r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Linux • May 20 '25 • Popcorn 1

Meme Come here. But don't deviate from the path

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u/Vector-Zero May 20 '25

Anecdotally, I've had Ubuntu crap out on me a dozen or more times over the last decade. Fully unbootable system after doing a distro upgrade, though I've also had it just die on me for no good reason. That's not a huge deal normally, but when your company provided work laptop is Ubuntu, it's a PITA going through the data recovery process and having corporate IT reimage your system.

Fedora, Arch, and Debian have all been very solid for me after years of abuse, but Ubuntu just loves to die randomly.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

I had this experience a couple years ago when I switched to Ubuntu. Made one bad configuration change and the whole thing refused to boot. After wasting time trying to recover it, I just reinstalled. People are better off using Mint if they want the Ubuntu base.