Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Fri, 5/16/2025 7:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

So, the “week” stretched on a bit longer than a week
<https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux>.
 
Verdict: he could do most, but not all, of the things he wanted to do.
 
Some conclusions I felt were questionable:
 
* “Changing desktop managers is too much work” -- he went to all the
trouble of removing the packages for GNOME after installing KDE, when
he could have left them in place, so switching would have been just a
simple matter of logging out and logging in again.
* Preferring Chrome over Chromium -- he didn’t offer any reason why
he preferred the proprietary version, when the open-source one was in
the standard repos.
* OBS Studio: “There's a community version but no official version of
OBS for Linux.” What a load of nonsense.
* MS Office -- funny, but Microsoft lists Linux as one of the
officially supported platforms for Microsoft 365. Hasn’t he heard that
it’s not “Office” any more?
* AutoHotKey -- he is really hung up over this. Why is he so attached
to such a clunky Windows tool, that is actually more fiddly to use
than a scriptable command line?
 

Perhaps the OBS reference is to whether it is in the repo or not ?
Or needs a .ppa ?

https://obsproject.com/kb/linux-installation

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio

   sudo apt install obs-studio

  Paul