Should I go back to Ubuntu? Or am I too old for it now?

[chris0nlinux]

Hello everyone,

I have been having thoughts of going back to Ubuntu lately. I have spent time in Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Void Linux. However, I find none of them so welcoming as Ubuntu. Arch Linux is way too bleeding edge for me, and I hate Fedora's package manager, DNF. I have lost track of what is going on in the Ubuntu world. What do you all think, should I go back to good old Ubuntu, or do you think going back will be no good for me?

P.S.: How can I roast my Ubuntu beans?

Thank you,
Chris

[deadflowr]

There are no rules that say you can only run something and nothing else.
If you want to try Ubuntu (again) then by all means try Ubuntu again.

P.S.: How can I roast my Ubuntu beans?

If you're talking about the forum beans, help people or ask for help with issues you might have related to Ubuntu in the Support sections of the forums.
(You can also help others or ask for help in the Other Operating System section here: https://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=446)

[QIII]

Ask your grandchildren if you are too old. I don't get any complaints from mine.

[poorguy]

I'm 71 years old and I've no problems using Ubuntu still a great distro imo.

[Tadaen_Sylvermane]

If you mean too old because of your linux experience? No such thing. You are happy with what you are happy with. Just because it may or may not have a certain following associated with it or label. Noob distro like Ubuntu as some might say. Hardcore like Gentoo or Arch. At the end of the day those labels are irrelevant. If you are happy with something use it. Screw what anyone else says you should do. I use vanilla Ubuntu happily lately. I was tinkering with Arch for awhile but CodeBlocks kept crashing as I'm also learning C. Ubuntu has been rock solid and i have 8-10 years of daily driver linux experience and I don't feel like Ubuntu is holding me back in any way.

I admit I'd rather be using Debian but I can't solve why the display manager crashes on monitor power saving since I got this new monitor. Problem doesn't exist on Ubuntu so here I am.

TLDR - Use what you like and are comfortable with or as in my case, the one that gives you the least issues. Don't let other people's definitions define your personal experience.

[chris0nlinux]

Thank you for your assistance. I should stop being influenced by others in the Linux community and use what I truly feel comfortable with.

[pantazi]

I'm 75 and switched to Ubuntu 5 years ago and thoroughly enjoying the experience, learning new things every week, particularly through the questions asked by the members of this forum, (a great resource). Experimenting with different distros via KVM, using the terminal and keeping the brain active.

The OP's question is a no-brainer for me.

[DuckHook]

…I should stop being influenced by others in the Linux community…

Our tech lives are no different than our real lives.

In our real lives, we use our careful and considered judgment to determine who to listen to and who to ignore. Who is wise and who is foolish. Who can point us to better outcomes and who will lead us astray.

Those same considerations are at play in your present quandary: and the same tools that you use in real life can be brought to bear in your tech life too.

So, I wouldn't go so far as to disavow the influence of others altogether. Just lean more heavily on those who have a track record of offering good advice, accurate knowledge and good outcomes.

Influence is neither created equal nor of equal value. It isn't that hard to differentiate between the good and the bad. It just takes some time, investigation and observation.

[SeijiSensei]

I'm 71 years old and I've no problems using Ubuntu still a great distro imo.

I'm 73. I maintain public Linux servers to handle web and mail services for myself and another organization. Every computer in my house runs Kubuntu 22.04.

This has been my life since I went into Linux+Internet consulting back in the mid-90s. I've used most flavors of RedHat, CentOS, and Ubuntu at different points along the way.

Don't let anyone tell you you're too old.

[grahammechanical]

I am 75 and I learnt a long time ago that computer operating systems do the same things. They just have different ways of doing it. My first OS was MS-Dos. I learnt the various commands. Well, Linux has to do the same things. We just have to learn the relevant Linux commands.

The same is true regarding different desktop environments and Graphical User Interfaces. Once loaded there must be a method of shutting down; of running programs. Also called applications. They all must have a means of updating the OS and changing system settings. And so on.

There are different flavours of Ubuntu that have different desktop environments. As well as having different system requirements they also have different ways of doing the same system things. If you are used to a certain way of working then it may be that one of the flavours of Ubuntu will be more familiar to you.

Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Kubuntu with the KDE desktop https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-22-04-lts-released/
Lubuntu with LXQT desktop https://lubuntu.me/
Xubuntu with the Xfce desktop https://xubuntu.org/
Ubuntu Budgie https://ubuntubudgie.org/
Ubuntu Mate https://ubuntu-mate.org/
Ubuntu Studio https://ubuntustudio.org/
Ubuntu Kylin https://www.ubuntukylin.com/index.php?lang=en

Choose what seems most familiar.

Regards