Gnome isn’t bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome’s experience is great.
Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more “bloated” than what you’d expect, but still, ubuntu isn’t half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes
And ubuntu server rocks
Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases
Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen’t from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying “I use arch btw”)
Fedora 40 with kde plasma 6 dropped a day or two ago, and they did remove x11, you have to get it from the repo in case you want it, otherwise, it only comes and is planned for wayland, which I believe is great, for once it does seem like the year of wayland
Your work app may be electron based (which is a bit too common nowadays), and until they update to electron 29, wayland won’t probably work.
(or until they add xwayland video bridge, but the former option is better than the latter.
I don’t know how you messed that up, usually the switch is as easy as it can be, and the issue comes when using it, for its lack of explicit sync, causing apps to flicker, and frame pacing in games to be plain bad
This is being fixed in the next two months thankfully
Edit: Taking about Nvidia wayland support here, AMD and Intel are great
Too much, just, too much
Recently in Spain a small pub/bar owner had been streaming all important football matches through piracy to avoid paying 400€/mo for something only a handful of people would be seeing in such remote place.
She was demanded, sent to court, and won. For piracy, southern Europe is crazy good.
May I add, I also use Symfonium, it’s the best one by far, but it isn’t open source as OP is asking.
That said, the Dev is a good guy, and the app has 1 month free trial (without asking for credit card or anything)
It’s 5,49 I believe, single payment. Totally worth it.
That works, but If you are okay with that experience, I encourage you even more to give libretube a try
It’s open source, and doesn’t collect user data, and works in my opinion better than firefox+ublock on android
On pc firefox+ublock is great, for now at least
You know what doesn’t suck?
I like revanced, but these are cooler :)
Until you hit a wall looking for some indie stuff and the only guy you find asks you for money lol.
But besides a couple of those, soulseek’s great, and usually people there try to go for quality, or at the very least will have the right metadata. If not, there’s a couple deezer downloaders on github that work really good, and an older one hosted in the internet archive I believe.
Is explicit sync a good enough solution to make wayland gaming with nvidia a reality(+ remove window flickering like some people claim it will)? It’s the last obstacle I find now trying to move my main pc to linux, and I don’t really want to use x11.
Pd. Lesson learned, next time I’ll get an AMD gpu.
If you care about quality and want to grind for a couple or more months*
To summarize: It was a copycat version of CocoaBob’s GBA4iOS, uploaded without his consent, and on top of that, filled with ads and tracking user data.
First: This looks really great, awesome man
Second: Fucking great taste, I was just watching a two minute papers video when I saw this, Brodi’s awesome too
Worth it? Sure, but I’d try to grab a 2nd hand steamdeck instead, similar prices, but much more capable
It isnt the best one, but its cheap, allows port forwarding and its not sketchy as far as we know
Air vpn
Been thinking about buying a similar setup, and you just pushed me into buying a “Chinabox”
Let’s see how this goes, if It explodes you owe me a beer, and a pair of hands, and another chinabox (I’m not a quitter)
Some will use the built in note editor, some the built in music player, some the built in video player, and now some will use matrix
Mint isn’t overly bloated, or even “bloated”, these apps are useful for a decent part of the demographic, and having them preinstalled lowers the friction a new user feels when installing a new OS