Installing anything. Updating. Formatting drives.

If you take a look at all the loot box mechanics out there honestly theirs is the least bad. STILL BAD and shouldn’t be a thing, but they’re way less in-your-face and also you can sell the boxes that you get for free just by playing and use that to buy games.

Microsoft is the only one I can think of that doesn’t work on Linux though? What’s the tonne of stores you miss out on?

They raised the GamePass price didn’t they? It’s been lackluster lately

They should but they wouldn’t be optimized for touch or small screens

I agree with all but G+

Check your disk access usage maybe? Like if you store things on an external drive with USB2 or something you’re gonna have a bad time with multiple videos/high bitrate stuff because you’re saturating the bandwidth of the connection

Unfortunately for the US (possibly other countries?) we’ve shut down 2g/3g. 4g/5g here don’t support calling only VoLTE and Vo5G and as far as I know Linux phones haven’t figured those out meaning calling on Linux isn’t currently a thing.

It’s not about them being better, it’s about them basically being the same.

Although I’m not saying I trust Apple for privacy, I trust them more than Google on that front.

Linux phone OSes can usually run Android apps through a VM but generally you want to avoid it for performance and privacy reasons.

There are apps available for mobile Linux that are optimized for small screens and touch. Just not a ton understandably due to low userbase.

I’ve never used ZorinOS honestly what’s it about? What’s the philosophy?

+1 for Immich - it’s actually great

And you fully control the service?

Which is exactly why I never installed Plex and went straight to Jellyfin

I used Fedora’s atomic KDE version for a bit. It’s mostly fine and never had too many issues. Except trying to run VMs.

I use Leap for my home server, mostly just running docker. Been eyeing jumping to nixOS but still not sure

Harcoded block lists in your software? Gross.

That’s my general advice but with Debian you’re probably good lol

Presumably a reference to their channel?

You’re good. If you like your setup please don’t feel like you need to change. Ubuntu will serve you just fine.

Now if you just like tinkering or configuring…

The main drawback of Ubuntu is mainly that people don’t like Canonical, the company behind it. They can be very opinionated in their decisions. Also many prefer rolling-release distros (like Arch, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) where you get much quicker software updates over Ubuntu and other traditional distros.