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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu desktop version, it's slow and buggy and the devs push ads and snaps and other crap.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Been running Ubuntu 22.04 for the last several months and have yet to see anything resembling an ad. I guess it prompts me why there's system updates every fe days to a week or so. But I'd hardly call that an 'ad'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Must have to do with the fact that in the meantime I use nala more often instead of apt.