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Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. (slrpnk.net)
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hot take?

Edit: got nothing against Ubuntu, it's Linux after all and that's what matters ๐ŸŒป Edit2: people took this very seriously for being a shower thought..

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[โ€“] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I have used Ubuntu for years. I'm not a noob by any means, and would consider myself more advanced than most users. I used to love tinkering, but once I had a set of scripts built that set everything up just the way I like it on a new install, the need to tinker faded.

I have recently switched to Debian due to bloat and snaps, but I won't ever judge an Ubuntu user.

[โ€“] Specal@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I use Ubuntu on my servers because it just... Works, out of the box I can run my scripts and have no issues 100% of the time. On desktops I used to use SolusOS for gaming as that was the only Linux OS at the time I could comfortably game on without many hiccups.

[โ€“] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I started in the Red Hat 2 era, played with all the WMs and DEs, compiled my own kernel a few times. After a point I had too much going on in my life to tinker with my distro. My needs are simple, I just need a terminal and a package manager.

Snaps have issues sure, but anything is better than the dependency hell of old.

Use what works. It's really that simple.

[โ€“] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 7 months ago

Would recommend Debian then. The switch was pretty smooth for me. Almost everything worked the same, but without the snaps.

[โ€“] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Do you judge me? I use Windows 7.

If the machine still worked, I'd be using Windows XP.