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See the release notes and search for "ZFS": https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...
I love Ubuntu. But I wish their package manager supported "undo".
It does, if you use ZFS, for which there's an option during the install: https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-zfs-snapshots-ubuntu/
Does this release allow ZFS-on-root via the server installer? (previous releases allowed ZFS-on-root, but only via the desktop installer)
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Just as another data point, to be honest, I've had nothing but similar issues with Ubuntu. It always found new, weird, sometimes downright bizarre ways to break, often in ways I never could figure out how to fix. Mind you, that was back when I didn't even do anything unusual and didn't know how to really dig into the nuts and bolts of linux... I just installed fairly normal apps from the repository with no custom con…
Agreed. Ubuntu aways broke more than my Arch system.
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I'm not sure what you mean, that isn't even most software out of the examples you gave. I think snap and flatpak have almost all of those. For Rust and Python I think you can use rustup and pyenv. All of that would be preferable to using a root installer. If the only option they have is an installer that runs as root, then the safest way to handle that would be to run it inside a docker container. Those companies sho…
None of those you linked are recommended on the official websites: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install : Curl an .sh Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/about/ : Download and install a .deb Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-r... - Download a .tar.bz2 VsCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/download - Download a DEB Pycharm https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/download-thank…
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PopOS does slightly better than most distros out of the box on my Thinkpad. Installing tlp greatly improves battery life across all distros I have tried and basically eliminates the advantage PopOS has. Unfortunately compared to this level of improvement I still get about a 30% improvement in battery life using Windows without any tweaking at all.
Have you checked out Fedora? Out of the box I had as good as (or close enough to) Windows' battery life on my ThinkPads and normal consumer hardware due to certain optimizations [1] they've made, to the point where I don't even run tlp anymore. Furthermore they've introduced power-profiles-daemon in Fedora 35 [2] by default, which allow granular-ish control similar to Windows' "Power Mode" option and PopOS' system76-…
I even tried the beta of Fedora 35 which still had awful power management for me. After a couple of days I installed the latest to tlp to see if it had improved the situation since my last try. Still no where near Windows and requires disabling the new power profiles daemon.
Maybe things would be better for me at this point if I had an Intel based laptop but my previous one was and the situation then was the same.
I loved Ubuntu around 2007-2009 or so. Nowdays it feels like there are plenty of alternative distros that "just work" without so many of the idiosyncratic stuff canonical keeps dumping into what used to be "debian for the masses" > As Linux evangelist Mark Pilgrim once quipped, Ubuntu "is an ancient African word meaning 'can't install Debian'". https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/16/debian_lenny_review/
Debian has a strange approach to security these days. There are over 100 unpatched vurnurabilities in their version of Chromium for example: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s... Because of this, I don't see debian as an option for the Desktop anymore. I hope they still fix the server software in their repos.
Does this release allow ZFS-on-root via the server installer? (previous releases allowed ZFS-on-root, but only via the desktop installer)
ZFS is currently broken in Ubuntu 21.10 and causes filesystem corruption. See the known issues section in the release notes.
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Does Steam work in Wine?
From my experience: Linux > Steam > Proton > Windows Game works better than Linux > Wine > Steam > Windows Game There's really no reason to be running Steam in Wine when Steam runs natively within Linux and Proton does the work for you for each individual game.