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I am still using Ubuntu on both my work laptop and my home workstation. Om my laptop I now have disk shortage due to snaps. Plus my workstation has an AMD videocard that had a weird bug. All snaps are glitching, you can not see anything. But I still use Ubuntu. It's the most used and catered for Linux distribution so when I want to use something there is always an Ubuntu deb or snap or whatever. Plus on my work laptop, which is a Dell, I get firmware updates when I do an apt-get no other os does this...

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Fedora does all that and more. You can do similar with Debian. Ubuntu is no longer a good choice for anything.

The only reason I have Ubuntu right now is that I was never able to get DisplayLink drivers to work on anything else. Not that I tried that hard, I tested SuSE and then Ubuntu... and stopped since, well, it kind of just worked.

I'm not too happy with Ubuntu, but it's better then Windows 11.

Doing a quick search for "displaylink Fedora" on brave. These are the first 2 results and look pretty simple:

https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm (RPMs in releases)

https://kcore.org/2023/01/01/installing-evdi-fedora37/ (should work on the latest Fedora 38)

Thanks. I did search myself and found the same results. But as I wrote, it worked when I came to Ubuntu and I gave it a shot. But I feel it's time to try Fedora now. :-)

> I get firmware updates when I do an apt-get no other os does this...

Be so very careful about this.

Ubu did that for me behind my back on my dell laptop and bricked the thing by silently making it so that if you closed the lid and put it in your bag it would fry. Expensive way to find out about that bios feature, uh, change. I was spending a lot of time by a hospital bed when it happened and needed my laptop to be a goddamn laptop, close the lid, in the bag 10 seconds notice because this is important.

Sure that's 99% dell's fault and you can't even contact them to ask if this is really what they consider acceptable in any way, sure.

But yes I'm angry and bitter about it still. Why are ubu pushing an update like that at me implictly saying "this is fine" when it's not remotely close to fine?

eh bitter.

I had a funny experience like this. I got a lenovo bios update via ubuntu. I didn't really notice until I rebooted. Which took a bit of time. So I did what every impatient programmer does. I disconnected the power, took out the battery, did a hard reboot. I did everything you shouldn't do during a bios update. Not my smartest moment. Though, the update worked and everything's been fine since.

Pretty sure its a dell bug, because it happened to my dell laptop running windows as well.

Of course the firmware bug is from Dell, but it's Ubuntu automatically installing it that made the user experience it out of the blue.

If your reasoning is "it sucks but it's the most widely supported" you might as well he using Windows. If you want a distribution that you can mostly use instructions tailored to Ubuntu, use linux mint or even Debian.

I'm using Debian mainly for the last 20 years. I switched my laptop from Ubuntu to Fedora, mainly because Ubuntu snap madness and Debian was not working well on my framework 12gen. I was a bit skeptical due to previous experiences with redhat/fedora, but fedora was solid for the last 6 months. I'm thinking about migrating my desktop from Debian to Fedora.

Not sure that's a videocard bug, I removed Ubuntu on my Lenovo exactly because of the unreadable snaps (the windows are mostly transparent actually).

Fedora does that.

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