I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

  • @drndramrndra@lemmygrad.ml
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    04 months ago

    I thought I would stick with Debian

    There’s your first mistake. Don’t run a server distro on a workstation if you don’t want to deal with it’s downsides.

    I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it

    Read the CUPS Arch wiki page

    do you people think Ubuntu will work for me?

    Fuck Ubuntu. Use Mint if you want to try something Ubuntu based.

    I’ve recently went through a bunch of stable distros and Nobara had the best experience out of the box.

    • @digdilem@lemmy.ml
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      04 months ago

      (Looks at laptop I’m using to reply to this that’s running Debian)

      Server OS? Debian? Yes it is, but it’s also a Desktop and Laptop OS and many other things. Everything on this HP laptop just worked, including the function buttons. There’s a reason it’s such a well used distro, and it’s not just because it’s good for servers.