One of the best things that I've seen with Ubuntu is AskUbuntu forum. It has big community that actually helps to solve you problems and not making fun of how noob you're.
That's why I switched to arch recently. The installation was actually easier than I thought and I learned a lot about how linux-distributions are built. I am still shocked by the performance of arch. It is much faster than my Ubuntu-Installation.
+Si Cam Haha, totally forgot about that one. :) Brings back memories. I started using Dapper because it was the first distro to have compiz' wobbly windows. :D
Hey man. Just wanted to say that I love your vids, I'm still a Windows krill gamer but I've slowly been transitioning to Linux (for gaming, I used it prior for work) thanks to being inspired by your vids. Plus I didn't realise the catalogue of games available for Linux had become so extensive. Keep at it!
The community is the best. I've used ubuntu forums and knowledge bases to fix things in several other non-ubuntu distros as well as ubuntu and offical flavors. Have to mention I've used arch pages a ton too to fix issues.
I don't use ubuntu myself, but I like the spirit of ubuntu, trying out new things and giving great support while remaining polite and friendly. On the other hand they shouldn't try out all of their ideas on their normal user base without warning and no obvious way back to stable waters... What ubuntu has done, more than any other distro, was giving Linux a visibility boost and refocusing efforts on user friendliness.
debian with cinnamon desktop is where its at, or use Mint with cinnamon. I actually recommend Mint with Cinnamon GUI for anyone crossing over from windblows. I am not a fan of any of the ubuntu desktops over the years. I started out with 8.04 personally, but at that time switched to Kubuntu for better GUI experience. I'll take RHEL any day for servers though hands down.
I've been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger and stayed with them for one simple reason, packages. Any time you needed some software there was always a package or repo available versus other distros. Yes I could pull the source and do a make/install, but sometimes it's just not worth the hassle.
Manjaro is still WAY better than Ubuntu ever was. I started with Mint, but it never clicked with me, then I tried many many more distros, but none of them were what I wanted them to be, then I found Manjaro, and damn, it's the best!
I think Ubuntu was the first linux distro I ever tried, something I kept going back to for the last decade, it's very good for newbies. I then tried a bunch of other distros including Manjaro, but finally settled on Antergos which is another Arch based distro.
How are you measuring the quality of gaming? Performance? Variety? Community? It's up to game developers to make their games run on Linux. If they don't choose to do this, there is exactly nothing anyone in the Linux community can do, short of reverse engineering the platform the game was written for, á la Wine. The reverse engineered solutions are often hacky and unstable, so they make for a poor long-term solution. For performance, it depends on how well the developers optimize their games for Linux. For variety and community, it depends on whether they release their games on Linux. As a platform, I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel is far better optimized and more stable than Windows' kernel. However, this makes little to no difference when games aren't written and optimized for the platform. Added to this, there is more to a system than the kernel. While modern desktop environments are relatively stable, I don't think any one of them has anywhere near the same manpower as ms does for Windows. Ultimately, for games, it comes down to the fact that far fewer people game on Linux than on Windows. This means there's a smaller market, less profit to be made and therefore less incentive for companies (especially big ones) to make their games work on Linux. This leads to fewer games being made for Linux, which is why gamers typically don't choose Linux and the cycle starts again. Valve is attempting to break this cycle with SteamOS. Until we see games written and optimized for both platforms, I honestly don't think we can judge one as being inherently better for gaming than the other. All other things being equal though, wouldn't it be great to spend a few hundred bucks on more games rather than an OS filled with bloatware and privacy problems?
How are you measuring the quality of gaming? Performance? Variety? Community? It's up to game developers to make their games run on Linux. If they don't choose to do this, there is exactly nothing anyone in the Linux community can do, short of reverse engineering the platform the game was written for, á la Wine. The reverse engineered solutions are often hacky and unstable, so they make for a poor long-term solution. For performance, it depends on how well the developers optimize their games for Linux. For variety and community, it depends on whether they release their games on Linux. As a platform, I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel is far better optimized and more stable than Windows' kernel. However, this makes little to no difference when games aren't written and optimized for the platform. Added to this, there is more to a system than the kernel. While modern desktop environments are relatively stable, I don't think any one of them has anywhere near the same manpower as ms does for Windows. Ultimately, for games, it comes down to the fact that far fewer people game on Linux than on Windows. This means there's a smaller market, less profit to be made and therefore less incentive for companies (especially big ones) to make their games work on Linux. This leads to fewer games being made for Linux, which is why gamers typically don't choose Linux and the cycle starts again. Valve is attempting to break this cycle with SteamOS. Until we see games written and optimized for both platforms, I honestly don't think we can judge one as being inherently better for gaming than the other. All other things being equal though, wouldn't it be great to spend a few hundred bucks on more games rather than an OS filled with bloatware and privacy problems?
I'm an arch Linux user, but still started out on Ubuntu like most people. As a passionate Wayland user, however, I can't get over Ubuntu moving to mir.
Which desktop environment do you use with Wayland. I've only tried Gnome 3.20 so far and it seemed pretty good for the most part, but there were some annoying bugs to do with window placement, copy pasting from one app to another and a show stopper to do with mouse aiming on a bunch of Xwayland games, thats supposedly been fixed but in my experience hasn't.
The problem many of us Linux Veterans have with Ubuntu is NOT the philosophy they have of making Linux easy for the end user, but rather that Canonical has the worst case of NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) out of all the Major Distributions. From Landscape, Mir, and Unity to Snappy, LXD, and Upstart. They seem to have a knack for going the opposite direction of the community for no other reason than to be "Different" as a marketing ploy. As an OS Ubuntu is solid and easy to approach, but they also seem to be trying to do what Microsoft did with DOS and Apple did with BSD - take it and make it something specific to them. Landscape and Unity are Ubuntu-specific and simply don't work on other distros without major overhauls that would bring them in-line with Ubuntu's way of doing things. Mir and Snappy are simply Ubuntu's way of doing something the community is already doing and as of now shows very little in the way of benefiting ANY Distro other than Ubuntu. And LXD, While the ENTIRE rest of the Industry has banded together to standardize Container Technology on a single format (Even MS has fallen in-line here), Canonical has chosen to go a direction that really tries to turn LXC into a lightweight virtualization platform. While LXD is cool and not horrible at all, I really can't see the need for an "In-between" platform that is not quite Virtualization, but not quite Containers either.
I downloaded 16.04 and it gave me nothing but problems software center didn't work and I had 0 support for my AMD video card. I uninstalled and downloaded Manjaro. I love it. Still some performance issues and AMD drivers in general on Linux are bad. Right now I'm running this alongside Windows. I'm trying to scout out the right distro for me for my next build I'm planning.
+mrpinkshirt4 Open source amd drivers are not perfect but they do their work, software center just updated (most issues have been solved), even if you dont like it old ubuntu software center still exists.
Why ubuntu sucks: 1. no rolling-release 2. It doesn't respect your freedom 3. Mir - reinventing the wheel (Wayland) 4. Unity by default 5. Amazon, Ubuntu market, synaptics - reinventing the wheel (apt) 6. systemd - reinventing the wheel (openrc), sytemd is slow. 7. still Xorg-server by default ( it simply sucks) 8. No support for ARM, PPC64, SPARC. 9. Ubuntu -- just reinventing the wheel (debian). 10. Ubuntu - Not UNIX-way. (Do one thing and do it well) Better to use Gentoo - most advanced GNU/Linux system, Debian unstable - good choice in most cases, Arch - good distro ( but only for amd64 desktop), fedora - good distro for amd64/arm.
+Stefan -copperbeard Cursano I started with DOS, then DOS + Win 3.0, then DOS+Win 3.1, then DOS + Win95, then Win98, WinXP, WinXP + Ubuntu Breezy Badger, then Win8 + Ubuntu, then Win8.1, then Win8.1 + Linux Mint, then Win10 with Linux Mint VM. Now, I'm waiting for Linux Mint 18 or LMDE 3 to use them in VM since I prefer Win10.
I started pretty much the same (Dos&Win 3.11) but stopped at Windows 7 and went full time Linux since last year. The only thing that was stopping me was being able to play games. However, Valve with Steam have done a great job as far as I'm concerned. If I do need to play a game that is Windows only, WINE has come a long way especially if you pair it with CSMT or gallium-nine.
Linux Mint blacklists too many security updates. Not to mention the hacked ROMs fiasco. I mostly use Manjaro, but Ubuntu spins like Lubuntu and Xubuntu are great for bringing an old computer back from the dead in all of five minutes. Even the MATE spin will run reasonably well on hardware that shipped with Windows Vista basic. Unity though... ugh. At least it is not vanilla GNOME shell.
Vanilla GNOME is pretty good these days. I don't have any outstanding gripes with what I'm getting on Debian testing. I remember it bordering on unusable a ways back, but not anymore, really.
Those are the same reason why I went to trisquel OS after seen the history of Linux video I went to see Dr RMS n I knew I was in the wrong camp... Comedy indeed
unity sucks and always will for me, Ubuntu mate all the way. Tried to revive gnome 2 shortly after downgrading to unity at the time but damn did it lose support fast. was so glad mate and cinnamon were made to combat the heresy
ok let me clear up two things first when i call him linux lamer it's an obvious joke i love this dudes content i wouldint be subscribed to him if i thought he was really lame second antergos is based on arch linux therefore i call it antergos arch because not everyone know wtf antergos is so if i just say antergos il get alot of whats that messages trust me i have been through this before
I didn't say canonical was apple. I said Mark wants to be Steve. He tries for some of the same things. An ubuntu universe, a closed off ubuntu (unity,mir and now snap and other things in the past) and really tries to impress with relatively no substance.
No doubt, they've made some stupid decisions in the past, but at least they've popularized, and made open source accessible to others who might not have been interested before. I'm by no means an Ubuntu apologist though; my first distro was Slackware (back in 1999 or so), since then I prefer to run Debian. And I've used pretty much every popular distro; Red Hat (before Fedora), Fedora, SuSE (before the Novell acquisition), openSUSE, Arch, Mint, Sabyon, Slax, etc., but I do use Ubuntu GNOME for my gaming/media box hooked up to my TV. It works the best for those types of applications.
Ubuntu? Thanks, but no thanks, bro. I prefer a real version of GNU/Linux, Debian, and use the KDE desktop. To each their own and all that. Ubuntu just leaves a sour taste in my mouth, like an oil spill trying to force its way to the top and choke everything else out. Sure, it may be a little more newbie friendly than some of the other disros, but I say educate the newbies and get them using a better OS. After doing a lot of research to find out what distro I preferred, I went straight to Debian from Windows without issue, first to host servers on a VM running in Windows, and then as a desktop/laptop OS.
I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu, purely because of Canonical's opacity and them climbing into bed with ms. Personally, I'd rather not see them get any more of the Linux market share, scant though it may be. That being said, it is a great distro with a huge helpful community and plenty of resources for those keen to learn. It's far better than people not being exposed to Linux systems, so I try not to bash it too much.
+Michael Sommer By what measure is Mint the most popular? And what guage determines "best"? Your final statement can easily be applied subjectively to just about ever window manager out there.
linux gamer? more like linux lamer HA! and yeah ubuntu is were i started back during the 12.04LTS days and now i have moved onto antergos arch linux after finally getting bored with ubuntu
One of the best things that I've seen with Ubuntu is AskUbuntu forum. It has big community that actually helps to solve you problems and not making fun of how noob you're.
Exactly, this is a blessing!
yeah! everyone is seem so professional
Nicely constructed video. from the camera angle to the music to the passing screens. Good job bro, seriously. Really stepping it up.
That's why I switched to arch recently. The installation was actually easier than I thought and I learned a lot about how linux-distributions are built. I am still shocked by the performance of arch. It is much faster than my Ubuntu-Installation.
one controversy was Ubuntu 6.06 being late
but still it was my gateway to linux
+Si Cam Haha, totally forgot about that one. :) Brings back memories. I started using Dapper because it was the first distro to have compiz' wobbly windows. :D
Hey man. Just wanted to say that I love your vids, I'm still a Windows krill gamer but I've slowly been transitioning to Linux (for gaming, I used it prior for work) thanks to being inspired by your vids. Plus I didn't realise the catalogue of games available for Linux had become so extensive. Keep at it!
Hi! Linux Gamer, I'm glad I found your channel. I really enjoy your videos.
The community is the best. I've used ubuntu forums and knowledge bases to fix things in several other non-ubuntu distros as well as ubuntu and offical flavors. Have to mention I've used arch pages a ton too to fix issues.
Linux Mint: Ubuntu Without The Bullshit
And with worse security!
I don't use ubuntu myself, but I like the spirit of ubuntu, trying out new things and giving great support while remaining polite and friendly. On the other hand they shouldn't try out all of their ideas on their normal user base without warning and no obvious way back to stable waters... What ubuntu has done, more than any other distro, was giving Linux a visibility boost and refocusing efforts on user friendliness.
debian with cinnamon desktop is where its at, or use Mint with cinnamon. I actually recommend Mint with Cinnamon GUI for anyone crossing over from windblows. I am not a fan of any of the ubuntu desktops over the years. I started out with 8.04 personally, but at that time switched to Kubuntu for better GUI experience. I'll take RHEL any day for servers though hands down.
I've been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger and stayed with them for one simple reason, packages. Any time you needed some software there was always a package or repo available versus other distros. Yes I could pull the source and do a make/install, but sometimes it's just not worth the hassle.
Could you make a full video about this Ubuntu/Windows thing? I still don't really understand what it is and who it could benefit.
Hey can u maybe make a tutorial on how to make a Unturned server in Linux Ubuntu please?
Ubuntu was my first Linux distro, but later on I tried Xubuntu and never looked back.
That's why I use Debian Buster. With non-free repositories it's the same as Ubuntu but without Canonical
I also started with Ubuntu (14.04) and it was exactly the right thing for me. Btw I really like your videos :)
Manjaro is still WAY better than Ubuntu ever was. I started with Mint, but it never clicked with me, then I tried many many more distros, but none of them were what I wanted them to be, then I found Manjaro, and damn, it's the best!
I think Ubuntu was the first linux distro I ever tried, something I kept going back to for the last decade, it's very good for newbies. I then tried a bunch of other distros including Manjaro, but finally settled on Antergos which is another Arch based distro.
Is there any Linux distributions that run BETTER or as good as Windows for gaming
How are you measuring the quality of gaming? Performance? Variety? Community?
It's up to game developers to make their games run on Linux. If they don't choose to do this, there is exactly nothing anyone in the Linux community can do, short of reverse engineering the platform the game was written for, á la Wine. The reverse engineered solutions are often hacky and unstable, so they make for a poor long-term solution.
For performance, it depends on how well the developers optimize their games for Linux. For variety and community, it depends on whether they release their games on Linux.
As a platform, I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel is far better optimized and more stable than Windows' kernel. However, this makes little to no difference when games aren't written and optimized for the platform. Added to this, there is more to a system than the kernel. While modern desktop environments are relatively stable, I don't think any one of them has anywhere near the same manpower as ms does for Windows.
Ultimately, for games, it comes down to the fact that far fewer people game on Linux than on Windows. This means there's a smaller market, less profit to be made and therefore less incentive for companies (especially big ones) to make their games work on Linux. This leads to fewer games being made for Linux, which is why gamers typically don't choose Linux and the cycle starts again.
Valve is attempting to break this cycle with SteamOS. Until we see games written and optimized for both platforms, I honestly don't think we can judge one as being inherently better for gaming than the other. All other things being equal though, wouldn't it be great to spend a few hundred bucks on more games rather than an OS filled with bloatware and privacy problems?
How are you measuring the quality of gaming? Performance? Variety? Community?
It's up to game developers to make their games run on Linux. If they don't choose to do this, there is exactly nothing anyone in the Linux community can do, short of reverse engineering the platform the game was written for, á la Wine. The reverse engineered solutions are often hacky and unstable, so they make for a poor long-term solution.
For performance, it depends on how well the developers optimize their games for Linux. For variety and community, it depends on whether they release their games on Linux.
As a platform, I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel is far better optimized and more stable than Windows' kernel. However, this makes little to no difference when games aren't written and optimized for the platform. Added to this, there is more to a system than the kernel. While modern desktop environments are relatively stable, I don't think any one of them has anywhere near the same manpower as ms does for Windows.
Ultimately, for games, it comes down to the fact that far fewer people game on Linux than on Windows. This means there's a smaller market, less profit to be made and therefore less incentive for companies (especially big ones) to make their games work on Linux. This leads to fewer games being made for Linux, which is why gamers typically don't choose Linux and the cycle starts again.
Valve is attempting to break this cycle with SteamOS. Until we see games written and optimized for both platforms, I honestly don't think we can judge one as being inherently better for gaming than the other. All other things being equal though, wouldn't it be great to spend a few hundred bucks on more games rather than an OS filled with bloatware and privacy problems?
That "I'd just like to interject..." reference tho.
I'm an arch Linux user, but still started out on Ubuntu like most people. As a passionate Wayland user, however, I can't get over Ubuntu moving to mir.
Which desktop environment do you use with Wayland. I've only tried Gnome 3.20 so far and it seemed pretty good for the most part, but there were some annoying bugs to do with window placement, copy pasting from one app to another and a show stopper to do with mouse aiming on a bunch of Xwayland games, thats supposedly been fixed but in my experience hasn't.
Well put...
If I would have tried Ubuntu with the Unity DE for my first Linux distro, I would never have made the switch to Linux-only
The problem many of us Linux Veterans have with Ubuntu is NOT the philosophy they have of making Linux easy for the end user, but rather that Canonical has the worst case of NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) out of all the Major Distributions.
From Landscape, Mir, and Unity to Snappy, LXD, and Upstart. They seem to have a knack for going the opposite direction of the community for no other reason than to be "Different" as a marketing ploy. As an OS Ubuntu is solid and easy to approach, but they also seem to be trying to do what Microsoft did with DOS and Apple did with BSD - take it and make it something specific to them.
Landscape and Unity are Ubuntu-specific and simply don't work on other distros without major overhauls that would bring them in-line with Ubuntu's way of doing things. Mir and Snappy are simply Ubuntu's way of doing something the community is already doing and as of now shows very little in the way of benefiting ANY Distro other than Ubuntu. And LXD, While the ENTIRE rest of the Industry has banded together to standardize Container Technology on a single format (Even MS has fallen in-line here), Canonical has chosen to go a direction that really tries to turn LXC into a lightweight virtualization platform. While LXD is cool and not horrible at all, I really can't see the need for an "In-between" platform that is not quite Virtualization, but not quite Containers either.
Tomb Raider (2013) is out now on linux on steam, will you try/review it?
+WebFreak001 Yes sir! Come back on Tuesday! :D
Meh. My favorite Tomb Raider is the remake of the very first one, Tomb Raider Anniversary, well, minus the quick time events. Not for Linux though. :(
I downloaded 16.04 and it gave me nothing but problems software center didn't work and I had 0 support for my AMD video card. I uninstalled and downloaded Manjaro. I love it. Still some performance issues and AMD drivers in general on Linux are bad. Right now I'm running this alongside Windows. I'm trying to scout out the right distro for me for my next build I'm planning.
+mrpinkshirt4 Open source amd drivers are not perfect but they do their work, software center just updated (most issues have been solved), even if you dont like it old ubuntu software center still exists.
What do you use to edit videos en linux? I can't find anything I like
+Rodri Mora KDenLive
+Rodri Mora KDenLive
+Rodri Mora I use KDENLive. Very similar to Sony Vegas
Go for Shotcut. I've looked at many software and now I'm sticking with it.
I got over my fear of linux and installed Ubuntu 16.04 just because of your videos. It was totally worth it. Thank you and bye Windows :D
What do you use for your animations and your video editing ?
When will they fix the AMD driver issue in 16.04 or is it AMD's issue.
Good video :)
I know, I can't install any ubuntu-based os on my pc
+The Linux Gamer, what is your current preferred flavor of Ubuntu?
Why ubuntu sucks:
1. no rolling-release
2. It doesn't respect your freedom
3. Mir - reinventing the wheel (Wayland)
4. Unity by default
5. Amazon, Ubuntu market, synaptics - reinventing the wheel (apt)
6. systemd - reinventing the wheel (openrc), sytemd is slow.
7. still Xorg-server by default ( it simply sucks)
8. No support for ARM, PPC64, SPARC.
9. Ubuntu -- just reinventing the wheel (debian).
10. Ubuntu - Not UNIX-way. (Do one thing and do it well)
Better to use Gentoo - most advanced GNU/Linux system, Debian unstable - good choice in most cases, Arch - good distro ( but only for amd64 desktop), fedora - good distro for amd64/arm.
just love the way you snort and laugh at the end of some things (like the windows/ubuntu thing) :D
Ubuntu, the best candidate to be used for the masses.
Fedora isn't unwelcomimg. They have ask fedora, as well as a irc channel, both fantastic.
Linux Mint? Why not have the ease of use of Ubuntu without the ethical compromises of Canonical?
I started with ubuntu but now i stick with OpenSUSE
+Stefan -copperbeard Cursano I started with DOS, then DOS + Win 3.0, then DOS+Win 3.1, then DOS + Win95, then Win98, WinXP, WinXP + Ubuntu Breezy Badger, then Win8 + Ubuntu, then Win8.1, then Win8.1 + Linux Mint, then Win10 with Linux Mint VM. Now, I'm waiting for Linux Mint 18 or LMDE 3 to use them in VM since I prefer Win10.
I started pretty much the same (Dos&Win 3.11) but stopped at Windows 7 and went full time Linux since last year. The only thing that was stopping me was being able to play games. However, Valve with Steam have done a great job as far as I'm concerned.
If I do need to play a game that is Windows only, WINE has come a long way especially if you pair it with CSMT or gallium-nine.
I LOVE LINUX UBUNTU IM NEVER SWITCHING!!
Linux Mint blacklists too many security updates. Not to mention the hacked ROMs fiasco. I mostly use Manjaro, but Ubuntu spins like Lubuntu and Xubuntu are great for bringing an old computer back from the dead in all of five minutes. Even the MATE spin will run reasonably well on hardware that shipped with Windows Vista basic. Unity though... ugh. At least it is not vanilla GNOME shell.
Vanilla GNOME is pretty good these days.
I don't have any outstanding gripes with what I'm getting on Debian testing.
I remember it bordering on unusable a ways back, but not anymore, really.
Why does it say "[COMEDY]" in the title?
+Zenolijo It's meant in good fun and not designed to disparage Ubuntu at all. Thanks for the question.
Do more videos :)
Those are the same reason why I went to trisquel OS after seen the history of Linux video I went to see Dr RMS n I knew I was in the wrong camp... Comedy indeed
unity sucks and always will for me, Ubuntu mate all the way. Tried to revive gnome 2 shortly after downgrading to unity at the time but damn did it lose support fast. was so glad mate and cinnamon were made to combat the heresy
And i'm the only one stuck here with win10 lulz ...Luckily i have my ubuntu partition
ok let me clear up two things first when i call him linux lamer it's an obvious joke i love this dudes content i wouldint be subscribed to him if i thought he was really lame second antergos is based on arch linux therefore i call it antergos arch because not everyone know wtf antergos is so if i just say antergos il get alot of whats that messages trust me i have been through this before
Mark Shuttleworth is just a Steve Jobs wannabe IMO. Now who gives a shit about my opinion is a different subject :)
Lol. I don't know if I would go that far. Unlike Apple, Cononical has contributed quite a bit to cloud computing and the sever side of things.
I didn't say canonical was apple. I said Mark wants to be Steve. He tries for some of the same things. An ubuntu universe, a closed off ubuntu (unity,mir and now snap and other things in the past) and really tries to impress with relatively no substance.
No doubt, they've made some stupid decisions in the past, but at least they've popularized, and made open source accessible to others who might not have been interested before. I'm by no means an Ubuntu apologist though; my first distro was Slackware (back in 1999 or so), since then I prefer to run Debian. And I've used pretty much every popular distro; Red Hat (before Fedora), Fedora, SuSE (before the Novell acquisition), openSUSE, Arch, Mint, Sabyon, Slax, etc., but I do use Ubuntu GNOME for my gaming/media box hooked up to my TV. It works the best for those types of applications.
Gentoo.
+Milos Djeric Actually, i dual boot manjaro xrce with gentoo. its great
Ubuntu? Thanks, but no thanks, bro. I prefer a real version of GNU/Linux, Debian, and use the KDE desktop. To each their own and all that. Ubuntu just leaves a sour taste in my mouth, like an oil spill trying to force its way to the top and choke everything else out. Sure, it may be a little more newbie friendly than some of the other disros, but I say educate the newbies and get them using a better OS. After doing a lot of research to find out what distro I preferred, I went straight to Debian from Windows without issue, first to host servers on a VM running in Windows, and then as a desktop/laptop OS.
i use xubuntu
Richard Stallman, hyperbole, uncharacteristic? Lol.
I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu, purely because of Canonical's opacity and them climbing into bed with ms. Personally, I'd rather not see them get any more of the Linux market share, scant though it may be.
That being said, it is a great distro with a huge helpful community and plenty of resources for those keen to learn. It's far better than people not being exposed to Linux systems, so I try not to bash it too much.
Ubuntu = Too hard to install Debian
Eh? Ever heard of sarcasm? Besides I wouldn't touch Ubuntu with a firepoker ;)
Mint is the most popular distro. And the best. Unity is a disgusting piece of shit!
+Michael Sommer By what measure is Mint the most popular? And what guage determines "best"? Your final statement can easily be applied subjectively to just about ever window manager out there.
linux gamer? more like linux lamer HA! and yeah ubuntu is were i started back during the 12.04LTS days and now i have moved onto antergos arch linux after finally getting bored with ubuntu
***** you call me a pleb? you made a youtube account just to try to start crap over the name of a distro so pointless