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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Literally why I chose Debian as my first distro for daily use.

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

Former Ubuntu, current Debian, considering Atomic.

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

idk if im crazy but i tried like, all, of the commonly reccomended linux distros a few years back when it was my first time and really did not like any of them, and then i tried an arch derivative with plasma kde and then fell in love with arch based distros to the point that i absolutely do not want to use anything else. i tried endeavor os recently and have been loving it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, what did they do? Do they show ads on the gui?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I see they have the lobes for business.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let's stick to the facts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair point.

Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I agree.

They're a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don't hate it personally, but I see why people don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

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

does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

way too difficult to set up, i don't have a lot of free time so i need an "out of the box" distro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

LMDE? The comfort of Mint with the stability of Debian. I picked it for my wife, who doesn't want to mess with configs and tinkering around. I play tech support for her system when something goes wrong though.

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

Seconding LMDE, been on it for a year on my study laptop. Literally never ever had a problem so far, and being an "out of box" distro there's minimal work needed to daily drive.

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

i currently use mint and only want to switch because cinnamon has this weird thing when you have a game running, window resizing is laggy. i often have btd6 running when I'm working so it bugs me. kde doesn't suffer from that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Q4OS is debian with KDE and it's made for ex-Windows users

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Debian comes with KDE Plasma on their official site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

never heard of this one. definitely going to try it!

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

Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

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

i have tried fedora and nobara a few times but they randomly make my hdd unmountable and it's difficult to get it back. even after installing a different distro.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Not sure I'd want to see that, tbh. It would only introduce more avenues for DDG to make questionable choices when they're already on thin ice.

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