For anyone dipping their toes into Linux for the first time Ubuntu is by far and large the best place for them to start.
This was true maybe 10 years ago but not any more.
For example, the default gnome desktop is terrible. You have to install gnome tweaks to adjust anything. It requires some Chrome plugin… It’s an impossible chore for a n00b to increase the font size. Likewise with other simple adjustments.
I don’t care that the server is controlled by Canonical. Most Flatpaks are on Flathub and it’s not a problem.
If flathub became a problem, people could easily and openly switch another server.
Last I checked Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 5 machines.
It’s not free. It’s traded for your personal information.
Crypto is past the hype cycle and into the actually useful phase of that phony graph.
It’s all too common when anti-crypto people don’t understand crypto101.
Capitalism is being enslaved into laboring for food chips through the violent deprivation of human needs.
Freedom is free.
For the crontab I think maybe: “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --assume-yes”
But what about flatpaks?
Are people writing “she” instead of “they” misogynistic and transphobic too?
There’s no such thing as “reverse racism”, “misandry”, etc. That’s not how systemic oppression works.
This comment really hit me where it hurts.
TBH the problem is the PDF format. It was created as proprietary trash. It’s just more adobe software so ofc it doesn’t support linux.
How are communism and fascism the same? What definitions are you using?
AFAIK communism advocates for a stateless, classless, moneyless society, while fascism advocates for imperial nationalism and the violent class hierarchies of capitalism, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.
They seem much more like opposites under the standard definitions. I don’t understand doublespeak.
One of the best things about ditching Ubuntu for Debian was losing worthless snaps and gaining UI support for flatpaks.
2 more weeks to install any other distro!
The whole time I was thinking “why the hell did the update require the command-line”
B/c you’re using ubuntu. I switched to debian and I don’t have to deal with this snap/apt nonsense. In fact I’ve gained flatpaks in the software UI.
How much energy does Windows waste on serving ads and other useless nonsense? What’s does the glut-o-meter say?
After like 20 years of ubuntu, I got so sick of their bulllshit that I switched to Debian a few months ago. It’s endlessly better.
I still have ubuntu on a raspberry pi(hole). Whenever I login to update, I get this message about “premium updates” or whatever they call it. It makes me want to barf but I haven’t motivated to switch the pi yet.
Yeah agreed 1000%.
I’ve installed Gnome for people in my fam. It’s kind of absurd when they want to change the text size and we have to get into installing Gnome Tweaks, installing browser extension, installing the Gnome extension, configuring the extension.
I just use Plasma now.
Excellent explanation (and disclaimer). I might just add another 2 cents…
It’s not just that “the market fails” to account for many “externalities”, but also that the market is systemically incapable of ever accounting for very many, very important externalities.
IE. The space of externalities >>> the market space. For example if the market priced in the suffering of labor (by paying living wages+, etc), that alone might make the market unaffordable. Similarly with climate justice, etc. The exploitation of these externalities is largely the basis of “profit”.
You can “sideload” apps outside the google store.
For example I’ve been using myinsta instead of IG. It was very easy to download and install.
Asking for a donation =/= charging money for security updates