AFAIK they replaced Mir with Wayland on Unity a while ago. They basically rewrote Unity to run on it instead.

I wouldn’t say they’re spreading misinformation. The article they linked DOES try to make the claim that Valve said they were selling it at a loss. However, they provided little evidence to back it up.

Nothing in Gaben’s quotes says loss. The author is making assumptions based on the “aggressive” and “painful” comments.

They also outright said the Steam Machine isn’t sold at a loss.

Where are you reading that?

Valve has said multiple times they don’t sell their hardware at a loss. Razor thin margins, but not a loss.

Canonical has had a lot of missteps in recent years. Some (like snaps) they still actively are shooting themselves in the foot with.

I just timed my Debian box from cold shut down to ready to go. It was 13 seconds.

My Ubuntu Server? It took 86 seconds to boot on the exact same hardware.

What a whiny little piss baby of a person.

A standard install of Ubuntu Server uses more RAM, has longer boot times, and generally just needs more resources to get going. You can strip some of that out, but Debian is that way from the start. Plus, Ubuntu is just Debian with extra shit on top.

Debian is also much longer lived and stable than even Ubuntu LTS releases, so I generally have just found it to be better suited to deployments where I don’t want to fuck with it for a long time, besides monthly patching.

As someone who has both Ubuntu servers and Debian servers…go with Debian. It does everything Ubuntu does, but leaner and better.

How does one send a massage? 😁

JFC I thought you were exaggerating.

If you get old ObiTalk devices and flash them with community firmware, you can use Google Voice for free with a land line phone connected to it. Batt backup for your modem, router, and the adapter and you’ve got a free phone.

Huh. Good to know. I haven’t experienced issues with using Fedora Flatpaks, but I also mostly use Flathub and always immediately add support for it in Discover.

Go ahead and try Ubuntu and let me know how much you love their “App Store” experience. So many broken apps in their Snap store.

Fedora just works. Ubuntu is like the Windows of Linux. They think they know better than their users and, as such, try to force feed you the things they think are better, even when they’re worse.

Fedora. Literally just Fedora. Not a spin. Not Silverblue.

I’ve never gotten CachyOS to run well. I’ve tried a few times and it’s either updated at some point to an unbootable situation or I had to try installing 2-3 times with different bootloader, FDE, and DE options before it would comply.

I work for a living, so having a more stable, tested platform is important to me. Fedora KDE always just works for me and is reasonably up-to-date with the latest mesa, kernel, etc.

Fedora.

I prefer the KDE spin over GNOME, but I hate GNOME.

Whatever DE you prefer, pick that one.

Man I remember learning my Fundamentals of UNIX course on Solaris with the CDE.

Steam Deck made gaming on Linux possible and that was the only thing holding me to Windows. I had been using Windows since Windows 95.

Microsoft simply stopped making an OS and started making a subscription and content delivery platform. When they did that, they lost me as a customer.

Appreciate you taking the time to respond. I’m so jaded by the low effort posts here that it’s made me grumpy 😂