attractive_pneumonia
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- Jun 27, 2019
Yeah Ubuntu is great for that, its effectively 1:1 with a vanilla Windows 10 install in terms of basic tooling for stuff like writing usb sticks and office stuff, which will be LibreOffice which is installed by default I believe. Ubuntu is trying to solve the dependency issue by cramming everything into containers it calls snaps. In the Linux world most libraries are shared between programs, no point in reinventing the wheel -- in the Windows world these are called DLL files, which are just dumped into the folder along with the program executables -- but in the Unix world they're just thrown into a singular folder under /usr/bin or a few other locations for rebels who just are too cool for school. In extremely rare circumstances two programs on your box will need the same package as a dependency, but one version will want version >2.0 and another version will want 1.99 and prior because 2.0 broke userspace. These days such dependency chain conflicts are exceptionally rare, but they do occur. Ubuntu decided to stuff the program into a container with the dependencies the developer selected and screw all this sharing shit, taking a page out of Apple's book with its .App shtick, but the problem is, Snaps are essentially unique to Ubuntu so when you encounter issues your only reference point is the Ubuntu community. This is the pain point @NumberingYourState was talking about.
My path in Linux started with Ubuntu in 2012 when I raged quit Windows because of how 8 looked, I suspected them to continously lean into the tablet look more and more and leave desktop computing behind, something they've somewhat done to a degree. I used Ubuntu for maybe a year then switched to Linux Mint to try out the Cinnamon desktop environment as envisioned by the developers before I heard of Arch Linux and specifically the AUR. I had grown tired of adding in PPA into APT for this or that program and the AUR was the solution. I switched over to Arch in maybe 2013-2014 and never left. Thats not to say I didn't dabble with Linux since the late 90s, but only in 2012 did it finally click and I began to use it full time as a replacement for Windows.
, so far the experience is miles better than Windows. The only con so far is that I'm going to stick with GIMP for image editing, which I don't know how to use. I used paint.net on Windows, but whatever, I guess it won't be too hard getting used to it.
