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"my friend recommended I use Ubuntu"
me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): "That... that's good. Good choice."
I say better for them to make the jump now to Ubuntu and figure out a distro better suited for their needs later on than to remain on Windows while having choice paralysis about what distro to chose.
I've been using Ubuntu for years with no desire to switch or learn more. I've heard the comments about canonical and snaps, which I barely comprehend. But there's a chance one day I'll grow an interest in what you're talking about, and I know you'll be there to explain it.
Ignore the haters (me), everyone starts their journey somewhere
I'm in the same boat. I started with Ubuntu partly because I wanted to start learning ROS (robot operating system) and the documentation for that at the time mentioned Ubuntu. I've heard great things about Mint, which I'll probably try soon, and when I "upgrade" my gaming desktop to Win 11 I'm partly expecting it to try and fuck with Grub and my Ubuntu partition so I'm going to probably install Bazzite once Win 11 is set up. Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows. Sadly there is windows-only software I need. I tried Wine once and it didn't work.
Try Winboat.
https://winboat.app/
I have been using it for a while now, and unless the software just doesn't work, it works perfectly on bazzite
I still think it's a decent entry choice. I won't touch it myself anymore, personally, but Canonical is still better than Microslop. That bar is set so low that even snap can clear it.
Kubuntu users rise up!
Posting this from Kubuntu Studio and ... it's not bad, really. Everything works fine. I even have a couple Snap packages installed ... on purpose. (Though, generally, I do try to avoid snaps.) The bloat might be relevant in lighter systems (which is why I have a different distro on my shitty old chromebook), but this is a massive workstation PC that could handle 10x the bloat without noticeably slowing down, so who cares?
(The reason I'm using Ubuntu is because after trying several distros, Ubuntu is for some reason the only one where my stupid, insane, 6-monitor multi-GPU setup worked properly, right out of the box. I eventually intend to go to 4 huge monitors instead of 6 smaller ones, which means I'll be able to drop down to a reasonable, rational choice of using only one GPU instead of two different ones. At that point, maybe I'll try distro-hopping again. Though, honestly, "exactly like Ubuntu, but without Canonical and without Snaps" would be what I'm looking for. Would definitely prefer to stick with apt package management, since that's what I'm used to at this point. Maybe I'll try straight-up Debian? But I don't really like the way Debian splits its repositories, where you basically have to choose between "extremely outdated" and "bleeding edge" with no "as up to date as possible, while still being well-tested and stable" option in between. For all of Ubuntu's faults, I think they actually do a pretty good job of maintaining that balance between stability and being up-to-date.)
Isn't Mint still effectively Ubuntu with no Canonical, and less worried about open soirce purity? Could be wrong, been a long while.
Mint is actually one of the ones I tried before. It did not like my multi-GPU setup, though. Could only use one GPU at a time, which means I could only use a maximum of 4 monitors.
Maybe I'll try it again, though, when I upgrade to a more sensible monitor/GPU setup.
happy cake day
would you like to yap at me about linux (any distro, curious about ubuntu now tho)
https://feddit.uk/post/44440139/23299320
For me, I started with Ubuntu then Parrot Os then MX Linux
Nailed it