I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one.

[raphael@mastodon.sdf.org]

@bodil I think so much about canonical asking people about what their ranking was in high school

[raphael@mastodon.sdf.org]

@bodil guaranteeing yourself to recruit certain kinds of people and turn off others (including people plenty good at high school who just identify what a weird thing that is to ask!)

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

Just for reference, if this has you finally thinking of getting rid of Ubuntu: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/115889714321160414

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@raphael It's like there's a law that says South African billionaires have to be weird in those particularly awkward ways.

[foxboron@chaos.social]

@bodil
I would steer people towards Fedora instead of Manjaro.

Mostly because of community and project health.

Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto

Manjaro 2.0 Synopsis This document covers the organizational, technical, management, and other changes we (the Manjaro Team, et al) like to see applied to the Manjaro Project. The goal of this document is to serve as a p…

Manjaro Linux Forum (forum.manjaro.org)

[alatiera@mastodon.social]

@Foxboron @bodil Community and project health happens to be the one sentence that nobody can say about Fedora.

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@Foxboron Old list. Edited.

[evilpilaf@hachyderm.io]

@bodil damn ubuntu's been the only distro that doesn't constantly crash my machine, I've tried multiple fedora versions and nixos and my machine randomly crashes. Last week I tried kubuntu and it's been smooth so far...

I'll try Aurora next and hope

[cholling@bytes.programming.dev]

@bodil Aurora Linux brags on their homepage about enabling "local AI workflows". Not sure how that differs from what Canonical is doing.

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@cholling It's the difference between being able to install Ollama and coming preinstalled with Copilot, I guess.

[kaliranya@vtuber.house]

@cholling @bodil Just noticed the same. I'm not looking to jump from one pro-AI distro to another >.<

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@kaliranya @cholling At the moment, the only distro with an explicit anti-AI policy is Gentoo.

[pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe]

@bodil nooooon pas Linux (oui, je sais, le principe de Linux c'est que y a Linux et Linux, mais quand même )

[crow@cville.online]

@bodil What do you think is a good replacement for Ubuntu for a relatively unskilled #Linux user? I won’t tolerate #aislop.

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@crow Fedora.

[kernelvoid@mastodon.social]

@crow @bodil zorin O.S

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@kernelvoid @crow Zorin OS is built on Ubuntu. ‍️

[kernelvoid@mastodon.social]

@bodil @crow yes, specifically Ubuntu LTS

[allpoints@mstdn.social]

@bodil +1

Allpoints (@allpoints@mstdn.social)

@pluralistic@mamot.fr I recommend two, readily available, though perhaps not inexpensive, commercial items in response. A drone and a can of spray foam insulation. This is where I'm supposed to add that this is a joke. I am explicitly not adding that.

Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)

[ruoff@norden.social]

@bodil Dito. After some bad experiences regarding "legacy hardware support", I decided that Ubuntu could not be relied upon.