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Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary

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harel ◴[21 Oct 24 00:12 UTC] No.41899590[source]▶
This makes me feel my age... I ordered and got that free CD, and "tested" it on my windows XP laptop, with a dual boot, because this is just a test, right? I never booted XP again on that laptop, or any other since. For the past 3-4 years I've been planning to get off Ubuntu and move to Arch, but I keep postponing because everything just works, and I can't risk downtime due to something not working as I'm used to.
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aabhay ◴[21 Oct 24 00:16 UTC] No.41899611[source]▶
Lucky you that everything just works. I’ve never had a seamless post install experience with Ubuntu. There’s always some weirdness, some display oddity, some wifi quirk, some sleep/hibernate thing, right click on the trackpad, or installing packages is broken. As much as I love and respect Ubuntu, I just can’t imagine using it for personal work.

And yes, I also installed the first version via CD in 2005, way back when, on my XP machine.

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1. harel ◴[21 Oct 24 01:12 UTC] No.41899857[source]▶
except "that" laptop which was a Toshiba, all the rest of them were Thinkpads. Maybe that's it? My requirements for "just works" change over the years, and maybe at times I was a bit lax (I don't really need a fingerprint reader) but yeah everything so far just worked (including that print reader in recent years). I still plan to move to Arch because 20 years is a long time and change is inevitable, but I need some free time first...