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Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11 (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

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  • [+] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Former Ubuntu, current Debian, considering Atomic.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    idk if im crazy but i tried like, all, of the commonly reccomended linux distros a few years back when it was my first time and really did not like any of them, and then i tried an arch derivative with plasma kde and then fell in love with arch based distros to the point that i absolutely do not want to use anything else. i tried endeavor os recently and have been loving it!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oh god, what did they do? Do they show ads on the gui?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

    You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

    Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

    This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let's stick to the facts.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fair point.

    Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I agree.

    They're a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don't hate it personally, but I see why people don't like it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (10 children)

    does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (8 children)

    way too difficult to set up, i don't have a lot of free time so i need an "out of the box" distro

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    i currently use mint and only want to switch because cinnamon has this weird thing when you have a game running, window resizing is laggy. i often have btd6 running when I'm working so it bugs me. kde doesn't suffer from that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

    If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

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