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

So ... basically Pop!_OS.

That's what I'm using now, and it's what I'd recommend for most desktop users. I've been using Linux systems on-and-off since before kernel version 1.0: Slackware, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then Pop.

(Admittedly, my use cases are pretty simple: a terminal, a browser, Signal, VLC, and Steam.)

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

Pretty much. Pop is my go-to recommendation for pretty much anyone these days. It's so well polished and just easy.

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

Yes, that pop os. As luck would have it, Linus installed it during a very brief period where the steam package in their repo was broken. This is not a common occurrence, and I have never heard of it happening before or since.

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

This whole series triggered me so hard. They went out of their way to test it under the worst possible conditions.

  • last at night
  • setting a goal with a deadline/time constraints for first run
  • not stopping and reading or thinking, just assuming away
  • copy paste from google frsit thing that looks vagualy right
  • tunnel vission
  • not resources like Emily, ensuring they make big mistakes

Then they follow up with hypocrisy of this shit, after going on and on about UI not being right or hard to use for the end user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=smd8cTFchF4

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.