Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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Ubuntu is a shit OS, with forced snaps packages. I recommend something like Arch (Or any Arch-based like EndeavourOs or CachyOs) or Fedora.
Okay I really owe you a thank you, fren! You got me off my butt and do what I have been meaning to do for 2 years. I finally installed EndOS on my physical machine, migrated all my stuff and installed everything I use - including all my AI workloads, KVM environment and dev stuff, and everything working impeccably.
Its blazing fast, has a very crisp feel (I keep opening and closing windows for no reason at all) and so far, no kind of freezing. I can use the nouveau driver and still install the GPU Nvidia drivers. Gotta wait for a few days to know if it indeed is behaving. The final test would be to plug in my Mellanox card and see if it can work with it.
Honestly, the installation was much easier than expected. Just needed to do manual partitioning which was expected. Also, it gave an option to install boot loader into EFI directly without the grub (hate grub) and it works beautifully. All Linux distros should do the same then they would play nice with Windows.
I'm glad to hear that it is working out!
Yeah i am realising that! I started using Ubuntu since most of my clients preferred Ubuntu but by Gawd it is crap.
Which do you suggest if i am looking for stability and maximum hardware compatibility with a reasonably decent automated installation?
Endeavour OS
Very good distro, easy install and is based on Arch Linux. If you are not familiar with arch linux, it has a different package manager then Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses apt and Arch uses pacman)
https://endeavouros.com/
Okay I have started archinstall on one VM and downloading EndeavourOS to install on another.
Will see how easy/hard each one is and what it takes to get everything I have running on my main into these. (I am assuming to be able to use by RTX4090, I will have to do a physical install, that can be the last step).
Lol, while writing this message, the archinstall completed and I have a Arch KDE up and running. First impressions:
The UI is extremely slow, need to check why. Perhaps I should switch to a different GUI, but I have installed KDE on Ubuntu on VM with exactly same specs (16 GB RAM, 50 GB disk, 2 vcpus) and is not this slow ... perhaps I should try a different windowing system. Seeing how quickly I can change the window system would be a good test.
I have seen that in almost all distros, the terminal is not listed by default in any shortcuts, and was hoping Arch would be an exception, being for power users, but sadly its missing here too :(
Came with multiple browsers - thats pretty good. Esp. since it came with Chromium without having to install snap crap - Huge positive !
Package manager doesnt come with a default way to search for packages. Need to install yaourt, but that is not even available in the default repository. This is a small negative in my opinion.
However installing it from git and installing Brave using that was pretty painless, again huge positive.
Installed a few other tools I use using yaourt (srsly it needs a better non-french sound name, lol) and everything went pretty smoothly.
So looks like I am set to install this on physical. Now i need to find space amongst my 7-8 OSes I have installed here lol.
Whoa, just finished Endeavour OS and it is impressive. Way better experience than any Ubuntu/Redhat/Centos installs AND strangely, the system is much faster than the one I installed directly with archinstall. (Not sure how that would happen, but whatever lol)
Okay, I am gonna install EndOS on physical. Thanks for the recommendation!
On the negative note - I am guessing that once I switch to Arch linux, for some reason, everything will be french sounding with triple vowels? Yaourt. Endeavour. Its a nightmare I say!
On Endeavour, Instead of Yaourt, it has yay, which is used to install packages from the AUR. It can also be used just to install pacakages on the system.
For example, the syntax to install Brave would be:
yay -S brave-bin
Plus, if you need to update the system, you can just type in "yay" and it updates packages from all of the repos, including the aur