• PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    23·
    7 days ago

    Unpopular opinion: I love Ubuntu. No, I don’t use snaps at all. I have an Nvidia GPU and it’s literally the only OS working out of the box. Yes I tried Debian, I’m too busy to fiddle with drivers. No, I can’t get rid of the GPU, I depend on it for critical workflows. I love the minimalism of Gnome. Never liked KDE/Cinnamon honestly, they’re too busy for my tastes. For 15 years I’ve tried other distros and I’m always back on Ubuntu. I’ll ride the purple penguin to my grave.

    Downvotes only please.

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      I’ve always admired Ubuntu for making installing nVidia driver pretty painless.

      I don’t know nVidia gpu you have, but I’m looking at immutable distros and I found Aurora, (based on Fedora Kinonite). Before I even downloaded the iso, they asked if I had an nVidia chipset and which one. I simply selected the driver for my older 1650 chipset and they automatically added the correct driver into the iso. I installed it and everything was working properly on first boot.

      It was without a doubt the most painless nVidia driver install I’ve ever had on ANY OS.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Trying to help with the downvote situation. Glad you decided on a distro that works for you and you’re not succumbing to the pressure.

    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Dosent even have to be the way you like it. It only has to be the way that lets you get work done. If you can get work done on your thinking sand tool then it is a good tool.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 days ago

    You can have your cake and eat it too! Just install Arch in a VM to play around with without jeopardizing the stability of your main machine. Once you feel comfortable, you can make the switch. Or not. Having choices is great.

  • ghen@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    5 days ago

    I’m on kubuntu. I can just Google questions with ubuntu attached to the query and it tells me a gui solution if it’s available. Bonus, there’s far less people telling me I’m doing it wrong, they just assume I’m a newbie.

  • CosmicSurgeon@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 days ago

    I have the same problem with NixOS and Debian.

    Currently every family computer and server in the house runs Debian 12 as a base. But the urge to convert everything to Nix one day still tickles me, who knows someday…

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      I tried three times. Failed 3 times.

      And I started with Slackware in the 90s. I can handle jank.

      But Nix really needs to take a clue from Arch on the documentation front…

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Fedora doesn’t ship video accelerated mesa drivers(which are open source) by default and is a bit of pain in the ass to setup. They do that because they are very much tied to IBM and have to respect software patents(maybe for legal reasons). This is for intel and AMD graphics and if you take fedora as plug and play, browsers will use cpu to decode vidoes and and heats up as if i’m gaming when i play a simple video.

        I use fedora too but hates this specific thing. Most other distros ship with official mesa drivers.

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        Fedora includes incomplete video codecs that can’t use GPU acceleration. This forces the CPU to do the decoding. Fedora claims it’s because of imaginary “patent issues” due to its IBM backing. You can install the correct ones from RPM Fusion, but it’s an extra step and it’s not made clear that this is even a problem. You might notice only after you wonder why you have such high CPU temperatures while doing basic things like browsing the web.

  • idefix@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 days ago

    There is a lot of propaganda for Fedora these days. Something I see much less frequently for Arch and its derivatives. Isn’t that meme based on old facts?

    • Headbangerd17@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      It’s not propaganda. Fedora’s just that good. Been using it since 2019 myself. Never felt the need to distrohop after.

      • idefix@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 days ago

        Opposite experience from me. I feel at home with Debian and Arch but there was always something wrong with Fedora.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      1·
      7 days ago

      Hell yes! Mint 4 life!

      I am convinced that I will try Arch or similar some day in the future simply because of SteamOS switching over to being based off of it. But for now, I develop software for embedded Linux systems all day at work. When I get home it’s either family time inside or it’s playing “engineer turned farmer” in my back yard. Literally digging in the dirt and building stuff out of wood. Feels good man.