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What OS do you use on your pc and why? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by tubbadu@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Ubuntu since 2006

It just works for the simple things
It is as powerful as needed for the complicated things
It runs nearly everywhere
It's universally supported by anything that supports Linux
It's supported at my workplace
It's got the largest community and body of documentation available which makes solving problems easy
It's got pretty good UX (I miss Unity)
I like Snap
It's got very, very long term security support for free which makes supporting it easy
I know it very well and can bend it to my will in any way I need
I'm infinitely grateful to the Debian community for making it possible
If the BDFL loses his B, there's an obvious backup plan - migrating to Debian

DOS and Windows up to 2006

[–] 5ttrAx@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're tearing me apart (Lisa) with these Snap and Unity takes. I'm sure you already know, but there's a Ubuntu Unity flavour now.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't miss it that badly. 😅 Unity is written on a properly obsolete stack at this point. It might survive a little while longer but it's eventually nearing the trash bin like Xorg or PulseAudio. I learned a heuristic a long time ago - the bugs are typically fewest with the default flavour. This actually applies to a lot more than Ubuntu's flavours. And so with a heavy heart I learned to live with GNOME Shell years ago and parted ways with Unity. 💔

At least life with Ubuntu LTS has never been better! 22.04 is amazing on so many levels...

[–] 5ttrAx@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually agree. My desktop is vanilla GNOME. I'm one of those degenerates that actually like libadwaita. The experience is unified and gorgeous (or a total abomination, as you see fit). That's the beauty of Linux.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, I’m also super excited about the snap-based Ubuntu Core Desktop. That project, after the egregious bugs it will come with are ironed out, could be amazing.

[–] 5ttrAx@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, immutability is the way forward. I used Silverblue for nearly a year, it was awesome. And VanillaOS also looks really cool, but haven't tried it yet. But I'm hard no on the Snaps tho...

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That's totally fine. I have no problem with RH going with their own solution. It might prove to be the better one. Personally knowing what I know about both I'm betting on snap to pull off the better result on a technical level. That said the strength of communities has led to adopting different stacks regardless of their technical merits. And that will be fine too. After all Debian and Ubuntu run systemd today don't they. Maintainers were pretty split on that decision. :D

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