Can’t say I’ve been happy with the direction that Ubuntu is going, but at least I can still do regular security updates on my old af Ubuntu release without fearing that it will randomly decide to upgrade to a new major release. Plus, there are still plenty of distros that are just fine, and switching is only as annoying as a reinstall.
Mostly Snap. I’m not fundamentally opposed to a new package manager (I’m fine with Flatpak), but it has a proprietary store that can’t easily be circumvented like you can with Flatpak’s main store, and snap-packaged applications had kinda bad performance for a long time (IDK what the current state is on Ubuntu 26.04, but it’s gone on for way too long).
They also have a history of making decisions that are obviously not what the users want (e.g. the Amazon integration they did - if this is the first time you hear about it, look it up; it’s pretty much a case study of everything that’s wrong with how Ubuntu is being run), which gives me very little confidence in how they’re going to handle AI/LLMs - Canonical is a commercial entity, after all.
I’m in the process of fully switching to Debian, which is at least a fully community-developed distro and has come a long way since the time when Canonical took Debian and added a huge amount of user-friendly streamlining. I might change my mind depending on the outcome of Debian’s ongoing “how do we deal with AI”-discussion, though.
Yeah, the sneaky crap with snaps makes me want to avoid them all by itself, I left Windows to get away from that kind of forced decision. The Amazon thing was pretty bad too.
The last straw came when I evaluated it vs Debian for a home server, first update after install and it threw a scare warning making it sound like my system would be insecure if I didn’t pay for pro, and I’m just so not into that kind of manipulative bullshit. I shut down the VM and deleted it immediately and I’ll never touch them by choice again.
Can’t say I’ve been happy with the direction that Ubuntu is going, but at least I can still do regular security updates on my old af Ubuntu release without fearing that it will randomly decide to upgrade to a new major release. Plus, there are still plenty of distros that are just fine, and switching is only as annoying as a reinstall.
I’m not familiar. What misdeeds have the Ubuntu folks been up to?
Mostly Snap. I’m not fundamentally opposed to a new package manager (I’m fine with Flatpak), but it has a proprietary store that can’t easily be circumvented like you can with Flatpak’s main store, and snap-packaged applications had kinda bad performance for a long time (IDK what the current state is on Ubuntu 26.04, but it’s gone on for way too long).
They also have a history of making decisions that are obviously not what the users want (e.g. the Amazon integration they did - if this is the first time you hear about it, look it up; it’s pretty much a case study of everything that’s wrong with how Ubuntu is being run), which gives me very little confidence in how they’re going to handle AI/LLMs - Canonical is a commercial entity, after all.
I’m in the process of fully switching to Debian, which is at least a fully community-developed distro and has come a long way since the time when Canonical took Debian and added a huge amount of user-friendly streamlining. I might change my mind depending on the outcome of Debian’s ongoing “how do we deal with AI”-discussion, though.
Yeah, the sneaky crap with snaps makes me want to avoid them all by itself, I left Windows to get away from that kind of forced decision. The Amazon thing was pretty bad too.
The last straw came when I evaluated it vs Debian for a home server, first update after install and it threw a scare warning making it sound like my system would be insecure if I didn’t pay for pro, and I’m just so not into that kind of manipulative bullshit. I shut down the VM and deleted it immediately and I’ll never touch them by choice again.
I’ve been on Debian since the start of the year and been having a grand old time. I rarely think about it.
Thanks!