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    [–] noodles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    My experience with Ubuntu was filled with bugs and i hated snaps, suggested it to a friend and installed it for him and he kept getting errors and bugs everywhere for some reason, he had the impression that linux is a buggy mess. I'm not suggesting ubuntu to a new user ever again, fedora is the way to go, i just wished they had nvidia drivers in their repos it would have made it easier for new users

    [–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

    I wouldn't even waste my time with Fedora after IBM bought redhat. and that's rough coming from someone who daily drove fedora for over a decade.

    IBM has a history of suddenly dropping or changing support and telling its customers/communities to "eat shit". I can't put my trust in that.

    [–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I got my parents' computer on KDE neon, with "brand new Plasma 5" years ago when Win 7 was going out of support, it had been solid as a rock and relatively problem-free over the years. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was out of date for over a year, and Netflix stopped working, so I bought a new drive, upgraded from 4GB to 16GB RAM and clean installed KDE Neon with Plasma 6!

    This is a 12 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop that is still going strong. (As an email, websurfing and video watching machine).

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

    I don't love Ubuntu as a desktop, but i'll fight to let other people try it and make up their own minds.

    We have rather substantial tribe mind going on with anti AI, linux distros that suck, and which browsers are awful.

    We've had hivemind since forever, but it's starting to get more pronounced.

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    there's just no reason to start using it when mint exists

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Configuring Kubuntu for my liking is way easier than configuring mint for my liking, and some of that mint configuration is going out of the way to undo things the mint maintainers did intentionally.

    [–] Allero 3 points 1 day ago

    Mint not officially shipping with KDE is a source of my personal frustration. Would have checked it out more thoroughly otherwise.

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    [–] skooma_king@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)
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    [–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    it's the "Reddit hivemind" when a large group shares their opinion that your OS of choice has many flaws, but a large group of people defending their poor choices in OS is...not "hivemind" mentality?

    it's amazing honestly, the amount of mental gymnastics we go through to protect our fragile egos because we honestly believe a corporate product will somehow enrich our lives to the point that they will suck less.

    if only we could get past this and objectively look at the tools as tools and be able to have an open discussion about why they suck.

    but no...let's keep denigrating each other so that our side will come out victorious.

    in another post I triggered the whole community so much that a mod had to step in, the irony of my commentary completely lost on everyone. it would be amusing if it weren't so sad that there's so much useless emotion wrapped up in this argument.

    [–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Bro responded to a joke with a thesis paper.

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    [–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Why would you need 5 distros?

    [–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Different use cases! One each for: my desktop, my laptop, my home theater PC, my tablet, and my gaming handheld.

    (This is a joke. But, I do use a different distro for my tablet [due to the touchscreen] and my gaming handheld.)

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    [–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

    [–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    arch-based distros are more noob-friendly

    I'll take some of whatever you are smoking. And I am typing this on an Arch Linux system.
    Sure, I love that I have a high degree of control; but, if I were planning to ask a new user to install Linux, I would not be handing them Arch. The Install Page may look nice; but, it's a minefield of "oh go chose something" and you come back three hours later having read way too much detail about bootloaders.

    Arch is fantastic for choice, but the KISS principal is not available via pacman. It may be available in AUR. So, go learn what AUR is, spend way too long picking an AUR package manager only to learn it's not available their either and you need to build it from source.

    Joking aside, I do need to try the SteamOS install. That might actually be a noob-friendly Arch distro.

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