I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

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    10 months ago

    Windows generally does work exactly like that. It’s the reason it has such a huge market share of desktops.

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      10 months ago

      Windows breaks something all the time. Just the other week I had to fix their stupid new Email program for my dad.

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      There are many reasons why their market share is so high:

      • They were there before Linux
      • They had a GUI before Linux even existed iirc (let alone before Linux’s were any good)
      • They were focused on desktop + consumer market from the start
      • They are for-profit and have a marketing budget
      • They have the Office products many depend on (be it justified or not)
      • For a long time, gaming was basically impossible on Linux
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      That is absolutely not true, Ubuntu has been a lot more out of the box experience for almost 2 decades. Thing is people are already familiar on how to do things on Windows, and most laptops already come with windows and drivers pre installed. Windows 10 was the first version to have a driver manager that could find the correct drivers for you, still you need to waste a few hours and reboots to get all of the drivers and updates.

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        10 months ago

        But let’s be honest it still really isn’t an out of the box experience.

        Just look at all the shit with Snap you see constantly.

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          No, it’s not, I said it’s more of an out of box experience than windows, not that it was perfect