Ubuntu has kind of fallen out of favor with a lot of people, myself included.
The whole “We’re using snaps now. We like snaps so you like snaps” attitude rankled a lot of people.
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hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoUbuntu has kind of fallen out of favor with a lot of people, myself included. It used to be my go to, then I went mint, now I run fedora Bluefin.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
IMO, if they want to Ubuntu, let them. We all have our favorite flavors, but whatever they’re comfortable with is a fine point to start with.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This. It’s not my favorite, but another person coming to Linux is good. I’m not about to turn them away with an “achchktually…”. Plus it’s about personal choice anyway, so
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
If they want ubuntu, let them Linux Mint! :D
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why not straight up Debian?
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
Because the standard version of Mint uses the ubuntu repositories. You get to utilize most of what makes up ubuntu, but decoupled from the stuff Canonical wants to push. It has some added polish as well.
It was more of an ubuntu-specific reply rather than “what’s the best distro” thing.
But now that you mention it, there is also Linux Mint Debian Edition! :D
I might actually start using LMDE at work, since we have some stuff that’s more focused on debian than ubuntu.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Oh for sure, do what you want to do. I’m just saying, while everyone has their opinions, some people like to follow the crowd of popular opinion, and the crowd is moving away from Ubuntu. Maybe not everyone knows that 🤷♂️
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ubuntu is like the moon. It waxes and wanes with the spinning of the earth. Basically every few years it gets popular then every few years those people that made a popular move to something else and it drops in popularity and then suddenly it becomes popular again when a new group of people come out and try linux. It’s a very user friendly basic version of Linux that can be made very powerful.