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Windows is hell, i need to do something
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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I'm not sure which distro would work with your laptop. I would suggest experimenting with live USB images. Maybe using something like Ventoy which enables you to try out multiple live images from one USB stick. But as far as applications go:
Thanks! I’ll check Ventoy. Yea, i just don’t want to change everything to end up with amazon search bar instead or bing.
Don't forget terminal ads for Ubuntu pro
From what I'm reading, Ubuntu is slowly turning into Windows.
Ubundows? Winbuntu? I'll see myself out...
I mean, they've been partnered for a decade... EEE anyone?
I mean, Canonical is a for profit company so I'm not sure what anyone was expecting. Ubuntu had its moment in the sun where it was considered the newbie friendly Linux distro for free users but now they're going pretty hard for corporate customers and enterprise features. Which is fine, they need money to stay afloat and some enterprises are into them so more power to them - they contribute a lot of time and money to various Linux projects. They're the Debian derived redhat equivalent these days and that's okay, if they pivot too far in their own interest people will just stop using their distro.
No, Wubuntu
No...
Ubuntu is not very cool but they are not Windows.
Yeah, a company that's been partnered with Microsoft for a decade, and has had horrible corpo ideas like selling user searches to Amazon and running ads in the terminal, has totally nothing to do with windows. Nope, definitely not spelunking in MS's ass to get defaulted in WSL and Azure, it just happened because it's the most beloved and bestest distro ever...