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>My extended family all switched to Ubuntu because this is what I put on their cheap laptops. I showed them Firefox, Skype and the photo manager and it all work
by curt15 6y ago
>My extended family all switched to Ubuntu because this is what I put on their cheap laptops. I showed them Firefox, Skype and the photo manager and it all worked well. Everything is done in the browser nowadays.
Unfortunately Ubuntu is really pushing snaps which adopt the Windows practice of forced updates (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for-snap-from-store/707 https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...) and in fact go one step further by forcing updates even on metered connections.
- fierarul 6y agoWell, all good things... I kept wanting to try Fedora or some other major distro but I'm too used to Ubuntu. Maybe plain Debian is the future?
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoHave you tried [1] https://www.deepin.org/en/ https://www.deepin.org/en/ ? [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepin
- fierarul 6y agoOf all the distros why would I try that one? I never even heard of it before.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoBecause they used Ubuntu as base, then pivoted back to Debian stable, and have a nice desktop?
- fierarul 6y agoI guess it's fair, it just seemed like such a random suggestion.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoThough I tend to make fun sometimes, there is always a reason, it's never random, even if it seems like ;>
- diggernet 6y agoAnd Firefox is going the same route, with all options to be notified about and having any control over updates removed. Over and over again, I've been in the middle of some task and had Firefox force me to stop what I'm doing because it's demanding a restart. SO sick of this self-important attitude from software developers!