I like Ubuntu, use it as my main laptop os, and main server's os for a production system that's been upgraded through 3 LTS versions without issue. Three.
I don't think windows can do that, at all.
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Have you ever upgraded the Ubuntu laptop? Cause that's my main gripe with Ubuntu. Server upgrades work, desktop upgrades never did for me.
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KDE plasma somehow managed to ship with an old QT version which borked libraries. So back to Ubuntu it was.
it's the "Reddit hivemind" when a large group shares their opinion that your OS of choice has many flaws, but a large group of people defending their poor choices in OS is...not "hivemind" mentality?
it's amazing honestly, the amount of mental gymnastics we go through to protect our fragile egos because we honestly believe a corporate product will somehow enrich our lives to the point that they will suck less.
if only we could get past this and objectively look at the tools as tools and be able to have an open discussion about why they suck.
but no...let's keep denigrating each other so that our side will come out victorious.
in another post I triggered the whole community so much that a mod had to step in, the irony of my commentary completely lost on everyone. it would be amusing if it weren't so sad that there's so much useless emotion wrapped up in this argument.
I honestly don't even know what your point is.
Op is saying they dgaf and will use what they want. It's a boring, uninteresting post with minimal value, but I definitely don't understand your issue with it.
so the generalization of everyone who says "Ubuntu sucks" up into a "Reddit hivemind" is a complement now?
who knew!
Oh that's what you're butthurt about? Lol
I use Kubuntu. No complaints here. Im also not super well versed in linux and my husband installed it for me so that I had something that was well supported for gaming and streaming/vtubing.
(I dont remember what he uses, he switches it weekly)
Criticizing Ubuntu is hivemind? Wow. Now do Systemd critics.
SystemD critics formed as a cult of anti-personality. This both describes what they are (people with the opposite of a personality) and what they are about (hating that shithead Lennart Pöttering, who is a German man who grew up in South America to his German parents if you're picking up what I'm putting down*).
Per the wiki, Lennart is well known for being a weird dick about things in the Linux ecosystem and using market power and dominance, rather than a more collaborative or tech-first approach, to push his and only his ideas forward. This rubs people the wrong way, especially in a community predominantly built on the opposite ideals, leading to the universal hatred of everything he's ever built. But it makes creating distros easier so people deal with it.
Today, he spends his time working for Microsoft and refusing to acknowledge vulnerabilities in his overly complex standards-incompliant code.
SystemD haters are of course just jealous of his ability to be completely free of self-doubt.
*To be clear I have no evidence of this and it's probably not true, but it's 2025 let's be honest nobody cares if it's true or not
Problem with Poettering is that he was right, but he was a dick about it. Like Rick Sanchez.
I've used Gentoo on my main desktop for decades.
Anything else in the house gets Kubuntu on it, 'cause ain't nobody got time for that.
I've never considered Gentoo as an unironic daily driver on desktops - more like embedded systems/learning the ropes of Linux kinda thing.
What made you choose Gentoo in particular?
Not OP, but it's amazing to choose which parts of your software don't enter compilation at all.
Also it's rock solid, had fewer issues than Lubuntu, can use OpenRC or systemd.
But I haven't learned as much about Linux as I hoped. The distro just works, and I love everything about it.
I see, thank you!
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I got my parents' computer on KDE neon, with "brand new Plasma 5" years ago when Win 7 was going out of support, it had been solid as a rock and relatively problem-free over the years. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was out of date for over a year, and Netflix stopped working, so I bought a new drive, upgraded from 4GB to 16GB RAM and clean installed KDE Neon with Plasma 6!
This is a 12 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop that is still going strong. (As an email, websurfing and video watching machine).
Well Ubuntu os not that bad if you just stick to the ecosystem. I mean... Not everyone... Pffft... Wants to... HmmHMpf... Babysit... Ahahahah I can't...
Just install Mint
No thanks. The Mint maintainers keeping provable misinformation in their documentation despite being called out on it makes me distrust them.
citation needed
https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
Snap on the other hand, only works with the Ubuntu Store.
It also works with any other distribution and signing mechanism you want, including signing the snap files yourself and distributing them via GitHub releases if you prefer. Snaps installed like that won't get magically replaced with store snaps either.
Nobody knows how to make a Snap Store and nobody can.
There's documentation available online, and it's known to be usable because someone did implement their own minimal store. The project kinda died out of lack of interest though.
I can't find the issue I filed years ago about this (and more). They have at least made the page less filled with emotionally-charged language, though.
I don't know why we're still doing snap discourse in 2025. I'm going to be harsh and direct.
It has a proprietary server backend. This is objectively true. Theoretically you can build an open source backend, but nobody has completed a full implementation of it.
If you don't care about that, you can use Ubuntu, nobody is stopping you. You don't need other people's approval. Which is good, because of the people who disapprove, you're never going to get their approval until it's actually open sourced. You're not going to convince anybody here to stop caring that it's proprietary. So just get over it and use your own operating system without airing your insecurities online about it.
I never said Canonical's store isn't proprietary. I said the statements in Mint's anti-snap screed are factually incorrect.
What irritates me is all the "lol ubuntu sux" posts showing me that the quality of the discourse is declining. There are valid criticisms, but there are also invalid criticisms. And the recent string of anti-Ubuntu memes has been clearly in the latter. So yeah, I will mock those, and it's nothing to do with insecurities. Are you sure you're not just projecting?
The counter to low-quality "Ubuntu sux" posts is not low quality "nuh uh it's actually super epic!!!" posts, but that's all we ever get. I've seen this pattern for probably fifteen years now, and it's exhausting. If you don't care about the criticisms and want to keep using it, then keep using it. More power to you. I probably use things you think are garbage. Hell, Windows users think we both use garbage. I'm just tired of people desperate to justify their choices like they need to "prove" something to everyone who disagrees.
There are plenty of high quality takedowns of Ubuntu, but so rarely are there high quality defenses of it, generally because the criticisms are correct. Nobody ever talks about what makes Ubuntu good, not even Ubuntu users. Arch users will yap your ear off about ArchWiki and AUR. I'll evangelize Nix to anybody who will listen as the future of advanced Linux management. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed fans will not shut up about rollbacks and bleeding edge software. Fedora users... well, Fedora users are usually busy out there actually doing productive things with their time instead of pointless internet squabbles.
But what is Ubuntu strong at? I genuinely have no idea. All I ever see Ubuntu users say is that it "sucks the least", in some vague indescribable way. That it's not as bad as everyone says, that Snaps are actually fine, etc. Always on the defensive. If Ubuntu is actually good, somebody needs to get out there and make a case for what it's good at, besides being featured as the default instructions for running proprietary third-party software.
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My experience with Ubuntu was filled with bugs and i hated snaps, suggested it to a friend and installed it for him and he kept getting errors and bugs everywhere for some reason, he had the impression that linux is a buggy mess. I'm not suggesting ubuntu to a new user ever again, fedora is the way to go, i just wished they had nvidia drivers in their repos it would have made it easier for new users
I wouldn't even waste my time with Fedora after IBM bought redhat. and that's rough coming from someone who daily drove fedora for over a decade.
IBM has a history of suddenly dropping or changing support and telling its customers/communities to "eat shit". I can't put my trust in that.