I know I can come across as a Very Cranky Kitten but if you'd like to learn how to navigate and install any Linux distro I would be perfectly happy to help you however I can! Letting me know your needs (gaming? art? writing? communication?), level of tech expertise and comfort (automatic updates? etc), needs and workflow, I can almost certainly help you choose and install something!
Also as much as I have unreciprocated beef with Canonical this would be a fantastic time for them to modernize and resurrect their "email/mail us and we'll send you a CD-ROM with Ubuntu" program they did ages ago with "email/mail/text us and we'll send you a USB stick"
@itsfoss What's wrong with #Ubuntu from #Canonical? Is it because of Snap in Ubuntu? I feel like Snap isn't really that bad, don't hate too much because of Snap in Ubuntu. Because there are still many superior aspects of Ubuntu and its variants. Ubuntu and other variants remain the best Linux for me 👍🏼 #Kubuntu#Lubuntu#UbuntuMATE#Xubuntu#UbuntuBudgie#UbuntuCinnamon
:ubuntu: Ubuntu | Snap Store got a facelift :stallman_thaenkin: 🛒
Inside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: just open the App Center to install Snaps (+all other packages) from one spot.
◉New handy category sidebar
◉Featured Snaps highlighted
◉The search bar enhanced
◉Store in web enables Snaps on any Linux / browser / on phone too
◉Both free & open source / proprietary apps
◉There are ~8500 Snaps
This right here is why I consider Ubuntu the "microsoft of Linux"
Ubuntu is a terrible excuse for a server OS, and ads have no place in tools like apt. Literally taking an upstream tool from Debian and adding ads to it.
Regardless of any amount of insistence to the contrary, #Canonical is becoming enshittified. They just have a little bit of self-awareness -- that's the only reason why it isn't more extreme.
As a proud member of the open source community since 1995, as being part of the OSS revolution as a #RedHat, #Canonical and #SuSE employee, with regrets I have to admit @geerlingguy is not totally wrong:
'"Allen Ärgernissen über die noch immer bruchstückhaft wirkenden Umbauten beim Paketmanagement zum Trotz: Ubuntu 24.04 präsentiert sich im Großen und Ganzen als ein durchaus gelungenes Desktop-System. "'
Ich habe einen ersten Blick auf #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS geworfen. Was ist neu? Was gefällt mir? Und warum das Release ein grosser Schritt für eingeschränkte Personen ist? Mehr dazu in meinem Blog:
A #Canonical employee reported some out-of-tree code broke after something internal was renamed recently in #Linux 5.15.y – and as expected was told this is no regression at all, as the #LinuxKernel does not have a binary kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface:
Christoph Hellwig in a reply also wrote: "given that Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
2/ "Given that #Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
If you wonder what this statement from esteemed #Linux developer Christoph Hellwig is about:
I'm not 100% sure, but I expect it's either the bundling of #Nvidia's proprietary kernel graphics driver module or the inclusion of the #openZFS#LinuxKernel modules in #Ubuntu - or more likely both.