Mastodawn

i'm curious, what are your least favorite linux distros?

@mjdxp as far fae is concerned, manjaro, ubuntu, and nobara

to clarify

manjaro developers are extremely incompetent, as you described in your own comment

ubuntu is, where does even this sylveon begin, frankly, it's mostly the fact that canonical constantly reinvents the wheel, poorly, instead of using well-working things, they pretty much write their own programs for problems that nobody else uses, and that don't work (faer instance even has a rule saying "snap users dni", albeit that's meant as a joke)

nobara is a pretty popular distro for what it is, and it has like, brave as a default web browser, does this sylveon need to say more (well, maybe it would make sense to link www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/, fae supposes)

Stop using Brave Browser

Seriously.

The Spacebar

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mjdxp 4d ago

@sugar god, why do people still use that bigoted piece of web3 crap

and the whole ubuntu family would be so much better if canonical finally acknowledged that snap lost the format war to flatpak and just stopped pushing it nonstop. if ubuntu shipped without snap at all or had it as an optional toggle during install, i'd honestly consider using xubuntu (although i do still like mint xfce more)

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luna sugar🍬🍭🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈4d ago

@mjdxp yeah, fae supposes the issue with ubuntu is mostly snap (even if there are other things that match faer definition, like netplan and lxd, and fae had issues with both of those in the past of them simply not working)

oh, and also, reminds faer, while unrelated, ubuntu is the only distro fae has ever used which managed to brick faer hardware (bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147), which is part of why ubuntu is one of faer least favorite distros

(had to send the laptop to lenovo for repairs, pretty much)

Bug #1734147 “corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel” : Bugs : linux package : Ubuntu

An update to linux kernel on Ubuntu 17.10 that enabled the Intel SPI drivers results in a serial flash that is read only in Intel Broadwell and Haswell machines with serial flashes with SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK set. Warning: 32bit iso on sourceforge for boot-repair-disk still contains unpatched Kernel. This is especially dangerous if boot-repair fails to repair the system to a bootable state, as there will be no way of applying the Fix detailed below. Symptoms: * BIOS settings cannot be saved * U...

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