I’ve been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don’t like the direction they seem to be heading.

I’ve also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I’m sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I’m not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don’t want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

  • @TrickDacy
    link
    English
    51 year ago

    I knew “ads in the terminal” was hard to believe for some reason. I’m guessing it’s easily disabled too.

    • @herrvogel
      link
      English
      21 year ago

      They were just MOTDs, which are few lines of text displayed on the terminal when you first launch a session. You just have to edit one line in a config somewhere to get rid of them. Annoying but not exceptionally so.

      • kate
        link
        fedilink
        English
        11 year ago

        Not just MOTDs, they’re in apt now too

    • @JTskulk
      link
      English
      11 year ago

      They were easily disabled, but if I wanted to spend my time disabling annoying shit that’s on by default, I’d just run Windows :p

      • @TrickDacy
        link
        English
        21 year ago

        Haha I mean fair, sort of. But if Ubuntu worked for me better than pop os in other ways, I could easily justify commenting out that line in a script or whatever

        • @JTskulk
          link
          English
          21 year ago

          Yeah in the end it’s all just nerd gripes. I sold my old computer to my non-techy friend with Kubuntu and he likes it just fine :)