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I'm to lazy to do my homework. Can anyone explain what's wrong with Ubuntu?
Not too deep in that conversation but afaik it's a series of choices that just continuously make Ubuntu less usable.
from what I "know" it seems to be mostly:
Again, not really sure that's it but it's what I recall hearing here and there.
What distro would you suggest? I abandoned windows 10 for Ubuntu but it didn't grew on me. I know Linux Mint is friendlier but I thought giving Ubuntu a try
Chris Titus Tech - The Linux Tier List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyADkmRVe0U
Depends on your use case honestly. Do you play a lot of games? If so I would recommend against stable distros like Mint. Without knowing more I'd probably say:
Edit: Also a general recommendation: Stick to Windows-like Desktops for the beginning, these are (to my knowledge) XFCE and more prominently KDE Plasma. It will save you the additional task of getting used to your desktop environment while you get familiar with how Linux "works" as your main OS.
Debian sid is just as fresh and a (nearly) rolling release distribution. I game on it with Wine, Cyperpunk, X4, Baldur's Gate and others are no problem.
Didn't know about that, would go into the same category as Arch then.
I played around with Kali(I know I know) and raspberry pi for a bit and I got the hang of it a bit. Think I'll go with Mint on one drive for school and such and on the other drive Arch for gaming. Thank you for your time.
Nothing exactly wrong with that but I don't think you'll need the extra layer of separation. Most Apps on Mint should be available Arch as well and run generally as Bug free as on Mint (Edit: a "graphical" representation of what level of Bugginess you can expect: Many Bugs > Some Bugs > Few Bugs > Windows 10 (personal experience) > Arch Linux > Almost no Bugs > Linux Mint > No Bugs). Not splitting the OS would save you some hassle (for example after school work is done you can start gaming faster as well as simpler disk partitioning) on the other hand depending on yourself it might offer advantages (can't get as easily distracted from schoolwork with games if you have to reboot the PC for it)
I know that you apps are available across distributions but I wanted to use a stable distro for school that I trust not to brake and another one where I can experience and customize without worrying to much about breaking it.
as I said nothing wrong with it, just wanted to add some info in case the decision was made based on some misunderstanding. If you think that's the best fit for you go for it
I'm not yet sure but I'll try them out. Thank you for taking the time
and they're using gnome 40+ now, but gnome 40 is actually great, unlike gnome 3
Ubuntu is a product of Canonical which are a pretty evil corporation and a submarine of Microsoft. What they don't leech off Debian is proprietay and lock-in.
I'll look into it. Thanks for the heads-up
remember, do not feed the trolls... That said, snaps suck vs flatpak or appimage.
As a commercial OS, it's fine. LTS releases, great headless experience, and dependency graph that is progressive but not as frozen in time as RedHat.
As an end-user OS, the dizzying number of ways to get usable apps into the GUI cut deep against advanced users. Especially when advanced use cases smash into incompatibilities and easy-to-make mistakes that break stuff. But if you're willing to rock a lot of defaults and just slap things together from the package manager, it works okay.