Quoting: TuxeeProbably those days, when games occupied megabytes. Not 50+ gigabytes. I agree that for small applications the overhead of flatpaks or snaps is sometimes ginormous - OTOH something like KiCad is huge already and the flatpak overhead is no longer relevant, same goes for the blender snap.

I quite disagree. The flatpack thing, with just a couple of small basic packages installed, takes GBs of root space. This drives me totally nuts.:sad:

Moreover, flatpacks have rarely any integration with the desktop environment, which drives me nuts even more.

And on top of that, is there any mechanism of having "certified/confirmed" developer/distributor of packages (like Snaps have)? This is very much needed in security driven, corporate environment!:angry:

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic...One consistent issue with Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros has been, while it's a great basis for a distro and very stable, it takes far far too long for updates for things such as drivers and kernels to reach Ubuntu. It's probably the only real major downside of Ubuntu based distros, so addressing that would definitely make Ubuntu far more competitive to Arch based distros again.

Well, but isn't *exactly this* the point of having an LTS distro?:huh:

In office use, you really want a long-term stable (thus non-changing) distro for all your 50+ workstations. In server, you really want a long-term stable (thus non-changing) distro that is tested and confirmed compatible & without issues for your server hardware and software.

So no, this is definitely not and issue. This is a very wanted feature of this distro.

And if this does not suite anyone, they are free to jump on countless other rolling-release distros out there...

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Wonder why there is no Linux native version available, when we have this?
https://www.etlegacy.com/ [External Link]

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As I need to be productive (day-by-day, both office and home, both desktop and server) I just have to say: God bless for LTS distros! :tongue: (Now running desktops on ZorinOS, and it is a blast!)

And yes, migration to AMD two years ago have helped with driver install issues a lot! :woot:

Enjoy the hopping!:smile:

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: BoldosPro tips: You can turn off blood and dead corpses

But the living corpses remain? :tongue:

Depends on YOUR management skills, of course :whistle:

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Ummmm, not really.
Thanks, but no.

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Best hospital management sim ever!

(Due to some alcohol involved and me being very, very skillful one night, I was forced to stay around 3 days on ICU :cry: When returned back home, I desperately wanted to play a good hospital sim... I tried TwoPoint but that was... well... "inadequate". Then I tried this one and it is AWESOME :woot:)

Pro tips: You can turn off blood and dead corpses :grin:

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: denyasisI was always under the impression that most/many of the Chromebooks were lower powered ARM chipsets? I'm assuming this is for x86 systems only?

I also assumed that this is for >ARM< based systems...
So, no Steam for ARM yet? :sad:

That would change nothing. Wine (Proton) still doesn't work on ARM.

Well, sorry, but that was not the point (and I did not clarify it enough).
Of course I do not expect to play Cyberpunk or Witcher on RaspberryPi anytime soon...

What I meant was the fact that Steam for ARM would bring "some more" games to Linux+ARM platform combo; it would serve as a stable distribution platform, e.g. for native Linux-built games (and there are tons of those, which would run on e.g. ARM-based Raspberries or Chromebooks pretty nicely).

And that - in itself - would mean a lot!

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Quoting: denyasisI was always under the impression that most/many of the Chromebooks were lower powered ARM chipsets? I'm assuming this is for x86 systems only?

I also assumed that this is for >ARM< based systems...
So, no Steam for ARM yet? :sad:

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Would be curious to see the numbers of how many will actually use it...

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