Anyway, maybe it’s just been an unfortunate coincidence that major flatpaks came in to my system with in two days. (Bearing in mind, I had only done the install of Kubuntu a couple of days ago). So far, no more updates to flatpak platforms have came down.
And as @BorisRabit mentioned, flatpaks are the only way to get some software (Displaycal), which is uninstallable on distros due to certain dependencies being depreciated.
Plus as @paperdigits says, flatpaks do help a user get a specific application installed, regardless of distro & it’s dependencies.
Hi Brian, sorry can’t read all of the 101 posts but this struck me:
I don’t want to get to philosophically and don’t want to throw with buzzwords (while rereading the post I thought that buzzword became already a buzzword itself : D whaaaaat?) but for me this sounds like a common desease which circulates in a capitalist system. The thought that there is always something you could improve or a product that changes your life for the better. Normally after getting the desired thing (distro / camera / lens) or whatever, the feeling that you don’t have “the best” comes back and you’re kept in a circle constantly changing things. The problem is that this feeling is insatiable. Which reminds me of a good documentary from a great photographer. Maybe some of you already know and some don’t but if you have the chance watch “generation wealth” from Lauren Greenfield. It’s one of my favoutire documentaries.
Don’t get me wrong. Installing distros and testing them is fun and buying camera-gear is also nice : ). I also really enjoy it but it won’t change a lot in the end : D.
This is why I refuse to install Flatpaks. Each application gets exactly what it needs, but the dependencies are installed multiple times (only when there are any differences, in theory).
I can’t open my Photos (that are in a /Photos) or even the pictures still in the SD card
I can’t open screenshots because the screenshot app shares the files via /tmp
I can’t easily upload files after editing them (or edit just downloaded ones) because Gimp has its own copy of ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
On the bright side this motivated me to learn how to build my own Gimp even though my distro (Kubuntu 20.04) is so outdated it is starting to smell funny.
Yes, there is that aspect too. Plus a distro may get updated to a Shiny New Release, (e.g. *buntu 22.10) but the PPAs which a user uses aren’t yet updated.
Personally, I’ve never been tempted to distro hop. When I switched over to Linux, I tried three or four distros at most before settling on the one I knew was right for me; I’ve never had any reason to change.
I couldn’t care less what everyone else uses; my distro is the best for me, the software I run on it is the best for me, the set up it’s all running on is the best for me, and so is all the stuff I take photos with.
Anyhoo, after a month or so of running KDE Neon, I think I’m going to go back to Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. While all the KDE updates Neon brings are nice and fancy if you want to test the latest KDE versions, I think I’d rather stick to the stability which Kubuntu LTS brings.
I was happy running fedora but a week or two ago they broke nvidia by deciding to remove VESAFB and EFIFB support from their distributed kernel. bug
It’s unfortunate but expected since they don’t support nvidia. I understand their philosophy but it’s a shame as nvidia is still used by more than half the people with desktop gpus and sometimes the only choice with compute workloads. This also means that I can no longer recommend fedora to non linux-savy friends, as the distro might break user space without any warning whenever they feel like it.
I’m back to arch (EndeavourOS this time to see how it is).
I ran Fedora years ago but without an LTS release got tired of the constant upgrades and breakage. I eventually settled on Xubuntu LTS (after a brief dalliance with CentOS), where I stayed for ~6+ years until my current laptop bought a year ago. It came with Windows 11 and I’ve not replaced it yet.
If you are interested to give Fedora another go - I have been using it for years and had virtually no issues with the last handfull of upgrades - even after putting the ssd into a new laptop . It just runs very nicely and smoothly with xfce.
My advice would be to always wait about two weeks with an upgrade though, because if there are issues, they will most likely be solved then (of all apps, dt had an issue with a dependency last time, which was resolved after a couple of days). Or you simlpy skip every second upgrade and just upgrade once a year.
Might be worth considering a double-boot config, as especially dt should perform better under Fedora than under Win11.
Of course, the double-boot advice applies to Xubuntu, and to other apps, as well: GIMP starts blazingly fast on my linux machine and takes ages on my Win machine.
I had a double boot machine AGES ago, Red Hat 8 (9?) and Windows 98. I found that it was more trouble than benefit – constant rebooting. The strongest pull keeping me on Windows ATM are some specialized Windows-only apps I need. I’ve also run them in a VM before but I’ve not gone to the trouble of seeing if my embedded Windows license could be extracted and applied to a VM.
I’m done with dual boots I think. My most recent one was just as a backup. I just did the same Arch install but with OpenBox and just keeping it updated started to annoy me.
I’ve just got a new PC and decided to give Garuda a go due to the easy Arch installer that I used no longer being maintained. So far so good everything just works. I’ve gone back to KDE because I switched to Awesome WM and it’s nice to use it again but I’ve set up Awesome as well from my backup and will be using that too.
I’ve done a Win11 VM with VMware for the Windows software I have and have to say I like Win11 to use and it’s running great, running far better than win10 did on my old machine when I dual booted it with Linux for a while.
After some distro hopping (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse) I am back at dual boot. Mainly using Win 11 currently, because I am tired of handling issues with suspend and power management and I like using Affinity and DxO PureRaw from time to time.
My current Linux installation is Ubuntu 22.10, but I have issues with the fans. I like the quietness, but temperature gets rather high. It’s a Dell Inspiron 7510 with dedicated Nvidia. Are there any ideas or tools you can recommend? Would love to use e.g. vkdt.
Recently jumped ship again, from Fedora to Mint 21.
I’ve been running Fedora with KDE about a year now, a very good distro, but a bit too bleeding edge for me. Every day there are (hundreds) of megabytes of updates, sometimes breaking stuff. Also the KDE desktop offers me way too much choices and options. Always tinkering and changing my mind…
I installed Linux Mint on a very old laptop for my 6 year old daughter to do some homework and was really impressed by the ease of use, clean uncluttered interface and speed, so I decided to give a try myself…