tldr: He left because of Snap.
-Just like the rest of us.
ubuntu is so popular when you stop using it you get to write a blog post
Is Ubuntu the new Windows?
They are in the same camp
It really isn’t all that popular these days. It is running on the fumes of history like Windows is. The difference is there is little reason to stay with Ubuntu since it is just Linux.
It really isn’t all that popular these days
It’s popular amongst regular linux users, I mean if I was to take your opinion seriously then someone clearly made a mistake here:
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-system
Someone put Ubuntu in 3rd (after Mac and Windows) and Fedora in 12th under ipadOS and “Other linux based” 🧐
In terms of popularity amongst neckbeards who argue over linux distros then yeah, Ubuntu isn’t that popular you’re right
The stack overflow survey only captures a small portion of the population. It is going to be mostly corporate software development companies.
Ubuntu is still fairly common in the enterprise when it is required by corporate overlords but it is way less popular when users are given a choice. Ubuntu doesn’t have much to offer these days and it is riding on inertia.
I have a general philosophy of reinstalling my systems from scratch every few months and honestly Ubuntu is among the easiest for that (Debian is close second, but corporate overlords freak the hell out)
Ok so you have no penetration in the corporate environment
SteamOS for Jan 2025 shows Arch with 9.41% and Ubuntu with 8.97%, so gamers are using it
Wikipedia shows it with as the only distro with a pulse
some pretty strong fumes eh?
LOL this is me. Bonus points for the immuteable versions. The first truly desktop linux that “just works” and dare I say improves over windows in basically every way.
Ubuntu no longer supplies value over Debian. Made the switch and can barely tell the difference. And no snaps.
I was about to install Ubuntu, which I’ve used before, but decided to try out Mint. About to throw the switch right now in fact. Hope it’s a good decision.
Mint is great. I’ve been using it as my daily since mid last year after ditching windows.
Somehow I’ve drifted back to Ubuntu because of work. It’s useful being on the same os as everyone else when troubleshooting, but I hate how I have to “fix” it on every fresh install, it just put up with broken snaps and constantly crashing security updates.
Honestly Arch was less work than this.
You are comparing Apples to Oranges
I would run Linux Mint since it is Ubuntu based but doesn’t have the same issues.
The major drawback is that Fedora is only supported for a year
Hey guys, even LXC kinda sorta ditched Ubuntu. The creator gave away his baby LXD to Ubuntu and started supporting Incus instead.
Although i think it was just canonical that he wanted freedom from.
Based as heck!
Ha, I had the same experience with Debian this week.
What happened with Debian? Just moved to Fedora? I ditched Ubuntu for Debian long ago, tried Fedora but prefer EndeavourOS (“polished Arch”) these days.
Yea no hate, Debian is a fine distro. I’ve always bounced between Debian and Fedora after abandoning Ubuntu years back but recently I’ve been using a Redhat based distro at work and got sick of typing dnf when I meant to type apt.
You can alias it 😅 (I think, or is the structure of arguments too different? It could probably still be done with regex but I haven’t tried aliasing with that complexity…)
Yea but last week I upgraded my laptop storage and decided to go with a fresh install of Fedora.
Ubuntu is just like Windows now, you have to run a debloater to make it usable.
The debloater? Debian.
I use popOS and never had a problem with snaps. They’re not nearly as bad as flatpak. I avoid those like the plague.
Both are rubbish in my experience - both on the development side and installation side. To be honest I don’t love building any of the package formats for Linux, and prefer installing deb/rpm. Old school I guess.
Ditched Ubuntu last year for Hannah Montana Linux and haven’t looked back.
Man I used to love Ubuntu. Then snaps…and it broke a lot of things. Now I’m on other oses. But I appreciate what they did to the Debian flavors of distos.
I fucking love the “friendship ended” meme. It makes me laugh every time.
It is the gold standard!
