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Ubuntu is bad. Go with any other distro. I generally recommend Fedora for newcomers. Specifically Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition: https://fedoraproject.org/en/kde/

If you fear you might break the system and don’t have confidence in fixing it yourself, go with Fedora Kinoite. It’s an immutable distro, so you can’t break the system as easily as mutable ones: https://fedoraproject.org/en/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

While I don’t necessarily like Flatpaks, you can start off by only using them for GUI applications. The most used repo is Flathub: https://flathub.org/

https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

At least not an operating system like a certain “text editor”.

Fedora KDE is a good one.

https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

Why is the terminal useless?

Now we just need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust

Never assume Linux works like Windows. You’ll be confused.

You also do not have to use Pop because it is generally praised for its easiness. There are a few other good and easy to use distros out there, like Fedora, Mint or openSUSE.

There are also a few DEs out there, with the two most popular ones being KDE Plasma and GNOME

If you want to use KDE, I recommend you try out Fedora’s new KDE version.

While not all, you also should know a few very commonly used commands to use in the terminal and maybe some basic troubleshooting skills. You don’t need to be using the terminal all the time, if at all. Some common stuff is pretty much doable with a GUI nowadays and you’ll probably be installing your applications through the DEs builtin software center. Pop uses a customized GNOME, so you’ll be using the GNOME Software Center. KDE has Discover.

Since you do game, I suggest you check out ProtonDB. This is a database of rankings of games that work with Proton (Wine) and some even natively. If you play games from Epic, GOG and/or Amazon Prime, you should check out the Heroic Games Launcher. For any other games, check out Lutris. Do note that you might have a bad or good time depending on your GPU vendor. AMD generally works out of the box while NVIDIA might not work as nice as an AMD GPU out of the box. But I think Pop has the option to install the proprietaty NVIDIA drivers during installation, so make sure to select that if you have one. Nouveau isn’t as good as the proprietary drivers.

Regarding your other software, I don’t know whether Reaper will work with Wine. If you don’t mind switching to an alternative, we have Kdenlive and GIMP or Krita.

I used podman. Though you probably can use Ansible, if you want it simple.

There are also a few container management UIs like yunohost that let you deploy Lemmy with a click, but last I checked, it used a very outdated version of Lemmy. There’s also elest.io.

Are you using the package manager? If yes, try refreshing your mirrors.

You can install some Linux distro and then download a docker management web UI like coolify. Requires little terminal knowledge. Though you should learn the terminal.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/98932-faq-affinity-on-linux/

They didn’t say they never will. They don’t have plans for it, but they won’t rule it out. (Unless the FAQ is outdated and they said they never will somewhere else)

We won’t rule out making a Linux version of Affinity in the future if the right Linux distro comes along with a reliable deployment platform that will allow us to recoup our development cost for the Linux version.

I guess they could use Flatpaks here if they don’t want to deal with packaging it for every distro.

Mostly the package manager and even the rolling distros’ packages being more outdated than arch everytime. AUR is also very nice to have. The only distro I found that did spike my interest alot was NixOS.

I switched to Arch Linux for the memes, but now am unable to leave it. I’ve tried a few dozen distros, but none of them are as good as arch for me, I always come back to it. It’s like arch is my perfect distro.

Flatpak with more improvements to size and sandboxing could be accepted as the standard packaging format in a few years. I think sandboxing is a very important factor as Linux distros become more popular.

I’ve been wanting to try out NixOS for this very reason lately (although I don’t break my system often). If everything works for me there, I’ll switch to it.

Official KDE community btw: !kde@lemmy.kde.social

If you think LLMs will solve everything, then you’re doomed.

Do you know just how much money Apple pours into the design of their operating system?

Though I assume you never looked up what you are asking, as there are lots of people who customize their desktop to look like MacOS (there are ones that look exactly like one) or there are distros that come OOTB with a look similar to MacOS (like elementaryOS).

NVIDIA is more problematic than AMD on Linux. So AMD.

Did it really uninstall itself? Run this command and check whether you can see Firefox’s ID or not:

flatpak list