seriously. i had so normalized the user-hostility of windoze that my first week of testing out ubuntu to do my normal workflow was a complete mindblow. surfing, email, videos, voice/video/text chat.
very “why have i been putting up with this for so long?”
i have tried to tell others and i get the same kind of “yeah ok, but like none of your little problems are a deal breaker.”
This. I tried Mint and thought, a little different, and some task specific software is a PITA to get running, but I don’t mind this, it’s neat, and then I had to boot back into Windows for something I couldn’t work around, and oh boy did that few hours suck.
Something that blew her mind was that she just accepted programs stealing focus. Like that wasn’t something the windows manager deliberately implemented and refused to give her control over.
One of the first things she did was set up policies for software in plasma so the things she doesn’t want to steal focus just can’t.
for ubuntu, since probably ~2022, i’ve only ever used the LTS releases and never had even a hint of a problem installing every update as soon as it is pushed. i setup a multi-account jellyfin+servarr, a 24 TB DAS RAID, tested a thoroughly absurd quad display including a projector, did some absurd QGIS spatial analysis, ran OBS and had zero issues with voice/video chat live and recorded, including through web interfaces. i even monkeyed around in the grub settings like a total amateur to screw around with different kernels and never created a problem i couldn’t immediately back out of.
sorry you had issues, but ubuntu LTS is my default recommend for someone interested in exploring a mint alternative for primarily productivity and email/surf/video usage.
seriously. i had so normalized the user-hostility of windoze that my first week of testing out ubuntu to do my normal workflow was a complete mindblow. surfing, email, videos, voice/video/text chat.
very “why have i been putting up with this for so long?”
i have tried to tell others and i get the same kind of “yeah ok, but like none of your little problems are a deal breaker.”
as though frustration isn’t cumulative.
This. I tried Mint and thought, a little different, and some task specific software is a PITA to get running, but I don’t mind this, it’s neat, and then I had to boot back into Windows for something I couldn’t work around, and oh boy did that few hours suck.
Something that blew her mind was that she just accepted programs stealing focus. Like that wasn’t something the windows manager deliberately implemented and refused to give her control over.
One of the first things she did was set up policies for software in plasma so the things she doesn’t want to steal focus just can’t.
Ok but I had a non functioning Ubuntu machine for like 3 weeks because I got on to the most recent one and that shit sucks
for ubuntu, since probably ~2022, i’ve only ever used the LTS releases and never had even a hint of a problem installing every update as soon as it is pushed. i setup a multi-account jellyfin+servarr, a 24 TB DAS RAID, tested a thoroughly absurd quad display including a projector, did some absurd QGIS spatial analysis, ran OBS and had zero issues with voice/video chat live and recorded, including through web interfaces. i even monkeyed around in the grub settings like a total amateur to screw around with different kernels and never created a problem i couldn’t immediately back out of.
sorry you had issues, but ubuntu LTS is my default recommend for someone interested in exploring a mint alternative for primarily productivity and email/surf/video usage.
I couldn’t run any games and I couldn’t even get a bootable USB drive to work. Nobara works great but it was a pain to get there