Ubuntu since 2006
- It just works for the simple things
- It is as powerful as needed for the complicated things
- It runs nearly everywhere
- It’s universally supported by anything that supports Linux
- It’s supported at my workplace
- It’s got the largest community and body of documentation available which makes solving problems easy
- It’s got pretty good UX (I miss Unity)
- I like Snap
- It’s got very, very long term security support for free which makes supporting it easy
- I know it very well and can bend it to my will in any way I need
- I’m infinitely grateful to the Debian community for making it possible
- If the BDFL loses his B, there’s an obvious backup plan - migrating to Debian
DOS and Windows up to 2006
You’re tearing me apart (Lisa) with these Snap and Unity takes. I’m sure you already know, but there’s a Ubuntu Unity flavour now.
I don’t miss it that badly. 😅 Unity is written on a properly obsolete stack at this point. It might survive a little while longer but it’s eventually nearing the trash bin like Xorg or PulseAudio. I learned a heuristic a long time ago - the bugs are typically fewest with the default flavour. This actually applies to a lot more than Ubuntu’s flavours. And so with a heavy heart I learned to live with GNOME Shell years ago and parted ways with Unity. 💔
At least life with Ubuntu LTS has never been better! 22.04 is amazing on so many levels…
I actually agree. My desktop is vanilla GNOME. I’m one of those degenerates that actually like libadwaita. The experience is unified and gorgeous (or a total abomination, as you see fit). That’s the beauty of Linux.
