On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 10:53 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you require Steam, my guess is that that should drive your choice. It is > likely a differentiator. Consider installation, official support, community > support. That usually means choose a distro many other Steam users use. > Agreed. Ease of support for Steam installation varies widely, from a single apt-get command to fairly rotund wiki pages and even a reddit flamewar. It's a very good initial filter, and it's why raw Debian is out of contention. My impression is that Steam work is done by the publisher only for the most > "important" distros. I assume that is Ubuntu. > That's indeed the one the vendor supports. However, other distros that care about Steam appear to have become adept at faking enough of the supported environment to allow a seamless install. > If you want proprietary video drivers, my guess is that the same applies: > choose > Ubuntu. > I bought an AMD card specifically so not to have this issue. > If you want a simple life, pick a popular distro that wants to give you a > simple > life. One that has the same view of simplicity that you do. (KDE isn't > simple.) > For me, simplicity *is* KDE because I've used it for more than a dozen years. By contrast, it would be the other desktops that would require a learning process. YMMV. You probably want smooth upgrades or long version life. Ubuntu LTS provides > both. > Non-fanboy reviews of 22.04 have been unkind. Chromium is now only available as a snap, and apparently the install system doesn't even inform you that it's downloading a snap instead of a dpkg. This is not a parade in which I want to march, much as I was previously a long time Kubuntu user. > Fedora is unfriendly to proprietary things. I like that but you probably > don't. > Steam may well be one of those proprietary things. I have no idea if > your AMD video card runs better with a proprietary driver. > It's not that I wanna be friendly, it's that I need to work with it to get to a desired destination (play my game) and Steam is the gatekeeper. I'm delighted to use FOSS wherever possible, and as I said before I specifically chose hardware to avoid proprietary drivers. I don't like Snaps or Flatpaks for the same reasons DCB doesn't like them. But > they might just be what you need to install the latest versions of Firefox > or Chrome or Chromium on an older version of a distro. Thankfully my use cases don't match these at all. Still looking here if anyone has experience with MX, which remains my top contender. - Evan
--- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
