Is Ubuntu a bad Linux Distro?

Ubuntu - the distribution that many members of the Linux community love to hate. But why? Is the hate warranted, or are people overreacting? In this video, I'll give you my thoughts on some of the criticisms that Ubuntu faces nowadays.

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00:00 - Intro
01:37 - Why do some people in the Linux community hate Ubuntu so much?
04:24 - Should you hate Ubuntu?
07:52 - Snap packages, and the controversy they've caused
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[johnwestervelt]

Once I became familiar with 22.04, the removes, the installs, the add-ons, and the adjustments I needed to make, it's solid. Reliable. Snappy (forgive the pun). As for aesthetics, I love the Ubuntu theming on 22.04.

[andmefikri]

I think the quote from Stroustrup also applies here. "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".

[joejohnston]

I have always gone back to Ubuntu when distro hopping as it is the easiest and most reliable distro in the end. It is so compatible and works with my many older hardware that it just makes it hard to use something else.

[topherfungus]

I recently had Ubuntu Studio installed for a while, and I didn't even realize I was using Snaps. Most people probably don't know or care. There just seems to be a portion of the Linux community that is aggressively ideological about Linux and what it should/shouldn't do, and most of them probably have no idea how important Ubuntu is and has been in the server space.

[antoinewilk]

Ubuntu is a great distro to use, have never had a problem with it and as a web designer I spend about 12 hours behind the screen, I have deadlines to meet and I've been using Linux from the beginning and there's no reason to hate. I've tried just about all distros and there's something to be said for every distro. Ubuntu is the mother of all distros for me. And enjoy it every day, very stable and fast. For some it is never good!

[gusgyn]

Ubuntu started really nice, and I'm grateful for what they did for the community, but in the past few years they just kept making wrong choices that hurt their reputation. I wish they can turn that around and come back to the right track that they were once on.

[CarloGamna]

"Ignore the hate, try it out for yourself and see what you think about." I really agree. I daily use Ubuntu since 2014 and I find it really good. Not perfect, just the best Linux distro for my everyday work.

[davidsmith]

I normally agree with a great deal of what you say, but to say that choosing a corporate backed distro means you have no right to complain is absurd. Community distros do it too, and non-contributing users have just as much power to affect change. You do have a right to complain, you also have to remember that the power of choice is always your own. Community, or company, unless you're coding the distro, someone's deciding things for you.

[ozgurkosar]

If I'm not mistaken, I've been using ubuntu since 10.10.
It was sent as a cd when I first installed it.
I used it that way.
The processor was core 2 duo.
Ubuntu isn't perfect, of course.
But according to the operating systems in the market
pretty fast in some ways ubuntu 22.04 .
thanks
Learn Linux TV

[philippkaden]

Hey Jay, very good points on the topic on Ubuntu. Couldn't agree more. But one thing regarding the recent videos. Since you moved to the new background tiles I noticed that the brightness of your videos constantly change ever so slightly. I guess the camera is having difficulties with dialing in the correct values for exposure. Maybe it would be a good idea to set static values for it since your setup is not changing while filming.

Besides that: Please kep up the good work. I really like this channel for it's calm and very informative content.

[SprunkCovers]

"ignore the hate and try out for yourself" so true! I started my Linux journey with Ubuntu 22.04 and so far no problems for me and what I do everything just works, I wanted Ubuntu so bad in the 2000s when I was a kid and tbh now I'm in my mid 20s and no regrets, also Ubuntu may not be everyones cup of tea but you are still in the Linux ecosystem and I think that is better than nothing

[ammdias]

I recently upgraded Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 on my main machine -- a Tuxedo InfinityBook S14 v5 with 8GB RAM, i5, 250MB SSD -- and am not experiencing that delay when starting Firefox. It starts in 2 or 3 seconds on the standard Gnome interface and almost instantly in the i3 desktop. Maybe it's some optimization from Tuxedo?

[phrtao]

I like what you had to say about reputations in Linux. I find reputations play a big part in any technical field. People echo good or bad comments that they have heard because they think it makes them look like they understand something that is very technical. What I find is that many reputations are actually out of date and many supposed problems have been fixed or surpassed before the reputation has even got going. The great thing about Linux is that it is easy to try something out and prove or disprove its reputation. (Not so easy in other fields like the car industry, hifi etc.)

[MikeKasprzak]

As an occasional graphics programmer, Ubuntu was one of the first distros to make Linux something I could as my daily driver PC. The Unity desktop was underappreciated at the time, with lots of QOL features that I grew to like. Today I use PopOS, but Ubuntu did me right for many years, and I still happily use it on servers.

[_antoniolinhares]

I use a Dell Precision laptop (same xps base) that came with Ubuntu 18.04. Even tough I switched to Fedora 36 as my daily driver OS for the newer kernels and technologies, I still have the Ubuntu installation on a separate partition, and sometimes it’s nice to be able to run back to it to solve any issues the pc may present, or install older deb applications that don’t go along with Fedora dependencies.

[theena]

I started my Linux journey on Ubuntu so Canonical will always have my gratitude. Having said that, I can't stand Vanilla Ubuntu, and alot of that has to to do with Gnome. I don't know what it is, the experience has always been less than stellar. Personally, I use Ubuntu variants, Kubuntu and now Ubuntu Studio, the latter is, in my opinion, almost perfect for the content creator types who want to dip into Linux.

[jonathanrider]

I started my linux journey with ubuntu 12 as it was a very popular distro - since then I have upgraded with each LTS until the SNAP chapter - I had some frustration with snap and for 2-3 years now am using linux mint as my fav distro. I occasionally try other distros and have always returned to ubuntu and more recently, mint. Keep up your super viseos - I have learned a great deal from you!

[getmonerodotorg]

I used Ubuntu desktop for about 6 years but recently switched to Pop OS. The 2 main things I like better in Pop OS are: 1) no snap packages 2) better fractional scaling support. I may switch back to Ubuntu when 22.10 comes out but, for now, I'll use Pop OS 22.04. I looked at Pop OS after watching some of the videos by Learn Linux TV.

[kathleenmcgrath]

Like your vids, thanks. One question for you about snap. I run Brave as my default browser and have tried to uninstall Firefox but cannot, now I know why it wants to stay resident, thanks. But is there any way to stop the constant upgrades?

[truthislam]

I transitioned to PoP OS from windows and five years latter I have migrated to Peppermint 10. I had heard about the stability of Debian peppermint 11 and have been considering it by using it in a virtual machine.
Since I consider myself more of a hobbyist in my approach to learning Linux it now seems wise to stay on Peppermint 10 until I feel more confident about moving my HOME folder to a partition on a spinner the ROOT on fast SSD.
Thanks for the info concerning Debian not being the best for many hardware drivers.