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submitted 1 year ago by Nicbudd@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

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[-] beach_pudding@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yesterday i woke up and didnt found the settings icon in the menu. i had to sudo apt the thing (ubuntu, maybe this is a garbage distro. would fedora or deb be more stable ? ) also why would i have to look up arch documentation for a problem i had with ubuntu ? people using windows just worry about.. windows, not 90 flavours of the thing. nonetheless, windows has become bloated trash beyond win 7.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

why would i have to look up arch documentation for a problem i had with ubuntu?

Because they're all built on the same software for the most part.

I don't really know what kind of issue you had, so I can't say if the following would really work better for you, anyway my personal recommendation is Silverblue for (usually) fewer headaches

[-] beach_pudding@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Silverblue

there we go, now we r getting somewhere.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

You mean you have tried it before?

[-] beach_pudding@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no but people kept recommending fedora (and debian). didnt know there were multiple versions of fedora. ubuntu doesn't look as serious.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Ah I get it, it's really solid so I don't think you'd have regrets, plus you get up to date software!

Ubuntu is really just meh these days, it is still pretty reliable, but it doesn't look like they're really caring a lot about their users, just my outsider opinion, as I left it a few years ago now

[-] beach_pudding@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

i could really use a take such as yours. there necessarily should be a reason why u changed distros. now my doubts are getting confirmed

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

I did it for 3 reasons:

  • hunting for PPAs, which was annoying
  • older versions of software, especially for development, I used to try out new features a lot for things like PHP and other stuff (but it's kind of a moot point now with things like Distrobox or Nix)
  • upgrades to the latest major version often breaking because I first moved to the latest non-LTS and then, when it came out, to the newest LTS, contributed by the fact that the PPAs would break, since the devs behind them needed to push a new version for the last Ubuntu release

Today I still wouldn't use it for their push of Snap, I just don't dig it, I much prefer Flatpak for my apps

[-] beach_pudding@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

i am no dev but also i dont like when other stuff break when i install new stuff and have to spend hours looking up guides to troubleshoot. so at least we share a common middle ground

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