Is Ubuntu the best Linux??

Is Ubuntu the ultimate and best Linux distro ever???

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[biutifo]

wherever I started my linux journey, always come back to ubuntu from time to time.

[bertnijhof]

I started in IT in 1969 :) In the nineties I got used to Windows, I loved Windows for Workgroups 3.11. In 2005 I installed Ubuntu 5.04 on a spare Pentium II and I was impressed, but stayed on Windows XP. In 2008 I bought a new laptop with Windows Vista and a HDD with a throughput of a lousy 45 MB/s. I started dual booting Vista and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS :) In my last year before retirement I used Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as my main OS and for work I installed good old Windows XP Home in a VM using Sun's Virtualbox. I still use Ubuntu, Virtualbox and that Windows XP VM, installed and activated in 03- 2010.

After my retirement I only used Ubuntu of course with a lot of Virtualbox VMs. I'm a collector now, I have all Windows releases between 1987 and 2023 and all Ubuntu LTS releases (6.06 to 22.04) plus the first one 4.10 and my first one 5.04. For years I keep an eye on ~6 other Linux distros (currently: Zorin; Mint; Fedora; Manjaro; OpenSUSE and Debian) and on most Ubuntu flavors, including 23.10.

I'm very interested in immutable OSes, so I installed Vanilla OS VM and dumped it again. I'm not interested in solutions, which uses 2 images of the OS, one to run and the other to update. This week I installed the prototype of the snap based Ubuntu Core 22.04 in 2 VM's, one in a virt-manager/KVM and the other in Virtualbox. Both have issues, virt-manager has issues with shared folders and Virtualbox of course with installing the Guest Additions :)

I'm that interested, because in 1976+ we designed an immutable Air Traffic Control system including an immutable kernel. It was used in projects till the end of the Philips 16-bits mini-computer series around 1990. All program code was read only and all data was initialized dynamically in the r/w pages. Kernel; development-process and all applications were in one hand, which made such a design possible. The reason for this design were the high reliability requirements of those systems, remember SW errors are more frequent than HW errors.

[MB-tzby]

totally agree. just distrohopped a bunch, and now landed on Ubuntu. It just works/it's the most polished distro IMO for most people, like you said.

[lawsofsand]

Ubuntu is the only distro I could have ever justified to our company director when switching the whole business to Linux. "Best for most people" has its weight.

[esra_erimez]

I started out on Ubuntu, used Manjaro for several years and am back to Ubuntu

[sto]

For commercial usage in desktop/laptop format it is hands down the better option.

[chuckaviator]

Ubuntu is great because it gets as close to mainstream as it gets. It (often) just works.

[SleepyRulu]

I think its the best linux in my opinion

[Adityarm.]

I agree, Ubuntu is best desktop distribution for most users imho. It's beautiful, gets the job done without much effort.

[basilcat]

Yes, its the best linux. It is not affected by patent issues, and most important of all, even though people say this is not true, they have contributed more than red hat itself in terms of user-friendliness. Also, they contributed to flatpak and gnome. And i'm not lying.

[madfinntech]

My first Linux was Red Hat, the version they had in 1999 or 2000, I can't remember exactly. I tried Debian and Suse. Then I used Mandrake/Mandriva for a while. I tried Ubuntu and pretty much it's always been Ubuntu ever since. Especially when Red Hat stopped being free; I never liked Fedora branding. I tried it recently though, and it's the next best thing after Ubuntu. I also ran on one of my old laptops to the ground using Mint. I'm running OpenSuse for the first time on a virtual machine at the moment, and it seems to be fine, too. But if I had to run Linux instead of Windows for some weird reason on my main desktop, it would be Ubuntu.

[jgaming]

I started on Ubuntu tried a bunch of different distros n ended back on Ubuntu 😐😂

[kassioalvesfarias]

I often recommend Ubuntu and its flavors to someone that wants to try Linux, that being said, while Ubuntu may be a good wife, Debian for me is the ultimate wife, she can be stable as fk or can go a little crazy with the testing or devel branch.

[act..]

I have never run Ubuntu. I started with SuSE before Novell bought it and just never checked it out. I did run Arch for quite a few years, because "rolling release." I came back after Tumbleweed settled in and I just feel at home. I understand "stable" and for my desktop needs and wants, I prefer rolling, but a few days ago I did install Tuxedo in a VM, because it is a hybrid and I have to say that I am impressed with it. I don't think I would switch to it full time, but having a pretty fresh and up to date Kubuntu based system that can still have tested reliability is quite intriguing.

[rodrigoromo]

I don´t know, but I've been distro hoping for a month now, I installed Arch, Manjaro, Archcraft, Arco Linux, Fedora, Ultramarine, RisiOS, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Kubuntu, Ubuntu... but at least for my need and my machine, the best one has been DEBIAN, pure good old debian, with gnome, but i am using debian Sid, it is very good, fast, and even stable inspite i'm using sid, it's amasing.

[ArniesTech]

It is. The numbers prove it. The happy enterprise clients prove it. The masses of big developers who port their software to Snaps prove it. Ubuntu is by far the alpha animal in the Linux Zoo. Whether we ethics/philosophy enthusiasts like it or not.

That said, being German, I simply love OpenSUSE. But yeah, Ubuntu is the deal when it comes to Linux.

[famousmwofficial]

ubuntu is sincerely the best. its not a hassle for most users

I guess a lot of people didn't choose Ubuntu because of the haters. If you post something related to Ubuntu you will definitely got a response "Don't use Ubuntu, it's a shit"...

[DChatc]

I been saying this for awhile now, if and when Linux finally breaks out and becomes widely accepted it is surely going to be either Ubuntu or it's fork Mint. Like you said I always keep coming back to it, that is always my baseline, even when I came back from MacOS, when I finally got too frustrated with the hardware issues of MacBooks I came to Mint and that's the distro I've been on since 2019.

I remember I hopped onto Puppy once because I thought the tiny size sounded appealing and would let my system run smoother - BIG mistake, my printers simply wouldn't work and I was starting to get yelled at by my boss after awhile, so switched back to Ubuntu and no problem..

Ubuntu and Mint both have everything that a dependent user needs - Broad support and a vast community friendly to n00bs, universal access to package managers, consistency and stability, dozens of programs it runs..

Again, Ubuntu/Mint are going to be what makes Linux a success, and to hell with "purists" who rather fail than become "vulgar".

[HikmetDemirci-ly]

I love Ubuntu but the 24 is a bit janky on virtualbox so for no rocking debian until a it stabilizes and being optimized further.