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Its pretty apt because while you can technically use it to do a variety of things its almost always outclassed in any particular use
I see what you did there
And it's popular, and it's something non-Linux users might recognize.
Exactly, multi role and underpowered.
But, good enough for just about anything most people need to do on a daily basis. For anything else there's specialized tools.
You're not going to win that argument on Lemmy about Ubuntu being a decent OS... Which it is ❤️
I'd love to agree but unfortunately with them pushing snaps I can't. When I used snaps I found them to be extremely buggy and if I didn't already know there were other distributions with other better package managers I would've straight up assumed it was a Linux problem and I'd just have gone back to windows. If there was no other Noob-friendly distro out there I could say "sure it's an ok distro" but there are better alternatives that don't do the same shitty decisions as canonical (like Linux Mint which is the one I recommend to every noob coming from windows or Pop_OS! for those who want something similiar to MacOS).
Just because it's Lemmy, I'm gonna share my "shitty Ubuntu" story, which is less about Ubuntu being shitty and more about me being a noob.
I had a 2004 MacBook that my grandmother gave me for college when she upgraded. I didn't hate it, but this being my first experience with a laptop, when the bottom 2/3 of the screen started blinking in and out, I thought maybe it was a software problem, so with the help of an SD card and my buddy's old CRT setup I downloaded Ubuntu onto a thumb drive. When I went back to my parents' place I decided that that was the moment to install, because my dad was really into jailbreaking his iPhone at the time, so I thought it'd be cool if we did kinda similar things together. Unfortunately because I couldn't see the bottom of the screen, I had no idea about the progress of the install, got impatient, and just decided to turn the thing off. This had the effect of deleting the partition tables, and it would have been like $200 to get a new hard drive. I would have paid it, but before I could, the guy I had helping me fix the thing moved away and took my lappy with him.
Always love story time 🙌
Well, I didn't see it from that point. Makes sense 🤣