Yes, especially when there is not a word of criticism about Ubuntu that had lots of controversies in the past. With Snap as the most recent and Amazon “integration” as the first I was aware of. That makes it sound more like a personal thing than objective assessment.

No, ditching 32-bit libraries was a change proposal that has been withdrawn. Thread here: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/404

KDE has a lot on documentation, maybe you would get some inspiration of how this can be done: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/documentation

I’m running everything that is proprietary (Steam for example) on a second user that is a not an admin account. Heroic and the like are installed via Flatpak that is sandboxed. Sometimes games contain malware, even on Steam. If something goes badly wrong, I purge that second user.

A shop that’s been around for ages and is very generous when it comes to adding extra stuff to a big order - our local group is ordering there for many years now: https://www.ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi (see “Fan-Artikel” then “Aufkleber” - yes, the website looks dated, I know)

There are dozens of articles about why Ubuntu has drawn criticism, here is an example: https://abh.ai/blog/why-ubuntu-and-canonical-drew-criticism-many-members-foss-community

I would recommend you read some of them to make up your own mind, and don’t rely too much on opinions here. Privacy is a broad term, only you know what is important to you and where you would draw the line.

Ich wünsche dem ungarischen Volk aus tiefstem Herzen, dass Dinge besser werden. Die haben jetzt echt lange durchhalten müssen.

I was also interested in trying that one with KDE, thanks for posting this.

I have one question: Are you still required to reinstall when a major new version comes out? I remember last I looked (a while ago) there was no upgrading path.

Interesting, thank you.

Was checking it out and will leave the link here in case someone else wants to read about it: https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/boot_managers/

First I always check with sudo journalctl -r Check journalctl --help for more options or do sudo journalctl --since "2015-06-26 23:15:00" --until "2015-06-26 23:20:00" Then search errors online or come back with more questions.

KDE Neon is being used as playground for KDE, not Fedora. They update daily there: https://kde.org/distributions/

This might change when they are done developing KDE Linux: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux

https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page

They provide the GNOME or COSMIC desktop, if that is of relevance to some.

Check out https://endof10.org/ for finding people who can help with Linux near you.

You are correct, one shouldn’t post while sick, sorry.

Yes, you are right of course.

This is great, but sadly appimages don’t work on immutable desktops. But it’s very positive that they are providing that.

I don’t mean to crash the party, I used to love Ventoy too. But then the blob issue came up and it was met with silence for over a year by the maintainer, that made me a bit uncomfortable. They have responded to it a while ago, but it’s no trivial task to solve as I understand it: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224

First you need to download the provided file from the distro page. Something with Checksum in the name most of the time. The website should provide instructions. Please note that does not validate the gpg key.

Quick Method Terminal: Open the terminal at the location of the ISO file or go there with cd. Type sha256sum NameOfIsoFile.iso - it takes a moment depending on your system. Copy the output (some long numbers/letters). Compare it with the downloaded checksum-file - open the file, press ctrl-f or whatever you have for find and paste it. If it’s found, it’s the same.

Method KDE: Right click the file, open properties, then go to tab “Checksums”. Paste same number/letter combination from above into the provided space “Expected checksums…” - if it’s green, it’s correct.

Signal is included as Flatpak. You have to enable “untrusted Flatpaks” (or whatever the wording is) in the Software Manager settings.

It was a controversial thing Mint added not long ago. Discussing this in detail would derail the post though.