I don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian
Thank you for the sources. However, from your own source Mint appears to be fine. Ubuntu, agreed, isn’t worth touching but Mint seems to remove the problems with Ubuntu.
4 If you are a desktop user who values control and simplicity — consider migrating: Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Fedora, and Debian all offer compelling alternatives without Snap’s structural issues. The migration cost is real but one-time; the ongoing friction of managing Snap on Ubuntu compounds with every package and every update.
5 If you recommend distros to others — update your recommendation: Developers who previously defaulted to “just install Ubuntu” when helping friends or onboarding team members should now give this advice more thought. Linux Mint in particular offers a nearly identical user experience to Ubuntu’s classic desktop with none of the Snap-related friction.
Because it’s fun. Also, it lets discussion happen about the flaws and benefits of a distro. at the end of the day very few people are super serious about it.
Why do Linux people shit talk each other for using a different distro? It makes no sense.
Because they can’t handle the templeOS supremacy
All praise temple OS the holiest of the holy.
Curse USB and networking, purge that unclean heresy from your computing! Embrace the third temple!
It’s (usually) all in good fun.
Anyway, we can’t talk shit to anyone except each-other. No one else understands our jargon.
yeah, and besides, we’re all Hannah Montanna Linux bros. GTFO if not HML
Why can’t everyone just use the distro that is right for them, which is Arch?
Or Gentoo! Or LFS! Or Slackware. Or Alpine. Or NixOS. I use Arch, by the way.
Closest thing a lot of us have to team sports
Because the ubuntu edition is just sypware (thanks canonical). Linux is great, but their are good and bad choices to be made
Can you tell me more about Canonical spyware?
Its pretty well captured through this post:
https://social.ozymandias.club/post/81365
Edit: https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/
I don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian
That wasn’t specifically Debian
it ended up in a few different repos but was caught by someone using Debian Testing
You’re right. It was the whole Linux kernel but it was published in the official repo for Debian so criticism for Ubuntu seems hypocritical
Not specifically the kernel
xz is a userspace program (/usr/bin/xz), not a kernel module
I guess I shouldn’t have said kernel, but it’s used in virtually all major distros other than like Alpine and Gentoo.
Thank you for the sources. However, from your own source Mint appears to be fine. Ubuntu, agreed, isn’t worth touching but Mint seems to remove the problems with Ubuntu.
None of it seems to suggest it’s spyware. I agree they do bad practices but spyware? C’mon
Also linux mint(the ububtu based one) also removes snaps and everything. How can you say anything like that about mint then?
Because it’s fun. Also, it lets discussion happen about the flaws and benefits of a distro. at the end of the day very few people are super serious about it.
Here I am on a knoppix mini CD thinking: cant we all just be superior like me?
because it can be fun, you emacs user :D
just like cheering for $sportsballteam