Snaps sucks, canonical sucks, Amazon integration sucks, KDE updates are years behind which also sucks, pushing snaps over deb sucks, pushing snap over flatpak sucks.

However, Ubuntu is a great distro. Incredibly stable, very well tested and polished. Installation is super easy and hardware support is very good, unless you got some very new hardware.

I recommend Ubuntu to a lot of people even though I’d never use it myself. Most people just want their computer to work.

Systemd is not that bad. It’s pretty stable, modular and frees up a ton of time for OS developers. Sure, Alpine’s init system is faster but it also has fewer features.

The problem is not having the monopoly, it’s exploiting it’s qualities. Google for example exploits the fact that they know how much ad revenue each site makes them and thus can rank them higher. They also can rank their own products such as YouTube or Chrome. Another exploitation of their monopoly is that Google is the default search engine of Chrome instead of giving the user choices

There is no issue with YouTube, another monopoly, since it’s business model is driving engagement and making money from ads but not exploiting its position.

Valve is another monopoly but it doesn’t block people from putting their own launchers onto their platform. It doesn’t block you from installing another store like Apple does and in general is nowhere near as all-encompassing as Google.

I did computer science 5 years ago and it was mostly good. I used KDE Neon before it was considered a real user distro by developers so I had some Wayland issues. When I tried to use the commandline and edit config files manually I messed stuff up but using the distro as intended was always nice and easy.

Your milage may vary depending on what programs your school forces you to use because universities don’t support anything except Linux and Mac. I want to argue for accessibility but teachers don’t care enough.

80% of people have never tried Linux and I’m pretty sure 80% of people only use computers for browsers, email and basic word processing. For those use cases almost every Linux just works. Meanwhile Windows is dropping support for old hardware so it’ll just stop working.

I mean, sure, if you buy a computer with Windows on it it’ll most likely just work for most of it’s lifespan but if you buy a Tuxedo laptop it’s pretty much supported for life.

In my opinion the UX and customization in windows is complete garbage so it very much doesn’t just work for me.

Best way to not lose data is to never delete it. Buying a new hard drive can definitely do that but backing up everything you want is completely fine too.

If you don’t want to lose data you have to keep it somewhere. Current hard drive is a good choice.

My OS makes my computer just work. I’m on KDE Neon which is “unstable” but in my case just works. Ubuntu just works. Fedora just works. Mint just works. Debian just works. Windows just works. For every use case? No.

Windows is just another OS. It’s a good one, but not for every use case.

That line is outdated.

Seconded that. Debian is pretty much always outdated, DIY Arch is easy to get wrong but I think Endeavour would have worked even though I don’t know all to much.

However saying Linux is not stable enough without trying Ubuntu is not fair IMO.

Mulniplayer on Linux is bad and has been since anti cheat systems became the norm. Anti cheat systems often request kernel access (like Crowdstrike) and Linux is just not suitable for that.

Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with your distro. It can happen, not all hardware behaves equally well on Linux and differences between distros are huge. Some even don’t run the latest kernel.

Out of curiosity, did you try Fedora, Ubuntu, KDE Neon, Kubuntu or Linux Mint? These are in my opinion great general public distros that are very stable. Ubuntu and Mint notably is lacking in Wayland support but KDE Neon and Fedora are very good at it.

Also, did you try running the desktop with X11 instead of Wayland?

I’d also recommend having another drive with the Linux distro so you can jump back and forth easier and test out new distros without having your computer potentially unusable.

Pretty sure you don’t have to unlearn everything to use Kubuntu or Linux mint

Windows doesn’t play dos games. With Windows you have to be ready to play only what works

Neither is windows

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

You can always log into a database and use raw SQL. For automation of your tasks you can put in some functions and stored procedures and later on you can always do something more graphical or even more SQL. You can do something like “exec create_note(‘Name of note’)” and “exec notes()” and whatnot.

Then if you want to do something more elaborate than viewing tables and do some formatting programming languages are pretty nice do make stringified versions of the notes and a nice way to browse them.

Then to finish up using some nice bash packages to create a CLI interface is very fun. I like charmbracelet’s stuff because it just looks nice and is easy to use. Here’s a thing you can use to create something to select a note to view: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

Steam and Jellyfin torrent setup. I’m considering adding nextcloud setup for fun.

I think GNOME looks very visually appealing with it’s consistency. The Libadwaita library has a nice aesthetic and looks very clean with nice spacing for elements to “breathe”.

I still prefer KDE since I can tailor the look to my needs and I prefer to have clutter over extra clicks. (I have top bar with “Opened programs”, Launcher, System tray, Time and a global menu and KWin script for managing Activities)

I feel like modern era of design has gone a bit overboard with the “clean” direction. It can be contrasted with Windows XP where you click “All programs” and you literally get all programs in the start menu with options of how to run or open them. I prefer to do “Menu” - > “Submenu” - > “Thing I want”.

Come to think of it I should probably make a launcher for KDE.

I think in that case they would say they accept paper.

People have jinxed it 20 years in a row