Quoting: rustigsmedyes have to agree, although I would go Kubuntu rather than ubuntu, and would probably suggest Pop!_OS if nVidia is involved and you were ok with the de.

The only Nvidia advantage for Pop is if your GPU/monitor combination means that the open source nouveau can't set the resolution properly (the black screen with the blinking cursor - for which there's a fix, but it is something that one would have to specifically learn about), which isn't all combinations and will hopefully become fewer as nouveau improves and the open source module from Nvidia matures.

Every modern distro can install the proprietary Nvidia driver as part of the installation process (just like Pop does), they just don't use the proprietary Nvidia driver in the installer environment (which Pop does).

Once the distro is installed, it's all the same.

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The Store fix got bumped into a Stable channel update, too.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3647382450216885311 [External Link]

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualHadn't Microsoft mostly stopped its campaigning against Linux by the end of the 2000s?

God, no. The end of the 2000s was the SCO case, and Microsoft's FUD campaigns were in full swing. See... essentially everything on Groklaw. But for netbooks in particular, maybe here. [External Link]

(As an aside, it's interesting that you didn't notice that your linked video is part of a FUD campaign: "person has trouble with their computer" isn't actually inherently newsworthy)

I'm happy to be corrected, and if you could direct me to some more sources, as I'm mostly going off the Wikipedia page for Netbooks, that would be appreciated. The article I link reported that Microsoft offered licenses cheaply, not free of charge.

You're right, actually. I'd misremembered. The XP for netbooks was just very cheap. The free Windows came a bit later, with "Windows 8.1 With Bing" to try to compete against Chromebooks.

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The way it works is that an LTS will release with the version that was tested for that release. The interim six-monthly releases will get some testing, and then be released. After a little while of that testing by all the users of the interim releases, that version will then be rolled out to users of LTS releases. It's a fairly conservative means of getting everyone onto stuff that makes their hardware work while making sure it's well-tested and not too disruptive (nor too much work for the Ubuntu devs, since they're maintaining a half dozen different versions at any one time).

Obviously users can manually choose to use mainline kernels [External Link] and new Mesa from a PPA [External Link] if they want stuff faster than it comes through the Hardware Enablement process, but they'll get them in time, regardless.

It would obviously be easier if AMD could get their support lined up ready before they release their hardware, like Intel (and Nvidia) do. I understand they're not quite as bad at this as they used to be, but still not as good as their competitors.

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Quoting: kaktuspalmeYes, but a user has to enable it. That's too much for a regular computer user to ask for.

No they don't. Installs that come with a desktop environment are on HWE by default. Headless server installs are not on HWE by default.

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Quoting: kaktuspalmeIf Ubuntu did Mesa and Kernel updates, I would put it on top. But without it I wouldn't recommend it, at least to AMD GPU users.

They do.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack [External Link]

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualIn the end, most manufacturers of the ill-fated netbook switched over to Windows. Predominantly because Microsoft offered Windows licenses for less than they do on more powerful devices.

Microsoft made Windows free for those OEMs (while forcing an insipid specs list that would ensure netbooks lost out to tablets), and had a concerted FUD campaign about customer hostility to Linux.

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Quoting: utxWhat is the current Linux marketshare? 2.5 i think?

At the end of November, Linux hit 1.44% on Steam against 2.45% on macOS and 96.11% on Windows.

Although it's 3.5% of the English-speaking Steam user base.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAn interesting figure in itself. So like, Linux is at 1.44%. And Steam Decks, almost entirely running Linux, are 0.37% (and climbing). So that means Linux without Steam Deck is 1.07%, and the Steam Deck represents just over a quarter of total Linux use on Steam.

(Note that this is a bounce-back month - the figures last month showed teeny tiny growth despite China's Windows usage being heavily weighted in the stats. The trends are indicative, but the specific numbers for growth this month are probably a little high)

SteamOS grew 0.05 percentage points this month, but Linux as a whole grew 0.16 percentage points. That's 0.11 percentage points of growth of Linux, excluding the direct contribution of people being shipped Steam Decks. Obviously a big part of that is having the enhanced visibility and attention that comes with having the Deck as a popular halo device, but it's obviously much healthier for us to not have our growth only directly from a single device. Hopefully the growth of Linux will continue to outpace the shipments of the Deck as more and more people get the opportunity to say, "wow, I had no idea Linux was this good."

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Quoting: Deleted_UserCan anyone explain to me how they manage to be #1 on distrowatch.com? (which is how i became aware of them)

Distrowatch only measures the number of times that people look at the distro information on Distrowatch. Distros that people actually use don't need to be looked up on Distrowatch.

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