Thx in advice.

  • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Don’t know which one to recommend but I would never recommend Ubuntu. It is full of bugs to me. I used it for years without issues but now it is impossible for me. Installed it on my girlfriend’s laptop recently and she has the same bugs I had years ago when I dropped it : network disconnects randomly and she has to reboot, bluetooth won’t reconnect sometimes… I can help but it is definitely not working out of the box for users who are not into tech.

  • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    What are you trying to build? A work laptop that you’re going to take on trips, a gaming computer, a server? Something else?

    For you, what is too much hassle? Are you a new Linux user or an experienced user with no spare time? What are you accustomed to doing when you install an operating system and what do you expect to be preinstalled?

    What is your favorite colour?

    • PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.eeOP
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      8 months ago

      Experienced Linux user, but I was just wondering what people think about this, I believe I’m going for Ubuntu, I’m not exactly the kind of guy who will fall on malware anyway, I need something pretty easy to use, configure and working stable WO errors, as my experience I’m tired and have no time to fix shitty OS things.

      I will use it as desktop in a NucBox.

      • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        Ubuntu isn’t my favorite, but I used xubuntu for many years. A lot of noise gets thrown around about Snaps, but from an end-user perspective they tend to work fine unless you have very low system constraints. Better than adding a half-dozen repositories that may or may not be around for long. A lot of developers work to make sure that their software runs well in Ubuntu and the LTS releases tend to be a good long-term option if you don’t want any significant changes for a long time.

        Even with their regular releases, I daisy-chained upgrades on an old Core2 laptop for something like seven years without any major (computer becomes a paperweight) issues. Sometimes (like with Snaps) Ubuntu insists on going its own way, which can result in errors/shitty OS things that don’t pop up in other distributions. I’ve had to deal with some minor issues with Ubuntu over the years (broken repositories, upgrades causing hiccups, falling back to older kernels temporarily), but I think that you’ll get issues like that regardless of what distro you pick.