That link comes up with an error.

Probably because you use a client that tries to open the link locally. OP deleted the post and that’s why Lemmy cannot open its comments any longer, hence the Mastodon link that works fine in a web browser.

Do you know which software it is that is/was in the universe repo?

Pretty much everything except the base OS and Gnome.

How are Nvidia leaving out older stuff for Nouveau? I don’t understand.

Ancient NVidia should be supported by Nouveau by now, no?

Other than snaps, what else are they doing wrong?

Insecure software in the Universe repository.

by your bloody metric

It’s not my metric, I merely repeated what I remembered from one of the interviews and my astonishment from hearing what I heard.

If you “wasted christmas”, that’s your metric, not mine.

they advertise the fact that it can run half life alyx natively tho

Where? I watched an interview where the guys only said that they hope to make it happen and it would stream off a PC otherwise and that they were looking into a Aperture Desk Job sized game.

The Valve reps said in some interview that the cannot even promise HL Alyx running natively on the Frame and that’s their homegrown flagship VR title. You’d think Valve would design hardware tailored to do that.

Kubuntu comes with mandatory Ubuntu enshittification, though. All official Ubuntu flavors do.

I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon

KDE Neon is dead because its developers found out that putting an add-on repository on top of Ubuntu is not reliable at all. That’s why KDE Linux is now in development.

Atomic distros have a set-back of having to deal with Package Layering in the case of those that aren’t found on Flathub. That’s a bit outside of the wheelhouse of a non-tech savvy person.

Today’s non-tech savvy persons usually want Chrome, VLC, and Steam. Yes, there are exceptions but I set up Linux PCs for a few people with unsupported Windows versions recently and they are just fine with that because all they do is to access web services from Chrome, playing back the occasional downloaded media file, and some games.

the seemingly endless random named things

When you dig down for a bit, you’ll even find out that Bazzite is merely the gaming flavor of “Universal Blue” and the generic desktop (without gaming stuff installed) is called Aurora.

I am always trying to steer new users away from Cinnamon, which means away from Mint.

I’m not a fan of Ubuntu and its derivates in general (short version of the reason: Ubuntu continues to enshittify, its derivatives fight an increasingly harder battle to apply plasters to fix Ubuntu) and the reality since a few years is that an increasing number of people become familiar with SteamOS, its immutability and Flatpak use, so the old battle ground of .deb vs .rpm, where system config files are stored, etc. has just outlived itself. “A Ubuntu variant is the best because that’s what online tutorials are about” is no longer relevant for the vast majority of people.

A wrapper to use apt commands for rpm packages. It’s just there to help with muscle memory.

Reaper and Bitwig Studio are familiar apps for many audio producers.

At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.

At the very least

What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.

No, I didn’t. Learn to read. I stressed the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation as a “source”.

I also was gifted a Humble Bundle game for Batman Arkham Knight.

Then perhaps redeem the game and complete the bundle at https://store.steampowered.com/sub/320795/ to play Arkham Asylum first?

• https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio

• https://flathub.org/apps/fm.reaper.Reaper

Professional alternatives exist.

Have you ever noticed how vendors who ship computers with Linux often do so at the same or greater cost than Windows?

Yeah… Even when going to Linux exclusively, it’s usually better to pick the Windows device.

As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.

Luckily NVidia is rather selling their GPUs to AI datacenters than to home consumers.