• VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Been on Ubuntu for years. Only use it for general computer work. Works just fine.

    Am I stupid?

    • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Nah. Ubuntu gets hate for some good reasons, but it’s still a fine distro, especially if you’re happy with it.

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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        10 days ago

        In terms of polish Ubuntu is excellent. Problem is their policies and stupid decisions over the years, resulting in really unnecessary tech problems for anyone who wants more than just install apps via their App Store. Not to mention the inbuilt ads for Amazon, like, 10 years ago… or them recently deciding that it would be a good idea to alias some apt commands, so if you’re a power user and try to install f.e. Firefox with your CLI it would instead execute the command to install it as snap. Shit like that is just outright disrespectful to the user.

        • jessca@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Firefox with your CLI it would instead execute the command to install it as snap. Shit like that is just outright disrespectful to the user.

          I get it and, at the same time, I get it.

          Ubuntu needs to be able to deliver with some level of guarantee for its corporate clients, which means testing. A browser like Firefox has a lot of dynamically linked libraries. How do ensure that it works with all reasonable combinations? 10 libraries with 2 supported versions each is 1024 combinations. A browser will have more libraries and more compatible versions of each, which leads to a massive number of combinations. Nothing like having a support customer with issues because a very specific patch version doesn’t work with another very specific patch version.

          Compare that to snap. 1 artifact that contains all dynamically linked libraries. 1 artifact to test and support.

          So, now Canonical has a tested and supported snap for a security sensitive application, whose method of delivery also isolates it from the host it runs on. Should they point users to that? Or some upstream binary that may have the above compatibility issues and lacks isolation, and wasn’t tested by them.

          Short of it is that DLLs made a lot more sense when storage was expensive and programs were smaller. Now, they are problematic. Containers are a way to address that without having to update a ton of software, and they also improve security. If they hadn’t done it, the community would have torn them a new one for keeping the good stuff for their corporate clients.

          That said, there have been a lot of missteps. The inability to have a self-hosted store of snaps (this may have changed since I last checked) and improper packaging of apps like Steam are good examples of this. On the other hand, PCSX2’s 32-bit version ran just fine long after Ubuntu went 64-bit-only.

          • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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            9 days ago

            That’s a good argument for Snaps & Flatpaks, not for putting an alias in place so “apt install Firefox” gets translated to “snap install org.mozilla.firefox” (or whatever the exact app name is). Corporate clients manage their systems as a fleet anyway, if the IT department sets it up a certain way their employees don’t fiddle with this stuff. There’s no good argument to redirect a users’ CLI commands to whatever Canonical believes is better.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 days ago

    Yes. My gaming rig has been on Pop for years now.

    I hate the idea of still being on Pop. But it’s so damned pleasant.

    Now on the Cosmic alpha.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 days ago

      What I’ve noticed is that System76 doesn’t have as good of QA process compared to something like Linux Mint or Fedora. Not to say that it is bad but that’s my personal experience.

      • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 days ago

        I don’t disagree with that. They’re also a much smaller group so I think it just stands to reason.

        But I do appreciate that they’re taking chances (probably for the same reason). Cosmic is quite impressive already and a good alternative to Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon; better than the Pop Shell on Gnome.

        Edit: a word

        • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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          11 days ago

          Edit: a word

          Am I crazy for finding this unnecessary? I’ve never cared about an edited comment, let alone the reason why a person edited it.

          • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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            11 days ago

            Maybe it is. I always considered it a courtesy since otherwise it can be difficult to see what was edited. It’s from my reddit days.

          • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            11 days ago

            IMO from personal experience I tend to half care.

            I personally wouldn’t leave in, “Edit: a word,” but if I change the substance of a comment in any meaningful way I like to leave an edit to say what changed.

            Particularly for when someone already replied to my comment or may already be replying to my comment. I would be afraid of accidentally trying to gaslight someone lol.