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The Dislike to Ubuntu (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ubuntu is not terrible and if it works for you then fine. I would be surprised if Debian or Mint didn't also work for you just as well though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Debian can be annoying if you want to install a newish version of something from the package manager. It's why I can't use APT to keep Rust up to date and have to use Rustup instead, for an example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can use distrobox with podman to get newer software. You also can use Flatpaks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can also use a distro with more up to date packages. But not if you need Debian's stability of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The benefit of Debian is that it stays the same for a long time. It can be huge timesaver

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fantastic for servers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

On Debian Testing or Unstable you don't have to worry about that as much. Right now, I have rustc 1.80.1 from the Testing repo, just one version behind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I don't disagree with you, I think it's a bit funny that you're bringing up hardships using apt to update software in Debian when the biggest complaint about Ubuntu is having to use snap instead of apt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh I thought it was already implied that Ubuntu is shit lol