If you want something user-friendly, use Linux Mint. There’s really no reason to choose Ubuntu over this. And for any other use it’s outclassed by other distros, it does not fill a niche. And I personally think that GNOME is crap and quite hideous.
Personally I don’t really hate Ubuntu, but I tend to find that everything it does, there’s something else that does it slightly better.
For example, it’s supposed to be a good ‘beginner’ distro or good for something that ‘just works’, but IMO things like Mint or Pop!OS do it a little better these days. Snap is supposed to be a nice simple way to manage packages without worrying about dependencies, but Flatpak does it better and so on.
So yeah I don’t hate it, I just don’t see any particular reason to really use it. Opinions may vary though of course.
I don’t hate Ubuntu, and it was my distribution from nearly 20 years. Meaning since it was first released until recently. I loved it for a long time because it was based on dpkg which was much better than rpm at the time AND it was way more user friendly than the others. Even as a software developer I like my distribution to move out of the way to let me focus on using it, not babysitting it.
But I moved away because of Snaps. Currently on Fedora and it’s pretty good. I know it’s possible to get rid of Snaps or use a derivative but I prefer to stay close to stock for whatever distribution I use.
If Ubuntu works for you and you don’t mind snaps, then just use that!
For anything lower-spec (like, <4Gb of RAM), Ubuntu absolutely CHUGS because of Snaps. Flatpak has no such issue.
Ironically, Lubuntu (a lightweight Ubuntu fork) worked the best for me while I was using it. No slowness, but I installed pretty much everything using Apt (didn't know about Flatpak back then).
I ended up having it lock up and freeze on the sign-in page though, so I moved on to the slightly heavier Linux Mint.
I think a lot of people dislike Ubuntu because of Gnome and Snaps, which is weird to me. You can fairly easily change desktop environment and most Snaps have apt or Flatpak alternatives.
I’m simply not going to support a distro that creates a proprietary service and ships it as the default source of software. I will support and use distros that open source their code so that everyone can benefit from it. Whether workarounds or alternatives exist is unimportant, my prime issue with Ubuntu and Canonical is with their principles, not Ubuntu’s quality as a product to be consumed by me.
It’s just simpler to pick a distribution that matches your choices out of the box, rather than hacking a distro. And I’m talking about Snap in particular.
Home Alone 16 takes place at the same time as Home Alone 13
You can see this on the calendar in the kitchen while the Wet Bandit Corp are setting up for the hiest
This normally would be seen as a silly little Easter egg but unfortunately this becomes a plot hole when you realize that the leader of the group in Home Alone 16 at the time of Home Alone 13 would have been a child. Which they obviously aren’t in Home Alone 16.
That’s just the biggest one, don’t even get me started on the production consistency. (Teleporting props, disappearing and reappearing injuries, things that didn’t exist at the time the film takes place appearing in shots, etc)
Honestly thought Home Alone 11 was the lowest point of the HACU but 16 really brought the whole cinematic universe down.
I can’t wait for 17 though
Edit: Apologies, I read it as the “plot hole” of Home Alone 16. The plot is pretty messy overall for Home Alone 16 so it’s kinda hard to follow.
But the long and short of it is that the Wet Bandit Corp does a massive heist on the McCalister Group totally billions of dollars in priceless artifacts. They of course (like the previous ones) encounter some obstacles put in place over the generations of McCalister’s but given that it takes place in 2193 that’s really to be expected. It ends with a cliffhanger though so I’m excited for 17.
Edit: At least it wasn’t a “Heist competition” like Home Alone 11. Definitely M. Night Shyamalan’s worst movie. I can’t believe they brought him in for that one. It didn’t need a twist, it’s a HACU movie.
Wait, you’re saying that Home Alone 16 is a secret documentary of the filming on Home Alone 15, which is a time travel film about a Heist that takes place in Home Alone 14, in which 13 also takes place in secret?
We live in rented honeycomb-like structures to extract maximum rental value, performing all our work in VR offices managed by social media companies. The concepts of “home” and “alone” no longer exist.
Historians rediscover the original movie Home Alone, and over the course of 16 academic papers, explore these antiquated notions. The first four papers cover the economics by which noncorporate entities have legal rights and may own land. The next four the idea that some places could be different from others, making leisure travel relevant. After that, the idea that physical goods could be owned (and therefore “stolen” by “thieves”), not only leased as a DRM-protected service.
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