/g/ Approved Ubuntu

Its not a botnet you retard

ubuntu became trash right after 10.xx

xubuntu my frined

xfce is all you need

>>57924594
I'm not your frined, bdudy

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>>57924598

>>57924542
Ubuntu MATE and there is no botnet since 16.04 of Ubuntu (Unity) version and also the other flavors never had this botnet

>>57924576
Allow me to interject for a moment. Ubuntu, a widely used and influential GNU/Linux distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.)

This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in Windows. My late friend Fravia told me that when he searched for a string in the files of his Windows system, it sent a packet to some server, which was detected by his firewall. Given that first example I paid attention and learned about the propensity of "reputable" proprietary software to be malware. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Ubuntu sends the same information.

Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy various things from Amazon. Amazon commits many wrongs (see http://stallman.org/amazon.html); by promoting Amazon, Canonical contributes to them. However, the ads are not the core of the problem. The main issue is the spying. Canonical says it does not tell Amazon who searched for what. However, it is just as bad for Canonical to collect your personal information as it would have been for Amazon to collect it.

Install Solus

>>57924775
I am kind of limited when it comes to internet. Is there a sort of offline install where I also have a perfect desktop? Do I have to download some packages?

Any flavor of Ubuntu 16.04 is botnet-free. Unity still has it, but it's disabled by default. So it really just comes down to your taste in DE, and I don't think you should let /g/ tell you what to think. Just use whichever one you want.

>>57924594
How would you compare it to lubuntu / lxde?

what's so important about getting /g/'s approval?

Here's what the GNU foundation has to say on Ubuntu as of late 2016:

Ubuntu provides specific repositories of nonfree software, and Canonical expressly promotes and recommends nonfree software under the Ubuntu name in some of their distribution channels. Ubuntu offers the option to install only free packages, which means it also offers the option to install nonfree packages too. In addition, the version of Linux, the kernel, included in Ubuntu contains firmware blobs.

The “Ubuntu Software Center” lists proprietary programs and free programs jumbled together. It is hard to tell which ones are free since proprietary programs for download at no charge are labelled “free”.

Ubuntu appears to permit commercial redistribution of exact copies with the trademarks; removal of the trademarks is required only for modified versions. That is an acceptable policy for trademarks. The same page, further down, makes a vague and ominous statement about “Ubuntu patents,” without giving enough details to show whether that constitutes aggression or not.

That page spreads confusion by using the misleading term “intellectual property rights”, which falsely presumes that trademark law and patent law and several other laws belong in one single conceptual framework. Use of that term is harmful, without exception, so after making a reference to someone else's use of the term, we should always reject it. However, that is not a substantive issue about Ubuntu as a GNU/Linux distribution.

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>>57928086
all of that being said, Lubuntu and Xubuntu don't have the Amazon integration and most of that comes really just down to endorsing the possibility/option of selecting non-free packages. You could very well use the system without these packages and then you'd be running a GNU/FSF approved system.

>>57928086
>In addition, the version of Linux, the kernel, included in Ubuntu contains firmware blobs.
Thanks for clarifying, I almost confused it with Linux, the operating system

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Why not install Fedora? It's really nice and comes with Wayland out of the box.

xubuntu

>>57928084
It's the reddit scum leaking over. The average user over there is so dependent on other's approval (“upboats”) that they couldn't even tie their own shoes without asking first to see if they're using the current meme algorithms and configuration for doing so

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>>57928116
Reminder that SELinux was made by the NSA.

>>57924735
Pretty much this. Any non-canonical distro has a better chance of not having that crap in them, but you never know. Whats the situation with mint?

>>57924735
Prove this applies to the current LTS version or gtfo

>>57928086
IOW, nothing about botnets or spyware

>>57928116
Wayland doesn't change anything for the end user though.

There's no reason to install Fedora and have to deal with the piece of shit that is RPM.

>>57924542
Install Debian. You can then install any DE or WM you want and it will work. Packages for Debian usually use default settings so it's all compatible.

Ubuntu is just a flavor of Debian.

>>57924542
>/g/ approved

what the fuck does this even mean? this is a board where faggots will argue over literally anything for hours on end. the only thing /g/ approved are meme chairs and fucking anime.

>>57928060
LXDE is a meme. If such a drastic drop is usability is needed to use your hardware (and buying better is out of the question) you'd be better served with just a pure WM like Openbox running by itself.

XFCE is more mature and MATE is more supported, and both of them use compatible system resources.

>>57928758
XFCE is lighter than LXDE.

>>57924542
trisquel u fucking freedom hating piece of shit

daily reminder that Linux Mint is a polished, better Ubuntu

Either Kubuntu or Fedora. I do prefer it in KDE plasma but there are many varieties.

>>57924775
Go home Kevin.

>>57928625
NORMIES REEEEEE

Hey guys, I want to get into Linux and Solus seems like a really good entry point.
Thoughts?

>>57924735
But the difference is that you can actually turn it off in Ubuntu and the information is not really serious.

>>57924542
MinimalCD

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>>57928116
topkek

>>57924735
>When the user searches her own local files
Did you just assume my gender?

>>57924594
This is what I run. Been about a month and haven't looked back

>>57924735

It's been prove many time that you can get rid of this thing.

And if you retarded enough to not have a ad block extension there is nothing to do with you.

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>>57928136
Probably true desu.

>>57929307
dat hambeast

>>57924775
Solus is not even into mainstream.

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>>57924775
Installed solus. It's comfy af.

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>>57929307
>mfw I realize that's a woman

>>57929307
IT JUST W E R K Z

>>57931160
>install the other botnet that sends all the info back to kevinet

>>57924775
>>57929234
>>57931160

https://budgie-remix.org/

>>57931942
Thanks. I am probably switching again now.

>>57924775
How do you do, Kevin?

>>57930413
filename should be /pol/topia

>>57924542
Xubuntu and Ubuntu MATE are part of the very short list of non-meme Linux distributions and the only two you should care about.

>>57933154
I like lubuntu unironically, it's pretty simple.

>>57928116
Fedora 3 is ass, and the Xfce spin is not as good as Xubuntu.

>>57924598
I'm not your buddy, pal

>>57933168
*GNOME 3

fuck..

Ubuntu just works. Xubuntu just needs a little bit of tweaking to get rid of tearing, but that's it.

>>57933031
I didn't actually notice that when I first downloaded the image believe it or not. I kept it though because it was pretty funny.