I’m switching to Debian right away, this is nonsense

  • @[email protected]
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    376 days ago

    LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding

    environment.systemAds.enable = false;
    

    to your configuration.nix file 😎

    • @[email protected]
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      145 days ago

      Yep, Unity DE had ads. Then people revolted and Canonical eventually got rid of them and also switched to base Gnome with some extensions.

      It definitely happened, I saw it in real time on my install of Ubuntu. But they learned their lesson on this one, I feel.

      Not sure why there are some who think this is still a thing, though.

      Side note: I’ve not run Ubuntu as my desktop OS I’m quite some time, opting instead for Garuda as of late and have seen no ads thus far :)

      • Possibly linux
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        156 days ago

        It may of pissed a lot of people off. Yet people wonder why I have such a strong dislike of Ubuntu.

  • @[email protected]
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    236 days ago

    an alternate timeline, where Linus didn’t make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.

  • @[email protected]
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    267 days ago

    I mean…

    They have GUI system upgrades, this is kind of a pain in Debian

    Okay, now I updated 12 laptops from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and…

    • it always hangs at “swap deb Thunderbird with snap”, like, always. 12 times.
    • the wallpaper is gone after the upgrade, every single time
    • there are like 10 buttons to click
    • you need to be a sudo user (the updater shows but just vanishes when being a nonsudoer!)
    • on 2 machines some random repo issues caused a silent error. Needed to apt update in the terminal, fixed
    • there are tons of snap packages, and all are outdated, yay! Installing those on a sudo account causes them to fail on the nonsudo account.

    Damn this is bad. And this is like, the best of the best distros?

    Doubt that. Fedora Atomic has way more potential, while only being user friendly as uBlue.

    • @[email protected]
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      106 days ago

      Ubuntu is very much NOT the best of the distros anymore.

      I’ve been using Kinoite on one of my daily drivers, and so far I’m loving it.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 days ago

        I mean I could list you at least 5 things that kinda suck on Fedora Atomic. But yes the core principle is so much better.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 days ago

          I don’t mean to imply it’s perfect, but as a relatively popular distro to use as a daily driver, I’ve been happy with it overall.

    • @[email protected]
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      116 days ago

      Every couple of years I think to myself “Ubuntu can’t be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it’s just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why’d I stop using it?”

      And then I download Ubuntu.

      And then I remember.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 days ago

        It works great as a quick and easy WSL module if you need to quickly patch the kernel of your embedded Linux device at work 🤗, well, maybe it would have been just as easy using just debian, to be fair 🤔

    • rand_alpha19
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      96 days ago

      You can install Synaptic in Debian. Problem solved? I love the terminal so this isn’t really my fight but you could spend some time to make Debian GUI-based if you wanted to.

      Also LMDE exists, which Mint-ifies Debian and gives you a GUI option for basically everything you can imagine.

      • Semperverus
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        16 days ago

        Pretty sure KDE’s Discover store hooks into Debian’s repos just fine too

      • @[email protected]
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        -16 days ago

        Multiple reasons why this is not a good option.

        • no fwupd
        • no flatpak
        • still requires sudo
        • mint uses XOrg and is very limited
      • palordrolap
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        37 days ago

        I feel like the choice of time of day (24hr clock) for the screenshot might have been an attempt at being prophetic.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 days ago

          I don’t understand. A 24hr clock would be prophetic? Or the time 20:28?

          24hr clocks are used wordwide except for a few countries. The image in the OP looks Czech and the Czech Republic uses 24hr notation.

          • palordrolap
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            16 days ago

            This is one of those situations where explaining why I said what I said, when I said it, in the way that I said it, and bring into question whether I could have worded any of it better takes way more time than a glib aside. Something adjacent to the Bullsh*t Asymmetry principle, if not an instance.

            Anyway, I was trying to encompass those folks who tend to set their system time to 12hr, and wasn’t really saying anything one way or the other about whether the person who made the screenshot (OP it seems) generally has their system set that way or not. It was more pointing out that having it be 24hr (or leaving it that way) makes the time look a bit like a year in the not-too-distant future (2028), and thus could form part of the date that is otherwise displayed.

            It could be that the whole thing is a coincidence, but I was pointing out that it could have been part of the joke.