i’m glad you shared this because it’s forced me to take stock of all the time that has passed by as he explained his experiences with ubuntu.
i got especially nostalgic when he mentioned compiz and the feeling of being on the bleeding edge. it felt so bleeding edge that when ubuntu made that public mistake w grub in one of their earlier releases, it got me to consider buying a linux laptop; which i did a few years later permanently, until recently.
also: unity was awesome.
“Take stock of.”
Peak low with Snap.
That’s what made me move onto other distros.
My employer is forcing us to migrate from Debian to Ubuntu because they want access to paid support. Holy crap, I hate snap so much.
Thank God mint exists so everyone has a viable snap-free alternative.
Wish they’d drop it already.
The thing with Ubuntu is: Every single one of their releases since 2008 had a “I wish they’d drop this” thing.
What people want is a preconfigured Debian with newer packages and non-free Codecs.
But that’s not what Canonical wants. They use Debian as base to build off of its millions of volunteer work-hours, but very much try to commercialize and monetize their product.It sounds like people want Mint?
Mint with default KDE would be the perfect beginner distro.
Damn, now I feel old. The first linux distro I installed (and was able to run on my hardware) was their second release, 05.04.
You want to feel older? That release is older than me, and I’m a full grown adult.
Child, when I started, I still typed WIN <ENTER> only about half the time I turned on the family 486, BeOS was a viable alternative, and Slackware took you days to get a system set up. And I’m not nearly as old as the great old ones roaming around this very forum.
I’d still be using Ubuntu sometimes if it weren’t for the snaps thing. They only make sense for proprietary software… but snaps still suck. I don’t like packaged software. They contain all kinds of things that can’t be updated. The app store was getting better before all that changed. Now Debian seems better, but I still prefer source based distros like Gentoo because the ingredients come with recipes.
When both are free of cost, I prefer food delivery over cooking myself.
I just use Debian with the barest minimum installation needed to get flatpak running.
Complete history of Ubuntu: a lot of
highs, a lot of lowsbugs and poor decisions.There, fixed for you.
