Notices by Michela (michela@mastodon.club), page 16

@jondavidenas One advantage Ubuntu and OpenSuSE have over Fedora, is that (I believe) they both have GUI tools to deal with proprietary video drivers. They automatically do the work for you. I use Intel video, so this is, fortunately, something I never have to deal with.

@jondavidenas Ugh. Well, proprietary Nvidia drivers do not come with Fedora. I believe it's easy enough to install them if you need them though. These pages seem good. https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/

@jondavidenas Go for it, but seriously, the difference in the number of packages isn't much of a big deal. Of course, it depends on your use case and such, but even so, it's not that significant.

I'll just point out then that if you have (non hardware-related) trouble, it might not be because of an issue with Linux, but with Ubuntu, that might not be an issue with another distribution. So bear that in mind if you have issues (try another distro).

@jondavidenas It's not supposed to do that. It should let you install things, as long as you have enough memory to do that. When you are running a distribution live, everything is held in memory, unless you designate a part of your USB stick or hard drive for storing applications and files from the live installation permanently. I wouldn't be at all surprised if installing applications as you tried with Ubuntu worked flawlessly in Fedora or OpenSUSE, (memory permitting). :)

@cognish @ink_slinger @Modern_Industrial I like the Oxford comma, think it makes sense, and use it regularly, myself. :D

@cognish @ink_slinger @Modern_Industrial I've never heard of "yunz," and am pretty sure I don't like it already. That said, I will happily trade it for "y'all." I think that's more than fair.

@jondavidenas When you run the live image, you can search the repositories and install any of tens of thousands of software packages. You can also use the same "app store" program to search for stuff. I, myself, like the command line best. So at the command console, I type, "dnf search search_query_word" without the quotes, to easily find stuff. You can also go to web sites for programs you like and see if they have Fedora packages, or simple methods of installing their stuff.