I want my apt damnit

maybe Pop!_OS or PikaOS

I need Flatpak and AppImage support too

I like Kate as a fancy notepad, I use it for taking quick notes or opening a txt file I downloaded. I have it set to start up into a new blank document, so it works more like Windows Notepad.

I still use VSCode for real programming though.

Kate did well at searching for text inside binary files though, I recently used it to see which DLL an error message was coming from, VSCode couldn’t do it.

That’s awesome! Mint definitely sounds great if it supports your hardware without issue. I think it’s less of a concern with custom builds, and more of an issue with OEM prebuilts and laptops especially

that sounds cool

although I guess that won’t help you if the Mint installer can’t boot on your computer, or if your wifi driver isn’t available and then you can’t download newer kernels

if you wanna put Linux on a brand new Christmas gift laptop, I think 6.14 could definitely be too old

in some cases even 6.17 might be too old

If the Mint installer uses 6.8, can you even install it on brand new hardware? missing a laptop’s wifi drivers would be a huge pain cause then you can’t update it without a usb->ethernet adapter

that would be enough frustration for most users to turn back to Windows

is Mint still using old kernels? That could hurt hardware compatibility especially with newer hardware

Even if you installed this it’s not usually going to be a big deal

Use a disk space analyzer program like Filelight

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.filelight

Or https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.baobab

I think Fedora and all these rolling distros are too aggressive with updates. You gotta let changes simmer and get tested long-term before sending them to the mainstream users. But LTS is too slow. Kubuntu does it right, every 6 months is enough.

And of course Fedora hates Nvidia, so Bazzite should be doing their own extra testing of every update for Nvidia drivers or the kernel before pushing out the updates.

I don’t like LTS, doesn’t make much sense for home desktops. I say upgrade your Kubuntu to 25.10, much easier than switching distros.

And then maybe enable the backports ppa if you want even faster updates.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y

Or you can just do faster point releases, slightly more stable than backports

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y

https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/PPAs

Which Plasma 6? I’m on 6.5.5

Which version of KDE Plasma?

I think the main difference is before they would go

kernel patch -> own repo -> (own distro and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros

now they’re gonna go

kernel patch -> OGC repo -> (OGC distros and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros

and that means there will be way more code reviewers and testers (and more automated testing?) happening before release

and these things being merged together earlier also makes it easier, especially since I imagine the mainline Linux is pretty slow to accept gaming-related patches

Meet Xfwl4

would it kill them to have a name people could remember or pronounce? lol

yea I would say that’s what home users should be doing anyways? idk to me it doesn’t make sense to be so far behind on updates when the non-LTS is available

Or how far behind is Mint on the updates for kernel, Nvidia drivers, KDE, etc? I remember them being really far behind on some things. It confuses me how Mint is suggested so often.

for 22.04

What about 25.10?

Is this upgrade going to be done automatically at some point?

Yeah it’s just the login manager that requires systemd, not the rest of the DE

Some people run Linux on the x86 Surface tablets