Is Ubuntu any good?

Yes, the best distro family after Fedora

>>55321177
first post best post
also nice double dubs

>>55321135
The Flavors are okay, but nothing especially great either.

Fedora
debian
Ubuntu

All good

Ubuntu or Debian? :) What the best for desktop?

>>55321363
Ubuntu > Debian
on desktop

>>55321363
Debian > Ubuntu

>>55321457
>>55321480
Emm...

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GNU+At least you tried.

>He doesn't use OpenSolaris

Do you even 1337?

>>55321135
I unironically love the unity launcher

>>55321619
> he doest use black arch

Do you even p3n?

>>55321457
>>55321480
>>55321571
Ubuntu uses more non-free software to make things work. It which makes switching from other mainstream operating systems a little easier.

>>55321135
Yes. Lots of stuff is supported and there are a million help pages and guides out there. It's also stable and easy to maintain and update.

I've been using flavors of Ubuntu ever since switching from Windows. With 16.04 I ended up using vanilla Ubuntu with Unity and I've come to really like the launcher, the HUD and the panel. It takes some getting used to if you are used to how things work in Windows, but it's completely natural to me now.

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ubuntu sucks for newbies. install xubuntu like i did.

>>55321135
>>55321135

Can you make ubuntu look without the bar on the left but add cool shit to the top?

>>55322171
Also this: It's ridiculously easy to find help on stackoverflow if you need something fixed or want to customize some setting, but don't know how.

>>55321247
>>55321177
This

>>55321135
No.

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Looks decent enough, too, if you customize some easy stuff (takes a couple minutes in the Unity Tweak Tool).

>>55321135

Yes, it is some amount of good. Many people use Ubuntu happily. But there are tons of better and more interesting distros.

Ubuntu is just a popular, stable distro that everyone shits on because they changed the DE too dramatically, and they care more about money than freedom.

Ubuntu is the closest any distro gets to functioning as well out of the box as Windows or OS X.

>>55321905
yes, your mom.

>>55322475
yeah, it starts and ends there for most people.

>>55321135
Ubuntu 16.04 has sadly been kind of buggy for an LTS release. Especially when Canonical decided to ship a broken software center that had patches later released to make it now mostly working.

>>55321135
after trying like 20 distros it's become my daily one

I have abandoned the bleeding edge meme for now and I'm basking in the orangy warmth of stable releases and huge userbase.

It's good, but no openSUSE.

No, Canonical sucks. And so Ubuntu is.

>>55322375
like what other distro for beginner?
mint? fedora?

>>55322980
these two are good but I would recommend Mint for beginners over Fedora

OH OOBOONTOO

No but seriously, I would recommend Xubuntu instead.

>>55321135
Mint is the best Ubuntu flavor. Wait for Mint 18.
It's going to be great.

>>55322193
Too much customization for a newbie. Needs rigidity like Windows' start bar

>>55323223
17.3 is LTS support till 2019

>>55323261
18 is also based on LTS and will be supported for a long time.
And Cinnamon 3 is looking great.

t. on Mint 18 beta since it showed up in the public FTP

>>55323320
I have 18 in a VM. Is the new theme (Y or whatever) default already because it wasn't on the build I installed and had to hunt for it in the menus

>>55323367
No the default will be Mint-X.
The Y theme is basically ready, but the icons aren't yet if you want to use the dark variants.
There's also some programs with Gnome 3 style local menus (like Calculator) and they are inconsistent with the rest of the programs, but this will be fixed in the final release.

Ubuntu is fine but I don't like the Amazon shilling and other corporaty shit they engage in.

Installing it with a DE other than Unity takes care of most of the cancer though.

>>55322201
You can hide the bar, but I'm not sure if it would be easy to remove it. You can't really customize the top either. If you want something like that, try Kubuntu or Xubuntu. Kubuntu is a little unstable, though.

>>55321177
Correct. Every distro has its quirks. Ubuntu gets hate because it is popular, so its issues and idiosyncrasies get a lot more exposure than less popular distros.

>>55322771
>I have abandoned the bleeding edge meme for now and I'm basking in the orangy warmth of stable releases and huge userbase.
iktf, it's a comfy one

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>>55321135
Last good one was 9.10

i jumped to Xubuntu then.

>>55323709
>nigger-mouse.png

Aww shit, my sides.

>>55323769
12 year old spotted

>>55323832
Sorry, I'll try again.

"kek"

It's a good gateway distro for people switching from another OS

>>55323709
>tfw had to kill a little mouse with a slipper last night because mom was freaking out
>tfw it looked me in the eye before i hit it
>tfw i feel bad whenever i see xubuntu's mascot now

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>implying ubunut

>>55322267
What theme is this? Looks nice.

>>55322201
Following what >>55323664 said, yes xubuntu is by far the most configurable

>>55323053
Yeah especially when you run into problems with selinux, which is just fucking impossible for newbies

Doesn't Ubuntu send your data to Amazon?

>>55324302
you do realize it's xfce's logo, not xubuntu, right?

>>55325822
yes

>>55325822
>>55325885
is that unity or just any buntu?

>>55325829
maybe, maybe not, maybe go fuck yourself. it is the mascot of xubuntu for me.

>>55322267
I'm not a fan of Unity, but this is pretty appealing.

>>55321135
>amazon
cuck

>>55326954
what do you use then?

>>55323832
Sensitive liberal baby spotted

>>55321135
it's far better than windows

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Using Ubuntu full time, 0 issues here.

>>55325999
please respond

i like the ease of ubuntu but i dont want botnets

>>55329662
quit being a pussy and install Arch

>>55329673
i've heard that it's bretty hard to do

>>55329662
The online search is disabled by default on 16.04
Bunch of freetards still crying about it though.

>>55321135
depends on your hardware, but overall, yes, it's OK.

btw, there is a whole thread dedicated to this topic:
>>>/g/fglt

>>55329723
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide

>>55329556

>AutoCAD
>Adobe Photoshop
>Visual Studio
>Real Office (not freeshit)

at least you tried

>>55329723
Antergos