What's something you want to tell us lemmy users ? (lemm.ee)

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[-] karashta@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

As someone with decision paralysis and executive dysfunction issues, this is true for me. I'm probably more than capable of using it for a daily driver but there are 5000 flavors and I will likely never be able to make a solid choice until one is obviously vastly superior in some way I need.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Just use Ubuntu. It just works.

That's what I use if I want to just get things done.

[-] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Lemmy taught me I'll go to Linux Hell for using Ubuntu.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Nah. There's a lot of nerds on here. They are over overrepresented. Normal folks and older users who don't have time to fuck around use Ubuntu.

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago

Why recommend Gnome as a windows alternative? Surely KDE is a much better option if you're trying to make a windows user feel more familiar with the interface.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I'm a KDE user right now. While I love KDE, I find that it breaks way too easily when you customize it. And there's way,way too many customization options to a point that it becomes overwhelming. I can waste hours trying to customize something, roll back, break KDE, reset my KDE environment, try again, etc. And between KDE users, the desktop will almost never be the same which can lead to issues when they ask for support from a friend or something.

In gnome, what you see is what you get. You can just focus on your work or your activity. And because there's less customisation options, you get pretty much the same desktop experience across multiple users. So if I go to a friend's place and they also it Ubuntu with Gnome, I'm almost certain to have the same desktop experience as mine

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 months ago

My Ubuntu on a SBC for a workshop just killed itself on Monday. Had it for a few months, new SBC, fresh Ubuntu install, 0 customization, just using it occasionally for Chromium. It popped up a new version -Minotaur or something- was out, so I said sure upgrade. It gave an error for bash near the end, then bricked itself. Now i gotta dig out SD cards and find a new distro.

Fuck Ubuntu. Ends in misery every single time.

And no I don't want any recommendations.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Well that's like a single anecdotal experience out of hundreds of thousands who had no problem. And it's more probable to run into problems when using non-LTS versions.

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