• Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    62·
    2 hours ago

    The snaps bad echo chamber

    Snaps bad because proprietary

    Pre installed Nvidia good because propriety no wait video games!

    Ubuntu’s mission was always to build bridges between the user and tech and businesses that the gnu side of Linux wouldn’t.

    It’s a good just works distro that has spawned a ton of just works distros and sane server defaults. I see Ubuntu on the same level as macos.

    • Naich@lemmings.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      The only reason I don’t like snap is because useful mount information gets buried in 5 million “loop” mounts.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    142·
    5 hours ago

    I don’t get why anybody uses Ubuntu. Just use Debian. It’s basically more stable and functional Ubuntu, but without snaps and you don’t need an entire distro branch for different DEs.

    • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
      1·
      59 minutes ago

      Because you don’t have to know what to do already if you start with Ubuntu. You have to know your way around the Linux world more if you use Debian

  • edg@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 hours ago

    Ubuntu in ~2015 was peak Linux (for me). Everything worked flawlessly with zero bugs, even printers. It’s been downhill ever since with the exception of Steam Proton, but even then I’ve had more bugs with Steam in the past couple years then I did in 2013.

  • soloner@lemmy.world
    6·
    13 hours ago

    I can’t tell if this in-fighting on Linux flavors is in good humor or just snobby opinions.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 hours ago

      false dichotomy. Sometimes people justifiably dislike something for reasons beyond elitism (e.g. Canonical is a for-profit corporation that muddies the waters of FOSS), but it’s also not just playful bants.

      Also, as with every opinionated topic: do your own research and think critically. Don’t hate Ubuntu until you have tried it and have investigated those who maintain it. Don’t praise it until you do so either.

      I don’t care if you come to a different conclusion than me, as long as you didn’t just function on the “wisdom of the crowd”

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Like most things in life, it’s somewhere in the middle. Some of the criticism is factual and valid. Some, a matter of taste (mostly relating to GNOME). Some arises from negative personal experience. Some is just elitist bluster.

      The best thing to do is to be rational and critical. Never dismiss an opinion outright without separating the truth from the bullshit.

    • tsugu@slrpnk.netOP
      32·
      12 hours ago

      I think it’s just elitism. The worst example is Chris Titus making a video where he explains why you shouldn’t use Ubuntu. And then proceeds to make video explaining how it’s not actually that bad and he uses it with a different DE.

      But now 300K people saw that Ubuntu bad for stupid reasons, from a “reputable” source.