“Oh god, they will immediately be able to tell I am a fraud who has no idea what he’s doing when I tell them I use Ubuntu”
Ubuntu is fine and I actually am on Ubuntu after using Arch for many years
I use Ubuntu. I think it’s funny how Arch users immediately assume they know more about Linux than me because of my distro choice. My hobby is learning about Linux and I can do that perfectly from my Ubuntu machine.
I’ve used Arch in the past, and let me tell you, nothing crazy is going on in there.
Yes, Ubuntu sucks because they are forcing Snaps on people while snaps are slow as hell. Thankfully they haven’t fully shoved snaps down our throats. If they don’t make snaps faster before shoving them down my throat, I’ll just distro hop. Probably to Debian. I love Debian.
I went from Ubuntu to Arch and I think I’m here to stay. Ubuntu was unstable for me for some reason. I would get freezes and crashes all the time. I feel like Canonical is making things slower and bloated but I have had pretty smooth experiences with Linux mint. On Arch I’ve been getting amazing uptime. But to each ones own, if you like it, who am I to judge.
I don’t get the complains about snap apps. My firefox opens near instant, even after a reboot. Maybe they fixed that with Lunar Lobster? That’s the first Ubuntu I installed on my PC since Ubuntu 9.04.
Isn’t Arch a lot of manual compilation? Like I do that shit for work, I don’t want to do it in my free-time too.
22.04 LTS gang
Honestly, it’s kinda my default general purpose linux distro at this point. Set it up bare bones and headless, rip out snap, and do what you want.
I personally use #NixOS. The declarative nature of it is so nice.
It enables me to share common configuration between different computers while still allowing host specific differences without relying on hacky solutions like #chezmoi.
Not knocking chezmoi, it’s great and I used it for years, I just prefer the home-manager module for NixOS.
I rolled Debian for a long time, but now use Ubuntu as there’s a lot more online guides on how to do stuff in Ubuntu than in any other distro (IME)
I’ll never understand the Linux community in that aspect. We want the market share to grow but always clown on the Ubuntu users, who make up the majority of our market share. If you use Ubuntu, you’re already far ahead than OSX/Win users who complain Apple/Microsoft did a change they don’t like but still remain hostage in their ecosystem.
After 19 years of Ubuntu, I have lived longer with it than without. At this point I’m pretty confident in my knowledge and ability to bend this OS to my will and have it serve nearly any purpose. If someone looked down upon you because you use Ubuntu, smile and move on.
Long live Debian and the BDFL!
Nothing wrong with that! I’ve been using linux for nearly a decade, and after your distro hopping phase, most people settle into something like ubuntu
“Steam Deck now leave me alone”
Definitely not Arch then?
I use Arch, btw
of course the true and only “hannah montana linux”
So what is your distro? ;)
Yeah totally, makes me want to discuss init systems for some reason.
By the way, which init is your favorite?
