Too little too late. They lost what goodwill they might have had with me. I dealt with that for months until I decided to flip it. I won't be using Ubuntu in the future unless for some awful reason I specifically need an Ubuntu server (and in that case I'd still push for Almalinux or another alternative).
tomkatt
joined 2 years ago
That delay happens on first launch every boot. Also the automatic updates happening basically whenever is nonsense. It should tell me an update is needed, not just kick it off whenever it feels like. That kind of crap is why I use Linux and not Windows, and now why I don’t use Ubuntu.
Nah, ingrown toenails just happen. Might be a genetic thing or something. As a kid I had to get like five surgeries for it on my right big toe and then when it wouldn't stop happening they eventually killed the root at that side of the toenail with some kind of acid to prevent it from happening again. I still occasionally get ingrown nails on the big toe of the other foot that didn't need the surgery.
Well. in the modern day, there's Ubuntu 22.04 and up with their insistence on snaps for many otherwise native apps. For example, Firefox as a snap and taking anywhere from 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes to launch when you first open it.
I used Ubuntu for years, pretty much from 16.04 all the way up to 22.04 but that was a line for me and I ditched it for Manjaro. The experience has been much better overall.
Snaps should be for applications that may not receive updates on current systems or have a hard dependency on old libraries for some reason. Things like Spek come to mind. To use if for something like Firefox, and not only use it, but insist on it to the point you can't install the native version without ridiculous workarounds... it's absurd. And on top of this, it's especially dumb because flatpak already existed prior to snap, but as usual Canonical had to be special instead of working with community standards.
Amazon based search results integrated in the Unity dash beg to differ. Canonical has a history of being shitty.
Another IT guy here. Not sure how to describe the role… data compliance management and troubleshooting? I dunno, it’s a mix of troubleshooting k8s and charts, log reviewing, and so on, along with some proprietary application stuff.
Previously was an automation and virtualization support engineer, this recent role has been weirdly chill so far by comparison. Feels odd to not be constantly putting out fires. Weird but… kinda nice.
These are fantastic. I need more.
These are things for any OS though. I mean, on XFCE I spend time setting up my preferred shortcuts, software, tools, etc.
On Mac, install rectangle, shortcuts, debloat. There’s no perfect default for everyone.
The Steam deck is a special case because it’s literally a gaming handheld (though the term handheld for that thing is admittedly loose).
And there’s still some things even with the deck. Did you set up emudeck? Heroic launcher? Configure it for desktop mode?
I don’t see any of that. Cortana is disabled via settings toggle, no AI stuff, start menu web search is disabled. Updates are set to automatic download only and are only run upon shutdown if I choose “update and shutdown” instead of just doing shutdown.
I dunno, there are legitimate things to complain about with Windows, but none of this really fits.
In my case I power on, Steam launches, and I run a game. When done, I press the power button and it shuts down. That’s it.
I don’t need a push, a Linux machine is my daily driver (and has been for something like 8+ years now), and I’ve worked in IT doing virtualization/automation/data management and compliance for several years. I spend a lot of time in the terminal.
To me the Windows gaming PC is essentially a console, no different than a PS5 or a Switch is to someone else. It’s been up and running as such since before Proton was fully viable and for its use case I don’t see a need to change it until it’s due for a rebuild/replacement/upgrade.
Generally underscore _ works best for this, and should be viable for both OSes.