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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 49 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

One of the last conversations I had on Reddit was with a guy complaining about how crap Linux is, that he installed Ubuntu and the desktop didn't even work, it went straight to a terminal, and after some prodding he said that he couldn't even get APT to work, and it hit me: "You didn't install Ubuntu Core, their embedded OS version, did you?" No response.

[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair on the guy, Canonical's website is corporate sewage. finding the right ISO is a chore.

[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I politely disagree. Finding the Core ISO is harder than the Server/Desktop ones. https://ubuntu.com/download/core

There's a Build Your Core button. And that takes you to a docs page that lets you download a pre-built image. I think it's pretty obvious that this is not the Desktop Ubuntu.

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Vector databases as the data foundation for generative AI applications

is what I see when I go to ubuntu.com on mobile. Seriously? Where is the ISO Canonical?! Why do I have to open the menu and choose Products -> Ubuntu OS -> Ubuntu Desktop to reach the ISO?

[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The money comes from corporate customers, that's the sad truth. If you go to RedHat's website, their Worsktation option is hidden in menus as well. Fedora doesn't seem to be mentioned at all.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't use Arch Linux, I use "Arch Linux". Completely different, btw.

[–] mister_frisbie@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

it's just how you signal you're using the correct amount of nasal upturn when mentioning "Arch Linux."

[–] ebd6a8c9051028dc1607@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago

it might be a emulator. such as exagear. which only need a minimal linux environment to proot into. and all gui are done by wine

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 32 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Minimal install for maximum frames

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 13 points 14 hours ago

Yep, less overheads! This is the way.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 12 points 13 hours ago

Why am I imagining an internet connected fridge that has a common exploit and people getting into them just to play doom on them or some shit?

[–] pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org 135 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I think the "Ubuntu Core 22" means it is the snap based version of Steam rather than the deb version.

If you look at the snapcraft.yaml for the Steam snap, it uses core22 as its base.

[–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 16 hours ago

Glad to see it's popularity is waning. Snap is the inferior universal package by many metrics and the steam snap in particular is very not ready for prime time.

[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 33 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

using snap?

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 127 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Nobody can stop me from gaming on my smart toilet (it's smarter than me)

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 38 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Whatcha playing? Flappy Turd?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Well played

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

*crappy turd

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

c/murderedbywords

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

That's not saying much, is it?

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like something Bringus Studios would do

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 10 hours ago

💯😂 Sadly I imagine it's probably a sub-distro like Mint or Pop erroneously coming up as the Ubuntu it forks off, not an army of Bringi out there, but you never know...

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I have fedora server edition set up headless primarily to host docker containers and have a noVNC headless steam streaming container on it, does that count?

[–] SirHery@lemmy.world 23 points 14 hours ago

Funny words magic man.

[–] lowdude@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How well is that working for you? This setup in particular, but also streaming steam games in general?

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It works but the native steam streaming is better, I would recommend a full os with steam running on it and just put the containers on that, you will save a lot of headaches the only real benefit of what I have is you don’t have to run the desktop itself unless you’re using it, since I don’t actually use it much It is fine for my very specific use case.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 29 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I can kinda see it being useful for people wanting to sell a wee box that does nothing but launch a game on steam.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Useful for servers

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 24 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

Why is arch at the top tho? Apparently Steam OS is its own point, are those the Steam OS clones also based on Arch? Or maybe, people just accepted the superiority of Arch (/s)

[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 52 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The other distros are split by version, while Arch, being a rolling release is but a single entry. I bet if you add up all of the Ubuntus and Linux Mints, they'd be much higher than Arch.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

steam is based on arch so you would have to add those two and then compare and that is 48.7 so all the rest would have to be debian.

[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

by that logic you also have to add Manjaro to Arch at 2.95% which makes it 51.65% Arch, plus I use EndeavorOS which is also based on Arch and not on the list, but I would not be surprised if it broke the 1% userbase for steam.

From the 22% Other: We probably have at least 5% Red Hat based distros like Fedora and Nobara that I hear is popular for gaming.

2-3% might be OpenSuse

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[–] DisappointedVulcan@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Oberriesenmist.

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen arch gain a lot of popularity lately, at least in my circles.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I changed friends to mainly the ones here on lemmy, specifically the german communities, and I was surprised that there's an actual kinda cult here, just by the germans/ich_iel'ers, with it's own community, and also a lot of members in Matrix. So I didn't really see people switch to arch, but rather I changed friends to the much more nerdy type where arch is more common.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well ... I moved away from the okay ones and was finally able to drop the right-conservative (with straight up proud nazi friends) "friends", which I basically had to have because otherwise I would have been literally alone in school. And so I searched for new friends, either online on Lemmy/Matrix or offline, in uni.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

holy crap. I can't imagine actually knowing someone being public about nazi stuff. There were folks with like confederate flags but it was a little after the dukes of hazard and I don't think they had the meaning to it that has resurfaced in this millenium.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 16 hours ago

I couldn't believe that either, until I met that person. I'm just glad they were in the grade below me, so no direct contact.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ramchak@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

Indeed, looking forward to gaming on PopOS Cosmic beta next year

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