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Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Sunny to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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hot take?

Edit: got nothing against Ubuntu, it's Linux after all and that's what matters ๐ŸŒป Edit2: people took this very seriously for being a shower thought..

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[โ€“] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I ran Gentoo for about 3 years (and will likely return soon) and I reckon there are plenty of really advanced Ubuntu users who know more about how my system works than I do.

Any mainstream general purpose distro can do mostly anything and can be used by power users. Some should ONLY be used by power users, but that doesn't make them inherently better than a distro that both a newbie and a power user can understand and use.

You know why I use Gentoo? Literally the bragging rights. I doubt I'm optimizing things THAT much with my fancy compiler flags.

[โ€“] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

this is so true. just because one can use more advanced systems doesn't mean he's smarter than all the more "basic" system users. especially in the linux world.

all of the distros can pretty much do the same thing, some distros are just more focused on the ease of use.