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good ubuntu based distro? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have only used mint,pop,and nobara on my pc,I tried vanilla but didnt like it, Is there any good ubuntu based distro thats easy to use? I can use the terminal fine,I also want gnome 44

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly. Debian. It's just so solid and works so well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

LMDE it's the best of both worlds, or openSUSE if you're outside the Debian/Ubuntu world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Debian is a good choice *if* you're going to use Flatpaks. If not, it's a bad idea IMO.

Don't think about today situation with the new version. Think about two years from now. Without Flatpaks, you'll have a lot of software problems.

But overall I agree, Debian is a good choice too.

E: formatting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Without Flatpaks, you’ll have a lot of software problems.

How is that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not talking about what comes with the distro itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably he means that Debian stable is outdated by definition (e.g., Debian 12 it just released to stable, and has Gnome 43 instead of 44), and to stay on top of new versions you would eventually rely on flatpak.

However this is a false problem, because if you want a updated version, you just change your update channel from 'stable' to 'testing' in the sources.list conf file etc voilà you have a rolling release with fresh stuff.