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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

    You clearly didn't try then!

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    i started with Ubuntu. i think it's fair to respect the distro that works towards getting any rando started

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

    How can it suck the least if it has snap?

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Why would you need 5 distros?

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (10 children)

    for me it's snaps and the release model that suck. Also, apparently, arch-based distros are more noob-friendly, thanks to ArchWiki

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I don't use Ubuntu personally, but it was great to automate for deployment in a corporate setting.
    Yes, Debian has some agnostic unattended install, but writing basically cloud-init is just so much better.

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    [–] [email protected] 139 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Canonical deserves most of the critics they get.

    Ubuntu users on the other hand don't deserve even the slight amount of critic they get for just.. Using Ubuntu. like, at least they use Linux, we should be encouraging them to keep using it.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    I have my own criticism of Canonical, but most of what I hear from the anti-Ubuntu crowd isn't even grounded in reality.

    My favourite one recently was that upstart was Canonical NIHing systemd.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

    I don't care what some distro snob thinks.. I use ubuntu and have few problems. I replace the snaps and move on. I've been using Linux longer than most of them have been alive. They can pretend that makes me behind the times but somehow I always seem to be ahead of them. Having made my stance clear.

    I don't care what distro they use. Why would I?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Ironic - one of the reasons I like Ubuntu based distros is the easy access to snaps.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    lol just ignore the karens

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    "Don't feed the trolls" has ended up with the trolls running the place. I'd rather Lemmy not become yet another "lol ubuntu sux" echo chamber.

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    It's better than Windows at least.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

    that's a pretty low bar tbh. i think a programmable calculator would beat windows

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Yeah, I don't get the hate and intentional division being sowed there.

    I'm not a fan of Ubuntu since they went all Thanos Snap (the final straw was replacing deb packages in apt with snap stubs), but I can applaud that they're using Linux.

    Just seems like low effort, pointless gatekeeping to me.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah I never understood the hate but today I did read a comment saying Canonical (the company that develops Ubuntu) had injected some amazon telemetry into one of the search functionalities, that and using Snap is what makes some people shit on it. I didn't verify the telemetry thing FYI.

    I can definitely understand people being upset at telemetry injections.

    The above is to say I don't think it's exclusively people gate keeping, dome people have legitimate issues with it.I haven't seen people shit on mint a lot and it's an easy distro. Honestly most people are super supportive of mint. That being said there is definitely some amount of gatekeeping.

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