Generally a good idea to wait for the .1 release if you can for bugs to be ironed out. Another option to consider is running Ubuntu in a distrobox for the sw that needs it and then run whatever distro you like.

Might not be a popular opinion these days but I am really glad there exists a distro like Ubuntu that provides a curated experience that just works out of the box.

• Hardware manufacturers and software developers formally test and certify it. For example, the new Framework 13 pro can be shipped with Ubuntu preinstalled as well as Lenovo Thinkpads, Dell, etc which all ship or formally support Ubuntu. Steam still only officially supports Ubuntu outside of Steam OS IIRC.

• The Ubuntu kernel will often have vendor patches and back ports before they are up streamed. OS components might also see improvements earlier (e.g. gnome triple buffering backport before it was even available in gnome stable).

• It is the defacto for AI, data science and other non-swe communities and increasingly popular server and cloud option.

• Snap gets a lot of hate but it has technical capabilities that flatpak doesn't (CLI programs, even being able to handle kernels, etc). The prepackaged rocm and cuda snaps and models is a great example of something other distros can't easily do.

• They give free enterprise level features like live patching and security centre for individuals.

• The UX is comfortable for both windows and Mac users with their prepackaged and maintained gnome extensions that make gnome usable and familiar.

• It provides a flexible upgrade pattern with LTS with or without HWE and 6 month cadence.

For people that just want to get to work Ubuntu still is one of the best options. Looking forward to this release!

GNOME. Eagerly waiting for cosmic.

Thanks for the recommendations. I will have to go to Gaziantep next time I visit Turkiye, the food there seems incredible.

Good eye, it is indeed Hafiz Mustafa!

Would definitely recommend it, we tried a few different spots including Karaköy Güllüoğlu and Hafiz Mustafa was our favourite. Note this is from 2019 so am not sure if things have changed.

A better way to put it would be: how much would it have saved to not have to shoot them down to begin with?

Israel is desperate to keep wars going to justify their annexing of Gaza and West Bank and leech off the US.

Try both out as flatpaks if you're on Linux and keep the one you like as I did :). I think both flatpaks come with the full suite.

I ended up sticking with OnlyOffice and feel it will probably work better for most people doing things like writing documents and spreadsheets with various formatting, tables, charts, formulas and equations.

I am mainly a Google docs user (and in the past MS office) as most people are and the OnlyOffice UI and workflow is much more comfortable if you're coming from these products. Things work and look the way you would expect. LibreOffice UI feels very clunky and dated (even after trying different layouts). For example, charts look really bad by default in LibreOffice. OnlyOffice seems to work pretty much just as well as gDocs/MS office so far in my limited experience for most scenarios.

As part of my effort to reduce reliance on gDocs I am planning on setting up a self hosted Nextcloud office instance and it is based on OnlyOffice so it is more motivation for me to stick with it!

Good point, edited!

PPD comes default on most distros (I can at least confirm for Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora on the GNOME variant). I am not sure about KDE variants but they should support it too even if it's not pre-installed.

You can check if it's running with the following command:

$ powerprofilesctl

However as the 0.20 release which supports p-state just released recently most fixed point release distros won't have the newer version. In this case you would need to update it manually.

I am running Debian testing and it has the new version while stable does not.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/power-profiles-daemon

Also want to appreciate the idle efficiency improvements! My AMD laptop only loses a few % of battery life after idling overnight (with the default s2idle sleep mode). A huge improvement to my older work Intel ThinkPad which loses over 25% overnight...

Yes, Zen 2 and above support p-states! You might need to update your bios and enable CPPC if p-state is not showing up.

You can confirm by running $ powerprofilesctl and seeing if CpuDriver is amd_pstate.

Yes. You should not use tlp anymore on any AMD processor that supports p-states. TLP does not support these and it's own logic may conflict with the CPU. Use PPD and let the processor itself take care of the optimizations!

See: https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-ppd-v-tlp-for-amd-ryzen-7040/39423