• ratel@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Nothing wrong with Ubuntu if you just wanna get stuff done and don’t have a genuine interest in (or time to spend on) tweaking your OS.

    I use Ubuntu btw.

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      23 hours ago

      There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn’t the place for it.

      Debian here. IMO “btw” is reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.

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        15 hours ago

        you know which one it is.

        As of the latest dumpster fires over there, they’re wanting to hide it nowadays!

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          13 hours ago

          Dumpster fires? Do you mean the untrusted repository of user-submitted build scripts getting malicious user-submitted content? :P

          Keep your official packages and AUR separate, if nothing else at least don’t pull from both sources with the same command

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            7 hours ago

            I don’t know how Arch works as a Minter here. That’s good that there’s a separation line… Not sure if Mint’s Software Mgr has that…

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        23 hours ago

        When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can’t deal with it at the moment.

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          9 hours ago

          Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.

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            If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree

            Dude, right? I’ve thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can’t bring myself to give up ostree.

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          I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.

          I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu’s gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up

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      18 hours ago

      I use Ubuntu at work. I don’t even care, it’s legit 500% faster than my work Windows laptop, despite being objectively lower-speccd.

      I use nobara at home. Windows free in my personal life for like a decade at least now. I wanted something solid out of the box, not atomic (I like the idea I just think it’s overkill for a home workstation. The sheepdog is a pet, not part of flock), fedora based with good brtfs support.

      But Ubuntu is good enough. Not as if “better than windows” is a particularly high bar, though.