Canonical Announces General Availability of Ubuntu Pro, Free for Up to 5 PCs
https://social.076.moe/url/90001
@ryo
>promises up to 10 years of security updates, as well as access to exclusive tools.
>These include Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS, Python 2, Redis, Rust, WordPress, ROS, and many others.
You can get most (if not all) of this shit for free.
Either way, Ubuntu is dead to me. I recommend Linux Mint or Zorin OS over Ubuntu in terms of a beginner/normie friendly distro.
@terminalautism I really need to try Devuan. I would probably recommend that over Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, etc.
Most of the beginner distros are made to appeal to those who want an easy to use OS but are aware of the spying shit that Windows and macOS have. Many Linux users are just fed up with the shit that modern Windows has (universal backdoors, local accounts tied to MSN accounts, etc.), and have no desire to hack the kernel or whatever.
I don't know what's so hard about making a distribution for beginners, but no one can pull it off. Really, all you need is XFCE (if it's the most stable) and a GUI for the package manager and that's enough. Synaptic does the job, but I guess beginners would like something with pictures so they don't have to look programs up online just to see them. But yeah, that is the only thing that has to be made. How do they manage to screw everything else up?
All that a beginner needs is a tool for installing programs with (just by being an interface for the package manager, not being its own package manager, apparently Manjaro did that, they went out of their way to work extra hard to make things not work), and a system that doesn't break, and maybe configuring the desktop environment a bit. Somehow even that is too difficult.
I'd recommend you start from either Devuan or Artix instead, saw way more success among those people, because both require you to adapt to the Unix way of doing computers, which has a bigger learning curve, but once it clicks you'll never want to go back to proprietary soyware ever again.
@ryo I'm using Mint right now. Previously, I used Xubuntu. I never had any motivation to go beyond that. The fact that modern Windows requires a Microsoft account to set up keeps me away from it in most cases.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell from what I read, "beginner" distributions pretty much all suck. None of them are reliable, and all of them are made by retards. At least the ones I looked at had some reviews that really made me not want to recommend them.
If I was going to introduce someone to Linux right now, it would not be that simple. Would probably go with Devuan plus some explanations of how to use Synaptic, or whatever. And the dumb shit that it inherits from Debian.