You lost me @ Ubuntu. Nevertheless choices are good.
We shouldn’t hate or mock other Linux users for their distribution of choice, that isn’t good for anyone.
I would never mock another user for his choice, never ever - don’t know how you read that into my post. Especially if you take the second sentence into accord.
Nevertheless I would argue against anything that is controlled by a corp, if one would ask me - hence the joke.
They didn’t “mock” anyone’s choices. Look at the WHOLE post from @milkytwix …
Just checking, sometimes it’s hard to tell online 
I was just checking. Since I have seen people hate on Ubuntu users just for their choice of Ubuntu.
Hah, I think it’s a poor choice (but mainly because of above issues with Corp control), I’d far rather have someone on Ubuntu and happy vs them on Windows and unhappy though.
Maybe one day they’ll see the light ?
Although not my personal choice at this point, Ubuntu and its derivatives are popular for a reason, well made solid products that work great for many around the globe
That is something that happens, sadly. However, I do agree with the sentiment of…
If someone wants to use corporate-controlled Google Chrome on their corporate-controlled Ubuntu with forced Snap usage, more power to them. I’ll continue to state my personal dislike for both, but not the user’s choice to use either. After all, I still use Firefox, and I get my share of grief for that choice.
I edited my previous reply it was supposed to be this.
Exactly! 
For example from security prospective
- All/most Debian/Ubuntu derivatives ship AppArmor by default.
- All/most RedHat/Fedora/OpenSUSE enterprise distros ship SELinux by default and perhaps one of the reason for the choices for server.
- For Arch it makes sense not to to ship any such thing by default as the intention is to provide OS with bare-minimum requirements. But at the same time almost all derivatives follow same path i.e. without “Linux Security Modules” including EOS. If Debian prioritizes AppArmor over SELinux due to its simplicity and ease-of-use then not sure if complex manual SELinux interventions on your arch installation are worth for the time & effort.
Of course you can tinker everything according to your preference on any distro but the gist is every single distro (including corporate-controlled distros) and their default_changes/choices matter for general users ;D Though personally I’d stay-away from corporate distros.
I’m not personally convinced the masses consistently make decisions based on a well established understanding of things. I’m sure we can all think of examples of this in the technology space.
My memory is foggy but I’m sure I first installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron or something even earlier as a dual boot because I was bored with the version of Windows I was running and read about this thing called Linux in a surely now defunct computer magazine. Everyone’s journey begins somewhere… Ubuntu had good marketing and word of mouth in those distant days…
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If I would be younger and would see this thread I think I would ditch idea of installing Linux. Because for someone who’s not “in” this scene for ours would probably think that we are just bunch of jerks who are dissing other distros and stuff.
And I am NOT saying this is the case here, but someone who stumbles into this world first time would probably not get the point of this discussion of ours.
That’s just something that came to my mind since there has been a big influx of newcomers here lately. I don’t want anyone to think ill about this great community.
Two strikes uBLUNDER and MicroBlows.
I do. People need to stop being so sensitive. If someone uses Ubuntu and is embarrassed about it, maybe they should think about why they are embarrassed not why they are using it.
People should learn to embrace their choices and not be afraid to like something different or just join the crowd.