I use Debian BTW

While at the same time not even using the meme format correctly.

Exactly.

When I was younger, tinkering around was a hobby in itself. But today I actually used my machine and I want it to work without hassle. I don't want to think about swap partition sizes, modeset kernel parameters and that kind of stuff. I want a reliable tool.

That's why so many devs use MacBooks. They're essentially Unix machines with a proper GUI and mostly work absolutely flawlessly.

I've been using MacBooks for over ten years now and had exactly one crash: when the drive was failing so hard, it couldn't even spin up anymore.

Why should I use Arch btw if Ubuntu does everything I need? It's not some locked down os like Windows and I can tweak it however I want

It is ok to use what you like, this is just a joke

Fedora definitely doesn't "just works". Try installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers then updating your kernel.

Just works is definitely something Linux should strive for, but at least in my experience and in experience of my friends, "just works" has always been a poor experience.

What I'm talking about is how you install a just works distro like mint or garuda, and then some package refuses to work or maybe hardware such as a sound card or multi monitor setup, so you gotta go troubleshooting, which isn't very "just works". What's worse is that some of the issues aren't talked about/documented, so you pretty much have to rely on making a post and wait for potentially hours for a response to get help. It's also very hard to troubleshoot the system by yourself if you don't have experience, as you don't really know what's running under the hood as in what came prepackaged by the distro.

Complaining that something works or that people prefer things that work is a very backasswards critique and deepens the presumed stereotype that home Linux users are just nerds who only like to tinker (which is just partially true).

To be fair I've been using mint, and whilst THE FUCKING MULTIMONITOR DOESN'T FUCKING WORK (Uhh I wanna punch a drywall)! otherwise it has been suprisingly smooth. Especially since it is my main computer, and I use it to burn discs for older game systems (incl. x360!!!), unity development, and a bunch of other stuff. So I have to say, it is VERY close to it just works.

Well, ubuntu is based on debian, so it is the same preference.

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From freedom, came elegance

Na the biggest and main reason why Linux doesn't have a higher adoption rate (on desktop) is that it's not preinstalled on the devices you buy.

There are obviously other factors but they are miniscule in comparison

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux.

Fueds between distros will always exist, like fueds between car manufacturers. It's just banter, except some people take it wayyyy too far.

but which distro YOU use?

This is parroted all the time, all the while linux is doing just fine.

Why is adoption rate such an important metric?

It's a meme

All the parrots doing Ubuntu bashing over the last few years are really hurting adoption in my opinion. It still is the best Linux OS for new users for many reasons, even if there are many other ones that might be better suited for other uses or preferences.

Actually it's because Linux users are all mentally ill.

I think the insinuation of the gigantic brain is that it's not

Simple is unfortunately the negation for complicated and complex, which are slightly different things. Ubuntu is not complicated, but complex. Gentoo is complicated, but not as complex (at least it can be).

A distro is the distribution you want to use for an OS when it comes to linux such as fedora, Ubuntu, mint, arch etc. the symbols are the icons for the individual OS’s

Well done and thank you! A minor mistake: when describing the Fedora user you wrote "test" instead of "text'

Thank you for providing a multimodal caption. While I don't need it I know people who do and they appreciate it.

Quick Attack? Like the pokeymun move?

I use gnome because it's in my DNA

Good poem :D

I use arch btw

Apart from your favourite distro of course!

H u m o u r

Default wallpaper FTW

Real Chads don't use a DE.

It's a lot harder to get Nvidia drivers working on Debian than any other distro I've tried including Arch. Every issue besides that one I've ever had in Debian, I was able to fix.

My last Ubuntu install would break my shit all the time. Debian is so much more reliable it's incredible. Haven't had to mess with anything in almost two years on my debian install whereas Ubuntu required constant maintenance.

It's a shame Ubuntu's so popular because Canonical seems to be absolutely awful at testing their package updates compared to any other common desktop distro. I've had far fewer issues with Debian, Fedora and SUSE

Haiku: from where I am, you're all Linux

Nix is great. But I don't think I'd want to use it for a desktop OS base.

(Disk space/cycle life potential, binary cache misses, broken packages, and complete incompatibility with everything else. User error, TBH, but also stuff that's not really a problem with other systems. Well worth it as a package manager, though.)

There's no difference except for the biggest difference between distros, right. Also the kernel and DE version isn't even necessarily the same across distros.

Laughs in Linux From Scratch

Installing Slackware from floppies makes you a badass

If it works for you, you have find what you want :)

I started similarly with Yggdrasil, but quickly moved to Slackware, downloading floppy images on a 2400bps modem.

These days I use Xubuntu on my desktops/laptops and Debian on my servers.

While back in the day I (to quote Weird Al) "beta tested every operating system, gave props to some, and others, I dissed 'em", I just haven't got time to deal with all that any more.

You should stay on Ubuntu if it work for you. This is just a meme. There is no need to feel bad and force yourself to switch just because other people think your distro is bad :)

Wait am I missing something? What did canonical do this time?

Not judging, just curious: If it's a headless server, what does Ubuntu do better than Debian?

Edit: Better community support/documentation?

Usual sentiment of "the best distro is the one that works for you". I can just say that I found Ubuntu to do a confusing "splitting the difference". It requires more knowledge than using, say, windows, but also tries to hand hold. I put in a lot of time with Raspbian, and now Debian on a desktop, and I like it better because there's less "in-between".

I'd kind of stumble through windows, sort of getting what was going on but mostly having faith and a hands off approach to what was going on underneath the hood. I didn't really understand or learn much other than keyword recognition and a passing concept of broad principles. Rasbian and then Debian forced and encouraged me to get under the hood more, so when I was troubleshooting I was at least learning why things weren't working. When I had display issues, it wasn't "I clicked the wrong box" it was "because of my SSD my kernel has a race condition with the video driver and x". Not that I would, but I get now how you can slim down an OS for a specific hardware platform if you really wanted. Having done a ton of microcontroller stuff where I was getting different chips and whatnot talking to each other succesfully, this was a HUGE missing piece. "Real computers" aren't a black box mystery to me anymore, even if I'd suck at proper computer engineering.

Ubuntu kind of over optimized so I didn't learn, but was being asked to do more under the hood anyway. I kept looking at it as adjusting settings the way I did with windows, even though it was asking more of me in terms of understanding to troubleshoot.

But again, that's me and my experience, and more so it's based off of how I personally learn. I'm still not overly familiar with Ubuntu, but I get now that there's no reason you can't do what I described above, it just never "clicked" for me.

For some reason my TV could only do 30hz with XFCE but 60hz with GNOME. I never figured out why. If anyone has the answers, feel free to share. I just gave up and used GNOME lol.

I did xfce for a long time and really enjoyed it. Then I did some hopping to try out tiling, and found paperwm. For me, its just a much better experiance for the way I work

XFCE was my DE of choice for a long time, it's very practical.

Redhat is shitting the bed nuclear style right now. I expect Fedora is the next one on the chopping block.

I haven't seen anyone hate Fedora until this meme.

Now, Red Hat, which has strong ties to Fedora, is doing a lot of stupid bullshit. I actually moved to Debian due to that, not really because I think its superior (at the end of the day, all distros can do the same stuff) but because I'm getting tired with corporations

I enjoy Fedora and have used it for years but it can occasionally be harder to find packages and tutorials compared to other distros. That and DNF being quite slow.

That's all I can really think of.

I use debian on my server. It's been great for that.

Oh look, another fascist NSA systemd backdoor supporter!

/throws molotov

aggree

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Yes

XD

If it works for you, you shouldn’t

You don't need too, Ubuntu is perfectly fine if it works for you.

it can get resource hungry but nothing even close to windows.

But as others said: Try another distro if you like to try new things - otherwise just use what works for you.

There is nothing wrong with using Ubuntu if it works for you.

If you are curious and haven't tried all there is to offer you might not realize that you like another flavor.

Most distros really aren’t too different fundamentally, so if you’re happy where you are there isn’t much reason to switch. It can be fun to swap just to see what’s different (and learn what differences are really just skin deep), but you don’t have to. Some distros have more big ideas behind them which can be interesting (like nixos) but mostly they all feel pretty similar.

It is okay, just us what you like. There is no need to change your distro just because others are

Non rolling release distros for your desktop makes no sense.