Quoting: EhvisNow I should decide whether to reinstall with base Ubuntu or use Kubuntu. Choices, choices.

Personally I am going to reinstall with the base Ubuntu. I am excited to try out the new Gnome 46.
Kubuntu looked less interesting to me because it is using using Plasma 5 instead of the newer Plasma 6.

Hopefully Ubuntu 22.04 works okay with my old (ancient) video card GTX 770. In 22.04 my monitor goes to sleep after a while and will not turn again and I forced to do a hard restart.

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Quoting: CalinouEvery Ubuntu LTS release feels special, since it's often treated as the baseline for shipping apps that are portable across distributions. Of course, the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS is usually the one developers are targeting (currently 20.04), but in a few years from now, this will be Ubuntu 24.04.

While I don't use Ubuntu anymore, it's still a distro I appreciate for this reason.

I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.

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Good see Command & Conquer Red Alert working again. I have been playing C&C Red Alert (REMASTERED VERSION) and I have to go back a couple version of Proton to be able to play it at all.

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Well I am sad I will not be able to go back and play PayDay2 when I upgrade my GPU.
I cant say it was a fun experience trying to play Payday2 on my ancient work laptop & trying to aim with a mouse pad.

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I am excited to see those Mass Effect games on the list.

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I am excited to see if I get any performance improvements on my Steam Deck when the update gets pushed to Proton.

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RBG is cool. But lately I just like having RED leds on everything. (The blue LEDs bother my eyes at night)

Soon I will need to get some LEDs like that and give OpenRGB a try.

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The Deck doesnt need exclusives.. But having a correct button mapping/layout and just working out of the box is a massive quality of life issue that more devs & Steam need to address. Having to figure out what each button does in each game gets to be a bid of a drag with how many buttons / things to press there are the Deck.

Yeah you can manually remap each button... but doing that for every game across all of the buttons that you need can be a very slow process.

1st, Go in the game settings to see what buttons are being used
2 - See if they are doing some a controller payout or some bastardized version of a keyboard and mouselayout. (a lot default layouts for the Deck seem to forget a couple buttons on the keyboard that are not used very often.
3- Try to remember what you saw each button / keyboard button on the keyboard.
4- Change to button layout
5- Test out the changes that you have saved.
6- Repeat steps 1-5 if something doesnt work right.

I forgot what buttons/layout I need to use on each game. And when I change a button I dont know if I should do it in the settings of the game or in the Steam Deck button controls.

It feels stupid to complain about this stuff on the deck. But the having bad default controls/button layout on a game really kills the experience for me. Hopefully more devs will release their games with the Steam Deck controls in mind.

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The biggest issue I have with my Steam Deck is that for some games it takes forever to close the game. I have needed to power off and then power on my Deck to finally close whatever game was having some kind of issue closing. I read somewhere that it apparently might have something to do with playing a game from a MicroSD card. Hopefully they can find some way to correct that issue.

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I liked Ubuntu 22.04 but after a couple months I couldnt apply updates anymore because of some conflict or whatever. I am slightly more advanced than a novice Linux user, but I couldnt figure out how to correct that so, so I was forced to just reinstalled another Linux OS (tried popOS) to wipe away the problems.

Ubuntu is one of the best OSs' that I have used, but Ubuntu also has a long way to go if I was already running into issues of being able to install important security updates after a couple months. I did not have anything exotic installed, just Steam and some other programs like VLC and chrome.

I am thinking of going back to Ubuntu after using popOS for a bit. Hopefully the issue I ran into with get resolved around February when Ubuntu 22.04.2 comes out.

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