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Ubuntu is a popular Linux operating system for PC / mobile devices, etc.

Developed by Canonical & based on Debian (another older Linux OS) which is known for it's rock solid stability.

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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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[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

My first Linux distro was Ubuntu 8.04 in 2008. Ubuntu helped me get into Linux. I'm very grateful about that.

However, Ubuntu is no longer a desktop-friendly distro. I hopped around a bit and settled eventually on Arch. Here are some of the things I don't like:

Ubuntu software repos ship ancient software. You have to live with issues that were solved years ago.
Ubuntu kernels are also old and have issues with recent laptops..
Ubuntu was stupid to push snap on everyone. Flatpaks are much better.

I think Ubuntu is a great distro for cloud servers, and they are heavily optimizing for that use case. But it's meh for laptops.