Nice! I can confirm that my account has been verified automatically and I'm able to just navigate straight to the store pages for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. Am I remembering correctly that we used to get a dropdown age gate on those pages? If so, things are now smoother than they used to be. Still, they could have implemented this method to begin with.

'New technology', eh?

And this is how were gonna lose affinity suite.

If you absolutely need to, there is the non-guix repository, that has steam e. g. among other things

Guix is interesting! How do you find it for general use? Is it hard to get non-free software (e.g. Steam) running on it?

I am running Kubuntu, but I would like to switch to Cachy. I haven't because I don't really have any complaints about my OS, but I do think Cachy would be better. I just need to suck it up and make some backups (which I need to do anyway).

I switched to Debian recently and haven't had any major issues.

I think i had trouble with Debian on newer hardware/laptops, as the stable build is normally a little behind. Ubuntu worked better for those purposes. I also found finding answers online easier with Ubuntu because of the size of the community and amount of noobs (including me)

I loved the concept of the rolling release of Arch linux, but the reality for me turned out to less than the promise. Things broke. If you only used things occasionally, you'd find them broken when you needed them. And then the community could be hostile to noobs. I also tried a couple of variants like Manjaro etc, but the numbers of people using it becomes less and less until you are the only person running that hardware on that distro, so it's your problem.

Ultimately, resigned to the fact that Ubuntu was a safer bet for me. On one machine, I run the latest version with updates. On an older laptop, I have the 24.04 LTS, and will probably stick on that as long as I can. Ubuntu LTS basically ends up like a Debian stable, but there always seem to be one application that I need that eventually requires an upgrade to a later version.

Also, not a fan of the snaps, flatpaks etc, so end up installing native deb packages, and blocking some snaps

anyone running vanilla debian for desktop?

Yes. With more cult-of-the-new OSen, I got quickly tired of unwanted churn and the resulting breakages.

Standardising all my (user-facing) devices on Debian means I can choose how rapidly I want it to change, but everything about how to use and configure the system applies to them all.

Devices I never want to think about except to patch security vulnerabilities? Debian “stable”, which makes that a promise.

Devices I want software that's had a good period of shaking out already? Debian “testing” runs on my desktop and notebook devices.

Devices I want the instability of changing packages, to whatever has recently released by package maintainers? Debian “unstable”. Though this latter has for the past decade been entirely in temporary virtual machines, that get created on demand and then discarded as soon as whatever I'm futzing around with has succeeded or failed.

Every now and then they standard update with sudo pacman -Suy will break some hardware config or package combination. Often the terminal will warn you about changed packages and dependencies, but you should check the RSS feed or website for breaking changes.

Anyone with web search and some basic cli knowhow should be able to recover things in a short period of time, but I deliberately won't update just before anything that is time critical.

It will also happily let you break dependencies, install questionable packages from the AUR, and let you do whatever stupid crap you want. I would describe it as easy to customise, easy to break and easy to fix.

I switched from windows to fedora as my daily driver in 2024. Fedora sucked imo. Slow updates and just difficult to configure in the ways I wanted.

Used arch install to put arch on my work laptop early 2025 and have not looked back. Switched my desktop to arch not long after. pacman is amazing and I can't imagine doing it any other way now. The look on the IT guy's face at work when he suggested we try obs to test a camera, and I had it installed and booted within 20 seconds was priceless.

LMDE with vanilla gnome on top

I’ve been running Bazzite for a while now, it isn’t truly inmuteable but it isn’t the best if you want to tinker.

Bazzite has been excellent for trouble free gaming but probably wouldn’t be my first choice for an older laptop

I use either debian or Zorin.

Debian because it just fucking works. Zorin because it's pretty.

Can you explain what you mean by long term maintenance?

Is it just regular updating or something else?

No distro should ever be even slightly difficult to install, it's a really daft design choice.

Currently running bazzite for gaming pc/programming. Got my home server up and running the other weekend and using ubuntu on it

CachyOS - wanted Steam hardware compatability, and familiarity; KDE provides.

I liked Ubuntu but at the time it randomly crashed my Wi-Fi driver, killing my system within hours to weeks...

Wish I'd go back to Nyarch (KDE) for the meme but I was on Gnome and wanted to try some recommendations. I liked Bazzite more than CachyOS, but I don't understand Fedora and struggled to install an RPM file despite instructions :(

Mint, never any problems.

Arch ain't even that hard to install nowadays thanks to the "arch install" command, too. I've tried following their official install instructions on their wiki, but I almost always switch to using that command to get it installed because they made that process so much easier for dummies like me.

Best of both worlds for those that wanna learn and for those that just wanna install with less hassles, IMO.

Maybe I didn't give it enough time or did a wrong config during install, but my first time using straight vanilla debian, I didn't like how I needed to add my account to root. This was fairly early on in my time using Linux, so that was all my fault and nothing wrong with Debian. Left a sour taste that I could easily get over now, but that would require me to use/install it...

So, instead, I just use MX for now. It's Debian based, but I cannot say whether it's better than Debian itself due to lack of vanilla deb usage.

LMDE.

But truth be told I'd probably just use base debian at this point. I just like Cinnamon, clean and easy.

Use case: accessing virtual machines via remmina and docker containers by browser. No gaming. occasional light document work.

Debian pretty much everywhere. Tumbleweed on my desktop

I run Ubuntu on my main work machine, and Debian everywhere else.

I dunno. I actually miss some of the Canonical tweaks to Gnome… but honestly, if you said I had to use Debian from now on I’d shrug and move on.

Debian package manager is the best, so go ahead and use real Debian rather than one of these forks