That’s the issue though. When everything works it’s great. But it’s so easy to bungle something up (be it user error or bugs in distros).

I’m running a 4070. Performance is really nice. Modern games pinned at vsync speed of 144FPS. The next day I’m down to 0.2FPS. Stays like that for a few days. Reboots don’t help. Can’t find anything debugging or googleing. After a few days it’s back up.

Turns out, I run games through heroic installed via flatpak, and flatpak keeps its own copy of Nvidia drivers. That version needs to be perfectly in sync with the system driver version. So dnf update breaks that and the games fall back to CPU rendering, and flatpak update plus reboot fixes it again. Running flatpak update first followed by dnf update makes sure performance always sucks.

Took me a very long time to figure that out, and I imagine someone without an IT background might never figure that out.

No, it’s not. It’s a misconception on the very fundamental level of the concepts we are talking about.

Moderating an online forum and state-sponsored censorship are two wildly different things. The former is in many circumstances legally required while the latter is legally prohibited (in most cases).

Freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to interfer with your speech (with exceptions). It doesn’t mean that everyone has to listen to your bad takes let alone has to host them on their privately owned website.

Who does something matters just as much as what is done. Same as you can’t claim that the police is kidnapping you when they arrest you for murdering your neighbour.

These basics are so basic that it is hard to believe you don’t understand them. If you really don’t understand them, read up on just the very basics of the concept of rule of law and the basic rights one has and how they apply.

It’s more likely though that you do understand but just want to argue in bad faith, in which case it is not a conversation either.

Cool for anyone researching in that field. For the general public this doesn’t exist until it’s actually happening.

Look, another numpty who thinks that moderation in a privately run forum is the same thing as state-sponsored censorship!

Because of course getting banned for not following the house rules is totally the same as getting disappeared for talking bad about the government.

Moderation on a website is to censorship what getting kicked out of someone’s house is to deportation.

Being against people getting deported doesn’t mean that you think that anyone should be allowed to do whatever they want in the home of other people.

It really depends on the type of job. If you are doing a cog-in-the-machine job like anything in retail, gastronomy or customer support, it’s exactly like Pacattack57 described.

Apart from if they are going to use their PC for anything else than gaming.

Fair point about /c/linux_gaming. OPs question wasn’t really about gaming though and it was specifically about ubuntu/kubuntu.

So if anything, the OP should not have been in /c/linux_gaming, but the answers are on topic.

But even in regards to gaming, Mesa drivers are stable enough nowadays that even a bit outdated ones don’t make a lot of tangible difference unless you are hunting for every last frame. In which case a beginner’s distro isn’t for you anyway.

The average casual gamer will have no issues with Ubuntu.

I used “getting married” as a shorthand for “deep commitments”, but yeah, I agree to what you are saying.

Yes, but if there’s a guide on how to use some software with a Linux distro, there’s always a guide for Ubuntu and often nothing else. I can’t remember if I have ever seen a guide for 3rd party software for Brazzite.

That’s ok for someone who either does nothing or is advanced enough to adapt the guide to their OS, but for anyone between these extremes it’s a major downside.

These hoops don’t matter for beginners. They are usually fine with what Ubuntu provides, or more to the point, don’t even know what they might be missing.

Steam Survey is quite skewed by only showing what gamers use. That’s quite a hefty selection bias, and of course it shows that gamers prefer the Steam Deck and gaming distros.

The distro itself is fine for beginners. But the main advantage of Ubuntu over e.g. Linux Mint or Brazzite or any of the other beginner distros is that if e.g. third-party software has a guide on how to use it on Linux it’s almost always about Ubuntu. That is the real advantage of Ubuntu. Kubuntu doesn’t have that.

What the hell did I just read? That’s some of the most incoherent nonsense I have read in a long time.

Dude, you aren’t even fluent in your own language, so why do you think you can judge anyone else?

Get lost, psycho.

Jollaphone would be an alternative. Not a good one though.

Would be cool if you dropped a line or two to tell us what we are looking at.

There are 237.7 million licensed drivers in the US. That means there’s 0.026 police reported crashes per driver per year. (Crashes not reported to the police are usually also not reported to insurance and thus don’t matter in this discussion.)

Or to put it differently, that’s one crash per 39 years of driving per driver or on average 1.6 crashes in a lifetime.

Yes, every crash is one to many and every fatality of course as well. In that regard it’s far too many, but that’s not what we are talking about.

We are talking about insurances estimating the likelyhood of future crashes of a driver. That means, on average, insurance has 1 data point per driver, and for anyone younger than 35 likely 0 data points.

That’s not nearly enough to make any kind of statistically significant guess on how likely someone is to cause a crash.

For any statistically significant result you’d need at least a few dozen data points.

For that crashes are far, far too rare, so it makes sense to try to get better data that actually has some kind of significance.

*buntu are mainly beginner distros. They work fine out of the box, but many long-term users don’t like them for ideological reasons.

The main advantage of Ubuntu over any other distro is that everything as an Ubuntu guide. The same is not true for Kubuntu, and if you stay in GUI, Ubuntu and Kubuntu share almost no similarities. The settings, the pre-installed default apps, all that differs greatly.

Thus the main reason for using *butnu is gone when using anything else than Ubuntu.

Which kinda sucks, because I like KDE much more.

Except if the gui mentions anything in regards to GUI. Ubuntu and Kubuntu’s system settings aren’t even remotely similar.

That sadly makes Kubuntu a bit of a tough sell for a beginner who wants to primarily use the GUI route, since there’s a guide for Ubuntu for almost everything but not for Kubuntu.

(Which sucks, because I like KDE way more. I of course use KDE, but that makes it kinda hard to recommend Kubuntu to a total beginner.)

Nicht viel. Auf Meereshöhe hat man 101,325 kPa. In der Druckkabine hat man zwischen 76 und 82 kPa.

In Flugzeugen wird der Luftdruck künstlich hochgehalten wenn sie so hoch fliegen dass der Außenluftdruck zu niedrig ist.

This. Apart from the privacy stuff, this is actually what we want.

If this could be done without massive privacy implications it would be optimal to have a device in every car that instantly fines you for every wrong action you take in traffic.

Change lane without blinking? That’s €2.

Follow too closely? Another €2.

Just briefly made it over the speed limit? Costs you another €2 per second over the limit.

Honking in no-honking-zones? That will be €2 again.

Don’t let a pedestrian cross at a pedestrian crossing? Again, €2.

If every infraction is fined, the fines themselves don’t be massive like they are right now. That takes away that gambling-like excitement and also punishes bad drivers significantly (since they break the laws all the time) while not incurring significant fines for someone who drives well but accidentally made a mistake once.