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  • Your point of Ubuntu guides is one reason why I settled on Ubuntu this time around. I didn’t want to have to dig deeper to make things work when there’s usually Ubuntu install instructions. Granted they can often be just .deb, but Debian is a bit too far for me (I tried it a number of years ago and it was too “Linux” for me. But Mint (which I do like, and actually have on a spare laptop) is too Windows-like and doesn’t feel like I can alter it like I want. I guess I’m just saying that Ubuntu has always hit that sweet spot for me, and this time around I’ve stuck with it and very rarely boot into Windows now. So when I see everyone recommending everything else but not mine, I wonder if I missed a memo.


  • I’m curious why I never see Ubuntu recommended in these kind of questions. I do see people suggest Ubuntu-based, but then name Mint or others and not an Ubuntu variant. Is it strictly a Canonical dislike or anti-snap thing, or something else? The reason I ask is that I’ve tried many different distros over the years on and off, but this time when I went all in because of Microsoft’s pressure, I went with Ubuntu 22.04, and it’s been flawless. So it just seems weird that it’s never named while others that I know of but seem very niche are mentioned.








  • Designed so they wouldn’t become another HDMI fiasco, where you have to search for aftermarket clips so your plug stays in. Now, do Displayports need it, probably not. They feel about as secure as a USB. But there is that fear going back to even VGA, where most worked fine without screwing them in, but just to make sure… (I can’t recall, did EGA have screws?)






  • As a (still) Linux novice, this is something that I noticed with later distributions but never thought about your valid point. I did always wonder why there should be different places to install things in the same OS. It would probably be fine if they handled things the same, but then all you’re doing is changing the UI. It never “felt” like they did things the same.


  • People don’t change. Some people look at what they’re repeating and try to understand the why, others blindly do what they are told by whom they deem as authority. LLMs are the latest, earlier were various websites (which LLMs were trained on, uh oh), still before that were the computer magazines with things to type in and the later versions even maybe a free CD of stuff. The printed media was less likely to have malicious things in them, but lord did they have errors, and the right error in the wrong place could ruin someone’s day if they just ran it without understanding it.