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by mikaelsouza 640 days ago
I don't mean to say your experience isn't real, but that isn't what I encountered at all with my last 12 years "waiting for Ubuntu to get good" (I am quoting myself here).

Every time I tried to install it to test if it was good, something broke for no reason. This happened to me on many PCs and many versions of Ubuntu.

The last time I tried 24.04, the installer crashed in the middle of the installation and I couldn't finish it.

If someone wants to test Ubuntu, I'd say you should try it, but do not get surprised if something very basic seems broken since that's my entire experience with the distro. I'd recommend Fedora instead.

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Debian stands out as a Linux distribution that "just works" IME. Fedora isn't even all that bad, but the short support cycle can be problematic if you care about using it reliably in production. Debian doesn't have that issue, their "Stable" release is just rock solid. It can also be surprisingly snappy even on old, very low-end hardware where everything else (including every modern web browser) will visibly chug or not run at all.