Honestly, I'm so... conflicted. I know people working on Ubuntu, they're amazing people. I try my best not to criticize it too hard, but... it's been going downhill ever since they introduced snaps.
It's slow, unstable, and I'm frankly tired of it *still* being the default choice for beginners. It caused nothing for headaches for us in the project, and it was incredibly hard to convince my friends to try Linux again after they burned themselves on Ubuntu (which tends to nuke itself with every other update - contrary to that, one of my Fedora installs survived upgrading from 23 to 41 with minor issues...).
Canonical's hiring process was a running meme in FOSS community for years now. It's the only company where I withdrew my application from because I didn't want to deal with it's nonsense which would only waste my time.
I really hope people will start moving away from Ubuntu. There are so many great options (even for beginners there's Mint, OpenSuSE with YaST2 etc) or just even plain old Debian with Flatpak if you prefer sta(b)le.
Ubuntu 8.04 was my first Linux distro, messing with GNOME2 and Compiz on Pentium 3 and GF FX5200 was what *really* got me into computers (yes, I was ~11 at the time). My mom was using Ubuntu 16.04 with minimal intervention from my side until it reached EOL and she bought a new laptop (and I really liked Unity BTW). It's fallen so low, it's sad.
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npub19w…8g8gs
2025-09-07 20:39:39 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…jrl2
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