• ratel@mander.xyz
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    22 hours 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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      21 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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        21 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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          7 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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            6 hours ago

            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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          20 hours ago

          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 love a boring OS that just works for 90% of things and you just live with whatever the other 10% is - usually some driver quirks or peripheral funk.

            I’ve never used the gui for upgrade but I also have a hard time remembering do-make-release.

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        13 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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          11 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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            5 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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      16 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.

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      19 hours ago

      Same, one LTS to the next, and all online tutorials assume you’re on it. My years of messing with fstab, alsamixer and such are long behind me.

      (Started on mandrake in about 2001 btw)