Hmm alright. I too dislike some things about Ubuntu but on the other hand you cannot blame people (myself included) who either have tried other distros and had support issues and came back to Ubuntu based, or those who just want the easier route to begin with. Ubuntu-based seems to be a good compromise for many. I’ve also used arch and fedora and had more headaches and breakages on those. Also I literally have a laptop that gets supported on Ubuntu so it makes life easier all around. Fuck some of the things canonical does but I just do not want to spend time with things like fixing my wifi connection after running pacman -S install or whatever that command is.
Yeah, but I think forks of Ubuntu such as Mint or Zorin deserves more recognition as first Linux distro. Choosing Ubuntu just because everyone else is using just feels very wrong.
I too got tired of using those niche distros and once settled on Solus (but now using NixOS for some reason).
Well imo, on lemmy anyhow, they do get a million times more recognition. Everyone is in the cult of Mint, which is one of the few I tried briefly and actively did not like it.
Ubuntu is owned by Canonical, and they have been making some decisions that a lot of people in the community don’t like, most notably, the enforcement of snaps (in a nutshell, the repos are proprietary and centralised), but they have been involved in various other corpo shenanigans as well
But I don’t think “X distro is bad, don’t use it” is very useful unless it is dangerous or harmful to the user.
Ubuntu (or the various other buntus) work for some people, and without them, far fewer people would use Linux. The benefit of Linux is the amount of choice you get and being able to easily switch between distros (you can even dual boot if you want!)
So if you like Mint, stick with that. If somebody prefers the buntus, it’s great as long as they are respectful to others!
It’s not really bad. It’s just kinda distasteful due to stuff like Snap packages and Canonical’s position of privacy as a company. But it isn’t really a bad distro if you ignore that stuff. If it works it works.
That’s what you get for using Ubuntu
Kind of an asshole statement tbh
Ubuntu tries to become (or is already) the de facto standard. That is what assholes do.
We should probably burn down the homes of people who use it then /s
Honestly, I meant it for a joke, but people started taking it seriously, I don’t know where to end this.
Hmm alright. I too dislike some things about Ubuntu but on the other hand you cannot blame people (myself included) who either have tried other distros and had support issues and came back to Ubuntu based, or those who just want the easier route to begin with. Ubuntu-based seems to be a good compromise for many. I’ve also used arch and fedora and had more headaches and breakages on those. Also I literally have a laptop that gets supported on Ubuntu so it makes life easier all around. Fuck some of the things canonical does but I just do not want to spend time with things like fixing my wifi connection after running
pacman -S installor whatever that command is.Yeah, but I think forks of Ubuntu such as Mint or Zorin deserves more recognition as first Linux distro. Choosing Ubuntu just because everyone else is using just feels very wrong.
I too got tired of using those niche distros and once settled on Solus (but now using NixOS for some reason).
Well imo, on lemmy anyhow, they do get a million times more recognition. Everyone is in the cult of Mint, which is one of the few I tried briefly and actively did not like it.
On Lemmy yes, but we’re in a filter bubble. To average Windows users Linux equals Ubuntu.
‘I use arch btw’
close, but I use NixOS
Is ubuntu bad? I use mint as i am fairly new to linux.
Ubuntu is owned by Canonical, and they have been making some decisions that a lot of people in the community don’t like, most notably, the enforcement of snaps (in a nutshell, the repos are proprietary and centralised), but they have been involved in various other corpo shenanigans as well
But I don’t think “X distro is bad, don’t use it” is very useful unless it is dangerous or harmful to the user.
Ubuntu (or the various other buntus) work for some people, and without them, far fewer people would use Linux. The benefit of Linux is the amount of choice you get and being able to easily switch between distros (you can even dual boot if you want!)
So if you like Mint, stick with that. If somebody prefers the buntus, it’s great as long as they are respectful to others!
Distro wars are stupid
It’s not really bad. It’s just kinda distasteful due to stuff like Snap packages and Canonical’s position of privacy as a company. But it isn’t really a bad distro if you ignore that stuff. If it works it works.
Ubuntu kinda forces you to use snap (which sucks), and is owned by Canonical.
Neither of them apply to Linux Mint, so nice choice.
Yeah, what were they thinking, using Ubuntu in 2011?