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The fact that apt isn't even recognized as a valid command isn't right. You can install it via dpkg, but perhaps ask the question as to what the problem might be here under the help section.
I agree with 99% of what you have said. I disagree with the updates not causing crashes. I have updated numerous times and been at a grub menu afterwards where I have to boot an old kernel, which means I need to know the exact kernel models I previously had installed.
My only gripe about updates in windows stemmed from the auto restart immediately with no way to stop it on the fly. I haven't had that issue in ages.
Windows update is far from issue free, there's a number of threads under these very forums regarding problems encountered under Windows update - It's also slow as molasses. I'm not looking for an argument, but facts are facts.
its definitely still slower than Linux, but significantly better than the windows 7 and before days.
At the end of the day, people use what works best for them, and life is good.
One of the freeing aspects of moving most of my systems to Linux has not been in any illusion that linux updates can't break something, but knowing that a financial incentive in an oversight vacuum isn't influencing or steering the updates. Meaning if something does break and a rollback is required, it wasn't for any marketing/corporate/policy or otherwise non-technical decision, no stealthy components designed to steer user behavior. No mix of bad faith, arrogance and complacency taking the userbase for granted, like we know from MS's Windows update history:
You definitely have wayyyyyy more apps than I'll ever use, but mine is similar to yours. Even on windows I might run like 5 programs. Usually World of Warcraft, one of two other games, chrome and MAYBE office, but I have a work PC for any office stuff these days.At the end of the day, people use what works best for them, and life is good.
I think I've finally tweaked my KDE Neon 6 desktop to a point whereby I'm 100% happy. The pics won't do it justice, looks amazing at 4k:
(Reminds me that ironically Firefox on my Linux install nags me every month with a modal dialog to switch before allowing me to use the browser, while none of my Windows FF versions do. Though it's not the OS doing this at least, for sure.)
I admit, I use my PC quite a bit, for both work and play.
If anything, that pile of apps in your floating dock is a testament to the amount of apps that work within Linux, many of them familiar windows programs.
Honestly, I never get the feeling that there isn't an app specific to my needs - As you stated, many are now cross platform. Most of the time I'm not even conscious of the fact I don't run Windows.
I think it's a weird feeling for people to not need to google programs to download and just use their software center.
Was just helping my sister installing TurboTax on her PC because she bought it off Amazon and it wouldn't install. When she turned it on the PC was installing updates, which we gave up after 20 minutes of it being stuck at 100%. I do not miss using Windows. It is liberating knowing that no financial incentive could play it's hand on Linux, and if it does then it's not like I don't have dozens of other distros I could easily switch over to. Ubuntu screws up by making snap packages the default? You have Linux Mint, PopOS, Zorin, and etc. As much as Microsoft wants everyone to have good faith on them, I can't. Same goes for Apple.
Honestly, I hardly ever use discover to search for software, old habits die hard I suppose. I actually prefer using terminal to install all the software I need.
Same, although that's mostly because I was scarred by horrible package manager frontends 10-15 yrs ago.
This is why Linux adoption suffers. Some people will tell others that whatever DE they are running is super stable and easy to use when it's not. So then they end up in forums talking about command line crap when they wouldn't otherwise. You get to see this here in real time.
KDE's Wayland support has lagged Gnome by quite a bit for quite some time. It's been garbage but that's not Wayland that's KDE and Plasma. It was slower than Gnome for eons until just recently. So of course you had issues you've got the holy trinity of having a bad time right there. KDE's broken Wayland support is almost a meme, I can see why your experience is what it is. This would be like me picking the distro with the least amount of ZFS support and then saying ZFS was trash.
Well, my KDE install was super awesome and looked amazing and I was surprised at how polished it was. Until I tried to install Battle.net through Lutris. I tried as a stand alone, snap and flatpak.
Yikes. Battlenet. Try installing it to Steam and then using Proton on it. Much easier.
Honestly, didn't know battle net or wow were on steam. I'll give it a go I guess.
It's not on Steam. You can use Steam and it's libraries to install software. So you download regular Battle.net. You then pick Add a Game in the lower left corner of Steam. Then you right click on the application. Go to compatibility then force use of Proton (its a fork of Wine).
Thanks! Had no idea. Wild world out there.
Doesn't change the fact that I refuse to use Gnome based on the attitudes of Gnome devs, and I can't use Wayland the way I want under KDE. One of the problems with Wayland is that it leaves everything up to the WM, meaning your Wayland experience isn't identical across WM's.
You have to run the Wine Flatpak along with Lutris, installing Wine via apt under KDE 6 will result in dependency issues due to libpoppler-glib8. But don't use Lutris, it's hot garbage, use Bottles. Bottles is Flatpak and comes with Wine as part of it's Flatpak, so no dependency issues and no need to install Wine seperately. You can run any Windows software under Bottles, it's far easier and there's less risk of Malware deleting your files.
I use Steam to to run the EA App, however the process is a little more involved than just adding a non steam game. You have to edit the prefix path as well as the path to the executable under Steam after you've run the installer and created the prefix.
Of course it doesn't. But it also doesn't change the fact that Wayland and KDE is buggy meanwhile in Gnome it's not, which is part of the reason why your experience and mine are so different.
Most people are going to use the WM that's the default of the DE.
The way I run Battle.net is by downloading the latest wine-ge-proton that isn't LoL and then placing the extracted parts into /opt/ . I assume you can also use this in Lutris but I've never used Lutris. If you're on a Ubuntu like distro like Linux Mint, you can follow these instructions to install the latest wine into your system. I always install wine-staging. Not something you need with Lutris, but it may help you install the missing dependencies that you think you need. Then I use this command to run Battle.net.
gamemoderun WINEPREFIX="/home/<USER>/.wine" /opt/GE-Proton/bin/wine "/home/<USER>/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net.exe"
My experience with a 3400G has been mostly good, although it was rough on initial release. Obviously performance is only okay, it's integrated graphics after all.
Good god.
Nah fam, wine-staging doesn't work. Wine-devel doesn't work. Winehq-devel doesn't work. Winehq-staging doesn't work.