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Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
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It has the brand recognition of being "the" Linux distro, even though it doesn't deserve that title these days (if it ever did at all).
Oh it did.
When Ubuntu first came out Debian was so far behind it was a joke. Debian.. woody? Was old as fuck still running a 2.2 kernel and even sid was behind.
Ubuntu basically lit a fire under their ass and got em to stay more up to date and has become an excellent distro, even stable isn't that far behind anymore.
Also I had "so called normies" asking me about Ubuntu or talking about it in regular conversation whereas a year prior I'd have to explain what Linux was if I mentioned it. It was an exciting time where Linux was about to become mainstream it seems.
Either way I'm fine with Ubuntu (and steam deck) being the gateway drug to Linux. But I do agree they've fallen off since the mid 2010s. Debian is pretty easy to install and is just a better experience if you still wanna use APT and it seems everyone else does Ubuntu better like Mint or Pop.
Back in '07 it was an easy entry into Linux and was praised constantly.
I'm not completely sure if they were the distro that started the trend, but the 'Ubunufication' of distros since then has made Linux easier to access.
It's a shame that they began sharing telemetry and displaying ads to their users. As more distros break ranks for profit, like Red Hat and Suse, we will slowly see more techs accepting this behavior.
SUSE going private isn't going against their users. It's breaking away from the dependence on market investors, which only seek short term profit, so it is in SUSE that I currently place my trust for the Enterprise Linux space.