Please don’t say Bazzite as I wasn’t able to get SteamVR working on it. I’m looking for alternatives. The current plan is to try plain old Ubuntu instead.

    • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Ubuntu has lost the crown of cleanest and most usable with all the Snap BS.

      For anyone else reading along, Fedora isn’t the only good alternative. There are also distros without the corporate ties that Fedora has. For example, Mint and Mint Debian Edition, both of which are will be more familiar if you’re coming from Ubuntu.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        There are also distros without the corporate ties that Fedora has. For example, Mint and Mint Debian Edition

        Both are literally corporate products by Linux Mint Ltd., registered in tax haven Ireland. They make money by setting their own affiliate IDs for web search etc. (money that would have gone to the upstream projects by default). At least Fedora has people working on the distribution that are actual contributors to the Linux stack.

        Also, regular Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. For gaming more recent versions of gaming-related components, mostly Mesa, are preferable to long term support. That’s also the reason stated by Valve why they switched to Arch as upstream for SteamOS after using Ubuntu and Debian before.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I downvote this every single time I see this. This is just not true.

        In the same way Mint relies on Canonical to keep Ubuntu chugging along, Red Hat contributes to the Fedora community. It’s a symbiotic relationship, so think of that what you will, but there is functionally no difference between RedHat<>Fedora and Canonical<>Mint.

        Both Mint and Fedora are community projects licensed and attributed as such, and neither corporate entity could take ownership or close either one.

        • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Both Mint and Fedora are community projects licensed and attributed as such, and neither corporate entity could take ownership or close either one.

          I wasn’t suggesting that they would. Rather, I was referring to the strong influence that Red Hat has over Fedora. It might be fine for people who love Red Hat’s design choices, but not so much for people who don’t. That’s why I mentioned Mint as an alternative.

          there is functionally no difference between RedHat<>Fedora and Canonical<>Mint.

          There is, because Debian is upstream of Canonical/Ubuntu. This means Mint can easily sever ties with the latter. In practice, Mint has opted out of Ubuntu-isms more than once, and already maintains a distro based directly on Debian.

        • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yep, that’s absolutely true. They mentioned LMDE however, which is based on Debian, meaning it’s independent from Canonical.

    • Lemmchen@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I concur, but for a Big Picture couch setup, I do think the Snap nonsense is irrelevant.