I remember Ubuntu’s first few releases quite well. Ubuntu started as a solid Debian distribution with sane defaults that made Linux relatively easy for people to use. Mandrake was dying and Ubuntu filled the spot quite well. Ubuntu was the OS that I installed on my mother’s computer when she said she unhappy with her computer. She used it for a few years before I bought her a Mac.
Ubuntu has since drifted from that original vision of stable, easy, intuitive computing. Ubuntu has drifted from that so severely that it has become irrelevant, and those individuals who want what Ubuntu originally offered are now better served by Fedora or Manjaro. Arch gaining market share has been slow and steady and seems to mostly serve those who like to tinker… for Arch users, it seems to me that their hobby is Arch.
I have used and continue to use Slackware on my Linux machines because it works, it doesn’t surprise me, it doesn’t change for change’s sake, and it gets out of my way. Ubuntu never achieved that.
I blame the shift from their Debian roots with changing out packages from being apt-based to being snap-based (which are slow).
Also changing the default server-image from being “regular” Ubuntu to being IoT-Ubuntu with cloud-unit and all that nonsense shows a shift in focus which does not at all align with desktop users.
I disagree. The 22.04 release, while having some bugs, is a breath of fresh air for Ubuntu. Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro……
Confusion say: Water in commode slosh very fast and is always circling drain.
I remember Ubuntu’s first few releases quite well. Ubuntu started as a solid Debian distribution with sane defaults that made Linux relatively easy for people to use. Mandrake was dying and Ubuntu filled the spot quite well. Ubuntu was the OS that I installed on my mother’s computer when she said she unhappy with her computer. She used it for a few years before I bought her a Mac.
Ubuntu has since drifted from that original vision of stable, easy, intuitive computing. Ubuntu has drifted from that so severely that it has become irrelevant, and those individuals who want what Ubuntu originally offered are now better served by Fedora or Manjaro. Arch gaining market share has been slow and steady and seems to mostly serve those who like to tinker… for Arch users, it seems to me that their hobby is Arch.
I have used and continue to use Slackware on my Linux machines because it works, it doesn’t surprise me, it doesn’t change for change’s sake, and it gets out of my way. Ubuntu never achieved that.
I blame the shift from their Debian roots with changing out packages from being apt-based to being snap-based (which are slow).
Also changing the default server-image from being “regular” Ubuntu to being IoT-Ubuntu with cloud-unit and all that nonsense shows a shift in focus which does not at all align with desktop users.