Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game nowā€¦

Edit: Playstation Product Manager says this is actually a new bug. I really doubt it but they do seem to be ā€œfixing itā€.

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Anything but Ubuntu will be perfectly fine. There really isnā€™t that much difference between the major distributions.

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Package manager choice is pretty important, and for that I always recommend debian-based for a pc for a new Linux user. APT is just so good.

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Anything including Ubuntu will be perfectly fine. Canonicalā€™s shenanigans that us Free Software people like to bitch about are entirely irrelevant to new Linux users.

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No snaps are fucking tragic and should be avoided at all costs.

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Look, if the choice is ā€œuse Ubuntu because itā€™s easy and officially supported by Steamā€ or "give up and stuck with Windows (or even worse, a console) would you really suggest the latter?

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It was nice to have someone take this stand and I fully support this. People switching over to Linux already have their own stuff to deal with and need time to accustom to their new environment, and forcing them to embibe ā€˜FOSSā€™ philosophy and other strong opinions as held by others in Linux communities is only going to turn them off.

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