Let's talk about something else

https://lemmy.world/post/1401656

Let's talk about something else - Lemmy.world

“Oh god, they will immediately be able to tell I am a fraud who has no idea what he’s doing when I tell them I use Ubuntu”
Ubuntu is fine and I actually am on Ubuntu after using Arch for many years

I use Ubuntu. I think it’s funny how Arch users immediately assume they know more about Linux than me because of my distro choice. My hobby is learning about Linux and I can do that perfectly from my Ubuntu machine.

I’ve used Arch in the past, and let me tell you, nothing crazy is going on in there.

Yes, Ubuntu sucks because they are forcing Snaps on people while snaps are slow as hell. Thankfully they haven’t fully shoved snaps down our throats. If they don’t make snaps faster before shoving them down my throat, I’ll just distro hop. Probably to Debian. I love Debian.

I went from Ubuntu to Arch and I think I’m here to stay. Ubuntu was unstable for me for some reason. I would get freezes and crashes all the time. I feel like Canonical is making things slower and bloated but I have had pretty smooth experiences with Linux mint. On Arch I’ve been getting amazing uptime. But to each ones own, if you like it, who am I to judge.
I’m considering leaving Ubuntu. I’m currently looking at Manjaro because I don’t think I have enough time to invest in learning arch. Any tips?

I’ve been pleasantly impressed with Manjaro after using it for a month now, coming from Kubuntu. I’ve been running some flavor of Ubuntu for about a year after ditching Windows.

There’s plenty of available packages (between repos, flatpak, snap, and AUR), good user support via the Arch wiki and googling, and it’s just more stable for me.

I’d heard that Manjaro is Arch for cowards, and I’m very comfortable with that choice.

Yeah that sounds good to me - this is my work computer and I can’t afford it to break or to spend even half an hour of the day fixing something