Post #4497562
2026-08-11 11:26 UTC
@small_cypress@indieweb.social so like, in the end everyone has their own preferences really, I can't tell you what works best for you because it's a personal thing.
But, Ubuntu is kind of a.. well, obnoxious hipster I guess? It wants to do everything slightly differently, has gone through phases of writing its own desktop environment (which was basically gnome3 and so they deprecated it eventually), they even made their own display server, Mir, which turned out to be a copy of Wayland they didn't disclose.
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-08-11 11:27
@small_cypress@indieweb.social Ubuntu was great in 2008 when it was ahead of the rest by some measure because it made things just work, it was truly "Linux for human beings" because it did NOT do anything special, it was a small team that knew exactly what people needed. These days it's a big company with somewhat apple-esque tendencies and a lot of people dislike what they do. It's worth trying e.g Fedora, which is the current "2008 Ubuntu" that just works, is polished, updated, and doesn't try to be special