an old issue back when i started using linux if you had used kde and gnome (but this is ages ago back when kde4 existed) skype and all QT or KDE apps would get 2 px font on 1 DE but not the other even though your settings said 8px or idk 22px, this would persist even if you completely removed the other DE, some gnome apps would just not work properly or be slow.
otherwise issues that can still happen: settings for KDE or GNOME will not always match what settings actually say they should be in some cases.
and if you removed your previous DE sometimes the system would still try open files in the uninstalled applications because they were set as default (luckily this is an easy fix but a new user wont necessarily understand that) and not updated.
essentially if you rebase between DEs you can end up with issues that would require manual fixing and we are not interested in supporting that.
Now your making me feel old... I remember that issue. Also seem to remember it appearing towards the end of KDE3 when they did a QT upgrade I think it was (may have been 4 beta though, I'm old lol)
shows you how long i used linux, since i used kde3 on backtrack (predecessor to kali linux) because the weird ass wifi card i had would work ootb there.
there's a thing I haven't heard in years... and yes I think MADWIFI was well named it infuriated the hell out of me and most of my colleagues/friends at the time
good choice for a beginner tbh, I still think at times it is but with the new "Cloud native" stuff it's becoming harder to recommend it for ease of use imo
I was using Ubuntu on a couple machines for the longest time, the 11-15 releases. I still needed Windows though for quite a few things. I hopped between a few things like Fedora and elementaryOS. Honestly still really like elementary, I really enjoy Pantheon. I was using Antergos for a long while until they stopped existing. Then I moved to Endeavor and Arch for a bit, a bit of openSUSE Tumbleweed, and then to Fedora and Nobara, until 1.0 of Bazzite happened and now I live here.
Bazzite just has pretty much every tweak and change I would personally make to distros, and I don't have to worry about things exploding on a rolling release. I'll take the minor issues and I can test new things because I can easily rollback my system if things are funky.
for me i have been on debian --> ubuntu 8.10 - 19.10 (yes this was a singular install without reinstalls, just migrations to new disks using dddd) --> pop os 20.04 --> bazzite
on work systems it has been debian --> centos --> debian/ubuntu --> centos --> debian/ubuntu --> proxmox with whatever :clueless:
For gaming it was Pop!_OS for almost 2 years >> Nobara >> some crazy distrohopping >> Bazzite.
My work linux journey has been quite short Pop!_OS 22.04 >> Ubuntu 22.04 >> Kubuntu 22.04. I want to go Aurora for work
Looks like there is an Ubuntu Unity community still https://ubuntuunity.org, they do seem to be up to date as they have released 24.04 but the Reddit looks kinda dead so no idea if people are using it or not
Got around to troubleshooting this again. So I neglected to mention I was using KDE as my desktop environment, I installed it over the top of the usual Fedora 39 release since the chipset firmware that shipped had a bug that made it impossible to start Wayland in the initial login screen or something. So if I switch to GNOME I can’t get the con...
ok I rebased to an image that is supposed to start in gaming mode, but it doesn't boot into gaming mode. "return to gaming mode" also just goes back into desktop mode