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Why choice of Linux distribution matters
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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I don't mind them, except Ubuntu. Broken by default since it started. I don't know how or why, but it is the most fragile least user friendly one of the bunch.
I am not currently using it but it's always been fine whenever I have. What's broken?
For the last few projects I have been on, it has thrown errors during the install. It usually resolves itself, but the user should never be greeted with "something went wrong" or "error during install".
I guess I could download the latest and play with it for 10 minutes and get some specifics.
I don't actually care, but when I have in the past (around 2006 era) it "just worked", while other distros i was using required more hand holding (gentoo, redhat, slackware). I suspect most distros are just fine now a days (using debian now and it seems just fine).