erwan

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erwan,

Nice, at this pace we’ll reach 50% in less than 50 years!

erwan,

It uses the Linux kernel but the user space is so different that is has nothing in common with a regular Linux distribution.

Also it strongly depends on Google proprietary apps (and Play Store, Play Services…).

Yes you can have a de-Googled Android, but it’s still very different from a typical Linux install.

erwan,

You can, it’s up to the software vendor to make it simple.

Most of the software are FOSS and can be installed directly from your package manager. That works like the iOS app store/Android Play Store except it existed 10 years before mobile stores.

Google Chrome is an example of proprietary software (so not in distributions repos) that is as easy to install on Linux than Windows. Because Google managed to get a deb that will also update your repos.

Bottom line, most of the time it’s way easier to install software on Linux than Windows (as easy as on iOS) but occasionally it’s slightly more complex.

erwan,

The Windows key turning into “super” and getting some use on Linux was just Linux DE finding a use for that key nobody asked for.

erwan,

I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to find keyboards with a different icon that the ugly copilot, and then you can map it to whatever you want.

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

erwan,

I don’t hate Ubuntu, and it was my distribution from nearly 20 years. Meaning since it was first released until recently. I loved it for a long time because it was based on dpkg which was much better than rpm at the time AND it was way more user friendly than the others. Even as a software developer I like my distribution to move out of the way to let me focus on using it, not babysitting it.

But I moved away because of Snaps. Currently on Fedora and it’s pretty good. I know it’s possible to get rid of Snaps or use a derivative but I prefer to stay close to stock for whatever distribution I use.

If Ubuntu works for you and you don’t mind snaps, then just use that!

So if

erwan,

I don’t think it’s wasteful to have both KDE and Gnome. It’s healthy competition and as you say, innovation.

However the job of a distribution is to gather upstream software into a meaningful OS, and rewriting everything that should be an upstream software shared with other distributions is a distraction.

So Unity was unnecessary “not invented here” syndrome. Just like Snap is.

erwan,

They tried Unity and gave up for Gnome 3 - however they ship a heavily customized Gbome 3.

Now they’re trying Snap. How long before they give up and use flatpak like every other distro?

What’s the point of this?

erwan,

It’s just simpler to pick a distribution that matches your choices out of the box, rather than hacking a distro. And I’m talking about Snap in particular.

erwan,

The first dumb thing is distro hopping to start with.

Distro are not that different in practice, just pick one and go on with your life.

erwan,

Mac are only competitive on the smallest configuration, as you start to add the same options to each the Mac pricing goes through the roof while this one’s price will only increase by a bit.

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    erwan,

    Also it is very annoying when people say “I wish X was usable but it’s not”.

    That’s dismissing something while at the same time posing as a supporter of the product you’re dismissing… Pretty much closing yourself to any response.

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