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danderson

@danderson@hachyderm.io

Software developer by day, other kinds of nerd the rest of the time. ADHD says current hobbies are 3D printers, building CNC machines, old computers in space, and general shitposting on whatever grabs my interest.

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schrierc, to random
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Trying Linux on my personal desktop for the first time in years. Installed Ubuntu 24.04 on an external (USB) SSD due to familiarity and (known) Steam support.

danderson,
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@schrierc Nice! Ubuntu is a decent effort vs. reward choice these days, particularly since a lot of non-free software tends to assume linux==ubuntu, so higher chance of things working out of the box.

Because I'm a distro hipster I have some feelings about it (death to snaps), but thankfully it's totally fine to ignore all of that and just use the thing, and it'll be broadly Fine IME.

danderson,
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@schrierc If you're taking suggestions, Fedora Workstation is the other "just works" desktop OS on my list.

More esoteric and probably broken for a bunch of use cases but with interesting ideas/tradeoffs:

Fedora Silverblue: what if ChromeOS but more linux-ey?

Bluefin: Silverblue but turned up to 11 and trying cool new things, but needs a bit more time in the oven IME

Manjaro: Arch Linux underneath for very fresh rolling distro, but with creature comforts

danderson,
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@schrierc ... but if the goal is have an OS where steam and friends just work and you're not forced to wrestle the OS... Ubuntu or Fedora Workstation are it right now, IMO. Other choices offer either minor variations on those two, or give you much more control/power/something in exchange for more ongoing work, or are radical experiments that maybe are the future but the future's not quite here yet. Still nice to explore though!

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