Hosted on OneDrive? What about privacy?

The problem here is not Ubuntu in itself. If you use a kernel version that does not have the drivers for your new on the market device no distro would work properly, even Arch.

Ubuntu software repos ship ancient software. You have to live with issues that were solved years ago.

Can you name some examples? I mostly use Firefox, IDEs and VLC and they are up to date.

Ubuntu kernels are also old and have issues with recent laptops…

If you really need a newer kernel there is no problem to install one, but a lot of users don’t need and don’t care as long as the system runs fine. 25.04 is 4 months old on kernel 6.14 which is not that old. Of course LTS versions have older kernels, but that’s what LTS distros are about, stable software, not bleeding edge updates.

Ubuntu was stupid to push snap on everyone. Flatpaks are much better.

Please explain why that is with credible up-to-date sources for you claim. I never had big issues and use both. And both can deliver buggy software, that’s for sure.

But it’s meh for laptops.

Some laptops, yes, but it’s always a bit of gamble. If the laptop is generally well supported like ThinkPads, System76, Tuxedo or Framework you will have much less or no issues compared to other manufacturers.
But i won’t generalize it. I used a Dell, then a Acer Aspire R 13 and now a Framework and never had issues. Even the convertible touch display of the Acer worked as intended by the manufacturer.

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It really makes the kids better people. I mean, look at us Germans, we’ve never done anything wrong…

In a family you share everything, right?