I love Arch Linux, but it is NOT an operating system. Ubuntu is spyware, so I'm going back to Debian GNU/Linux.
Debian is built on solid principles, and the community is sticking to them.
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What makes Ubuntu a spyware? In thinking to switch to Linux from MarCOs and was considering Ubuntu.
Good luck with the Debian cancel crowd. Let's see when they start purging more packages based on ideology of the authors.
I've been a web developer running Redhat/Centos/Rocky for almost 20 years.
Recently I played around with Fedora KDE and Gnome again for the first time in many years. Linux desktop still isn't polished.
I never could get into Debian or Ubuntu. For some reason it always felt like I was on someone else's operating system and I just didn't quite feel comfortable with those.
I love linux as a server. Still can't get myself to stick with it on desktop.
No, Linux desktop will never will be polished, but it's as free as it can be. I use xfce4 as a window manager, which is quite simple, but featureful. Started with KDE, and never liked Gnome.
I've been using linux as desktop OS since 1998. Started with redhat, then changed to debian in 1999. For a long time I went with Debian, but there was a time when there was no new OS release for 2 years, which pushed me towards Arch Linux. I'm going back now.
All very interesting.
I never liked Gnome either. Felt odd. I always used KDE.
I don't think I've ever used xfce or arch. I used Ubuntu and that felt odd to me, as well. I think I just locked in to the Redhat family long ago and stuck with it through the changes.
I just closed my website and decommissioned the servers. They went from Redhat to Centos to Rocky over the years.
Now I have a Rocky development VPS I'm playing around with.
I have several Linux variations on portable SSDs that I boot to at home for fun. I also load up the virtualization stack and play around.
I've thought about doing development work on Linux desktop - Visual Studio code and the iPhone/Android simulators - but I don't know how well the mobile simulators are supported.
Everything works well on Mac OS so I've stuck with it all these years for my main desktop.
As the saying goes, use the linux distribution your friends are using. :)
I think iphone development is unsupported in many levels on linux.
I'm using Ubuntu. (I know, I'm just a lame Windows user who can't really switch to Linux properly.) 😕
yes it is, by definition. not sure how you came to this conclusion.