Comment by orangepanda | Hacker News Reader

Comment by orangepanda | Hacker News Reader

Because I’m not a masochist. I use ubuntu for work, some issues I’ve encountered:

* No sleep mode by default

* Snap is cancer. When I’m sent a pdf, I cant open it directly because the current app is isolated and cant see that a pdf reader is installed. Same with all other app specific extensions.

* Snap, again. Whenever I’m sent a file on Skype, I have to reboot; It overrides my $home directory and I cant open or access anything elsewhere.

* Why do links sometimes keep opening in firefox? I dont have it installed, did a full scan and cant find where it comes from. Yeah Microsoft is pushy about Edge, but at least it respects your settings when you do change them.

* There’s a memory leak somewhere, I have to reboot every week. Probably that’s why sleep is disabled…

* spotify sometimes can no longer find an output device and everything gets muted (might be an app issue, but I haven’t encountered it on other platforms so ubuntu gets the blame)

* When disconnecting external displays, the pointer still “sees” them and disappears into oblivion. Also it doesn’t work for half the screen.

* With external displays, I sometimes have to log in twice

For personal devices, I just want reasonable defaults so I dont have to tinker with them

That first one puzzles me. What do you mean "no sleep mode by default"? I've been running Linux on laptops for a few years now and this is the first I've heard of this...

Are you perhaps referring to hibernation?

Ubuntu is a very bad example of a linux distro.

What is a good example of a linux distro?

Debian.

Fedora, PopOS, Manjaro/Archlinux, NixOS, etc.

Manjaro/Archlinux as really good about not having anything 'extra' which helps reduce the cognitive load even if they require more command line skills. i.e I'd rather have to know 10 complicated things than 10,000 easy things.

Ubuntu is just constantly doing their own thing and is really bloated. Like Snap does the same thing as Flatpak but is Ubuntu specific (at least by usage) which pretty much defeats the point of having portable packages.

Ubuntu/Kubuntu LTS is the distro for people that do not need the latest core libraries. Most issues people get on Ubuntu is when they try to install stuff from the wrong PPA or when they listen for bad advice for random clueless people.

Sure Arch users need to raise their hand and scream they use Arch and that the code is vanilla and they run GNOME with all it's bugs... do you remember how when Ubuntu went back to GNOME the Canonical developers fixed GNOMe's bugs, yes a distro actually fixing bugs upstream and not just packaging shit, some would prefer that instead of pretending the memory leaks are the fault of the user.

I used many distro including Arch, SUSE,Debian(and Sidux),Fedora, Mandriva and for years I am stuck with Kubuntu LTS because it works and I don't need latest library co compile latest XYZ program. I use this Kubuntu machine for my work so I can't and also I don't get any plesurre from rolling updates and fixing broken stuff or fighting with new bugs(I know how to work around existing ones)

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