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Ubuntu > Anything else
Easton Watson
Matthew Richardson
umm....not Windows 10 sweaty xx...but other linuxes(linuxi?)? definitely..ubuntu is the way to go
Andrew Smith
pee pee poo poo butts
Alexander Williams
I actually always wondered why Gnome 3 Shell font rendering is dog shit in basically all distros except Ubuntu...
Isaiah Rodriguez
Ubuntu is one of the only distros that prioritizes user experience over software freedom.
Most distros ship 100% FLOSS by default. Ubuntu ships with 100% FLOSS by default, and a checkbox on installation that lets you use superior, but proprietary, software for video codecs, font rendering, etc.
Leo Lee
>Unity is the only Linux DE that supports fractional display scaling
>Freetards meme Ubuntu into adopting Gnome
>Now anyone with a HiDPI display can only use 1x or 2x scaling
Now I'm stuck on 17.04 until Gnome catches up to features Unity has had for several years already
Nicholas Fisher
I don't think ubuntu's publically available diff
launchpad.net
for freetype/fontconfig is so much brobrietary. Looks like something something patents/fair use thing only relevant for americucks.
Brayden Cooper
Software can be source-available and still be proprietary. While most proprietary software is closed source (because that's the easiest way to protect control over it), the only real requirement for software to be proprietary is that it imposes restrictions on its use.
Patent/fair use restrictions are still restrictions, and thus the software is not free or open source, but proprietary and source-available.
Adam Phillips
>fractional display scaling
omgubuntu.co.uk
Sebastian Hall
17.10 sucks balls.
John Reed
>but only in the Wayland session.
Aaron Allen
>subpixel antialiasing
>good
Camden Wilson
On Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
in what ways is Ubuntu 17.x better or worse?
Kayden Fisher
What's wrong with Unity?
Kevin Murphy
About to install my first distro but I've been thinking about it for months without being able to decide on which. I like macos and windows isn't bad but windows is incapable of having a nice development environment set up and I only have a 13 inch macbook: therefore linux solution. Which is the easiest to use, as well as being ricable a la the nice desktop threads you guys have around here?
Ian Sullivan
xubuntu. I use debian but xubuntu is easy to get started with and xfce is very customizeable
Grayson Baker
>xubuntu
Can I do like a mac-style dock, and fancy window managers, and all that ricing shit on there? Looks pretty dated out of the box
Logan Walker
As far as I know the only difference is that ubuntu enables the lcdfilter in freetyoe by default unlike other distros. Enable that.
Lucas Brown
>blaming Ubuntu instead of yourself for being so retarded that you can't enable subpixel rendering.
Git gud.
gist.github.com
Brayden Morales
guide for fedorafag
>dnf install freetype-freeworld
>enable subpixel antialiasing on tweak tools
enjoy!
Lincoln Kelly
Type like a normal person, you piece of shit.
Thomas Jones
I'm on NixOS and I have the subpixel font shit.
Picture related, it's of a superior distro. And not just to Ubuntu.
Adam Jenkins
ummm...i simple shan't sweaty xx
John Ward
Fuck me I forgot the pic!
Luis Rodriguez
You can do all of that with stock Ubuntu. I think xfce is a bit more customizable, but Ubuntu is better out of the box than Xubuntu and the default interface is better.
Henry Nguyen
>has to download extra software to make text render properly
>thinks people are brainlets for wanting a functioning os
Adam Gonzalez
mint>ubuntu>antyhing elsa
Oliver Butler
>Colours on black text
Absolutely disgusting
Henry Rogers
just like any not LTS version
stay on 16.04 until 18.04 is out
Aaron Nguyen
Nothing to do with gnome, Ubuntu is the only linux distro that supports proper font rendering, and that's the way it has been for the past 10+ years. The are several reason for that, you can mostly sum it up by people in charge of most distributions being retards.