Exactly, that means it hasn't infected my entire system and is constantly connected and phoning home about my computer usage and browsing habits all day. I can just play Skifree and Minesweeper and not worry about a damn thing.
Yes, it's their OS from around the time. Was pretty good, worth playing around with a little, WinWorldPC has images if you're interested. It can run I think Windows 3.0 as well inside the OS if I remember right?
Oooo thanks! I'll take a look. I'm in the process of making a multiboot external drive.
It may of pissed a lot of people off. Yet people wonder why I have such a strong dislike of Ubuntu.
Yep, Unity DE had ads. Then people revolted and Canonical eventually got rid of them and also switched to base Gnome with some extensions.
It definitely happened, I saw it in real time on my install of Ubuntu. But they learned their lesson on this one, I feel.
Not sure why there are some who think this is still a thing, though.
Side note: I’ve not run Ubuntu as my desktop OS I’m quite some time, opting instead for Garuda as of late and have seen no ads thus far :)
But they told the FBI to fuck right off with their bullshit! Listen Tim Apple is one of the good ones. /s
LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding
environment.systemAds.enable = false;
to your configuration.nix
file 😎
Just observing more than anything but this is the same kind of shit people say to leave windows because of.
I mean...
They have GUI system upgrades, this is kind of a pain in Debian
Okay, now I updated 12 laptops from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and...
apt update
in the terminal, fixedDamn this is bad. And this is like, the best of the best distros?
Doubt that. Fedora Atomic has way more potential, while only being user friendly as uBlue.
Every couple of years I think to myself "Ubuntu can't be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it's just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why'd I stop using it?"
And then I download Ubuntu.
And then I remember.
It works great as a quick and easy WSL module if you need to quickly patch the kernel of your embedded Linux device at work 🤗, well, maybe it would have been just as easy using just debian, to be fair 🤔
Ubuntu is very much NOT the best of the distros anymore.
I’ve been using Kinoite on one of my daily drivers, and so far I’m loving it.
I mean I could list you at least 5 things that kinda suck on Fedora Atomic. But yes the core principle is so much better.
I don’t mean to imply it’s perfect, but as a relatively popular distro to use as a daily driver, I’ve been happy with it overall.
You can install Synaptic in Debian. Problem solved? I love the terminal so this isn't really my fight but you could spend some time to make Debian GUI-based if you wanted to.
Also LMDE exists, which Mint-ifies Debian and gives you a GUI option for basically everything you can imagine.
Multiple reasons why this is not a good option.
an alternate timeline, where Linus didn't make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.
BonziBuddy! He was the best! Almost as good as the dancing baby.
And in case anyone is wondering...
BonziBuddy:
Dancing Baby:
I daily drive it, and a lot of idiots lie about it because of minor philosophy differences. It's sad.
Agreed. I was inspired to make this masterpiece while reading the comments on my previous meme.
I use their server distro's all the time but i never liked the UI so I just dont bother.
I feel like the choice of time of day (24hr clock) for the screenshot might have been an attempt at being prophetic.
I don't understand. A 24hr clock would be prophetic? Or the time 20:28?
24hr clocks are used wordwide except for a few countries. The image in the OP looks Czech and the Czech Republic uses 24hr notation.
This is one of those situations where explaining why I said what I said, when I said it, in the way that I said it, and bring into question whether I could have worded any of it better takes way more time than a glib aside. Something adjacent to the Bullsh*t Asymmetry principle, if not an instance.
Anyway, I was trying to encompass those folks who tend to set their system time to 12hr, and wasn't really saying anything one way or the other about whether the person who made the screenshot (OP it seems) generally has their system set that way or not. It was more pointing out that having it be 24hr (or leaving it that way) makes the time look a bit like a year in the not-too-distant future (2028), and thus could form part of the date that is otherwise displayed.
It could be that the whole thing is a coincidence, but I was pointing out that it could have been part of the joke.