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Ubuntu 26.04 Will Be the Worst Ubuntu Release Ever (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils. Why the MIT license? Why not stick to GNU GPL?

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (40 children)

I really don't know what to do for my next desktop distro.

I don't use my PC exclusively for gaming. So things like Bazzite or Nobara are not my jam.

Arch-based distros seem too bleeding-edge. I don't have that much free time to troubleshoot my PC. That's why Ubuntu was so appealing to me. It just worked! Now I feel that with the latest LTS I'm going to be trapped into Canonical's ecosystem with Snaps or risk borking my install. I hate this idea.

I might just move to Debian Stable. I don't mind being a big behind if it means having a rock solid system. I'm also very used to the Debian packaging system. Also there's no company behind it that might take it in a certain direction.

Alternatively there could be OpenSUSE Tumbleweed slow roll, but apparently it doesn't play well with NVidia graphical drivers? I'm also not used to their ecosystem at all.

Tough decisions ahead.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Try Linux Mint (or LMDE).

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah but I really like the KDE Plasma desktop.

[–] nieuemma@mastodon.de 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace @Goodlucksil In my experience with Arch I never really had issues unless I fucked around with stuff I shouldnt. Sometimes I wanted to just mess with stuff and see what would happen. Normal daily use, no issues though.

Nowadays I use Alpine because I don't want SystemD, which I would not recommend because it takes some doing to make stuff work right.

If you don't need up-to-date new releases of software, Debian is totally fine. Fedora worked okay for me too, but fuck IBM and RedHat and such.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. Going to revisit Endeavour and Cachy along with some others.

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