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Ubuntu 20.04: Welcome to the future, Linux LTS disciples
- neogodless 6y agoAs someone who had never played with Linux before, I stumbled on 20.04 LTS somewhat serendipitously! I'd been thinking about digging out a 7 year old Dell 3137 (11") and putting Linux on it for a while, and I did about a week and a half ago. Throw Ubuntu on a 4GB USB, did "try" for an hour or two, no obvious issues, seamlessly switched to installation. Liked it so much I put it on a much newer 13" laptop after that. (Asus Zenbook Flip S with Intel Core i7-8550U processor.) The 13" has some issues - battery life, though it's mostly a hardware problem. Known issue that the fingerprint reader has no working drivers. Has frozen maybe half a dozen times and I'm not clear why yet. Not like 100% hard freeze but losing most control - GUI and keyboard typically get funky, then unresponsive. Can still move the mouse pointer around but have to do a hard reboot to break the cycle. But otherwise it's been really enjoyable. My only experience with Linux so far has been through WSL (the first version) and using bash/zsh on OS X. So many things work just as they do on Windows / OS X. And the most surprising was how well Steam works. I played Torchlight (2009) and it actually streamed it from my Windows desktop... magically. Then I played Torchlight 2 on the laptop itself and it runs great! I didn't try any really modern games, though.