Quoting: PenguinReminder that PipeWire is now a Snap, so if you remove snapd, your system will be completely silent. I found that amusingly funny 😆

But seriously: packaging PipeWire as a Snap makes no sense to me. I'm not an expert though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Mountain of salt. Pipewire is installed as a deb package not as Snap. It was discussed, but not implemented.

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I think it was realised somehow via Calamares installer previously. There is a discussion in Kubuntu matrix, that Kubuntu would like to use Ubuntu installer instead of Calamares and that would break Kubuntu Focus OEM installation. I guess KISS should solve that.

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That is not the first time in recent times, 13 hours ago in I wrote

Kubuntu has been in constant decline since at least 23.04, (basically it's been like that since the main maintainer left and did KDE Neon with more people leaving constantly I assume) I wouldn't recommend it. Just look at all the upgrade problems emerging with 25.04 and all the mispackaging issues and misconfigurations since 24.04. Personally I couldn't enable video hardware acceleration with Chromium only in 25.04 beta but I could basically everywhere else, OpenMandriva, Fedora, Elementary and what not. If you want KDE from the so-called "mainstream" distros, Fedora KDE edition is most probably the better and more professional choice.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-is-out-now/comment_id=277967

Outside of that issue, I have oposite feeling, as Kubuntu since 24.04 is constantly improving. They fixed installer in 24.04 and in 25.04 they provided very latest Plasma on top of very latest Qt with special upstream patch fixing crashes.

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Do you have working music?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI've got over 600 hours in EU IV, and I think the only Linux-specific bug out of the handful I've reported was the graphics issue with coastlines looking bad half-a-dozen major versions ago. I only got interested in PDS games with EU IV, right before the point I seriously decided to switch from Windows to Linux, so while my purchase might have counted as a Windows sale I've played >99% of my time on Linux.

EU IV has completely broken cross-platform multiplayer. OOS after a few seconds of gameplay. HOI4 looks good, singleplayer and multiplayer on linux works.

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