>>108451736
gnome is a bit silly but kubuntu is the only real just werks 0 stress distro

>>108451750
>debian based
>KDE
>0 stress
Choose ONLY one.

>>108451736
The whole "dumping all filesystems other than ext4" thing seems pretty sketch.

>>108451736
There is no reason to hate Ubuntu but I need some flatpak applications that aren't avaliable as Snap, and I don't like to mix snap and flatpak on my system so I went with mint

>>108451771
0 stress!!! i choose 0 stress anon!!! no one likes being stressed!!! this is kinda fun hehe give me three more choices!

>>108451736
>posts a picture 15 years old
Maybe you should use ubuntu in 2026 to understand why some of us left it behind.

>>108451771
>kde
>stress
Im sorry that you cannot handle such amounts of sovl in the best DE on GNU/LINUX. SAD!

>>108451817
>seems a lot like mere legacy hate
>legacy hate
>"why did you post an old picture??"
ubuntu haters really are the smartest of us

>>108451842
I was implying that "issue" isn't attributable to the unity ui, i used and liked ubuntu specifically because it used unity over gnome shell at the time (because it was a well thought solution merging other projects, like compiz, in one efficient environment) but to other reason that are now more than evident, in specific canonical past attempts in data harvesting and monetization (amazon partnership), backpedaling on actual interesting projects (like ubuntu one and mir) and fucking ditching unity in the end, turning in redhat with a purple-orange coat on paint over.

>>108451736
It feels like a really good distro for professional workstation desktop use IMO. Stable and also up-to-date. Some of the professional 3D graphics software I use (Unreal Engine 5 & Substance Painter) specifically recommend Ubuntu for Linux use in their recommended specs which suggests they've been specifically tested on Ubuntu.

>>108451909
so whats the best beginner friendly distro rn? im being genuine

>>108451736
I like watching terry use Ubuntu 16 (?)(gnome)
I like using Ubuntu 24 (gnome 46)

>Snaps

>>108451925
Devuan probably.
It's basically a whitelabel ubuntu without the systemd cancer

>>108451925
Can't say for sure because i've been way past that for a long time, i guess mint if you want to stick with ubuntu but with a saner configuration, fedora immutable of you want to straight jump the fence to redhat, otherwise zorinos if you want anything ready-to-go but very obfuscated, mageia or openmandriva are also good options (since are a direct continuation from mandrake linux).

>>108451736
Why can't vanilla GNOME be like Ubuntu's GNOME?

>>108451736
Stupid UI. Why don't they just offer a stock gnome/kde?

>>108451925
Mint, Debian, Rocky Linux

>>108451980
it's like, what, 2-3 plugins away from that.

>>108451736
idk but i miss unity. somethin felt off about ubuntu when i was digging into an old pc for some files a while back and i didn’t realize the DE had fundamentally shifted between 2013 and now until i read about it

>>108451736
No, but there's so also no reason to use Ubuntu when its non-retarded brother, Mint, exists.

>>108452094
this, they also happen to pretty much never break. pretty sure the systray and dash to dock extensions were updated to 50 when it was still in beta, even.

>>108452251
mint doesn't have kde or gnome though

what even is the reason to use Ubuntu over Debian with GNOME nowadays?
I literally cannot even think of one(1)

>>108453459
You can install any desktop that you want on any distro.

>>108451736
Yes, they're killing grub.
Rs-utils that are not even beta.
Opinionated DE.
Windows update level of update nagging, which results in software breaking. Ex Nvidia drivers.

>>108451736
>snap
>two app stores
>oh you need flatpaks? lol three app stores
>aggressive snap sandboxing breaks lots of games and apps
other than that it's mid. it's not as good as it used to be

>>108451771
genuinely why do so many people pretend kde isn't stress free, stop downloading 50000000000 different widgets and random plugins for it, it works completely fine out of the box, genuinely the same as people who can't control themselves with the aur for arch and then blame arch for their retardation

>>108454030
Yeah Ubuntu is not good for newfags at all because of Gnome store being laggy, their Snap store being limited, and most stuff being flatpak nowadays. I tried setting it up for normalfag use, but Ubuntu 25.whatever's GNOME ran like shit even aftering removing snaps and extensions. Bazaar is mid, but probably the best app storr option. Fedora's GNOME felt way smoother. Also Fedora KDE is what I ended up settling with since it was familiar for the person I'm intending to give the laptop and the app store is pretty solid. My only problem is it shit the bed when installed as it didn't download the right Nvidia drivers for some reason during install even though I enabled 3rd party repositories. It was fixable, but not in a beginner friendly way.

>>108454416
Yeah also ubuntu overrides some gnome settings which contradicts the gnome design philosophy.

The gnome HIG sucks but at least it's consistent. With ubuntu, it's not.

>>108453979
Easier Nvidia driver management?

Its really not that bad. I just switched from linux mint to ubuntu and I have zero complaints about it. Still better than microslop.