And that’s the story of why I switched to Arch <3
Obligatory Ubuntu sucks message
I’m not afraid of Ubuntu, I’m afraid of the need to use the the Ubuntu forums when I have an issue.
I use arch wiki btw.
I recently switched to Eos and the arch wiki came in clutch many times (don’t try to an arch based system on a Mac without reading a ton of documentation, I learned that the hard way).
Only Ubuntu I’ve seen rtfm more than actually helpful commands
Really? All Linux installations worked just fine on my 2017 Air
Perhaps yours is an older model?It is indeed a bit older, 2015 pro. Most issues were with the WiFi (bcm46302 is a terrible chip omfg).
Besides that just some reverse engineered drivers for thermal management, but setting those up was more annoying on mint than on arch
Intolerable, scammy OS. Everything good in Ubuntu these days can be traced back to other projects, such as debian/Gnome/KDE. Whatever Canonical adds to that is just an attempt to lock you in their ecosystem or wring money out of you.
Just use debian instead.
Or mint, if you’re a newbie
Honestly, i don’t like debian and it’s derivatives because they focus on stability, and that means packages in the repos get outdated really quick. I’d love a distro that combines a debian base and the rolling release model of arch.
It’s called Debian Testing.
Debian testing is not rolling. Sid/unstable is.
What about debian SID?
That’s testing my patience.
I’d love a distro that combines a debian base and the rolling release model of arch.
Debian Unstable.
LMDE
You can always use sid. Or debian stable but you do everything that needs bleeding edge in a distrobox.
Not Debian, but closer if you haven’t seen it.
I have been loving Linux mint with KDE plasma! Best of both worlds
True, the apt packages can get outdated (or are already outdated at release time :) ). But tbh, for me that mainly affects the desktop environment these days and KDE is already pretty neat anyway. The CLI tools I use don’t change as much anymore, and the GUI tools are usually available as a flatpak so up-to-date.
I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for but fedora is reaaaally nice. I don’t think I’ve had a single “unstable” package and it’s kept up to date really well. The only concern I have with it is red hat, I’m just hoping they don’t decide to enshittify
I’ve been using Fedora for 3 years now…loved the dnf way of dealing with packages and the upgrades were painless…the only thing that bothers me is my nvidia card…I have issues with games on steam and every update seems to mess with the nvidia kernel module somehow…so…
Im in the same boat and I regret buying NVIDIA.
I’m not a gamer but NVIDIA issues rear their head on Wayland mostly for things that need 3D rendering like Bambu Studio and even Electron apps like Slack, Spotify and VSCode.
Oh and also trying to get hardware video decoding working on Firefox is a pain. I’m now at the point where full screening a video just causes Firefox to immediately crash.
Definitely getting AMD next time but I’m a long ways off upgrading my NUC, it’s 8 core i7 with 64gb of ram so will serve my dev needs for a long time
That has ALWAYS been the case. I dont know why people are surprised now… ubuntu has alqays been backed by canonical. And it has always been based on the work of debian. What did people expect?
People have always been saying to just skip the corporate bullshit and go straight to the source… debian
Unfortunately there was a very loud group of people online shitting on debian, saying that it’s too difficult or user friendly or whatever… may have been true 10 years ago, but not anymore
I just set up a new home lab server and my first instinct was the latest Debian.
… Seemed fine to me.
Yeah, all the good parts of Ubuntu have been backported to Debian years ago.
Did you know “Ubuntu” is Swaheli for “can’t get Debian installed”?
Is it really like that or is this a joke
I’m an ubuntu user and it was like that for a brief period but then they removed it after an uproar. I think. I double check it once I’m at my laptop
I got a ThinkPad with Ubuntu 24.04 preinstalled and I haven’t seen a single Ubuntu Pro ad. But I saw them a lot on my old laptop with 22 installed. So either they’ve changed their ways or I suppose it’s possible Lenovo has preconfigured some settings.
Edit. 24.04 LTS
Last I used Ubuntu you do indeed get an ad every time you apt upgrade You can still go into some config file and remove it though
When was the last time you used Ubuntu though?
Some people could say “last time I used Ubuntu it was full of Amazon ads!” But that would have been like 13 years ago
I don’t recall ever seeing such an ad in Ubuntu. Totally possible I wasn’t paying attention or I saw it and forgot.
I am literally running Ubuntu right now and I don’t get this comic. I have never been asked to subscribe to Ubuntu Pro, if I have it was noninvasive that I didn’t notice.
It’s only LTS. Desktop users rarely use LTS. Great to have live kernel updates on a developer workstation and servers though.
Thank you for educating me, but this makes less sense now. The only people who should/need to run LTS are people we a specific reason for staying on an older OS. And if that’s the case you should no what you are getting into.
Exactly, it’s just people finding an excuse to complain about. It’s more like an extension of the Unix wars or the editor wars or the browser wars. People have to find a reason to justify their choice.
