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If you like Ubuntu but don't like the direction it's going, you can try Mint. It's Ubuntu, but with the bad decisions reversed. Or use LMDE, which is Mint but Debian based.
I’ll +1 for LMDE here as well.
Yep. LMDE, add the kisak-mesa PPA and use Steam Flatpak and you're off to the races
Some people like to rag onto Canonicals bad decisions. These include:
I didn't know about any of these, but terminal ads by itself would be enough to make me switch to something else. So would the affiliate links. Why would they think that's a good idea? Well, aside from money, obviously.
I think you just answered your question
But the ads are just for Ubuntu pro, which is free for personal use so it’s more of a tip. And the Amazon part was to my knowledge just in the unity days. Not defending Canonical, just showing more of the picture
I knew "ads in the terminal" was hard to believe for some reason. I'm guessing it's easily disabled too.
They were just MOTDs, which are few lines of text displayed on the terminal when you first launch a session. You just have to edit one line in a config somewhere to get rid of them. Annoying but not exceptionally so.
Not just MOTDs, they’re in apt now too
They were easily disabled, but if I wanted to spend my time disabling annoying shit that's on by default, I'd just run Windows :p
Haha I mean fair, sort of. But if Ubuntu worked for me better than pop os in other ways, I could easily justify commenting out that line in a script or whatever
Yeah in the end it's all just nerd gripes. I sold my old computer to my non-techy friend with Kubuntu and he likes it just fine :)