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Oh the humanity. Seriously, the outrage over this is ridiculous. This is nothing compared to what Apple, Microsoft, and Google do. Ubuntu is a great distro an
by not_the_fda 4y ago
Oh the humanity.
Seriously, the outrage over this is ridiculous. This is nothing compared to what Apple, Microsoft, and Google do.
Ubuntu is a great distro and makes some reasonable tradeoffs on usability.
Debian is great but you have to be sure to grab the hidden installer with the needed firmware blobs to make it useful on a modern system.
Fedora, also great, but you have to muck around to get your media codecs installed, and ZFS is a pain to setup on it.
Arch, is well Arch, you use it because you like to fiddle with your system.
- modzu 4y agothe outrage is precisely because of what apple, microsoft and google do. we must defend linux and it's philosophy because it could easily not exist. as far as other distros go, if you're a beginner, Ubuntu and this prompt on apt notwithstanding, is still totally fine. there are other decent Debian derivates: popos probably serves beginners better than Ubuntu.
- cylon13 4y agoI use arch and I don’t like fiddling with my system, I just wanted something light. After the painful initial install a few years ago it’s been really stable on the laptop I used to run xubuntu on. I switched because I was having problems with ubuntu running stuff I didn’t care about in the background and eating up CPU time.