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[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

What about all the other pros of ubuntu?

Off the top of my head,

  • their power management is better than any other distro for laptops.
  • Their compatibility with WiFi drivers is better than many others, granted that's not exclusive to ubuntu but it is a pro.
  • theyre more up to date than debian but stable while actually coming with Wayland support unlike Mint. Timeshift is great tho, good thing it's compatible with ubuntu.
  • their community is much larger than many other distro so support is easier to find.
  • it's just not a bad distro. There's not a lot of other distros that match its out-of-the-box experience.

Other distros are good. PopOS is good. I chose Ubuntu mostly because it's solid and stable but also because it has a wide community for help. I'm just getting tired of the narrative that ubuntu is totally crippled by its snaps. This is a linux distro, if I don't like something I get to change it, which is actually cool. This isn't windows where I have no control. Also, with snaps gone, I've literally never had a problem I haven't caused. I have the approach of strip out what I don't want. Arch users install what they do want. At the end of the day, we both are exploiting software we want to use to be productive. If I found myself fighting the os (like Mac or Windows) I'd switch but I don't so I won't.