than arch anyway as far as rolling releases go. And a lot easier to use.
Debian might require a bit more manual work, but I’m pretty used to that distro. So it won’t be a big challenge. And I don’t mind my software being a little behind if it means I get to use my desktop instead of troubleshooting.
Fuck Arch. It’s a little fanboy distro with unstable packages and a user package repo full of infected packages. I’m never gonna touch it. When a distro has to have a dozen derivatives just to solve the problem of using the fucking thing just shows that it’s completely stupid. They push whatever new package they find and let the users deal with the fucking problems. Fuck that.
Debian is the most stable and secure distro with the largest package repo of any Linux distributions. Even third party software companies provides Debian packages. It’s also a community project that’s not backed or controlled by any corporation. They are professional and dedicated. I don’t care that it’s packages are a bit on the older side (2 years? so what?) At least I know I’m not getting infected or that my next update isn’t going to break my system.
I’m so fucking tired of people saying “JuSt UsE cAtChYoS oR bAzZiTe”. No! I don’t want to spend my evenings and weekends troubleshooting my fucking PC because an update failed. I don’t want to spend time reading forums and release note to ensure my next update isn’t going to fuck up everything. I’m already working IT at my day job. I don’t want to spend my free time doing the same fucking shit. I also don’t want a god damn immutable atomic OS. I want to install packages when I want without having to fucking reboot.
Sorry for lashing out, but I’m just tired of people thinking I’m stupid because I don’t use Catchy or Bazzite. I’ve been using Linux for 25 years. I’ve seen multiple distros come to life and then die a few years later. Arch started strong, but it’s become a clusterfuck and I can’t see it becoming anything serious in the future. Arch is great if you want to fuck around, but it’s terrible if you’re not a student with lots of free time who want any serious hassle-free desktop OS that just fucking works. And the immutable OSes probably have their uses, but they’re not for desktop PCs. (I’d totally see them working on portable devices like smartphones and tablets with flatpaks.)
Anyway,
/rant
I’m a long time Linux user since 2000 or 2001. Started on Mandrake lol. Used RedHat Linux in school too. Then moved to Ubuntu in 2004 and stuck around with them ever since.
I compiled my own Linux kernel to include specific modules for special features on my graphics card back then, like the RCA video input and output. Or for connecting to the internet on DSL. Man, I had a lot of free time back then.
I also worked at Xandros where I build the Linux OS for the Asus Eee PC. Those little 7in and 9in netbook laptops back in 2008.
So, I’m a little bit experienced lol.
Thanks, but I want a KDE desktop.
Cool.
But what about using an optimized kernel? I see there’s the Xanmod or whatever that provides better settings.
Debian could really use a gaming pack.
I really don’t want to use an Arch based system.
I’m worried about stability and security issues. I don’t mind using a distro with slightly older packages if it means I won’t have to troubleshoot anything or risk any vulnerabilities. That’s why I stuck with Ubuntu for so long.
That’s kinda dumb though. Renaming packages differently I mean. Why would they do that?
Yeah I’ve seen it. Haven’t tried it though. The Gnome Desoto as default is a big turn off for me.
This is a great how-to. Thanks for sharing!
Can you tell me more about your gaming experience on Tumbleweed? This is another distro that I’m considering.
It’s literally a couple of shell scripts. It’s some dude’s personal project.
And the code is right there for you to read.
He’s already wrong. If only he were dead.
Then who’d be dead wrong?
Look who’s talking
Remember how Google tried to shove Google+ down everyone’s throat? And G+ was a better social network compared to Facebook.
And now we’re talking slop that people REALLY disn’t ask for.
What are waymos?
It’s not like we didn’t have a near infinite amount of games available from retro 8bit games all the way to the latest and greatest. Honestly, there’s enough games or there that don’t require high end PCs to play.
Heck, I got a long ass list of games I bought nearly 10 years ago that I haven’t ended played yet because I bought so many. On PC and Switch!
I’m good.
Interesting. Maybe it has some good stuff but i really should go through everything and double check.