• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    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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      5 hours ago

      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 hours ago

          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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            43 minutes ago

            LMDE? The comfort of Mint with the stability of Debian. I picked it for my wife, who doesn’t want to mess with configs and tinkering around. I play tech support for her system when something goes wrong though.

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            4 hours ago

            Q4OS is debian with KDE and it’s made for ex-Windows users

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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            4 hours ago

            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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              3 hours ago

              i have tried fedora and nobara a few times but they randomly make my hdd unmountable and it’s difficult to get it back. even after installing a different distro.

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        11 hours ago

        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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          10 hours ago

          Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.