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Ubuntu
A lot of proprietary software is easier to install here
I don't have time to fuck about, I use ubuntu mate because it gets out of my way and does what I expect it to do.
Shit just works
I can use the same OS on my servers
easy enough to use for me (I'm a linux newb) and I can setup steam on it!
edit: forgot to mention I can get hibernation working on Ubuntu when I couldn't figure out how to do that in Fedora
Are you playing steam games that have Linux versions? Or is the "comparability mode" stable and fast enough that you don't really have to think about it?
For when I can't get stuff to work on nixos 😅
Because it just works. Because it's based on free Debian and not corporate RedHat. Because mainstream Linux needs a flagship distro and that distro needs to be used and supported.
but Ubuntu is corporate, no?
I love the stability of LTS
I love the dock
It's easy to use