About to purge windows from my system. I've decided on Fedora for that shiny Gnome experience and access to the latest software. I've concluded that Canonical (Ubuntu) is not a trustworthy (enough) company #security #gnu #linux #techtips
Arch was my second choice, but due to all the manual fixing I decided against it this time around. Definitely setting up a virtual install of it though, to experiment with it.
Since you obviously know your way around this stuff, have you looked into NixOS? Seems to have some advantages over other distros, but also quite different than them
haven’t heard of that. Oh it’s targeting declarative system state thingy that might be good. But little bit hesitant because I read package manager nix - my thought was, please not yet another package manager 😅
Regarding, arch depending on what hardware you have it might get real realm of configuration.
What issue do you have with Ubuntu?
oh it's nothing concrete, I've just heard that the company culture Canonical isn't the best, that they have some really questionable employment processes and simply the fact that they're so huge.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has faced criticism for various reasons, including its approach to monetization, data collection practices, and perceived lack of transparency with the open-source community. Many users feel that Canonical's decisions, such as displaying ads during system updates and collecting user data by default, undermine the principles of free and open-source software.
Privacy and security are definitely two big reasons.
I've realized that there are only really two windows applications left that I use, and I can run those in a virtualized windows instance inside linux.
If you're curious, I recommend installing VirtualBox on your Windows PC and create a virtual installation for yourself. Then you can try it out without changing anything on your current setup
Check out Arch
Yeah Gnome is really nice display manager.
https://archlinux.org/
Arch was my second choice, but due to all the manual fixing I decided against it this time around. Definitely setting up a virtual install of it though, to experiment with it.
Since you obviously know your way around this stuff, have you looked into NixOS? Seems to have some advantages over other distros, but also quite different than them
haven’t heard of that. Oh it’s targeting declarative system state thingy that might be good. But little bit hesitant because I read package manager nix - my thought was, please not yet another package manager 😅
Regarding, arch depending on what hardware you have it might get real realm of configuration.
What issue do you have with Ubuntu?
oh it's nothing concrete, I've just heard that the company culture Canonical isn't the best, that they have some really questionable employment processes and simply the fact that they're so huge.
source: duckduckgo ai-assist
Ah yeah - the classic^^ Yeah Canonical is not always moving wisely
Ah just remembered Manjaro. It's arch based but more easy
Thanks for the tip! I'm up and running on Manjaro now. Really really nice distro. Saved my weekend
welcome, always good to provide useful information 👌
Im uninformed…are u ditching windows because of lack of privacy/security? And if so what was the last straw?
Trying to stay more up-to-date on these things
Privacy and security are definitely two big reasons.
I've realized that there are only really two windows applications left that I use, and I can run those in a virtualized windows instance inside linux.
If you're curious, I recommend installing VirtualBox on your Windows PC and create a virtual installation for yourself. Then you can try it out without changing anything on your current setup
Thanks for the insight 💎
Will look into the virtualbox as a starting point for sure!