Vik @ vikingtons @lemmy.world

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I've resorted to using obtanium for apps like jerboa and newpipe :/

They've embraced Wayland, pipewire, gnome and what not, but snap is really questionable, particularly in the Linux ecosystem.

I gather it can be somewhat annoying to contend with (I.e. some apps on Ubuntu may only be available as snaps?)

I approached Fedora workstation with little knowledge of Linux, as a former windows and Mac user. My workflows involved graphic, print, UX design, DFP, front end web dev, and some light 3D modelling. Getting acquainted with alternatives to certain apps (namely adobe suite) took some getting used to, but it's wonderful to no longer feel as if your industrial skill set is beholden to a massive, shitty company.

It was surprisingly easy to get along with. I feel like your experience in will mostly depend on your desktop environment rather than the distro itself, bear in mind that you can use any DE with any distro.

You don't really need to touch the command line anymore to get going, though I got familiar with it as I found it faster for certain tasks.

KDE plasma is probably more familiar for Windows users. I use the GNOME desktop with some plugins.

As a bonus, Fedora 39 is more performant for me in AAA gaming than windows 10/11.

They may also be referring to this but I'm not certain.

I'm using it now instead of gboard behind a firewall

https://github.com/Helium314/openboard

Also supports gestures for text selection (slide left/right on space bar) and text deletion (per character instead of per-word on gboard)

starfield on the best list is sus asf too

radv is gradually catching up with amdvlk in terms of rtrt perf. could be worth using amdvlk for raytacing for now, though

Shattered pixel dungeon is very nice

roboquest is fun (and difficult)

I was pleasantly surprised to find that chatmix worked properly with my arctis 7s USB receiver.

A person's social life isn't limited to being online. I'm in your age group. It's really not that deep to meet people in person.

Fair point, hadn't even considered that

having a privacy oriented mindset online doesn't make you antisocial in person though. This post makes it sound like you need an Instagram account to be a valid human but like, why is that even important?

Excellent news

happy to help

Thank you for confirming

For what it's worth, I've just given it a quick test with microg.

Opened the app, it seems to be okay, though it's asking for a phone number to create an account or log in. Do you know if it would fail prior to that point without play services?

Same goes for microg, at least in the case of Uber and whatever banking apps.

Uber on microg will fall back to mapbox, though I don't actually know if it can work in lieu of a play services implementation. Could be that it's not a hard requirement compared to Lyft