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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    The snaps bad echo chamber

    Snaps bad because proprietary

    Pre installed Nvidia good because propriety no wait video games!

    Ubuntu's mission was always to build bridges between the user and tech and businesses that the gnu side of Linux wouldn't.

    It's a good just works distro that has spawned a ton of just works distros and sane server defaults. I see Ubuntu on the same level as macos.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

    The only reason I don't like snap is because useful mount information gets buried in 5 million "loop" mounts.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

    I don't get why anybody uses Ubuntu. Just use Debian. It's basically more stable and functional Ubuntu, but without snaps and you don't need an entire distro branch for different DEs.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    Ubuntu in ~2015 was peak Linux (for me). Everything worked flawlessly with zero bugs, even printers. It's been downhill ever since with the exception of Steam Proton, but even then I've had more bugs with Steam in the past couple years then I did in 2013.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

    I despise ubuntu solely because of snap

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    I am still pissed at Ubuntu

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

    As you should be.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu is recommended by microsoft

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

    Damn, that amounts to corporate disparagement...

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago

    If it works for you, i literally could not care less

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

    tbh ubuntu just werks

    pretty decent corporate backed distro

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    I can't tell if this in-fighting on Linux flavors is in good humor or just snobby opinions.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

    false dichotomy. Sometimes people justifiably dislike something for reasons beyond elitism (e.g. Canonical is a for-profit corporation that muddies the waters of FOSS), but it's also not just playful bants.

    Also, as with every opinionated topic: do your own research and think critically. Don't hate Ubuntu until you have tried it and have investigated those who maintain it. Don't praise it until you do so either.

    I don't care if you come to a different conclusion than me, as long as you didn't just function on the "wisdom of the crowd"

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

    Like most things in life, it's somewhere in the middle. Some of the criticism is factual and valid. Some, a matter of taste (mostly relating to GNOME). Some arises from negative personal experience. Some is just elitist bluster.

    The best thing to do is to be rational and critical. Never dismiss an opinion outright without separating the truth from the bullshit.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

    I think it's just elitism. The worst example is Chris Titus making a video where he explains why you shouldn't use Ubuntu. And then proceeds to make video explaining how it's not actually that bad and he uses it with a different DE.

    But now 300K people saw that Ubuntu bad for stupid reasons, from a "reputable" source.

    [–] [email protected] 106 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Hey, you should be careful around Ubuntu fans. They might just snap.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago

    *laugh track*

    [–] [email protected] 62 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 43 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    That behavior fucking sucks actually

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

    Good for you