helmet91

Okay, fair enough.

When I posted my original comment, I had the assumption that someone who uses Linux (or about to use Linux) knows at least the basic terms.

But to be honest, OP didn't even specify for what purpose they were looking for the worst distro. Maybe they meant for a docker image for their k8s cluster. Who knows. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've been using Manjaro for like 7 years. Throughout these years I maybe had two issues with updates. I've easily fixed one by myself (it was a dependency issue), the other one was a bug in packaging. Mentioned it on their forum, they were crazy fast to reply (I wouldn't even expect that from a software company, let alone an open source project), and the fix was out in a few hours.

Btw their issue tracking related to updates is top-notch. This is another reason why I had a positive impression with this distro.

Regarding their own software, I am also impressed by their mhwd scripts. Even a shitty Nvidia driver can be easily installed with it, which actually works. And their OS installation framework has been adopted by other distros as well.

Which one of the popular distros has been changing its name every 3 months? Mint sure didn't. Less popular ones maybe did. But those are generally not widely recommended.

I agree about the segmentation as a major issue, and that's exactly why I brought it up in my original comment how it's not okay that Canonical keeps re-inventing the wheel instead of improving an existing project.

I wasn't comparing macOS to Ubuntu, I was comparing Apple to Canonical in a way how they approach the market. What I found similar is, that both of them are going their own way and making their product as different as possible from others. Not out of innovation, just for the sake of being different. Canonical is somewhat better though, because they're dealing with free software, so technically you can uninstall what you don't like, and install what you want. But why would I start to replace and configure components, when I can just have another distro that is working the way I like out of the box?

Udemy.

The catch is, unfortunately 95% of the courses there are trash, and it can be a real challenge to find those 5% that are actually valuable.

Edit: on Udemy, there are almost always discounts. If you don't see prices around €12-20, just wait a week or two.

I'd pick Ubuntu. I don't really understand why it's still so popular. Never ever had a successful dist-upgrade with it, so technically if you wanna stay up to date with it, you have to reinstall every six months.

And regarding the technologies they use, they always choose to develop their own (often failing) solution instead of using/improving a well established and popular one. Unity desktop, ~~snap packages~~, Mir... the list probably goes on. To me, Canonical is kinda like Apple of the Linux world.

Are there any worse distros? Probably yes. But in proportion to its popularity, Ubuntu is the absolute worst, that's not even a question to me.

Edit: I can see several replies to my comment praising Ubuntu for its role in making Linux platform (and free software) more popular. That's fine, perfectly valid. In fact, my very first experience with Linux was with Ubuntu as well, through a CD addition to a PC magazine back in 2005.

To clarify myself (since the post itself is not very elaborate), when I posted my comment, I was thinking of the quality/usability/stability of Linux distributions, and due to personal experience I've never found Ubuntu usable in the long term. I did try it several times through the years, also installed it on my mom's laptop (fairly simple setup with no customizations at all on a Dell Latitude, a.k.a good hardware), and even there basic things just didn't work on the long run.

I've been using Manjaro for many years, and it's been working mostly flawlessly. Minor issues arise sometimes, but that's incredibly rare, and easy to fix.

I have nothing to share. Funny thing is, as an IT person, I've even built my own blog just to have one and share obstacles and solutions I find during my developer journey, and then, once I finished and published it, I was thinking "damn, now what should I post about?" My blog is almost empty ever since then. So... yeah. As for me, I have absolutely nothing to share and I've made the extra mile to not share anything.

Wasn't there an EU ruling recently, that blocking users from accessing content just because they use an adblocker is illegal?

If it walks like a banana, quacks like a banana, then probably it's a banana.

I often browse everything, not just what I subscribed to. I can see quite a lot of "rule" posts that way. Sometimes all I can see is "rule" everywhere. Not knowing the scheme it was very annoying, because it didn't make any sense. Now I know, all I need to do is restrict myself to my subscribed communities.

Wtf is 4chan? (No need to reply lol, I'm not really interested.)