Out of curiosity, why does everyone always go for Ubuntu in posts like this? I’ve always hated that distro; all my machines run Fedora instead. IMO Fedora with KDE is way better than Ubuntu with Gnome in terms of usability for people switching over from Windows, but maybe I’m just biased since I’m already super familiar with Linux
curl -L -o ubuntu.iso …ubuntu.com/…/ubuntu-22.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso
Yeah. This is better.
AMoistGrandpa@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
deleted@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I run Zorin OS 18 on my desktop. I just commented Ubuntu since more people would understand the comments.
Also, for Surface tablets, I believe Ubuntu is the best option for touchscreen support.
AMoistGrandpa@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Fair enough, thanks for responding
cabbage@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
It took me way more than a decade of using Ubuntu before I got to a point of preferring Fedora, in spite of frequent distro hopping in periods when I was bored.
I think Fedora has gotten better in the last few years, but for me it also feels a bit more cold and unwelcoming maybe? Dunno, but I was always happy with Ubuntu until some really obscure dependencies got into conflict and I had to change things up. Canonical might not be the absolute best, but neither are Red Hat.
danielton1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m also a Fedora KDE user and I agree with you. The only real gripe I have with it is that if you don’t know about the full version of RPM Fusion, you’ll get frustrated that certain things are missing or don’t work right, and the GUI button to enable third-party repos after installation isn’t enough. I personally just skip that button and enable the full version following the directions on their site and then use Discover to enable Flathub.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Ubuntu doesn’t respect the spirit of free open-source software. They keep jamming proprietary stuff into their distro. There are plenty of better alternatives. (E.g. Debian, OpenSUSE or Fedora for general-purpose distros.)
danielton1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A version of Ubuntu that’s nearly 4 years old?
deleted@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The link is no longer working. I just needed a direct link to make the point that’s it. Recent versions have buttons to download with script.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I refuse to use or recommend American distros.
I can confirm Debian 13 works great for newbies.
passenger@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Use curl.exe otherwise you might invoke the default powershell alias which has different syntax (just learned of this here somewhere some time ago in a meme)
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have a USB-bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24 on it. Two home systems down, two to go.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft’s security support. Historically, at least recently, the weekly updates and response to critical vulnerabilities and virus scanning have been pretty good. But now that they’re attacking their own flagship products - Office and Windows itself - I think it’s only a matter of time before they fumble Windows security in a big way.
I’ll also predict that Non-pro Windows will eventually be “free” (as in beer), but will be useless without a live internet connection and cloud services. So now really is the time to switch. IMO, all the money points in that direction.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
That and their general quality control. It’s already been happening. Their updates and new products have been having some serious issues with a lot more frequency over the last year. At least that’s the strong impression I have. Oh, here’s an article also calling this out: theregister.com/…/microsoft_lacks_quality_control… - apparently they may have started going down this path over a decade ago, but it seems to have accelerated since they started using Gen AI.
belit_deg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Newest post from Cory Doctorow is about exactly this pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#grace…
Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Thanks! I saw this linked on Mastodon but haven’t read it yet.
regedit@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Dude, that was a GOOD read. It’s been a growing problem, before AI and entirely due to the infinite growth forced on companies and shareholder value.
I code, usually for utility or personal projects. I’m surprised how many software devs have shit code. It’s not that their code doesn’t work, they wouldn’t have a job without it. No, it works well for now, until it needs to be maintained or updated, usually after the sloppy author is gone, and then it’s a shit show. Suddenly all the corners the last guy cut need to be added in somehow, with the whole thing expanded to scope, and the code becomes unworkable, at worst, requiring a complete rewrite, or at best turns into spaghetti code that leads to the shit we have in our aging early adopters.
My biggest fear, and one that is not talked about in the article, is that we won’t have any asbestos removers in the future. Generative AI is being fed it’s own excrement and that’s being leveraged as working code to new coders. When this really becomes a liability we won’t have many left that can fix or figure out the fix cause it will have obfuscated all the usable info.