Ask HN: How is Ubuntu as a daily driver? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How is Ubuntu as a daily driver?

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Post by _shadi » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 8:04 AM UTC

I think the search terms were being sent by unity and not Ubuntu itself, I haven't used Ubuntu for years(I find it a bit bloated) but I remember reading that Unity was discontinued so it should not be a problem with another desktop environment.

for me personally, I use Manjaro at home and I'm very happy with it, although I have an old thinkpad so that might be why I haven't faced any driver or other kinds of problems.

for work I'm currently using a mac since that is the only hardware the company provide, but I always found Opensuse Leap to be the best, very stable and with a relatively recent packages.

Re: Ask HN: How is Ubuntu as a daily driver?

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Post by vkaku » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 8:51 AM UTC

I've had the worst upgrade experiences with Ubuntu, when many a times it'd fail with a bad bootloader / incompatible daemon set. Once I even had to patch glibc because Ubuntu's was too unstable ugh.

I've never had that kind of a problem with Debian or the CentOS distros, in general. I'd recommend those two over the others, if you want a good production environment.

You should go Fedora if you know what you are getting; Never had a real problem with it; Currently, I'm holding off moving to Fedora simply because they haven't gotten official ROCm packages yet.

Re: Ask HN: How is Ubuntu as a daily driver?

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Post by wrestlerman » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 9:21 AM UTC

I've been using it daily for the past month. (I've used it before too, but not daily). Switched from macOS.

I had a lot of problems with updates, with some drivers not working properly. But the biggest problem for me is not having access to so many apps that are available on macOS. I don't really have experience with other systems so not gonna recommend you anything else.

Re: Ask HN: How is Ubuntu as a daily driver?

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Post by sandov » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 11:52 PM UTC

The Amazon thing is opt-in now.

I use 16.04 as my desktop daily driver, because I like Unity and can't force myself to use Gnome shell, and it's a a great system.

Ubuntu and its derivatives (Mint, xubuntu, kubuntu, etc) are systems that just work, that's why I prefer them. e.g. default font rendering on Ubuntu is better than Fedora, Arch, or any other distro I've tried.