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Ubuntu has always been this weird OS for me. Its not free enough or fast enough to be linux, it feels like a knockoff of something, but i cant put my finger on

Ubuntu has always been this weird OS for me. Its not free enough or fast enough to be linux, it feels like a knockoff of something, but i cant put my finger on it. Their DE is just such a horrible POS. I had one extension/addon (?), which, due to some JS problem (all those extensions/addons are written in js), was slowly, over hours, hogging more ram, until eventually OOMimg the entire DE. Sure, this is just a one-off bug, but please just read that to yourself out loud. Addons are JS. They can OOM the machine. Their interface runs over so many different abstractions that there is a whole web browser in there. So yes, the author may have had a horribly slow experience with Ubuntu, and I believe that. Try LXDE or LXQt or MATE or anything a little more lightweight, and you may have a very different experience.

barbs 4y ago
I believe they tried Lubuntu, which uses LXDE and in my experience was almost too fast so I'm curious as to why the author found it slow.
- lionkor 4y ago
  It could be misconfigured mouse acceleration, that can feel really sluggish
codedokode 4y ago
There is no browser, only JS interpreter. I think that addons should not be downloadable, user should write them themselves and if there are bugs because of it, it's only user's fault.
jbstack 4y ago
It seems strange to blame a distribution for a problem you had with a DE. Just change the DE. Or download one of the many Ubuntu flavours which has your preferred DE preinstalled.
- detuur 4y ago
  Worse, they had a problem with a third-party add-on they installed. An add-on that likely would've been either two orders of magnitude more complex or straight-up impossible on Windows or macOS. I've had my fair share of OOMs and crashes because of shell customization on Windows and they were all far harder to deal with.
  - lionkor 4y ago
    The addon enabled having folders on the desktop, because the DE didnt come with that.
- lionkor 4y ago
  Its not strange - you can absolutely blame a distro for its default settings and choices.

barbs 4y ago

I believe they tried Lubuntu, which uses LXDE and in my experience was almost too fast so I'm curious as to why the author found it slow.

lionkor 4y ago
It could be misconfigured mouse acceleration, that can feel really sluggish

codedokode 4y ago

There is no browser, only JS interpreter. I think that addons should not be downloadable, user should write them themselves and if there are bugs because of it, it's only user's fault.

jbstack 4y ago

It seems strange to blame a distribution for a problem you had with a DE. Just change the DE. Or download one of the many Ubuntu flavours which has your preferred DE preinstalled.

detuur 4y ago
Worse, they had a problem with a third-party add-on they installed. An add-on that likely would've been either two orders of magnitude more complex or straight-up impossible on Windows or macOS. I've had my fair share of OOMs and crashes because of shell customization on Windows and they were all far harder to deal with.
- lionkor 4y ago
  The addon enabled having folders on the desktop, because the DE didnt come with that.
lionkor 4y ago
Its not strange - you can absolutely blame a distro for its default settings and choices.