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The Dislike to Ubuntu (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I know there are lots of people that do not like Ubuntu due to the controversies of Snaps, Canonicals head scratching decisions and their ditching of Unity.

However my experience using Ubuntu when I first used it wasn't that bad, sure the snaps could take a bit or two to boot up but that's a first time thing.

I've even put it on my younger brothers laptop for his school and college use as he just didn't like the updates from Windows taking away his work and so far he's been having a good time with using this distro.

I guess what I'm tryna say is that Ubuntu is kind of the "Windows" of the Linux world, yes it's decisions aren't always the best, but at least it has MUCH lenient requirements and no dumb features from Windows 11 especially forced auto updates.

What are your thoughts and experiences using Ubuntu? I get there is Mint and Fedora, but how common Ubuntu is used, it seemed like a good idea for my bros study work as a "non interfering" idea.

Your thoughts?

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I watched a video of a Linux noob trying it for the first time. They chose Mint, and a significant amount of problems arose from the fact that mint is still on an old kernel version, and there was little to no indication from the OS or from cursory googling that updating it would fix the issue or even that you should do that.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

It literally says on the website where you download it, if you have new hardware to use the Edge Edition (though it's not there right now, likely because the current Mint version already has a new kernel)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you open up the kernel manager you can switch to a newer release

Also I think they now have a version with a newer kernel

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's obvious to you to do, yes. You have experience with Linux.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 months ago

Its a gui