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I feel like ubuntu gets too much attention. While it is good (even though I used it for all of about 3 weeks) it gets way too much attention and I don't know why. I can also say the same about mint. These two distros are probably the most well known and I find they actually lack a bunch of things that I love in my distro. Ubuntu has effectively branded gnome and is basically always bragging like "hey look our animations are at a high fps now" when kde plasma has been doing that for ages. Gnome and cinnamon (i find ) lack a lot of customization options and generally aren't really fun to work with. I eventually settled with arch using kde because I wanted an os that was going to be hard but would be forgiving in it's challenges and customiZations and I got that. Ubuntu and mint can be good for first timers but I feel like they get more attention then they should and others don't get as much.

Sorry for the terrible rant with probably a lot of typos. It's late and I have an opinion, it is always dangerous when I have an opinion. I don't mean to offend these distros or their users. What I say is my opinion and what I believe but hey I might be wrong.

Thanks

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  • 12
    TL;DR
    ”I use Arch”
  • 2
    Debian here.
  • 3
    I switched from Ubuntu to arch too, because apt kept screwing with me.

    I used Ubuntu for two years to do development, server maintenance, school work, gaming, android kernel hacking and so on.

    What scared me away from Ubuntu was the lack of up to date software (npm was outdated, python=python2 python3=python3)

    Then there was the horrible third party sources (ppa) if you had a outdated ppa, good luck, tons of apt warnings and so on...

    Dont get me wrong, I still like Ubuntu, but for my use case it's not practical enough and I'm in love with the aur
  • 1
    @git-fuckyou YeAh I agree. another one if the things I love about arch is the rolling updates
  • 0
    @MrAlcoholicFox yeah and updating Ubuntu releases was a pain too

    Info: That may has changed today, but I'm speaking for the time where Ubuntu 16 just came out
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