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I use Debian BTW
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As an Ubuntu weanie why should I swap?
If it works for you, you shouldn’t
I mean, you’re right.
But….
….. let’s be honest. There’s no reason not to try some variety.
(Yes I have usb keys of All the good ones…)
You don't need too, Ubuntu is perfectly fine if it works for you.
it can get resource hungry but nothing even close to windows.
But as others said: Try another distro if you like to try new things - otherwise just use what works for you.
Yea that makes sense. I've been curious about Arch given how many resources there are for learning it. Weirdly enough I know two people who have tried it, one said it was the easiest setup they've ever done and the other said it bricked their laptop.
If you want to try arch I recommend EndeavourOS. It’s as close as you can get to vanilla arch without doing all the compiling yourself.
bricking a laptop with linux is incredibly unlikely.
Making the system unbootable so you need to boot from USB to fix it otoh... not so much.
There is nothing wrong with using Ubuntu if it works for you.
Don't. It's good.
I've been more of a Kubuntu guy in the past tho.
If you are curious and haven't tried all there is to offer you might not realize that you like another flavor.
Most distros really aren’t too different fundamentally, so if you’re happy where you are there isn’t much reason to switch. It can be fun to swap just to see what’s different (and learn what differences are really just skin deep), but you don’t have to. Some distros have more big ideas behind them which can be interesting (like nixos) but mostly they all feel pretty similar.
It is okay, just us what you like. There is no need to change your distro just because others are
Ya for sure. Buuut I'm not afraid to hear some passionate opinions about things if anyone has them haha
Non rolling release distros for your desktop makes no sense.
Why?
Because you're arbitrarily restricting yourself to old versions of tools and software. The idea is you don't want unexpected conflicts to bring down your system. But, what that means is when you do go to upgrade on something like a server, you would test the whole thing on the new version, and then migrate. That's not how people use desktops. You just feel like one day upgrading from 20.04 to 20.10, and then get a massive burst of differences. It's really hard to pin down what specifically goes wrong when something does.
So unless you have a staging environment for your desktop where you test the new version before migrating, then what is the purpose of running old versions of stuff?
Good points. Thank you.