So, I’ve been using windows since the day I got my first laptop, why? Because I am loving it. But I am starting to see Microsoft changing things in a way I don’t like. These changes don’t affect me since I am using my windows laptop with a Microsoft account so I am avoiding all the bloat. However, that doesn’t mean I believe that people actually paying 120 euro or more for a Windows key and still getting ADs in the operating system which they paid for isn’t really nice. So, after my friends annoyed me for a while, I decided to try Ubuntu (once again). Let’s see what happened…

Installing Ubuntu

Installing Ubuntu is really easy, you flash a USB drive with the ISO, reboot and install…not this time though. This time Microsoft fixed a security issue in the GRUB bootloader and with that it accidentally killed all dual boot setups with an error message saying Something has gone seriously wrong…yeah, I think we noticed Microsoft. For dual booters it was quite a pain to fix it but for me it was as easy as just disabling Secure Boot before installing and then enabling it again. After doing this I was able to install just fine.

Fractional scaling

One of the biggest issues I am facing with Linux is fractional scaling, fractional scaling essentially zooms your screen, why is that useful? Because I have a HIDPI display and with 100% zoom I can’t see anything I mean I can but everything is way too small. I could use X and fractional scaling but since it’s not really that stable, I simply changed my font size to 1.5 and zoomed my icons to 48 pixels. Everything looked good.

Customizing

Next step was to customize everything a bit because the default Ubuntu desktop is just…meh. I installed the Orchis theme which is really nice, installed the Papirus Icon Theme, disabled the default Ubuntu dock and installed Dash To Dock a much better dock with much more customizability. Finally I installed Bing Wall to get the awesome Bing wallpapers.

Installing my apps

Installing my apps was relatively easy, I opened the Appstore clicked some install buttons and everything worked. I also downloaded some deb packages for some extra software and everything was looking good.

The disaster

I wanted to install two of my favorite apps, Lunar Client and Viber. So, I opened Chrome, searched Viber Linux download clicked the first link and I was presented with…an app image, really? An app image? Anyway, I downloaded it, made it executable and run ./Viber.AppImage, error, fuse is required. No big deal, I opened Chrome, searched Install fuse ubuntu, clicked the first link…sudo apt install fuse3, I run the command, fuse installs, I run the app image, Viber launches, I am happy. Now in order to make it easier to run I made a desktop file to add Viber to my apps (same for Lunar Client). Everything seems fine until…I noticed my file manager is missing, I said Huh that's weird and opened the apps menu and searched for Files, nothing. What? I opened the terminal, run nautilus, command not found. What the f*ck? I opened Chrome, searched Ubuntu nautilus missing, I stumble across a forum post saying Ubuntu desktop removed after installing fuse, I think Oh no, I reboot, login screen, enter my password, nothing, I click the session setting and would you look at that…MY WHOLE DESKTOP JUST GOT UNINSTALLED!

Removing Ubuntu

Yeah, I am not going to sit here reinstalling the whole thing, I straight up rebooted to UEFI settings, set Windows Boot Manager as the first option, booted Windows, opened disk management and deleted the Ubuntu partition without a second thought. Then I opened a CMD prompt, mounted the System partition and deleted GRUB. did I mention I hate GRUB?

Conclusion

Ubuntu is just…not for me. I hate it. A lot. From now on I will never install Linux on my laptop again, except WSL, we all know WSL is the best developer thing, right? Now somebody will say You should have been more careful and read the message before hitting enter and I respond to that by saying my operating system should have been more careful by not letting me uninstall my desktop without saying ARE YOU SURE BRO?. Have you heard of windows uninstalling itself? Because I haven’t. Anyway, from now on I will be the biggest Windows fanboy out there until…either Microsoft makes this operating system bloatware or Ubuntu gets too good. That’s it. Windows for life!