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?
I just run Ubuntu on an old Mac for email and browsing.
Just curious, what are these bad directions?
Some people like to rag onto Canonicals bad decisions. These include:
- Putting ads in the terminal
- Use of Affiliate links in the DE
- The forceful use of Snap
- The proprietary Snap infrastructure
- The feeling of being abandoned, in favour of the server market (lack of desktop innovation)
- Lens search, that allows company (eg: Amazon) tracking.
- Anti-privacy settings enabled, by default.
I didn’t know about any of these, but terminal ads by itself would be enough to make me switch to something else. So would the affiliate links. Why would they think that’s a good idea? Well, aside from money, obviously.
I think you just answered your question
But the ads are just for Ubuntu pro, which is free for personal use so it’s more of a tip. And the Amazon part was to my knowledge just in the unity days. Not defending Canonical, just showing more of the picture
