• @[email protected]
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    426 months ago

    Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

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          16 months ago

          way too difficult to set up, i don’t have a lot of free time so i need an “out of the box” distro

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

            If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

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              16 months ago

              i have tried fedora and nobara a few times but they randomly make my hdd unmountable and it’s difficult to get it back. even after installing a different distro.

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            36 months ago

            LMDE? The comfort of Mint with the stability of Debian. I picked it for my wife, who doesn’t want to mess with configs and tinkering around. I play tech support for her system when something goes wrong though.

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              16 months ago

              Seconding LMDE, been on it for a year on my study laptop. Literally never ever had a problem so far, and being an “out of box” distro there’s minimal work needed to daily drive.

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              16 months ago

              i currently use mint and only want to switch because cinnamon has this weird thing when you have a game running, window resizing is laggy. i often have btd6 running when I’m working so it bugs me. kde doesn’t suffer from that.

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        6 months ago

        In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

        You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

        Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

        This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

        • Dojan
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          76 months ago

          Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

        • confuser
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          16 months ago

          idk if im crazy but i tried like, all, of the commonly reccomended linux distros a few years back when it was my first time and really did not like any of them, and then i tried an arch derivative with plasma kde and then fell in love with arch based distros to the point that i absolutely do not want to use anything else. i tried endeavor os recently and have been loving it!