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Why is there so much hate on Ubuntu from the wider Linux community and is any of it justified? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Cause they make a lot of decisions that are Canonical only, and don’t take criticism of those decisions well. Most of it I’d say is relatively undeserved, but the pushback against Snaps is definitely deserved. It’s a walled-garden approach to software distribution, which has no place in Linux.

Unity and Mir were interesting tech and had good goals. They were also fully open source, so I didn’t have a problem with either. The Amazon thing was just straight up a bad decision, but they fixed it, to their credit. Snaps are a bad decision, bad tech, and the server portion is closed source. And, they refuse to back down. That makes Ubuntu desktop something I cannot recommend to anyone. It’s a shame. Ubuntu got me into Linux back with Hardy Heron.

Ubuntu server is ok, but I specifically tell people I recommend it to to uninstall snapd. The only reason I still recommend it is because their long term support is phenomenal.

Ultimately, it’s getting harder and harder to recommend anything Canonical.