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What fiddling do you think is involved in running a typical Ubuntu desktop these days? Hardware mostly just works. Plug in a USB stick or a camera or phone, se
by Silhouette 7y ago
What fiddling do you think is involved in running a typical Ubuntu desktop these days?
Hardware mostly just works. Plug in a USB stick or a camera or phone, see your files, like any other desktop.
You've got web browsers and basic office software and communications tools and all the rest.
The OS can automatically update for security issues, and that takes care of much of your installed software as well if you're just using the default option of getting things from your distribution. Almost anything to do with this is qualitatively better than modern Windows systems.
Sure, the look and feel is different and it takes a few minutes to find your way around, but then the look and feel is different moving from Windows to macOS, or even from Windows 7 to Windows 10, too.
- m463 7y agoUbuntu is a controversial example. Probably better usability than most linux distros, but it collects a lot of data (lots of telemetry, amazon app, etc)
- Silhouette 7y agoWhat do you think Ubuntu collects without an explicit option to turn it off, or even having it off by default? Canonical have had a couple of mis-steps in that direction over the years, but the Ubuntu community has pushed back consistently against intrusive measures and Canonical have typically backed down very quickly when they overstepped the mark.
- fredsanford 7y agoFUD