this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
169 points (93.3% liked)

Linux

48674 readers
420 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files.

After this error screen for few seconds it automatically boots into Ubuntu.

Need Help :)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (73 children)

It's still good, it's just popular now so the edgelords hate it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For me the question is rather, what's the current raison d'être for Ubuntu if you're not looking for Debian with paid support?

Granted it's been long since I've used it (I used it from 2005 or so until 2008 when I switched to Arch), but there's no really appealing quality for me there that I couldn't have with Debian. Apart from that, Canonical makes questionable decisions – snap, as others have mentioned, a total disaster in my opinion; Mir was another of their misadventures (later retrofitted into a Wayland compositor); upstart didn't turn out successful (though to give credit, it was an honest attempt at a new init system and lessons were learned); the LXD maintainer issue as of late leaves a sore taste in my mouth, plus they were always very community-unfriendly with their CLAs. And all this for what? Might as well use their upstream instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ubuntu has the largest community around it, meaning you'll find help for it the fastest.

Granted, some issues are distro-agnostic, but you can't always know whether yours is, especially if you are newer to Linux.

[–] tram1 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fastest help is Archwiki, even if you run Ubuntu...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard false. This is only true for experienced users. For me the Arch wiki is great, for a novice it isn't.

[–] tram1 1 points 1 year ago

I disagree. It's very detailed and I think it can both help a novice and help a novice become less of a novice.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (69 replies)