I’m not a beginner anymore, but I’m much less interested in technical tinkering for its own sake than I used to be. These days I just want my computer to work properly without too much intervention from me.

I’ve been using Kubuntu for a number of years, but I’m also hearing increasing complaints about how Canonical is running things. I don’t think I’m ready to switch to a new distro yet, but it wouldn’t hurt to know what’s out there.

Is Kubuntu still a good choice for an “it just works” KDE-based distro, or has it been surpassed?

  • Andy@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    For managing non-distro versions of language runtimes I suggest rtx.

    $ cat .tool-versions
    python     system
    nodejs     latest
    rust       system
    elm        latest
    
    $ rtx current
    python system
    node 20.5.0
    rust system
    elm 0.19.1
    
    $ rtx local go@latest  # go gets installed
    $ which go
    /home/andy/.local/share/rtx/installs/go/1.21.0/go/bin/go
    
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      1 year ago

      Very nice!

      Unfortunately my go use case requires my go install to be default (I patch it to gradually remove dependencies on the kernel - it’s not going well) but for anyone doing something sane this should be very useful.