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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    But you haven't clicked yes on any of the offers yet...

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Let's set up your subscription to your own hardware! Continue / remind me later?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Would you like to back up your folders to OneDrive?
    It would be a shame if something were to happen to your files!

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Without windows and macos, we would all be divided on what is the better distro, but thanks to shitty corpo trash, we can unite to hate them together. Fuck windows!

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu could have taken windows spot

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    They are nowhere near close to windows

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Amazon based search results integrated in the Unity dash beg to differ. Canonical has a history of being shitty.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    There was backlash, they removed it and never tried anything similar since. But I'm with you on that, the idea was insane and if they pull anything like that again, I'll be switching away from ubuntu immediatly.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Well. in the modern day, there's Ubuntu 22.04 and up with their insistence on snaps for many otherwise native apps. For example, Firefox as a snap and taking anywhere from 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes to launch when you first open it.

    I used Ubuntu for years, pretty much from 16.04 all the way up to 22.04 but that was a line for me and I ditched it for Manjaro. The experience has been much better overall.

    Snaps should be for applications that may not receive updates on current systems or have a hard dependency on old libraries for some reason. Things like Spek come to mind. To use if for something like Firefox, and not only use it, but insist on it to the point you can't install the native version without ridiculous workarounds... it's absurd. And on top of this, it's especially dumb because flatpak already existed prior to snap, but as usual Canonical had to be special instead of working with community standards.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    But that delay in opening is only for the very first time after installation, it does not affect any subsequent app starts, even after you reboot. In real world performance, snaps are basically just as fast as any normal app in my experience. And you need to keep in mind what the idea behind ubuntu is - they want it to be useful to experienced users as well as newbies and tech-illiterates. Snap automatic updates are honestly really nice if you don't want to think about updates and canonical have done a lot of work to make the experience as smooth as possible, and the sandbox is a nice bit of added security. They are very versatile too, allowing any type of software to be a snap, from little terminal tools to full-featured nextcloud instances

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    That delay happens on first launch every boot. Also the automatic updates happening basically whenever is nonsense. It should tell me an update is needed, not just kick it off whenever it feels like. That kind of crap is why I use Linux and not Windows, and now why I don’t use Ubuntu.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    They fixed the delay after reboots and you can disable automatic updates with a single snap command

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Too little too late. They lost what goodwill they might have had with me. I dealt with that for months until I decided to flip it. I won't be using Ubuntu in the future unless for some awful reason I specifically need an Ubuntu server (and in that case I'd still push for Almalinux or another alternative).

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Not OP, but... the reason why I won't use Ubuntu is that whole snap thing. I'm not hating on snaps in general (although I prefer flatpak), but I hate what Ubuntu does with them. You apt install firefox and yet it still ignores your command and do whatever it feels like doing. Why? Why not leave both options available while maybe prefering snaps for inexperienced users (I mean like gui store default to snap)? This is just one thing now, but what might be next? This smells whole lot like Microsoft approach (light version). And I don't like this direction.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I get that, they shouldn't replace debs with snaps, but offer both. Snap as default makes sense for new users though

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Yes, that's why I said gui store might default to snap because that's what new users are using. But when you explicitly put command to terminal and it still ignores it? That's not what I expected when I jumped MS ship...

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    they were the worst updates because it guaranteed it was installing some bullshit you didnt want

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Candy Crush, Ticktok, Clipcamp, bing AI and what ever else suites there fancy

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    I admit to being old and out of touch, but why is this meme a sandwich?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    The original meme template, to my knowledge, was something along the lines of "People be like "Subway sucks". Bro, you made the sandwich." and then it was tweaked a little, tweaked a little more, tweaked a little more and we ended up with this and even more absurd versions.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

    A while ago I saw this meme about the exact experience you're having right now. We've come full circle lol.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    TIL "My brother in christ" is use as a replacement from Nigga.
    Thanks for the link.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    "New device detected: mouse. Please wait…"

    But the mouse is already working dude.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    At least it doesn't make us restart afterwards anymore.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    "Mouse movement detected, please restart for changes to take effect."

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Boss/teacher: Is your project ready to present yet?

    Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Windoof on my computer got an update last week. I wonder when it's done. /j

    (But seriously, it took almost the whole evening.)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Anyone remember the early Windows 10 update that booted back up with a black screen that said "Don't Panic"?

    That was the most panic inducing moment I've ever had with any PC.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I remember reading a post from some person who struggled with hallucinations and was absolutely creeped out when that large, semi-ominous text appeared on their laptop screen out of nowhere lol. Then again, this was on r*ddit, 97% chance they were making it up for upvotes.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    I'm (well, I like to think I'm) a very stable person, and it freaked me right out.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    "Let's check this one off the list." Bitch I only installed you to play The Void. One more peep out of you and you're derezzed.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    The Void

    Why though? That looks like an XP era game. Does it not work with proton?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Ran into a game breakinf bug on linux. Maybe they patched it by now, but I doubt it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Guess that's how it is

    Significant Bugs: game craches when i try to enter to second sister chamber

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Well stop trying to enter your sister's chamber.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

    But what if she's stuck somewhere?
    And your parents remarried...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    You WILL set up Cortana or you WILL be put through the Setup Wizard

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I wonder what I’ve said no to more all-time - Microsoft’s spy- and bloatware or the YouTube tv free trial.