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Recommended linux variant for gaming. (lemmy.world)
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I've been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don't like the direction they seem to be heading.

I've also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I'm sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I'm not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don't want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't know about any of these, but terminal ads by itself would be enough to make me switch to something else. So would the affiliate links. Why would they think that's a good idea? Well, aside from money, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you just answered your question

But the ads are just for Ubuntu pro, which is free for personal use so it’s more of a tip. And the Amazon part was to my knowledge just in the unity days. Not defending Canonical, just showing more of the picture

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I knew "ads in the terminal" was hard to believe for some reason. I'm guessing it's easily disabled too.

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

They were just MOTDs, which are few lines of text displayed on the terminal when you first launch a session. You just have to edit one line in a config somewhere to get rid of them. Annoying but not exceptionally so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not just MOTDs, they’re in apt now too

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

They were easily disabled, but if I wanted to spend my time disabling annoying shit that's on by default, I'd just run Windows :p

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

Haha I mean fair, sort of. But if Ubuntu worked for me better than pop os in other ways, I could easily justify commenting out that line in a script or whatever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah in the end it's all just nerd gripes. I sold my old computer to my non-techy friend with Kubuntu and he likes it just fine :)