6 days ago • 90%

Aw hell naw man

I'm switching to Debian right away, this is nonsense

76 comments

That's it, I'm switching to Windows!

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- Windows 3.11 that is. The last pure Windows there was.
  
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  Joke's on you. It's basically a dos s shell.
  
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  Can we modernize 3.11?
  
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Chat is this real?

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- as real as apple's privacy claims
  
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  But they told the FBI to fuck right off with their bullshit! Listen Tim Apple is one of the good ones. /s
  
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  Damn.
  
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Now introducing UbuRecall! Do you remember what you clicked on yesterday?

We do!

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- make it film everything constantly but you have to pay to go back (time machines are expensive)
  
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  ObserveIT with extra steps.
  
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LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding

environment.systemAds.enable = false;

to your configuration.nix file 😎
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- Just observing more than anything but this is the same kind of shit people say to leave windows because of.
  
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  It is a joke, there are no ads. I just wrote a fake command in the Nix syntax.
  
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an alternate timeline, where Linus didn't make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.

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- You mean RedHat?
  
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You laught

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- Yep, Unity DE had ads. Then people revolted and Canonical eventually got rid of them and also switched to base Gnome with some extensions.
  
  It definitely happened, I saw it in real time on my install of Ubuntu. But they learned their lesson on this one, I feel.
  
  Not sure why there are some who think this is still a thing, though.
  
  Side note: I’ve not run Ubuntu as my desktop OS I’m quite some time, opting instead for Garuda as of late and have seen no ads thus far :)
  
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- Is that real
  
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  Yes
  
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- Not gonna lie, that's concerning.
  
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  It may of pissed a lot of people off. Yet people wonder why I have such a strong dislike of Ubuntu.
  
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- It's been this way for at least a decade.
  
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bro you need to upgrade to Ubuntu Pro!

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Can you download package with ads for linux? It would be great pair with activate-linux.

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- This image is edited, it's not a package
  
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  Not yet.
  
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I mean...

They have GUI system upgrades, this is kind of a pain in Debian

Okay, now I updated 12 laptops from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and...

it always hangs at "swap deb Thunderbird with snap", like, always. 12 times.

the wallpaper is gone after the upgrade, every single time

there are like 10 buttons to click

you need to be a sudo user (the updater shows but just vanishes when being a nonsudoer!)

on 2 machines some random repo issues caused a silent error. Needed to apt update in the terminal, fixed

there are tons of snap packages, and all are outdated, yay! Installing those on a sudo account causes them to fail on the nonsudo account.

Damn this is bad. And this is like, the best of the best distros?

Doubt that. Fedora Atomic has way more potential, while only being user friendly as uBlue.
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- Ubuntu is very much NOT the best of the distros anymore.
  
  I’ve been using Kinoite on one of my daily drivers, and so far I’m loving it.
  
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  I mean I could list you at least 5 things that kinda suck on Fedora Atomic. But yes the core principle is so much better.
  
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- Every couple of years I think to myself "Ubuntu can't be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it's just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why'd I stop using it?"
  
  And then I download Ubuntu.
  
  And then I remember.
  
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  It works great as a quick and easy WSL module if you need to quickly patch the kernel of your embedded Linux device at work 🤗, well, maybe it would have been just as easy using just debian, to be fair 🤔
  
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- You can install Synaptic in Debian. Problem solved? I love the terminal so this isn't really my fight but you could spend some time to make Debian GUI-based if you wanted to.
  
  Also LMDE exists, which Mint-ifies Debian and gives you a GUI option for basically everything you can imagine.
  
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  Pretty sure KDE's Discover store hooks into Debian's repos just fine too
  
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  Multiple reasons why this is not a good option.
  
  no fwupd
  
  no flatpak
  
  still requires sudo
  
  mint uses XOrg and is very limited
  
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Needs more BonziBuddy

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- BonziBuddy! He was the best! Almost as good as the dancing baby.
  
  And in case anyone is wondering...
  
  BonziBuddy:
  
  Dancing Baby:
  
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- BonziBuddy! I had completely erased that from my brain. Whoa!
  
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But have you heard of todays sponser?

{Insert corprate shillery}

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is that for real?

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- It is not
  
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  i never use Ubuntu so...... Glad to hear it.
  
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- Lmao
  
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just install ublock

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- No, just remove French language, all the ads are there.
  
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Is this real?

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- Not yet.
  
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  I feel like the choice of time of day (24hr clock) for the screenshot might have been an attempt at being prophetic.
  
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- Somewhere similar happened a while back
  
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  It was more like this.
  
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Why the fuck are you using Unity? Or is that Gnome? Honestly I can't tell them apart.

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- OP had Gnome in the picture, the commenters used Unity.
  
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  Ah, indeed. Appreciate the distinction 👍
  
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