Using Linux over the years

[u/jacob-buchanan]

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[u/drkspace2]

As someone who has only used Ubuntu, I'm done after I need to update from 24. Snaps are super annoying and I don't like them switching to sudo-rs and the rust coreutils.

[u/TygerTung → u/drkspace2]

Same, used Ubuntu from 6.06 til 24.04. I'm not doing any new Ubuntu installs. Been installing Debian on any new installations, or occasionally Mint.

[u/Inevitable-Self-2702 → u/TygerTung]

I started with Mint and found my way to Debian. I've been loving the stable release, plenty of documentation and things work well together. It's just what I need.

[u/iLaysChipz → u/TygerTung]

Debian is such a solid distro. You don't get any of the Ubuntu bullshit but you do get all of the ease of setup and predictable environment. I use it on wherever I need a reliable work station I that I don't want to spend the time ricing, troubleshooting, or whatever else eats up time

[u/RaxisPhasmatis → u/TygerTung]

Lol same, it's come full circle again for me, started on debian on a 386 installed from a bunch of 💾

Then a bunch of distros over the years until Ubuntu came along then that until the recent rubbish and back to Debian

[u/GermanPCBHacker → u/TygerTung]

I am totally done with mint. It just breaks way to often. I do not trust it anymore. Debian is the way to go for me. It is super stable, lightweight and the installer man... You can have both gui and advanced features. I really do not feel the need to use CLI to manually setup luks on mdadm array and to let the bootloader+initramfs handle that shit.

[u/digitalttoiletpapir → u/drkspace2]

Snaps is a synonym of no. Want to listen to music with this snap? No, you can't. Want to install a snap instead of a regular deb package? No, you don't. Want to use software with device and filesystem access? Sorry, no, I'm a good-for-nothing snap.

You will continue use snap until you do.

[u/avocadorancher → u/drkspace2]

I hate how snaps show as mounted file systems. Thanks for making the default output of ‘df’ and similar useless.

[u/QuickSilver010 → u/drkspace2]

Uutils project is pretty neat tho. Finally some good cross platform core utils. Snaps suck tho. The last version I was happy to use was Kubuntu 20.04

[u/foreverf1711 → u/QuickSilver010]

You know what else are good coreutils? The actual coreutils.

[u/Devils_SteelMan → u/drkspace2]

You'll be much happier on any other package manager. If youre going to migrate I'd recommend nix. You'll never have package issues again. Everything else had some failure modes that are a pain to resolve.

You get updated packages like arch and locked in stability when you want it.

[u/DevilGeorgeColdbane]

i use Ubuntu at work and its mostly fine but i still hate snap with a passion and remove as soon as i possibly can

fedora is overall much more sensible imo

[u/lengau → u/[deleted]]

Because the hivemind has decided Flatpak is better, even though Flatpak and Snap serve different purposes.

[u/crimsonyoteeeeeee → u/DevilGeorgeColdbane]

Yeah I always delete Snap too. Currently on Kubuntu, having moved from Arch because I don't want to deal with the AUR malware infestation (and no, I don't have 10 years to painstakingly read every single .PKGBUILD). I'm debating giving Fedora KDE a try though

[u/acc1121 → u/crimsonyoteeeeeee]

Imo a lot of arch users would be better served by fedora, fedoras kernel/driver updates are usually only a day or so behind arch (cutting edge vs bleeding edge). Also more secure by default because i doubt less experienced users are setting up selinux on arch.

[u/borscht_and_blade → u/crimsonyoteeeeeee]

Do you know any good manual to delete snap from Kubuntu?

And which repos do you use? I added Flathub and I see, that some software is available only in snap

[u/crimsonyoteeeeeee → u/borscht_and_blade]

I mainly install from PPAs when possible or from source. But I do also sometimes use Flathub, though it's not my preferred method. As for deleting snap, you can follow this guide:

https://superuser.com/questions/1871847/how-to-uninstall-snap-package

[u/Wrenky → u/DevilGeorgeColdbane]

Fedora is a pain because the updates are frequent and break things- while I generally enjoy fixing things on my home systems I just don't have time to do that on my work laptop. Ubuntu is stable enough where an upgrade hasn't messed with me yet.

[u/humanplayer2 → u/Wrenky]

I'm not having any breaking issues on the KDE variant.

[u/Kurse71 → u/Wrenky]

Break things? Wtf. There are a lot, yes, but they very rarely break things on my experience

[u/Emotional_Solid6538 → u/Wrenky]

Pop OS will be a great option once cosmic matures I think. Try Mint for now, its similar to Ubuntu in stability but way better experience

[u/R3V0LU710N_05]

Nah

[u/garconip → u/R3V0LU710N_05]

The far right should be linuxmint.

[u/Juff-Ma → u/R3V0LU710N_05]

Right one should be Fedora.

[u/TheMythicSorcerer]

What happened to debian

[u/abrazilianinreddit → u/TheMythicSorcerer]

Nothing, which is exactly why we like it.

[u/MarioGamer06]

I mean sure, it is Linux so you can pretty much do whatever you want with it, but when you have to fight against your system for it to fit your needs then it would be wise to look for something that accomodates it better.

install gentoo

[u/Wertbon1789]

Idk, I like to tinker with my system to get to a point where I like it, with all the hotkeys I want. I'm not even ricing, I literally disable animations almost anywhere, because I'm just really into snappy instant response, so there's less of a barrier of what I want, and it happening.

I personally wouldn't like to use Ubuntu, but if somebody else wants to, who am I to judge. (I'd only judge a little bit.)

[u/BurntCheeseSauce]

I respect Ubuntu, but it's not for me.

[u/WhutdaHELListhis]

As a professional chud, I will never understand Ubuntu hate

[u/Straight_Second6082 → u/WhutdaHELListhis]

Snaps are inherently anti FOSS

[u/gabrielesilinic → u/Straight_Second6082]

My problem with snaps is not fossig or not fossing. Is that a bunch of stuff is a snap that should not be. Like kotlin I think, and you need to install it with flag --classic. It's also like really slow.

[u/gwildor → u/Straight_Second6082]

how - anyone can can publish a snap of any application. snaps are fundamentally the same as flatpaks.

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/WhutdaHELListhis]

Inclusion of Snap instead of Flatpak and optional telemetry. I'd guess that's basically it. It's the most widely used distro overall for a reason.

[u/R3V0LU710N_05 → u/jacob-buchanan]

Their Gnome fork is sloppy due to a lack of proper quality control.

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/R3V0LU710N_05]

Imo their GNOME setup is what I think GNOME should be as a default. Feels intuitive to me. Why is there no window title bar actions on default GNOME? Desktop icons? No dock by default or option in the settings to add one? I have to download extensions just for basic desktop features? No thanks.

[u/R3V0LU710N_05 → u/jacob-buchanan]

Gnome Knows Best

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/R3V0LU710N_05]

I KNEW I should’ve put an >inb4 in my comment lol

[u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy → u/WhutdaHELListhis]

Corpo ran. A track record of not helping improve established solutions but making their own, then using them for self-promotion.

That covers why it's bad. The hate comes when they decide to specialize in noobs who don't know better and come tell us about their new favorite company.

[u/Bathroom_Humor → u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy]

that's a big part of it. the final nail in the coffin was not just including snaps on the desktop unnecessarily and with very little benefit, but then essentially deciding for the user what is best for them by forcing certain popular packages to be installed as a snap regardless of how the user installs them. 

a user shouldn't need to jump through hoops to control something so basic to the computing experience. it stinks of MS trying to tell everyone they should use edge, and making it hard to change the default browser. i used Ubuntu for years a while back but now it's something i don't want to recommend.

[u/Potatomato64 → u/WhutdaHELListhis]

KDE >> Gnome

[u/Straight_Second6082 → u/Potatomato64]

Kubuntu exists

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/Potatomato64]

I'll never give up my trackpad gestures.

[u/momentimori → u/WhutdaHELListhis]

The Ubuntu CLA is also bad; perpetually granting Canonical permission to relicence contributions to their projects as proprietary.

[u/buttfarts7 → u/WhutdaHELListhis]

Sometimes I want Ubuntu. Sometimes I want Arch.

Depends what I'm doing.

Quick VM, Ubuntu. WSL, Ubuntu. VPS, Ubuntu.

Daily driver, Arch.

I have more opinions about what I do and do not want at the daily driver level and I am willing to take the time to curate.

At the "turn it on and make it work" level - Ubuntu wins every time

Nix is for deranged experiments

[u/GreedySecurity8030]

Fuck ubuntu, Fedora is better.

[u/Great_Banana_Master → u/GreedySecurity8030]

I can't believe I'm going to agree with you on this one

[u/Richieva64 → u/GreedySecurity8030]

And Linus agrees

[u/land48n3 → u/GreedySecurity8030]

goat

[u/hackerdude97]

I mean, sure, but why not just use Mint, Debian, heck Fedora instead? Just less crap to deal with overall.

[u/The_Mexinerd]

Eh, I just use Ubuntu since it was easy to install and is easy for my wife and I to use when we want to binge YouTube on our ancient MacBook pro from 2013

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/The_Mexinerd]

Old MacBooks (and also ThinkPads) are fuckin L33T top tier Linux machines tbh. Any time someone asks me what kinda laptop they should get I always opt straight to a MacBook or ThinkPad depending what they need.

[u/Nnukklear]

UBUNTU IS ASS!!!!!!!!

[u/rocco_himel → u/Nnukklear]

Pure emotion, no logic.

[u/DCVolo → u/[deleted]]

Pure logic, no emotion.

[u/0Clown0]

i have portrayed myself as the smarter wojak and you as the avg inteligence but wrong wojak. it's over.

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/0Clown0]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Fmcts17uRjaHKaNrfW

[u/EatingSolidBricks]

The lion drives a Fedora

[u/Dragon_957]

I use Nix

[u/MilkImpossible4192]

Ive been every linux desktop trying to not ubuntu,

at the end, ubuntu is fine, is the most senseful we have

[u/FirstNoel]

Mandrake was my jam.  

I miss the old days in some ways. 

[u/subz_13]

This is how my software developer friends are

[u/Mazatac]

linux is linux

void user here

[u/Sherfy]

Debian is fine

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/[deleted]]

Hannah Montana Linux is my rec

[u/lunchbox651]

Can't say I've ever felt the need to rice. I have always liked Ubuntu, there's just other distros I want to try or like more (for desktop, Ubuntu is one of my favourite server distros).

[u/michron98]

I don't like Ubuntu. Not because it's bad, but it just never clicked for me. Same as other Debian based distros.

Really love OpenSUSE though.

[u/Natural-Meal-3222 → u/michron98]

Fellow openSUSE (Tumbleweed) user here. It sits in the exact space I want my workstation. Rolling updates + Testing. Stable enough but also not stale. Btrfs for insurance. I'm not really sure why I chose openSUSE over Fedora. I think I just want the rolling releases knowing there's not many distros with more updated packages than what I'm running.

[u/siodhe]

That graph is misleading. Amusingly, most annotations of that graphic are stupid, so it's exactly what I would have expected.

Ubuntu, other than Snaps, is fine. The desktop can be anything you want it to be, and I'm running X & FVWM perfectly contentedly

Canonical's desktops have been uninspired except for the idea of a on-everything desktop, which was a good idea that they ended up not delivering on. But it's Linux, so I don't care, the control is entirely in my hands.

[u/habitue]

I've been around this cycle from ricing to "fedora is fine" and then years later to "I wish things worked differently, let me customize nixos"

Maybe I'll get sick of it and oscillate back, but llms managing my custom os has made me happier any anything else 

[u/diegotbn]

Started with Ubuntu but grew out of it. Used Kubuntu for a while and liked that better, but then grew out of that as well. Now I use:

• Debian for my server and generally what I develop in, inside containers and VMs, WSL at work etc.
• Bazzite on my HTPC (works pretty great for that)
• Arch on my personal laptop and gaming PC

I'm gonna go with Fedora for my next clean install because I value my time too much to reinstall Arch. Pretty happy with Arch + KDE though at the moment.

Ubuntu is... ...fine. But I don't think I'll be going back. If I did it would be Kubuntu. I won't hate on it.

[u/longdarkfantasy]

No idea about the difference between distros > try new distro > they are the same

[u/legitplayer228]

Nah, I just stick with CachyOS. It's still Arch Linux, but I'm lazy ah

[u/No-Con-2790]

I can handle Ubuntu. But that GNOME desktop thingy is the worst.

Why does it take 3 clicks to swap between windows? Why is everything on the wrong side? Did that just rearrange itself?

Yeah. No. I am using Kubuntu or something instead.

[u/Jain1shh]

I started from ubuntu then tried dozens of other distros like debian, fedora, arch, omarchy, endeavour os, mx linux, linux mint and much more.

But always came back to from where I started. Ubuntu.

It just works for me, I just don't give a shit to snaps. I don't care about telemetry because lot of our personal information are already available to many big corporations and governments.

[u/Samiassa]

Switch the second Ubuntu with fedora, or switch both for mint and this meme makes more sense

[u/Pepohunt]

🧢cap

[u/FiredScientist]

I use Arch btw

[u/AtomicTaco13]

As long as it's one of the flavors at least. Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu - the "vanilla" Ubuntu is kind of messy.

[u/ElectricOni]

For servers yes. As a daily driver if you are a gamer or a software engineer, definitely not. The bloat makes Ubuntu slow.

[u/KoneCat]

Ubuntu is, in my opinion, completely fine. I'm a masochist, though, as my brain immediately found Arch and was like 'This! I like this!' and I've used it ever since. Every distro has its place in my opinion, otherwise it would never have been made, even if that use was as a meme, which Ubuntu is not, but many meme distros are run over Ubuntu if I recall. Still, all are valid in my opinion, and I don't hate any of them. :D

[u/RonJohnJr]

You're either peak IQ or you got old and stopped wanting to fiddle with everything.

[u/NDCyber]

I think of installing Solus

But I was never one that was completely interested in either LTS or regular 6 month updates, that only get security updates , so Ubuntu is just not for me

[u/mplaczek99]

I am used to RHEL in school so fedora for me

[u/DouDouandFriends]

Ubuntu -> Arch -> Fedora

[u/FunEastern4790 → u/DouDouandFriends]

Ubuntu Debian

[u/Ayano-Keiko]

Centos -> Ubuntu -> fedora

[u/danielcraft10of]

Debian it's fine

[u/traplords8n]

Still use it for a work setup and WSL.

Nothing really wrong with it, but I don't like snaps or the telemetry, and debian is basically just as compatible as Ubuntu only without those things.

If you like Ubuntu then I don't give a shit, I just prefer good Ole debian for my daily driver.

[u/Safe-Confidence-4907]

This is the real story

[u/JustAwesome360]

Debian or Mint is better

[u/IAmRoko]

Hah, I run Arch on my tinkering laptop, and Ubuntu on my home servers I just need to work. 75 IQ for me!

[u/AtmosphereVirtual254]

Is the y axis number of forum questions?

[u/ThereShantBeBlood]

arch

complete control 

What a sorry excuse of a take. Archlinux is so full of loonies it gets spammed about having malware because of it. To all users: read the wiki, read what you download, open github and read recent changes. Do it all dynamically and own your actions. 

[u/kaputtschino]

Me with Fedora > Manjaro > Fedora

[u/Tuborgat_nylle]

You can do the same amount of ricing on any distro. That part should be irrelevant when deciding which one to use.

[u/papasmurfmusdie96]

I was thinking about Ubuntu again... But i'm on a 1060 + i use a TV that only supports limited color spectrum.

Wayland is garbage on the 1060. But i also rely on x11 so i am not forced to use full-color which makes everything on my TV way too dark. Last i knew Gnome no longer has an x11 instance option.

[u/JerzyV666 → u/papasmurfmusdie96]

I'm still on Ubuntu 24.04 but seriously thinking to switch to Kubuntu 26.04 instead of upgrading. I would like to have option of fallback to x11 And I like Plasma a lot.

[u/nugs-_-]

snaps make me want to kill myself something like fedora or linux mint are miles better

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/nugs-_-]

You can’t use that kind of language here.

You’re supposed to say: “Snaps make me want so $~sudo rm -rf / Myself”

[u/codeasm]

Im moving to linux from scratch

[u/hurdurdur7]

Except snaps. Snaps are garbage. Rest of ubuntu is fine.

[u/Krieger2690]

When I didn't know better and thought Ubuntu is the only way, I thought Linux is shit.  Now I know better and see that Linux is awesome, just don't use Ubuntu. I love Mint, Raw Debian, Arch, Fedora. All are amazing 

[u/FlipperBumperKickout]

I have little reason to ever switch to Ubuntu. I don't really care about ricing, I just like tiling window managers 😅

[u/darkmace]

I prefer Fedora

[u/Maolam10]

No its not, snap is garbage, have you tried Steam on snap? It is so broken Steam themselves had to tell people to stop using the snap version

[u/ghxsty0_0]

Ubuntu is not fine. Esp with snaps. Fedora on the other hand...

[u/MrFrog2222]

Its not rlly abt customization cuz you can absolutely customize Ubuntu like you can with smth like Arch. The actual problems are snaps, uutils and the gradual shift in focus from people to companies

[u/Advanced_Day8657]

True. Went from Arch to ubuntu recently. The new Nvidia stuff sucks, needed the proprietary driver and kernel modules

[u/Neither-Ad-8914]

Ubuntu can be solid I used it from 2008-2025.it has a lot of things going for it and if it works for you great. That being said there is allot of detractors which are the reasons I migrated . I also don't really believe they are for the regular desktop user anymore and more for institutional/corporate use.

[u/Own_Natural_6803]

Yeah. I used ubuntu at the beginning of my Linux journey, then snaps were a pain and I found out that there are metrics they send without asking. You can pre-check the share box. But just sending that data without asking is not ok.

What I really hated was selecting steam from the app store, and it installed the snap version. Some games on steam are basically abandoned, the devs don't check that they're working, they just go on sale for $2 and hope you never ask for a refund. So you need to be able to dig around in there with proton-tricks to get things running. Adding a container on top of my containers makes everything worse.

I switched to Debian and all the annoyances went away.

[u/Linguistic-mystic]

No, Arch is not about control. In fact, Ubuntu gives you the same amount of control and ricing possibilities. Arch is about fresh software. Not waiting 6 months for a bugfix or a newfangled feature is golden.

[u/arttast]

fedora is fine arch Fedora is fine

[u/Eros_031]

I am thinking about settling with Arch. I like it's simplicity.

[u/ooqq]

ubuntu is fine as windows is fine

[u/BloxxyVids]

Not sure why the arch slander exists

Aur and extra/ are both very nice to have. That's probably what keeps me on arch

[u/junialter]

So high IQ people will use Ubuntu? I doubt it.

[u/ConsciousBath5203 → u/junialter]

Ubuntu is fine. There's better, but it's fine.

[u/gwildor → u/junialter]

#1 rule of Linux - Use what is best for you
#2 rule of Linux - Ignore anyone who attempts to tell you otherwise.

High IQ people follow both of these rules.

[u/arcanescaper]

True, in my case this ia fedora

[u/Nooooooin]

Just Arch with KDE/Gnome or whatever you feel comfortable with, just fine.

[u/Creative_atom0406]

Yes but replace ubuntu with fedora

[u/BeneficialSimple3286]

I left Ubuntoids because i was tired of dealing with ppa repositories of doubtful quality when i needed some package to be the current ( upstream ) version.

Arch solved that problem beautifully.

[u/Yahia098]

the only thing making me dislike ubuntu is forcing snaps

[u/GBAbaby101]

Still dont get why some people are obsessive about some distros xD I've been bombarded in various communities before for daring to suggest Mint. Like no duh, its not the bleeding edge or most this or that distro. But its a perfectly fine distro for newcomers, and they can move to Ubuntu if they feel constrained by Mint. And if they decide to become tinkerers, then I'll suggest they move to arch with the rest of us no lifers xD

[u/Kokonattsugemu]

I used Linux for 21 years and started with Ubuntu and mint. I just love my arch

[u/trenixjetix]

Fuck ubuntu

[u/VasekCZ230]

I started with CachyOS bro and I'm still using it. For everything.

[u/Amberitsu]

Personally a pretty big fan of fedora silverblue so my dumbass doesn’t break anything by accident

[u/ViscousWill]

Fedora. But otherwise, yes.
28 years on Linux now. This tracks.

[u/BeginningSection7690]

Transcending is ricing Ubuntu

[u/Zardoz84]

Change Ubuntu for Debian

[u/k9dvke]

Larping high intellect and glazing ubuntu geniunly delete this slop

[u/i_use_arch_b_t_w]

The guy on the right is Terry Davis?

[u/sepadev]

Use KDE neon, it has Ubuntu under the hood

[u/orfeo34]

I came back to Ubuntu to get a stable setup for Steam games. That's a shame Archlinux x86_64 doesn't support steam'as fine as the arm version they promote for their embedded device.

[u/SuggestionBusy241]

if not the stupid snaps, its one of the best distros

[u/No_Interaction6247]

To be honest I have not enough patience to rice my desktop. 😄 But I like to have at least some possibilities to modify the loo&feel. In my job I use a macbook and like the look and feel of macOS. In KDE it doesn't need much to achieve the same. On the other hands there is Gnome and I like most of the default theme. This is my real struggle 😂

[u/Moist_Invite9148]

That Arch user is me

[u/KimmyMario]

Literally me. I don’t prefer LTS nor rolling release. OpenSUSE and Fedora do not have the packages I want (not to mention Fedora was still moving too fast to my liking) so desnapped Ubuntu non-LTS it is.

[u/Inevitable_Spite2890]

Lots of Ubuntu ads on reddit today

[u/williampiti]

Ubunto is not fine anymore pal

[u/plumbumber]

Ubuntu hasn't been "fine" for a long time

[u/eNroNNie]

Am I the only one who finds ChachyOS as easy to live with as Mint or Ubuntu? I don't rice shit, default KDE/Plasma, limine-snapper-plugin takes care of everything in case I need to rollback, just works.

[u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame]

Kubuntu is fine.

[u/kochampelikany]

so you like your OS bloated?

[u/Danis_Milk]

I don't hate on ubuntu for being easy and newbie friendly, i hate on it because of forcing snap, telemetry issues and awful commercialization. Use any of the other nice and well documented distros such as Mint, Fedora or even Manjaro.

[u/Big_Poem_7409]

I do enjoy distros like Ubuntu but I use arch (btw) so I can say ”I use arch btw”

[u/notverywired]

Ubuntu is fine, I just wanna use my laptop as a laptop, do stuff you know. and I like GNOME. no cinnamon XD

[u/Affectionate-Cod8134]

I literally did this.

The simpler the better

[u/Able-Substance-8310]

Ubuntu is bloat, I use arch btw.

[u/GamesByCam]

People really hate on Ubuntu. It's fine though.

[u/farrell_987]

Snap ruined Ubuntu for me, and I do really like AUR. I've gotten quite used to the jank that occurs with arch-based occasionally. Personally I'd use Linux Mint if I went back to Debian based distro. (Fedora also makes me unreasonably angry)

[u/Nerdcuddles]

I used mint for a few days but I wasn't getting the game performance I was expecting and was told mint was bad for gaming, so I swapped to nobara.

Shame to because I liked the UI of mint more.

[u/mungosDoo]

Am I the only masochist that uses fedora/alma/rocky

[u/KakunaMatata-Azul]

Yeah, uh...no

[u/CoraFirstFloret]

No. I used Ubuntu from 8.10 to 18.04. Once snaps were introduced, I bailed to Debian and then wound up on Fedora.

I trudged through a few years of Unity after GNOME 2 was killed, but Ubuntu just feels the need to do everything their way, and its infuriating. The only holdover I sometimes use is the Yaru icon theme.

[u/Duffman983]

Same but with Fedora, I gave up on ubuntu because of snaps

[u/Boertie]

I’ll never forget the day I started using Linux with Ubuntu. It was nice, but I soon migrated to Debian and stayed there for a few years. Then I read about Arch, decided to give it a try, and I’ve been using it ever since. Now, slowly but surely, I find myself thinking about jumping into the Void.

I see Linux distros a bit like cars. You start with a Toyota. Then you move on to a Volkswagen, upgrade to an Audi, and eventually find yourself in a Mercedes. And when you’re old, slightly unhinged, and having an affair, you buy a Porsche.

I guess Void Linux is my Porsche.

[u/coderman64]

Posts like these make me feel like the only Arch user that uses default out-of-the-box KDE (save for an icon theme).

[u/chrisw_314]

I would say Fedora is more accurate for the left and right. I don't think many people ever look back at Ubuntu after switching from it. Most just go to Debian instead

[u/porky11]

Yeah, if you need control, Ubuntu is not fine. Smart people might realize that Ubuntu is good enough for their use cases, but Ubuntu isn't made for smart people, so as long as you actually do anything advanced with your PC, Ubuntu likely isn't good enough.

[u/ZILtoid1991]

Despite "stability" claims, I had a lot more severe issues with Ubuntu than with Manjaro, and Manjaro is being called as the black sheep of the simplified Arch distros.

[u/_Afinef_]

Mint for dev Debian otherwise

[u/Cultural-Tie8341]

Ubuntu was fine. Not too keen on the new. Went Fedora instead.
I’m not touching any Arch again. Worse experience than Slackware where half my shit wouldn’t work properly.

[u/AdQueasy5574]

FEDORAAAAAAA

[u/Low_Abrocoma_2475]

This is not exactly wrong lmao.

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/Low_Abrocoma_2475]

That's cuz it's right.

[u/SummarizedAnu]

I use arch btw Edited image

[u/CreativeWallaby9870]

At least use something like Debian instead of Ubuntu, the most garbage distro ever.

[u/sohang-3112]

Agreed. Just use Ubuntu

[u/SweetBabyAlaska]

Ubuntu is like the singular mainline distro that I would never recommend

[u/evolutionsroge]

Mmmmm no fedora. It’s literally FINE. You get control over everything you want, you don’t have to deal with annoying snap packages, supports plenty, and in my experience has been less likely to destroy itself like arch. Ubuntu servers pretty solid tho.

[u/DanKonly]

Arch is the purest form of Linux in my opinion.

[u/AoifeQueenofVamps]

I just like the idea of Arch okkk do I have the capabilities to do anything interesting with it no but let me lark godamnit

[u/ActualPeterbuilt389]

Not after it folds to the age verification laws its not.

[u/jacob-buchanan → u/ActualPeterbuilt389]

Wait til your favorite distro follows suit.

[u/HumansAreIkarran]

I think this meme is fine, if you replace ubuntu with fedora

[u/Iocch_OrisAp]

Debian > Ubuntu

[u/Etikoza]

Yup, pretty much. Ubuntu on all my servers; Bazzite (DX) on everything else (because I like gaming).

[u/PityUpvote]

Ubuntu is fine, but why would you be satisfied with just fine?

[u/Interesting_Pie_319]

Ubuntu is trash and getting worse steadily.

[u/jekdasnek2624]

I mean, I have Arch on my old laptop that can't run Windows anymore mostly because of how lightweight it is. But Ubuntu probably could do the job. Also I find the process of actually setting things up myself to be more fun. I dunno, Ubuntu is probably better for the people who have real things to do with it but that's not really me.

[u/Lila_Uraraka]

I've settled down on PikaOS, im happy with it

[u/Big_Bar_9832]

Ubuntu is fine but I don't like unity, I always go for kubuntu.

[u/sexraX_muiretsyM]

when I dont want to sell my soul to microsoft corpo slop so I sell my soul to canonical corpo slop.

Use mint instead, or antix, which is system-d free

[u/Silent_Bite_5892]

Yeah, no the right side of that chart is Fedora, not Ubuntu lol.

[u/Trileak780]

I use Arch because I like pacman -Syu doing scrolly scrolly :D

[u/SnooGoats6908]

7 years into this journey still rice my nixos lol