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error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files.

After this error screen for few seconds it automatically boots into Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Ubuntu has gotten worse that it seams to was a few years ago. I didn't use it outside of servers. Many don't like the direction that ubuntu goes with snaps. But use whatever distro you want

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Oh right I forgot all about snaps. Yeah I haven't used it as a dedicated desktop since probably 2006. It's generally all server usage in the cloud for me these days, which basically means everything is disposable and I couldn't care less about the full OS in general. I really do need to get back on Linux for personal use though. I don't really care for running VMs on windows for my self hosted stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why would anyone use Ubuntu on a server? Ubuntu is basically Debian unstable + non-free drivers that they tried to get sorta stable in 6 months. That may be ok on a desktop where you can accept some bugs in exchange for newer versions of the software. But why would you not run Debian stable on a server instead?

Maybe 10 years ago when Debian stable got really out-of-date, but that hasn't been true in a looong time. Debian releases much more frequently, much stabler, it has all the goid stuff from Ubuntu backported but none if the bad stuff.

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