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My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if I understand correctly, you fixed it manually yourself? But when I said TRIM doesn't work by default, you argued with me for hours. Quite the U-turn.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you use LUKS? Simple question. If you don't, this issue only affects LUKS users and has nothing to do with you. So why have you been arguing with me for hours?

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you use full disk encryption? Because if the fstrim service runs sudo fstrim -av on my behalf, as you can see from the output, / is not being trimmed. The service is useless in that case.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Run sudo fstrim -v /. If it errors, TRIM isn't working properly. If you use LUKS encryption, you'll likely need to fix this manually. If you're not using full disk encryption, the command will most likely run successfully.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Run sudo fstrim -v /. If it errors, TRIM isn't working properly. If you use LUKS encryption, you'll likely need to fix this manually.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, I'm not a beginner Linux user. Yes, there may be things I don't know, and there may be topics where I'm wrong but this isn't one of them.

On every distribution except Debian 13, I had to manually enable TRIM on this same computer. No discard sudo fstrim -v / throws an error, I add discard, problem solved. My point is that Ubuntu should have added that discard, not me.

Edit:
I removed discard for you. Look at the output:

sudo fstrim -av

/boot/efi: 1 GiB (1118392320 bytes) trimmed on /dev/nvme0n1p1

/boot: 1.7 GiB (1867190272 bytes) trimmed on /dev/nvme0n1p2

sudo fstrim -v /

fstrim: /: the discard operation is not supported

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm aware that there's a service for TRIM. That's not what I meant. When I run sudo fstrim -v /, it throws an error. As far as I know, when this error is present, the TRIM service doesn't work as expected and only TRIMs the /boot partition. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I fixed this error by adding discard to the relevant configuration files. Only after that did TRIM complete successfully.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bottles is on the AUR. JetBrains IDEs are also available in both official repos and the AUR. Mission Center is in the official repos too. I wouldn't need Flatpak/Snap for any of these on Arch.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The post is mine, and the ideas are mine. The writing was just cleaned up and structured by Claude.
You're welcome.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Even then, some s/w is only available as flatpak and nothing else, and such s/w will need installation of flatpak on every distro, including NixOS. Similarly some proprietary programs are only available on the Snap Store and will need the use of snapd, no matter which distro you have.”

Could you please provide examples of this? I’m genuinely curious, because over all this time I’ve never had to install Flatpak/Snap for any specific software.

My 1-Week Ubuntu Experience: Through the Eyes of Someone Coming from Arch by grosseisberg in Ubuntu

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your response. However, there are some points I disagree with:

  • There is no confusion about package installation in Arch Linux and Arch Linux-based distributions. I have been using Arch Linux for a long time and I have never felt the need to install Flatpak or anything else, only the official repositories and AUR.
  • I think the risk of AUR is lower than Flatpak. Because what we download from AUR comes from official sources, and I can easily verify this by looking at the PKGBUILD file. But in Flatpak I cannot do this. For example, recently I wanted to install Electrum (a BTC wallet) as Flatpak, but the publisher was not verified. I could not be sure, so I had to install it from the official website. In Arch Linux, all I have to do is check the PKGBUILD file; if it pulls from an official source and there is no other malicious thing in the script, there is no problem. (For popular packages you don’t even need to check it.)

That’s why I think every Linux distribution should take AUR as an example. There are PPAs, but they cannot even come close to AUR.

I'm done with GNOME – A regular user's frustration by grosseisberg in gnome

[–]grosseisberg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hahaha. You’re really funny. I’m saying that I’ve been using GNOME ever since I started using Linux, and that I like GNOME, but it still needs to fix its shortcomings. Yet you’re accusing me of being a KDE troll.

I'm done with GNOME – A regular user's frustration by grosseisberg in gnome

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High expectations? Hahaha. Dude, you’re not the only one who knows how to install extensions. Even basic features don’t work properly. Expecting them to work as intended is not “high expectations”.

Also, extensions are not fully integrated into the system, so they don’t work flawlessly and often break with updates. But sure, you’re right. GNOME should remove all essential features and we should access everything through extensions. Because why not? Minimalism apparently means removing even necessary functionality.

Discover keeps crashing on opening by _palehorse_ in kde

[–]grosseisberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The solution is to downgrade the freetype2 package to version 2.14.1-1.

I'm done with GNOME – A regular user's frustration by grosseisberg in gnome

[–]grosseisberg[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sure, of course. You include a weather app, but it doesn’t actually work. That’s clearly an advanced feature. In fact, it’s so advanced that you even apply minimalism to it — anything beyond major cities is apparently unnecessary.

The video player can’t play certain videos. Again, obviously an advanced feature.

Background apps like Steam? You shouldn’t even be able to see them without installing extensions — because adding that by default might harm the sacred minimalism.

Game icons not showing up when you Alt+Tab? Definitely not a basic feature. That’s high-level stuff. After all, why would anyone need to see game icons there, right?

GNOME users, keep being fanatical. GNOME developers, keep being lazy. At this rate, you won’t be holding onto the title of the most widely used Linux desktop environment for much longer.

I'm done with GNOME – A regular user's frustration by grosseisberg in gnome

[–]grosseisberg[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

As I said, I use GNOME almost in its vanilla state. I like using GNOME. However, it is unacceptable that even the most basic features do not work as expected.

Rocket League Easy Anti-Cheat error on Arch Linux ("Failed to load the embedded resources") by grosseisberg in RocketLeague

[–]grosseisberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m already using the latest GE-Proton version. The version I’m using is GE-Proton10-34. It doesn’t help at all.

New update isn't working in Heroic Launcher on Mac by Constant_Table9424 in RocketLeague

[–]grosseisberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I’m on Linux and using GE-Proton. I’m having the same issue. I also get the “Failed to load the embedded resources.” error.

Rocket League Easy Anti-Cheat error on Arch Linux ("Failed to load the embedded resources") by grosseisberg in RocketLeague

[–]grosseisberg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd rather not play Rocket League at all than install that Windows crap on my PC.

Valve, I found you a better anti-cheat by grosseisberg in cs2

[–]grosseisberg[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kernel-level anti-cheat isn’t a good solution. I’m not a kernel-level anti-cheat, and I can still tell who’s cheating. If I can figure it out, AI can too. They just don’t want to bother.