• gravitas_deficiency
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      41
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

        • gravitas_deficiency
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          29
          ·
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

          You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

          Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

          This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

          • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            It’s free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let’s stick to the facts.

            • gravitas_deficiency
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              13
              ·
              1 month ago

              Fair point.

              Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

              • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 month ago

                I agree.

                They’re a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don’t hate it personally, but I see why people don’t like it.

          • Dojan@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

      • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

        • gravitas_deficiency
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 month ago

          Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

          • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 month ago

            way too difficult to set up, i don’t have a lot of free time so i need an “out of the box” distro

            • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              1 month ago

              LMDE? The comfort of Mint with the stability of Debian. I picked it for my wife, who doesn’t want to mess with configs and tinkering around. I play tech support for her system when something goes wrong though.

              • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                1 month ago

                i currently use mint and only want to switch because cinnamon has this weird thing when you have a game running, window resizing is laggy. i often have btd6 running when I’m working so it bugs me. kde doesn’t suffer from that.

              • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                1 month ago

                Seconding LMDE, been on it for a year on my study laptop. Literally never ever had a problem so far, and being an “out of box” distro there’s minimal work needed to daily drive.

            • gravitas_deficiency
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 month ago

              Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

              If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

              • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                1 month ago

                i have tried fedora and nobara a few times but they randomly make my hdd unmountable and it’s difficult to get it back. even after installing a different distro.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 month ago

      Not sure I’d want to see that, tbh. It would only introduce more avenues for DDG to make questionable choices when they’re already on thin ice.