Maybe they fixed that part, but that isn’t a good thing. Now you can’t feel whether something is installed as snap and will probably run into snap issues without a clue what could be causing them.

Copied from another comment I wrote about that:

Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.

Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.

But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox and press Y? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.

Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole

Something like mint or fedora is just as easy to install and has less issues than ubuntu (snaps)

Use something other than gnome and, while you’re at it, you might as well use something other than ubuntu.

KDE is very hard to break, you can go wild with customization there.

The boost app has a karma counter, maybe people want to see the funny number go up.

Installing arch is a great way to learn. Also don’t be scared of daily driving it, it’s not like it breaks twice a week. More like once a year, which is better than ubuntu in my experience.

90hz screen with 180hz polling is what my phone uses as well, it’s nice that the deck has now caught up to that.

Also remember to leave your original deck on when downloading games on the new one so it can transfer them locally, which should be faster. There’s a setting for that, but I think it’s on by default.

I know a lot of people my age (early 20s) who use tiktok and have no idea what tracking or privacy mean.

Kids might be smart, but if this is all they’ve known and it works well enough they don’t pay attention and don’t use their critical thinking.

But the deck can also be used for gaming with zero tinkering, so kids will do that.

KDEs wobbly windows will convert almost any child to linux.

Which distro and GPU? I’ve had a terrible experience with my 1070 Ti across Windows, kubuntu and arch and I didn’t even try Wayland.

Nvidia driver updates break things all the time. Just rollback and wait a few weeks before you try updating again.

Try Smarttube, it’s a joy to use.

I use SmartTube on my android TV and it’s great. If you can find an android TV box that doesn’t come with malware preinstalled or get android running on the pi, I highly recommend it.

If you’re bad at a multiplayer game, you’ll die a lot. That’s just part of it. Any good game will give new players a way to fight good players (TF2 has the anti titan weapons for example).

Poorly designed games will punish bad players for being bad (like unavoidable COD killstreaks for example).

SBMM is just a band-aid for a problem that lies much deeper.

The solution is simple: Create lobbies by ping and then split the teams by skill. I think titanfall 2 does that, I’ve been playing for a long time and if I meet another veteran, they are usually on the other team.

The 502 came up before even getting to checkout for me.

Didn’t get the LE because the server kept giving me errors unfortunately. I didn’t plan on upgrading so soon but the OLED seems to fix every issue I have with my deck. Better trackpad edges, slimmer bezels, a DPAD that allows overlap and some more cooling so it’ll probably be quieter.

90hz was what convinced me. I can’t believe valve put that into the fine print instead of the top of the site.

ich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.

Not bad packages

I’ve made the opposite experience. There were loads of snap-specific issues when I used ubuntu. So many that I now recommend not using ubuntu just because of snaps.