Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Hassle free, easy to use and the desktop environment closely resembles Windows.

Linux Mint feels quirky to me. It’s an Ubuntu flavor, but not quite? Because it gets rid of a few Ubuntu things.

Yeah, you gotta have Linux compatible hardware from the start. I’ve always had Linux in dual boot for the last 25 years, so I’m used to it lol.

To be fair, it’s best to install the whole thing straight from the ISO. You might end up with missing parts if you use the desktop meta-packages.

How to install software on Windows (that I know of):

• EXE installer that you download from the website (Linux equivalent to a binary installer that you downlaod)
• MSI installer that you downlaod from the website (Linux equivalent to a .deb package I would say?)
• Zip executable installer that you download from the website (Binary installer again?)
• Standalone Zip that you download from the website (Standalone zip or tar file)
• Microsoft Store (App store)
• Chocolatey (Apt/Yum, etc)
• Winget (Apt/Yum, etc)

There’s not sandboxed applications like Flatpaks or Snaps though, which provide an extra layer of security. Which would be great in Windows, honestly.

Oohh this is something I’d love to have as well.

Saved this post for later. Am also a sucker for cheap little indie games.

It’s been so long since I installed mine that I forget.

I remember there being an option to download and install additional drivers during the installation. Otherwise, it’s a very simple process. As you can see here:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-24-04

On Ubuntu there’s literally an application for additional drivers. On Kubuntu, I think you have to used the command line because Canonical only prioritizes their Gnome desktop. Kubuntu is a community-driven flavour. However, once you know which driver is recommended, you can use the graĥical software installer to install it.

1. Ubuntu and derivatives. (I prefer Kubuntu, personally. It has even more support for things like HDR) I have a 3070 RTX and it’s working just fine in Kubuntu.

2. Good question! I would definitely back up the files first and reformat in EXT4 or BTRFS or whatever. Then when you install the games in Steam with the compatibility layer, you can specify where to install the games. Then check where saved games/profiles are located and possibly overwrite the files?

3. Yes. No doubt.

I dunno. Sounds like a repo-specific thing. OP is on Debian 12 and what I’m understanding is they’re also seeing this message for a third party repo.

Yeah the whole reason for packages being kept back is because they are rolling them out slowly to ensure that no major bugs affect the great majority of users of those packages.

You wouldn’t want your whole Ubuntu or Debian user base getting stuck with the same problem and having to roll back all at the same time. availa roll out certain packages slowly so only a small portion have to do it, and also save your reputation, and finally give the package maintainers to fix the problem.

So write to them and ask which is which. Might just be a mistake.

That still exists???

lol!

I’m old and I’ve been using command lines for a long time. Especially in Linux. Heck I’ve used a terminal based web browser! (Links or Lynx? I can’t remember the name.)

Transmission is the torrent client, no?

I understand your frustration and I, too, thought that blocking went both ways before seeing your post.

If you encounter someone who is harassing you and attacking your reputation without your knowledge and down voting your whole history, you should gather the proof and contact your instances mods. There’s a very good chance they’ll ban them either temporarily or permanently from the instance. Or contact the mods from their instance as well.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

You get a lot of the same tools as Mint, such as Flatpak instead of Snap but with no Flatpak packages pre-installed. On top of this, it also pre-installs WINE 9, Google Chrome instead of Firefox, and quite a few smaller quality-of-life tools such as the Transmission BitTorrent client, a download manager, an image viewer, and more.

Google Chrome??? Why?

I’m using Kubuntu 24.04. I’ve encountered similar problems and it always happened when there was a NVidia driver update of some kind.

What distro are you using?

Aww 😞