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by clojurerocks 5338 days ago
I used ubuntu for 5 years or so and finally moved off of it almost 2 years ago. I was a huge linux fan until i used ubuntu. Which intially was great but soon became nothing but marketing hype with one buggy broken release after another. Which just became tiresome after a while. Especially since with each release they act as if THAT release will finally fix all the bugs theyve had and linux hs had. Only to find out it hadnt done any of that.

IN my personally opinion ubuntu completely destroyed linux Because rather then there being many great distros to choose from and play with there is now really only one. In fact OpenSuse was my favorite but that became just an also ran distro that people would compare to ubuntu and but say sorry but it doesnt compare and then stick with ubuntu. Which sucks. Of course OpenSuse also had the kde problem but thats a whole other topic of discussion.
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rjbond3rd 5338 days ago
> ubuntu completely destroyed linux Because rather then there being many great distros to choose from and play with there is now really only one.

There are lots of excellent distros. The world does not revolve around Ubuntu.

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DanBC 5338 days ago
> Because rather then there being many great distros to choose from and play with there is now really only one.

I really don't understand this comment.

There are very many other distributions, covering a wide range of needs.

- Fedora, Mageia, Sabyon, and Mint Debian : nice desktops, easy to use - Arch, Gentoo, LFS : suitable for power users and tinkering - Slitaz, TinyCore, Puppy : minimal, configurable

etc etc.

None of these are based on Ubuntu.

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