If you want to install any apps go with Flatpaks for reliability. Since Ubuntu has snaps, install the snap variant of available. Imo Flatpaks have greatly reduced the number of issues like dependency problems for me.

Have you tried any other distro ? I’d recommend any of the universal blue projects or fedora silverblue as it is relatively maintainance free and just like using windows/macos. If you game just go with Bazzite, otherwise try Aurora/Bluefin. In most cases you won’t even have to use the terminal that much, but if you do they have really nice cli tools too.

If you still want to go the traditional approach - Arch based distros can also be very good, ateast you will be able to find answers on the archwiki and try those solutions. It’s not like Ubuntu is bad, it’s kind of janky sometimes and I kind of liked the conveince of finding all that I need within the archwiki. Arch has fast updates, so things will break once in a while… however my experience has been really good with arch for many years now. if you want to try it then go with either EmdavourOS or CachyOS - both are setup quite well out of the box.

TL;DR - try Flatpaks, try low maintenance distros like Bazzite and use it like you normally do.

Meanwhile Metal gear Rising players : Spam Parry ! (Except for Senator Armstrong and Sundowner)

That’s one elaborative answer. Thank you for typing this all out. It sounds like a pain, but I think it’s worth doing.

All that waiting period to get verified s crazy. Furthermore to view some profiles we need to be in their networking list ? that’s even crazier.

I finished Yakuza 7 last year after post game depression of Yakuza 6… Needless to say I was depressed but significantly happier than when I completed Y6.

Is that the one where the main character tries to develop a girl into an ideal heroine for his novel or something along those lines ?

I didn’t completely watch that show, so I’ll check it out some time. Thanks for reminding me tho.

So many good ones here. I’ve watched a few from the ones you mentioned. All of them I pretty much enjoyed a ton.

1. Re Life
2. Bunny girl senpai
3. Sakura-sou no pet na Kanojo
4. Boku no kokoro no yabai yatsu
5. Kimi no nawa

Re life, kmi no nawa and bunny girl senapi gave me depression for a short while back in the day. Boko no Kokoro no yabai yatsu was probably one of the better ones to come out in recent times.

I also think I watched the first 2 episodes of Kaicho wa Maid Sama a long time ago… I almost forgot it existed.

Hiscore girl, tsuki ga kirei and Spice & wolf are in my never ending watch list, thanks for reminding me again. As for gosik, it’s my first time hearing about it… Will check it out tho.

Also please go ahead and comment the experimental ones you mentioned, I think I’ll find something interesting

Also my apologies for not mentioning the ones I already watched in my post.

I’ve not heard about both of them before. I’ll check these out. Thanks

Oh nice. Sounds like it’s the kind of show I’m looking for. Thank you.

Oregairu was really well executed. I really liked it. I kinda feel bad for the second girl with the pink hair ( I think her name was Yuigahama? ).

Oh man I feel old now… Its been what? 4 or 5 years since it got it’s final season anime adaptation huh… I was watching it while it was still airing.

On a completely unrelated note, I think it was last year when I watched an anime called “The terrors in my heart” it was one of the memorable ones I’ve seen as of late. I just remembered it when you mentioned Oregairu for some reason.

From the ones you’ve mentioned, I’ve watched Golden time. It was pretty good.

Ore monogatati and Torodora were in my watchlist for a long time, I almost forgot about them until I read your comment.

Its a Makoto Shinkai movie right? I’ve seen it a few years ago, I liked it.

Hey thanks for all these suggestions. I’ll check out all of them. I’ll add those manga to my reading list.

I don’t hate teams but I hate that call ringtone. I get triggered everytime I hear it 😂

Haha, to each their own I guess.

My desktop environment of choice would be XFCE. It’s simply easy to configure while not giving me choice fatigue like KDE does. Also I don’t like Qt for some reason.

GNOME is great but I find their extensions to be super clunky sometimes. Some of them even break in between updates. The main selling point of gnome (for me) is the minimal look and feel, extensions kind of ruin that a little bit.

Don’t get me wrong plasma and Gnome are wonderful DEs but XFCE provides a simple and balanced desktop IMO. The only thing that’s missing is full Wayland support.

P.S : Anyways most of the time I would be running a window manager instead of a DE, my current favourite Wayland window-manager is Labwc because it gives me openbox vibes.

Some sort of journaling really helps when you feel like you have no direction. You can turn back the pages and see what path you took and even identify some ideas or values you want to implement in your life moving forwards. I recommend a notebook instead of a digital notes app.

This is a habit that I formed fairly recently 3-4 years ago I think. Initially I was writing down on smaller notepads which tend to get filled up quickly. Now I use a dotted notebook, so that I can draw something if I need to (although unruled notebooks also work)

Don’t obsess over decorating it like the bullet journal folks do on YouTube/Instagram and if you are thinking of using apps like obsidian or logseq - don’t go too far down the rabbit hole , just write down something instead.

You can have something like tasks.org for todos (organize your day) and a physical notebook to develop a vision (get some direction in your life)

Have you tried Floorp yet ? It’s pretty good, you may find some things really neat coming from Vivaldi.

I tried both flatpak Steam and the non-flatpak one which comes with Bazzite. I gave it access through flatsel like usual, but when I tried to add the drive from within steam it just sat there doing nothing.

I have not encountered this issue on other distros.

Actually I don’t have an igpu, I have an rx6600 and an i5 10400f.

I’m currently using Aurora-dx, is the switcheroo patch available there too ?

Rather than rebasing, would there be a way to to layer the Bazzite Optimizations (Kernel & scheduler Optimizations for gaming, not Lutris etc) on top of aurora-dx?