I'm switching to Ubuntu from Debian

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• Heya Hobbyists! Hope you enjoyed this OG Egee Linux video. Look forward to the Debian vs Ubuntu benchmark video! And also, the games in the video are Titanfall 2 (the mecha game) and No Man's Sky.

• I feel ya on data loss, but on a smaller scale because I've always kept my important files on Windows in dual boot.

  I'm currently not using Linux because I think my hardware does not wanna work on it long term, between like 5 flavours of Arch, and OpenSUSE Tumbelweed I keep breaking my install and I'm honestly too tired to deal with it rn. I think it's some incompatibility with my GPU and Nvidia's drivers (I have a 2016 GPU – GTX 1060 6GB) that when I update and reboot my install just borks randomly, but not every time.

  But it could be something else, it's just the reboot thing is the common link, and I can't think of anything else being the same between borks. Heck on OpenSUSE day 1 my install broke, and then a few days later it did again but snapper reported that I couldn't restore because I had no disk space, which I just freed up like 12GB before I rebooted….

• I used to distro-hop a lot. Got tired of it. I liked arch the most, but didn't want to do all the work, so I ran EndeavourOS. Have been running it for almost 2 years and I'm very cozy with it and not going anywhere.

• Never heard someone endorse and like snaps

• I like how the title contradicts the rest of the metadata and thumbnail

• I`m using Kubuntu too (changed from Arch and Debian). What is the name of this game ?
  PS: I wasn`t a fan of snap, because in the beginning the snap-packages were often unstable – but in the new Ubuntu/Kubuntu-Version the snap packages are very stable !

• I've always preferred Mint but choice is the cool thing about linux. I've been running steamos after getting a steam deck and so far it's been working out.

• I do want to like KDE, but it's been pretty heavy on my end too. I also want to continue liking Cinnamon, but these days it feels rather janky.

• Late dock is not on Wayland unfortunately. The plasma panel in plasma 6 is supposed to be a replacement. But I am not a fan of their implementation. That's purely personal preference. You may like it when it comes out. Latte works on x11 only sadly. I am going to miss latte dock. Can never get the plasma panel to work the same way in 5.27 or when I tested plasma 6. It is just so cumbersome compared to latte dock.

• What about Ubuntu studio ?

• The only reason I like Gnome better, because it's a completely different work flow compared with Windows. After a shit day I want something different at home. 😂 KDE is too traditional to me.

• Arch does not have to be a dyi. There are plenty of distros that give you a slick installer to give you a reasonable desktop configuration right out of the gate. Based on your description of what you need and like, it sounds like Arch is where you should be.

• arch was my first distro and still been using it for 4 years now lol

• the ultimate downgrade (use arch btw)

• For the docks, just use a floating panel, it takes some set up, but it works fine once you get there.

• So as far as docks go KDE actually has that functionality built in now, you can make a panel to go at the bottom of the screen give it taskbar icons and then pull the arrows in (can't remember if it's the top or bottom ones) so that it dynamically resizes when you add and remove icons and then you can just tell it to either hide or let windows go over it and boom you got a dock that works in both sessions.

• personally im not really a distrohopper. My non hopping friends probably know what im about to say. Personally I just use mainline distros. Debian, arch, fedora, that kinda thing. Keeps life simple, minimizes the amount of developer shenanigans that can happen, and gives me something dependable in whatever scenario. Plus i get high levels of familiarity. (no endeavouros shenanigans with having to force their keyring due to outdated install. No weird automatic management garbage in the background)

  i recently bought an old thinkpad so i could have a mobile machine to work with from time to time, im thinking right now that im going to install debian on it, and configure it for productivity stuff. And then dual boot with arch in order to provide some bleeding edge software access. That way i can mess with things and test certain software easily.

  i cannot trust any utilities that i am not intimately familiar with. Anything i have that has a backup is almost always an rsync task or something super trivial to verify. Anything that puts the least amount of hoops between me and recovering data is better lol. In fact i recently kitted my server with two 18TB mirrored drives for media storage, and now have two additional 8TB drives sitting around doing nothing. I'm going to put those to use for system backups and what not, since i've been neglecting those.

  snaps just irk me, call me a traditionalist lol. I came to linux longing for simplicity, i'm going to utilize it.

  Last i checked on pre-app boot my KDE system idles under a gb of ram, i think low as 300MB? Maybe i should test it again sometime…

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