@klangcola Good to know thanks. I only saw they were around since 2019, but, hardware wise, I never heard of them.

@Die4Ever While they claim to have existed for a while, I never really heard of them before, so it is tough to say.

I’ve only heard of Beelink, System76, Star Labs, Framework, and Tuxedo mentioned the most frequently.

@steam I’m glad you’re liking #ubuntu 🙂

It was the first #linux distribution I played with back around the mid 2000’s and I liked it back then too.

I’ve mostly played with Linux in VMs these days, but I got a Linux desktop a while back that runs #popos and I think I enjoy that more than Ubuntu.

@demerara @MangoPenguin @RommieDroid I just try to find the current way to uninstall the preloaded version and then run dpkg -i *.deb in the extracted directory for the latest, but I can kind of see how that can be possible.

@RommieDroid Most of them are based on Ubuntu, such as Mint and the stagnated Pop! OS.

I can’t say what they are all like, but Ubuntu and its family are all the ones adopting a software center/App store these days.

In the past, I remember using Synaptic for searching for software, which was just a GUI front end for APT.

I’ve been using Nala lately in my VMs though.

@MangoPenguin @RommieDroid It’s more so that the people working on “beginner friendly” Linux distros are pushing users towards Software Centers/App stores these days.

Those of us who are familiar with the old ways don’t really have much trouble, but there’s stuff that is a big pain, like #LibreOffice

Installing the latest version of that is easier to do in the terminal and can’t be done as conveniently as what you propose, though I wish it was that easy.

@RommieDroid No problem. Many of us are here to help in the #linux community, though I wouldn’t say I’m the most advanced with it.

@RommieDroid It’s not there by default, but Gdebi can do the trick. I used it quite a lot when I first started with Linux.