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Comment by lordofgibbons | Hacker News Reader

A lot of negativity in this thread.

I've been using Ubuntu for about 10 years and is my favorite distro after trying a few others. I went through the whole distro hoping thing and using Arch to set up everything just the way I wanted phase, and while very fun & educational, it isn't good for getting things done.

Ubuntu just works and let's me be productive with things I care about.

Thank you Ubuntu team!

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I've had a similar phase and just switched back to Ubuntu a week ago after having used a number of different distros since 2011. As a software developer myself, I think there is a mix of two emotions that lead to this; fear of missing out (FOMO) and imposter syndrome. I was trying to learn as much as possible for a while, adding skills to my resume, thinking my peers were doing the same. (They were not). All that time I ended up suffering from some pretty poor UX issues (Audio/Bluetooth/Wifi) that I tried fixing unsuccessfully or ignoring for the longest time, that I forgot what it was like to use a system THAT JUST WORKED out of the box.

Same, getting close to 20 years of use here and I keep coming back to it.

Big thanks to the team and community. I'll see if I can read a Full Circle again soon. :-)

Not enough negativity I think. Positive feedback loop without a reality check is not confronting the real issues. Ubuntu has many.

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