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  • just_another_persontoLinux@programming.dev•Newbie with kubuntu - tips?
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    4 小时前

    Kubuntu and Mint are the same under the hood/desktop. If you have to touch the terminal, they use the same commands, and generally have the same selection of package names and availability (Mint will slightly differ because their desktop environment is Cinnamon and not KDE).

    You should be in good shape. Discover is fine to install whatever you want with it, and it should have a toggle to choose the source you want, including flatpak.

    As far as GitHub packages, as long as you’re sure about the maintainer, and you only get the packages from their releases page, and confirm the hashes of the packages after downloading, it’s going to be as safe as it can be. Side-channel and supply chain attacks are the only things to worry about from packages direct from the source, but if nobody else is reporting issues, and it’s a well-known project, you’ll be fine.

    Re: themes…that’s on the developer to support something like that generally it’s not gonna happen. Gnome has a way of making everything look “native” to the desktop and themes in a lot of ways that KDE doesn’t, but it shouldn’t affect functionality whatsoever, it’s just cosmetics.

  • just_another_persontoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Which hardware for stable sleep?
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    2 天前

    The main issue is that a lot of these bigger manufacturers have 3 tiers of hardware they kick out:

    1. consumer-grade/junk
    2. professional/developer/niche
    3. enterprise hardened

    If you find a model of something you’re looking to buy for sale at big box stores, it’s going to be total junk: windows-centric hardware with low reliability, but really cheap to produce. Stay away from those, as their Linux compatibility is going to be horrendous UNLESS you’ve heard otherwise specifically about a particular model.

    Lenovo has done something interesting in the last few years and blurred the lines between #1 and #2, so now it’s a crapshoot. ASUS ruined their #2 tier stuff years ago by including gimmicky stuff like touch bars, and secondary displays without ANY support except for Windows.

    For Linux compatibility, you need to make sure your components either already have driver support, or is made by a company who directly releases or contributes Linux drivers. AMD and Intel are top of that list, with Nvidia kinda/sorta doing the bare minimum for consumer-grade components, but full support for enterprise-grade stuff.

    If you’re not sure all the components in the machine you’re buying already have Linux support, it’s going to be a crapshoot. ASUS specifically makes crappy moves by including things that notoriously DON’T have native Linux support like: Broadcom chipsets, or random audio codecs and speakers that are essentially windows-only.

    You can look around and see people’s experiences with specific models of ROG, but even those are kind of iffy because of the above. Depending on what you want to use it for, you may be able to work with certain things not working, but if you’re talking laptops and Linux, I’d steer clear of anything with Nvidia in it for the battery life alone.

  • just_another_persontoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Need Advice - Linux gaming - Mint
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    2 天前

    Mint is fine, as the others have said, and there isn’t going to be a WILD performance difference between any distros (+/- 5%, you can check Phoronix for benchmarks), so just pick whatever feels okay for you.

    To expand on the general difference between distros: if you want something that is running the most up-to-date kernel versions and Mesa drivers, you’ll want something that does rolling releases like Fedora, CachyOS (Arch-based), or Tumbleweed.

    If you want something that is more generally stable and unchanged over time, and doesn’t upgrade the kernel or drivers, stick with Mint LTSbor Ubuntu LTS.