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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Yeah no it does suck it made me think the Linux experience was at least 3x worse before I tried another distro.

    And not just a DE thing, every part of the distro feels like it was slapped on without actually thinking of the consequences.

    • netplan
    • apt
    • default systemd dependencies
    • ubuntu GNOME
    • snap
    • ubuntu pro
    • cloudinit conf

    You can find forums and docs from as old as Fedora 11 that's still relevant yet Ubuntu utterly fails to keep consistency across a single version update because they changed something that's only mentioned in the changelog.

    Every downstream of Ubuntu is essentially focused on removing all the BS the upstream has so you can use your computer without something breaking like it's ~~Arch~~ an overused meme about Arch.

    There is no right answer to the correct distro, only a wrong answer, and that is Ubuntu because practically anything else including its downstreams like LM are better for you as a user.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    without something breaking like its arch

    I have had seven full-system failures across the last two decades using Ubuntu that could not easily be troubleshooted and fixed.

    I have had exactly zero with Arch.

    Take that as you will.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

    «an overused meme about Arch» was a very nice edit I must say xD

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    I had similar bad luck with Linux mint. So many things just didn't work, or didn't work correctly. Wifi issues, sound issues, graphics issues, issues setting up particular things for software development. I've switched to NixOS and I'm having a much easier time. A significant amount of my improved experience could be attributed to more patience or just an improved ability to deal with problems. I also suspect cinnamon was causing some of my problems, somehow whereas now I have GNOME on my main rig and lxqt on my laptop.