• lightrush
    6·
    2 years ago

    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

      • lightrush
        2·
        2 years ago

        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·
          2 years ago

          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
            2·
            2 years ago

            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. It could give us a Linux desktop with the robustness of Android.

            • 5ttrAx@lemmy.ml
              3·
              2 years ago

              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
                2·
                2 years 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