Hi everyone, I’m planning on moving from w11 to kubuntu (lts release - 24.04). I’m a gamer at heart, a game designer by education, and wanting to get away from Windows. I could really use some top tips, best practices, and things to look out for. I have run Linux on a Chromebook, but never as my primary PC.

I’m preparing by copying tax info, critical documents, game prototypes, and D&D documents to a USB.

Then run Linus from a different USB on restart?

Thank you for your help, and any references to specific how-to’s 😅.

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
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    6 hours ago

    Ubuntu is bad. Go with any other distro. I generally recommend Fedora for newcomers. Specifically Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition: https://fedoraproject.org/en/kde/

    If you fear you might break the system and don’t have confidence in fixing it yourself, go with Fedora Kinoite. It’s an immutable distro, so you can’t break the system as easily as mutable ones: https://fedoraproject.org/en/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

    While I don’t necessarily like Flatpaks, you can start off by only using them for GUI applications. The most used repo is Flathub: https://flathub.org/

    • Zugyuk@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Why are you so against Ubuntu? Fedora and bazzite were recommended by a few other dudes, for immutable and other cool reasons. I’m not afraid of breaking everything, mostly because I operate with a type twice and send once mentality 😅

      Ty for the flathub link, I had it by name, but not link

      • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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        21 minutes ago

        Ubuntu is doing stupid things with packages, replacing them with their proprietary packaging system (called Snap). It has been controversial, the way that they are pushing it, especially since the Snap server is proprietary and non-open source.

        A lot of people won’t consider using Ubuntu at all for this reason alone, and it makes sense - when you consider that there are so many other distros to choose from these days, Ubuntu just doesn’t really provide a whole lot of added value anymore.

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      I’m daily driving fedora kinoite on my laptop and silverblue on my desktop. Set up all my development tasks and local network services and such in toolbx containers. It’s going really well