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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.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've been using Linux for 10y and never distro-hopped to solve a problem. Overall I've only used 3 distros as daily drivers. IMO you should look into making things work with a distro you like instead of looking for the perfect off the shelf distro.

[–] Kawi@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah you're probably right, which distro do you use?

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I second EndeavourOS. Nothing beats the arch wiki and arch user repository, and combining that with the easy and sane install of EndeavourOS makes it an almost perfect distro.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

I’m not sure OP sounds like someone who into reading Arch News, learning about pacnew/pacsave, etc. that’s more for hobbyists. An ubuntu flavor or something like Zorin might be better for them and then stick with it and solve any problem that may show up.

what is your usecase?