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I know there are lots of people that do not like Ubuntu due to the controversies of Snaps, Canonicals head scratching decisions and their ditching of Unity.

However my experience using Ubuntu when I first used it wasn't that bad, sure the snaps could take a bit or two to boot up but that's a first time thing.

I've even put it on my younger brothers laptop for his school and college use as he just didn't like the updates from Windows taking away his work and so far he's been having a good time with using this distro.

I guess what I'm tryna say is that Ubuntu is kind of the "Windows" of the Linux world, yes it's decisions aren't always the best, but at least it has MUCH lenient requirements and no dumb features from Windows 11 especially forced auto updates.

What are your thoughts and experiences using Ubuntu? I get there is Mint and Fedora, but how common Ubuntu is used, it seemed like a good idea for my bros study work as a "non interfering" idea.

Your thoughts?

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[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I use Ubuntu, I’ve used Arch, Debian, Fedora, Pop and many others too. I use Ubuntu because all my hardware works out of the box. Snaps are inoffensive imo. I have just as many issues with abandoned debs or flatpaks and I usually just use whatever package is more maintained.

The most annoying thing about Ubuntu is how slow the packages are sometimes to make it to a release.

[–] thews@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu is fine. Drivers are annoying on all distros (nvidia updates for me mainly, I don't update hardware often).

I have daily driven various distros and tested a lot since the 90s and I pay close attention to time spent on customizing and fixes, and ubuntu just isn't worse than other distros. I make setup scripts and have custom dockerfiles for webtops.

I want to like nixos or whatever fork will prevail, but it's more work than people want to admit. I personally don't want to have to pay that much attention to my operating system. It's why i ditched gentoo almost 20 years ago. I don't want to lurk forums for fixes and tweaks. I also make sure hardware I buy doesn't have glaring compatibility issues.

If Ubuntu rubs you the wrong way but you are fine with most of it, just use debian.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Professionally/commercially they're MILES ahead of Red hat, Oracle, or Suse.

Personally/free they do weird shit that usually doesn't seem make sense on its surface if you're not getting paid to learn it.

Take snaps for example: flatpak/app image/whatever makes more sense if you only care nothing beyond getting/running the software; but in a professional setting where you need third party info for something like an sbom or some sort of industry compliancy, snaps make it easy.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Most crashy breaky mainstream distro there is and always has been.

It's barely tolerable.

But I did used to like the departure from blue themes like nearly everyone else.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Its a poor craftsman who blames their tools.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Ub(loa)tu tries to cater to everyone whilst ending up in pleasing no one -- it has too much unnecessary clutter.

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