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  • Historically, yes, Ubuntu has put in the most effort into being the most user-friendly, most easy-to-use distro.

    However, I would argue that is not really the case anymore because as other distros (especially Mint and Pop!) have arisen for a user-friendly experience, Canonical has gradually abandoned this over the past few years in favour of being more server focused. Most of the innovation for user-friendly design just isn’t coming from Canonical anymore.

    The biggest argument for Ubuntu for beginners is that there are more resources such as tutorials for it - mostly momentum.




  • yistdaj@pawb.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldwayland was a mistake
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    5 months ago

    “OpenBSD made a secure fork of X?” Depends on what you consider secure I guess. X has some fundamental design issues.

    One particularly memorable one is that lock screens in X are run on top of your userspace. If they crash, you get to use your computer again. No matter how many patches are applied to X lock screens, a new bug appears every few years that has to be patched. It fails insecurely, and as such will always be insecure as long as the lock screen could feasibly crash.

    If your answer is “lock screens don’t matter,” security is not a top priority for you, and that’s okay. There are other reasons you may wish to use X. Please understand however that some people may find it important, and may choose to use Wayland as a result.