Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I used Ubuntu for a long time. It was a pretty grounded concept, 6 month cycles to mostly snapshot debian testing with a nice installer and “I just want stuff to work” approach to non-free codecs and drivers.

      When they went Unity as default, it was pretty dumb but no matter, switching desktop environments was no huge deal, or starting with a different spin like Kubuntu.

      They added snap, and initially, no huge deal, since if there was something that won’t work with the snap, then I generally could just use apt.

      Then they made the ‘dpkg’ firefox just force snap, breaking some interop I used, with the snap isolation just being too much. The guides all involved all sorts of big PITA of the sort that ran counter of my whole “I just don’t want to have to think about it and fight my distribution”. So I went to Fedora, which at least has seemed to gotten mostly more practical about making non-free easier, and the presence of flatpak remains quite optional and can use it when it makes sense, or ignore it and still have a solid experience without thinking.

    • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 days ago

      I just switched to Debian this week after using Ubuntu for a very long time. I get it, Ubuntu is made by a for profit company but it has a lot working by default and replacing those in Debian takes precious time.

      Terminal transparency, NVIDIA driver support, permanent dock, pretty disk encryption unlocking screen, many gnome tweaks (minimize/maximize), non-free and contrib apt repos, and probably many more are in Ubuntu but not Debian by default. Ubuntu looks a bit prettier. The installer is way less intuitive in Debian too, to me, and looks ugly.

      But hey at least I can sleep at night 😎