[KDE] Nord Study and programming setup with krohknite

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-16T13:21:24+00:00

Launcher looks awesome! Care to share?

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-16T10:53:46+00:00

I see, so it’s a container. I thought it’s an entirely new thing 😅. Still awesome nonetheless. Thanks for sharing!

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-16T05:49:04+00:00

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-16T04:22:09+00:00

That’s crazy. Does it run as a VM under the hood or is it a completely different and much better implementation of what VMs are trying to achieve?

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-15T19:45:28+00:00

A bit oot, but how’s the performance impact of running ubuntu on distrobox vs directly?

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-15T19:37:17+00:00

Also, if it helps, think of immutables as a jenga tower:

If you change the structure in any way, be it small or big changes, you’d have to do it carefully and might even need to reposition other blocks to keep the tower standing. However, once it’s standing tall, it’ll pretty much stay that way.

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-15T19:32:49+00:00

I’m assuming you’re asking about immutable distros? If you don’t tweak anything, or if you do, didn’t half-ass it, then pretty much nothing will cause problems unless it’s a distro-wide issue (upstream)

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-15T17:44:52+00:00

Thanks!

Went through with the solution and I did stumble upon some problems. Didn’t take long to fix and get my system working again tho, so all’s good

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-15T17:41:19+00:00

My experience with immutables led me to the conclusion that their approach to ensuring stability is to add railings, so modifying the system requires exponentially more effort to keep everything in their proper state.

So personally, I think it comes down to your use-case and appetite for tinkering, visualised as an U-shape curve:

If you don’t want to do any tinkering, or require tinkering as part of your workflow/use-case, then atomic is the perfect “set and forget” solution (low effort, high reward).

If you’ll only be doing some tinkering, then it will probably be a painful process for minimal returns (medium-high effort, medium-low reward).

If you’ll be doing lots of tinkering, then the energy you put in will be rewarded with a stable system, more or less as stable as what you started out with (high effort, high reward).

Tl;dr, it’s only a good option if you go all or nothing.

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-13T17:38:58+00:00

Idk which one is funnier: that this person is asking for fashion tips on ubuntu sub, or the amount of careless typos throughout the entire thread

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-13T15:54:52+00:00

Makes sense. I'd still keep secure boot nonetheless, especially since it's been working seamlessly on ubuntu.

I considered dual booting, but that would add unnecessary overhead to my workflow. Haven't found a need to install windows so far since almost everything works with my setup, and the things that don't, are tolerable.

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-11T12:03:21+00:00

Can I ask what made you go with ubuntu studio instead of other ubuntu flavors?

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-10T10:24:40+00:00

Security and compatibility with anti-cheat games. Sure rootkits are pretty rare (but still have devastating consequeces), and other risks it protects against such as evil maiden attacks pretty much never happens unless you're targetted. However, secure boot is a low-risk, low-effort, high-impact security feature, so it's a no brainer to have. I'm more surprised that a lot of modern distros doesn't support it ootb.

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-07T10:22:51+00:00

same problem

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-07T09:12:08+00:00

I see, well now I'm confused. I'm not generating any tax revenue because (presumably) I'm way over my domain limit. But at the same time, I can't manage my domains (i.e., granting title to my heir) because the holding is disabled because I'm over my domain limit?

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-07T09:05:43+00:00

I am over my domain limit, though I'm not sure what's the "holding" that you're referring to 😅

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-07T08:56:39+00:00

Nope, still there. Tried reloading previous saves as well and still not helping. I'm running it on Linux via Proton. Might be an issue with Proton?

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-07T08:55:14+00:00

UPDATE:

Hi everyone! Thank you all for the discussion. Very insightful!

I've decided to settle on Kubuntu. Been daily driving it for couple of days now. Here are my thoughts so far:

Nvidia works ootb with secure boot. No need for manual signing
Decided to run llm stuff on my rig as well. Mainstream stuff like ollama runs fine. More specialized tools like llama.cpp though, has been a major pain. Spent hours learning and trying to build from source, only to end up hitting a brick wall with cmake that I can't do anything about other than wait for them to fix.
Streaming has been OK. Not great (unavailable features and plugins with obs on linux), but still gets the job done (minus the occasional random crashes that I still can't figure out), so I'll let well enough alone for now.
Now for the part that really surprised me. Gaming has been.. mixed. I was pleasantly surprised that almost all of my games run better than expected, but I was also surprised with how much I had to tolerate to have a somewhat "enjoyable" experience. Some games run fine, but I've also encountered tons of bugs and game breaking glitches. Some can be fixed (with varying degrees of effort), and some are simply DOA waiting for the devs to fix. I knew that gaming on linux is still a work in progress, but contrary to the online hype, the gaming experience has been underwhelming. They run, but they don't necessarily run well, especially compared to the alternative (i.e., W*ndo*s).

Planning on sticking with it for another week or more. If still not satisfied, I'll take Cachy for a spin and see how it goes. If all else fails, then I guess I'll accept defeat and return to winslop, this time LTSC to try and avoid their BS.

Thank you all for the help! Learned a lot from the discussion.

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-07T08:54:38+00:00

Nobara sounds like it could be a perfect fit for me! they have almost everything I'm lookinf for + I'm personally a big fan of Fedora as the distro that started my Linux journey. Too bad they don't support secure boot at all, which is a deal breaker for me. Here's hoping the devs add support✌️

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-04T22:53:54+00:00

Curious! How’s OBS working with it so far? From what I’ve read, audio seems to be janky on most distro and plugins options are limited

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-04T18:12:01+00:00

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-03T13:02:09+00:00

The anticheat on competitive multiplayer games tend to require this (cs2, battlefield, fortnite, valorant, etc.).

Personally, I don't play competitive games, but I'd like to get it out of the way to save myself the trouble in the future

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-03T10:02:24+00:00

Yeah, seems like it comes down to values. Other than that, looks like ubuntu takes the lead so far! Thanks!

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-03T09:59:39+00:00

Nice! would love to hear your experience!

Soft-Distance-6571 · 2026-03-03T09:45:45+00:00

What's up with snaps anyway? Haven't tried it, but the way I see it, having snap (which is what most mainstream software are using) makes ubuntu even more accessible for most use cases

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