No, it's not. It's a misconception on the very fundamental level of the concepts we are talking about.
Moderating an online forum and state-sponsored censorship are two wildly different things. The former is in many circumstances legally required while the latter is legally prohibited (in most cases).
Freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to interfer with your speech (with exceptions). It doesn't mean that everyone has to listen to your bad takes let alone has to host them on their privately owned website.
Who does something matters just as much as what is done. Same as you can't claim that the police is kidnapping you when they arrest you for murdering your neighbour.
These basics are so basic that it is hard to believe you don't understand them. If you really don't understand them, read up on just the very basics of the concept of rule of law and the basic rights one has and how they apply.
It's more likely though that you do understand but just want to argue in bad faith, in which case it is not a conversation either.
It really depends on the type of job. If you are doing a cog-in-the-machine job like anything in retail, gastronomy or customer support, it's exactly like Pacattack57 described.
Fair point about /c/linux_gaming. OPs question wasn't really about gaming though and it was specifically about ubuntu/kubuntu.
So if anything, the OP should not have been in /c/linux_gaming, but the answers are on topic.
But even in regards to gaming, Mesa drivers are stable enough nowadays that even a bit outdated ones don't make a lot of tangible difference unless you are hunting for every last frame. In which case a beginner's distro isn't for you anyway.
The average casual gamer will have no issues with Ubuntu.
Yes, but if there's a guide on how to use some software with a Linux distro, there's always a guide for Ubuntu and often nothing else. I can't remember if I have ever seen a guide for 3rd party software for Brazzite.
That's ok for someone who either does nothing or is advanced enough to adapt the guide to their OS, but for anyone between these extremes it's a major downside.
These hoops don't matter for beginners. They are usually fine with what Ubuntu provides, or more to the point, don't even know what they might be missing.
Steam Survey is quite skewed by only showing what gamers use. That's quite a hefty selection bias, and of course it shows that gamers prefer the Steam Deck and gaming distros.
The distro itself is fine for beginners. But the main advantage of Ubuntu over e.g. Linux Mint or Brazzite or any of the other beginner distros is that if e.g. third-party software has a guide on how to use it on Linux it's almost always about Ubuntu. That is the real advantage of Ubuntu. Kubuntu doesn't have that.
There are 237.7 million licensed drivers in the US. That means there's 0.026 police reported crashes per driver per year. (Crashes not reported to the police are usually also not reported to insurance and thus don't matter in this discussion.)
Or to put it differently, that's one crash per 39 years of driving per driver or on average 1.6 crashes in a lifetime.
Yes, every crash is one to many and every fatality of course as well. In that regard it's far too many, but that's not what we are talking about.
We are talking about insurances estimating the likelyhood of future crashes of a driver. That means, on average, insurance has 1 data point per driver, and for anyone younger than 35 likely 0 data points.
That's not nearly enough to make any kind of statistically significant guess on how likely someone is to cause a crash.
For any statistically significant result you'd need at least a few dozen data points.
For that crashes are far, far too rare, so it makes sense to try to get better data that actually has some kind of significance.
*buntu are mainly beginner distros. They work fine out of the box, but many long-term users don't like them for ideological reasons.
The main advantage of Ubuntu over any other distro is that everything as an Ubuntu guide. The same is not true for Kubuntu, and if you stay in GUI, Ubuntu and Kubuntu share almost no similarities. The settings, the pre-installed default apps, all that differs greatly.
Thus the main reason for using *butnu is gone when using anything else than Ubuntu.
Except if the gui mentions anything in regards to GUI. Ubuntu and Kubuntu's system settings aren't even remotely similar.
That sadly makes Kubuntu a bit of a tough sell for a beginner who wants to primarily use the GUI route, since there's a guide for Ubuntu for almost everything but not for Kubuntu.
(Which sucks, because I like KDE way more. I of course use KDE, but that makes it kinda hard to recommend Kubuntu to a total beginner.)
This. Apart from the privacy stuff, this is actually what we want.
If this could be done without massive privacy implications it would be optimal to have a device in every car that instantly fines you for every wrong action you take in traffic.
Change lane without blinking? That's €2.
Follow too closely? Another €2.
Just briefly made it over the speed limit? Costs you another €2 per second over the limit.
Honking in no-honking-zones? That will be €2 again.
Don't let a pedestrian cross at a pedestrian crossing? Again, €2.
If every infraction is fined, the fines themselves don't be massive like they are right now. That takes away that gambling-like excitement and also punishes bad drivers significantly (since they break the laws all the time) while not incurring significant fines for someone who drives well but accidentally made a mistake once.
Accident data is rare and random. You might be a good driver and have gotten unlucky once. You might be a terrible driver and gotten lucky every single time.
That's what happens if you have such an extremely tiny sample size.
It's still extremely common now for kids making their own indie games. But instead of a random website they now end up on steam, ios/play store and so on.
No, it's not. It's a misconception on the very fundamental level of the concepts we are talking about.
Moderating an online forum and state-sponsored censorship are two wildly different things. The former is in many circumstances legally required while the latter is legally prohibited (in most cases).
Freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to interfer with your speech (with exceptions). It doesn't mean that everyone has to listen to your bad takes let alone has to host them on their privately owned website.
Who does something matters just as much as what is done. Same as you can't claim that the police is kidnapping you when they arrest you for murdering your neighbour.
These basics are so basic that it is hard to believe you don't understand them. If you really don't understand them, read up on just the very basics of the concept of rule of law and the basic rights one has and how they apply.
It's more likely though that you do understand but just want to argue in bad faith, in which case it is not a conversation either.