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hot take?

Edit: got nothing against Ubuntu, it's Linux after all and that's what matters ๐ŸŒป Edit2: people took this very seriously for being a shower thought..

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[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 6 months ago (3 children)

the problem with ubuntu is canonical, it's a shame it's got the reputation as "the third OS" when it's basically the only distro that's trying to replicate the walled gardens of microsoft and apple.

[โ€“] Sunny@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 months ago

Yeah, well said.

[โ€“] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 months ago

It's one rich dudes toy is how I see it. It's a good distro but once I tried to uninstall some things and it wouldn't let me and so that was the end of it for me at home. I use the server version at work for one machine.

[โ€“] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't describe Microsoft as a walled garden (and Canonical even less). But maybe that term comes with degrees, and different perspectives of what's tolerable.

[โ€“] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 22 points 6 months ago

Windows is less of a "walled garden", and more like a shared garden where the other gardener is really inconsiderate and will mess up your part of the garden whenever it doesn't align with their vision.