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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One of the last conversations I had on Reddit was with a guy complaining about how crap Linux is, that he installed Ubuntu and the desktop didn't even work, it went straight to a terminal, and after some prodding he said that he couldn't even get APT to work, and it hit me: "You didn't install Ubuntu Core, their embedded OS version, did you?" No response.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be fair on the guy, Canonical's website is corporate sewage. finding the right ISO is a chore.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I politely disagree. Finding the Core ISO is harder than the Server/Desktop ones. https://ubuntu.com/download/core

There's a Build Your Core button. And that takes you to a docs page that lets you download a pre-built image. I think it's pretty obvious that this is not the Desktop Ubuntu.

[–] mrvictory1 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vector databases as the data foundation for generative AI applications

is what I see when I go to ubuntu.com on mobile. Seriously? Where is the ISO Canonical?! Why do I have to open the menu and choose Products -> Ubuntu OS -> Ubuntu Desktop to reach the ISO?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The money comes from corporate customers, that's the sad truth. If you go to RedHat's website, their Worsktation option is hidden in menus as well. Fedora doesn't seem to be mentioned at all.

[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think the "Ubuntu Core 22" means it is the snap based version of Steam rather than the deb version.

If you look at the snapcraft.yaml for the Steam snap, it uses core22 as its base.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

using snap?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Glad to see it's popularity is waning. Snap is the inferior universal package by many metrics and the steam snap in particular is very not ready for prime time.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nobody can stop me from gaming on my smart toilet (it's smarter than me)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Whatcha playing? Flappy Turd?

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

toilet simulator - to experience what's like to not be constipated.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 10 points 2 days ago

Well played

[–] bruhduh 4 points 2 days ago

c/murderedbywords

[–] legion02 3 points 2 days ago

*crappy turd

[–] Diplomjodler3 3 points 2 days ago

That's not saying much, is it?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Minimal install for maximum frames

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yep, less overheads! This is the way.

[–] Resol 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't use Arch Linux, I use "Arch Linux". Completely different, btw.

[–] mister_frisbie 10 points 2 days ago

it's just how you signal you're using the correct amount of nasal upturn when mentioning "Arch Linux."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I can kinda see it being useful for people wanting to sell a wee box that does nothing but launch a game on steam.

[–] Donkter 9 points 2 days ago

Useful for servers

[–] stupidcasey 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have fedora server edition set up headless primarily to host docker containers and have a noVNC headless steam streaming container on it, does that count?

[–] SirHery 28 points 2 days ago

Funny words magic man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How well is that working for you? This setup in particular, but also streaming steam games in general?

[–] stupidcasey 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It works but the native steam streaming is better, I would recommend a full os with steam running on it and just put the containers on that, you will save a lot of headaches the only real benefit of what I have is you don’t have to run the desktop itself unless you’re using it, since I don’t actually use it much It is fine for my very specific use case.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Why am I imagining an internet connected fridge that has a common exploit and people getting into them just to play doom on them or some shit?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Why is arch at the top tho? Apparently Steam OS is its own point, are those the Steam OS clones also based on Arch? Or maybe, people just accepted the superiority of Arch (/s)

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The other distros are split by version, while Arch, being a rolling release is but a single entry. I bet if you add up all of the Ubuntus and Linux Mints, they'd be much higher than Arch.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've seen arch gain a lot of popularity lately, at least in my circles.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I changed friends to mainly the ones here on lemmy, specifically the german communities, and I was surprised that there's an actual kinda cult here, just by the germans/ich_iel'ers, with it's own community, and also a lot of members in Matrix. So I didn't really see people switch to arch, but rather I changed friends to the much more nerdy type where arch is more common.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well ... I moved away from the okay ones and was finally able to drop the right-conservative (with straight up proud nazi friends) "friends", which I basically had to have because otherwise I would have been literally alone in school. And so I searched for new friends, either online on Lemmy/Matrix or offline, in uni.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

holy crap. I can't imagine actually knowing someone being public about nazi stuff. There were folks with like confederate flags but it was a little after the dukes of hazard and I don't think they had the meaning to it that has resurfaced in this millenium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I couldn't believe that either, until I met that person. I'm just glad they were in the grade below me, so no direct contact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

We must spread to gospel of [email protected]

[–] DisappointedVulcan 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Oberriesenmist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

it might be a emulator. such as exagear. which only need a minimal linux environment to proot into. and all gui are done by wine

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like something Bringus Studios would do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

💯😂 Sadly I imagine it's probably a sub-distro like Mint or Pop erroneously coming up as the Ubuntu it forks off, not an army of Bringi out there, but you never know...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] UnfortunateShort 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I just noticed how that Arch is in quotes and "64 bit" was added. Does anyone use 32 Bit Arch for gaming? Is it even possible to run Steam on that?

And why not go with:

Arch Linux (rolling-release) 64 bit

[–] bruhduh 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there 32bit arch release at all? I know there's arch based 32bit distros, but as far as i know, arch itself is x86-64 and arm only

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Arch linux dropped 32bit support a few years ago. But you could probably still make a 32bit build yourself.

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