• Barttier@feddit.de
    159·
    1 year ago

    First I wanted to contradict and say that I like arch linux because it feels good… So yes: I see your point

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    116·
    1 year ago

    Hmm, the Arch one seems to be incorrect. People who wear a buttplug won’t randomly announce that they’re wearing buttplug.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    932·
    1 year ago

    I feel like Ubuntu should be one of those squeaky hammer toys. Maybe I’m just biased,

    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksOP
      572·
      1 year ago

      I think you’re right. But, I’m trying to make my memes inclusive: I don’t bash ubuntu users for the same reasons I don’t beat people already on the ground and refrain from mocking the handicapped.

      • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        18·
        1 year ago

        Well you bash us arch users but i get it we can take it! Lmao. Or maybe ubuntu users just can’t take a joke

      • nottheengineer@feddit.de
        92·
        1 year ago

        But what makes ubuntu better as a first distro than mint or fedora? It installs snaps even when you specifically invoke apt, a new user who doesn’t understand the messages will press yes, see that it seemed to work and have issues later that can scare them away from linux.

        What I’m trying to say is that we should bash the people still recommending ubuntu.

        • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksOP
          102·
          1 year ago

          Oh, I’m absolutely fine with bashing people recommending Ubuntu. Hand me the first stone!

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Eh. Using Ubuntu is nothing like having a mental or physical handicap, or having fallen and gotten knocked down/pushed down.

        My issue with Ubuntu is that there’s better distros- even for newbs coming from windows for the first time. The sole argument for Ubuntu is the first reason not to use it. People are installing it because they want something different than windows, after all, and canonical makes the same critical error (IMO) that MS makes: it assumes their users are stupid.

        To be honest, I grew up in red hat; I remember trying Ubuntu when it first came out, being told how awesome it was. I found it to be infuriating and horrible. And it has always been so. To me, it’s popularity seems derived more from marketing than from merit.

    • constantokra@lemmy.one
      18·
      1 year ago

      No, Debian should definitely be the Swiss army knife, and Ubuntu should definitely be the playdoh Swiss army knife.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5811·
    1 year ago

    The swiss army knife should not be Ubuntu lol. Ubuntu would be like the dollar store knockoff that falls apart with use.

    • Pirasp@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      You mean to say the version where the Victorinox logo is replaced with the Ubuntu one?

      Looks half way convincing but is shit in reality?

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        198·
        1 year ago

        Used it for 2 years on desktop and server.

        Documentation is always outdated and useless. GNOME is crap. apt has a dependency issue every week. Repos have software ranging from bleeding edge to horrendously outdated. Netplan is next level stupid and also decides to break for no reason. Systemd waits for network to boot by default because reasons. Versioning and LTS adds more magic fun to doing anything because of the aforementioned documentation. Last time I used it, still had crap interoperability when switching DEs for some weird reason. Canonical is the big dumb dumb. All the downstreams inherit the same problems like PopOS and elementary.

        I took all of that experience and thought it was the default linux expectations until I got to try Debian for server and Fedora for desktop.

        Unfortunately, people make the same mistake as me and then assume broken Ubuntu is just how linux is.

        Credit though, it did get to teach me the general ins and outs of linux because I needed to fix or change something every other week.

          • Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Not OP, I like gnome and all but I Ubuntu’s extensions/custom version of gnome is awful and makes trying to change settings so much worse because the gnome documentation doesn’t always match with all of the changes Ubuntu adds on top. Maybe they’re talking about that?

            • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              Can’t you just use another desktop environment if you don’t like the pre-packaged gnome? I just see Ubuntu as a flavor of Debian made for ease of use.

              • Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                That’s true, but installing a whole new desktop environment also kind of goes against the whole “ease of use” part. If someone’s going to go to a whole different flavor they might as well just use something like Mint or Mint DE unless they specifically need Ubuntu for a dev environment or program/driver compatibility. That way they can still get the ease of use benefit but without dealing with all of the weird oddities that Ubuntu can introduce.

                • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Yeah I just find for newer users the amount of Ubuntu support has always been a huge plus if you’re just getting in to messing with Linux. It’s a lot better now but it used to be things like “how to do x on Ubuntu,” there would always be some super easy to follow tutorial. My personal preference is just a Debian install but the more catered experiences like Mint and Ubuntu do a great job at presenting Debian to daily users without any hassle.

      • rambaroo@lemmy.world
        52·
        1 year ago

        Ubuntu LTS is the least stable LTS Linux distro I’ve ever used. There’s why I avoid Ubuntu. It isn’t about normies it’s about avoiding Canonical.

    • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
      28·
      1 year ago

      Its pretty apt because while you can technically use it to do a variety of things its almost always outclassed in any particular use

    • bitwaba@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’d have gone with a spork. Not particularly good at anything it was built to do, but functional enough to get the job done, and pretty straight forward to use.

      • autokludge@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Any wet meal you would have previously used a fork a spork/splade works better. It is the apex of TV dinner eating implements after hands only. 😉

    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksOP
      96·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know why, but it really is. You’d be surprised to see how many servers in the wild run ubuntu and how many docker images are based on ubuntu.

      • dan@upvote.au
        12·
        1 year ago

        Docker images should really be distroless most of the time. There’s way too much junk in the majority of Docker images when in most cases, you really just need your app and whatever dynamic libraries or runtimes it requires (if you can’t statically compile it). You don’t need an OS in there!

        Also there’d be way more servers running Debian compared to Ubuntu.

        • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          You often (if not most of the time) need some infrastructure in OCI containers (while we’re at it, let’s get rid of the misnomer Docker image). And that’s going to be some subset of a distribution hand-crafted for that purpose. Most of the time, that should be Alpine, because they provide the slimmest base image.

          • dan@upvote.au
            31·
            1 year ago

            Most of the time, that should be Alpine, because they provide the slimmest base image.

            Distroless containers (e.g. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless, Chiselled Ubuntu, etc) are often smaller than Alpine ones. Google’s smallest Debian-based one is around 2MB.

            I have a Dockerized C# app… I’m going to try .NET Native AOT (which was improved a lot in .NET 8, released today) to compile it into a self-contained binary, and see how well it works with a distroless base container.

            • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksOP
              2·
              1 year ago

              I’m curious to hear how that works out. I’m a big fan of C#; not so much the Microsoft ecosystem. I’d say for maximum scalability you’d want languages which compile to small binaries. So, Go, Rust, C++, C, and theoretically some others. The approach with Java and C# to bundle the framework, JIT, etc, and then try to shave off as much as you can get away with feels kind of backwards. And I get the excitement of the Java folks when they manage to create a self-contained binary with GraalVM and co of 12mb. Like, that’s impressive, but had you developed the same thing with Go it would be .5mb. Curious to see how .NET fares in that comparison to Java.

          • dan@upvote.au
            1·
            1 year ago

            Google’s distroless base images are based on Debian and are smaller than Alpine images.

        • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
          23·
          1 year ago

          Debian isn’t really an option if you want paid support. You really only have Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical. Of course, there are a lot of Ubuntu servers out there.

  • d_k_bo@feddit.de
    375·
    1 year ago

    Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.