Ubuntu's Decline

31 thoughts on “Ubuntu's Decline”

• Website Article: https://christitus.com/ubuntu-decline/

• alright, Imma switch to debian.

• Snaps put me right off especially since they are forcing snap installs over deb install as default, also lack of support for Flatpack out the box dont help also by default the latest version of Ubuntu cant even install deb files from the GUI and I had to download GDebi or use the terminal as the newer software canter can install from deb files you have as a stand alone file, I will Stick with Rhino Linux & Ubuntu MATE as the stock Ubuntu has fast become garbage.

• after almost 8 years dealing with ubuntu, finally i move on to debian+xcfe4.

• At least firefox is loading on 1 click here. For me, it crashes on 1st and 2nd attempts. Then decides to open upon the 3rd in the slow mentioned manner. Was using Lunar Lobster.

• That lag opening Firefox, I experience that in any distro I use and even in windows. It's only Firefox that does it.

• Bye ububtu. Hi Mint.

• Im sitting here absolutely new to linux.and just migrated to Pop Os on one laptop and Mint Mate on another laptop.Had Mint once before. Used to love Ubuntu and thus it was my go-to Linux as a windows user. That was a mistake. I thought it was lightweight compred to WIn but its slooooooow.
  Im still trying out various distros but it seems like its Mint Mate and Pop OS.
  I find Pop way more snappy than Ubuntu in everything. As said im noob but understood that Pop is somewhat a shell on Ubuntu anyway. Why the major differnece in responsiveness?

  Wtf happened when he switched from Ubuntu to Fedora? Is that an inbuilt feature?

• Linux mint has entered the Chat

• It's great if you uninstall snap. Snap is the only problem with it. I use ubuntu LTS. i think it's better then fedora which uses a shit ton of ram(no matter what you do).
  i would rather my distro come with snap that i can uninstall than have it use a bunch of ram that i can't do anything about.
  i don't know how people can hate ubuntu but they like garbage fedora.

• As a Desktop, Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome/Shell, back then, were utter deal breakers for me, and I've never been back and I thank you for confirming my convictions today.
  So I switched to Arch Linux, or LFS, and learned how to build my own WM, and/or DE, like Openbox, KDE, MATE, XFCE, …
  Presently, I've settled on Linux Mint MATE, or Cinnamon, for my daily use, simply for it's great stability and convenience.
  However, I also like to dabble the odd time with Kubuntu, openSUSE, or Manjaro – which are also all good Distro's.

• I remember when they made the controversial decision to use Unity.
  Everyone hated it at the time but it's still the greatest DE imo.

• I installed 18.04 on my old PC and it was lagging like crazy. Ubuntu is no more an old hardware friendly Linux distro. With the release of every new version it is just getting worse.

• It is slow however you are mistaken about pointless. Ubuntu is the number one operating system that introduces new users to Linux. I'm not even gonna watch because if the title has wrong information clearly the video will as well. Or perhaps you don't want new Linux users idk.

• using ubuntu inside virtual machine and complaining its slow… oh well!!!

• 1:39 – Having tried Linux Mint a few years ago I was looking forward to Linux… But I hard some primary stuff I was not willing to give up so now I just came over from windows (which is now on dual drive boot) and I was like WTF…?!?! This feels like FK***N Windows…

• Ubuntu was dead to me after 20.04 forced snaps (and initially broke lots of other things too). Xubuntu 18.04, where everything happily coexisted, was my go to favorite. Glad Mint capitalized on this, and basically continued on what was great about 18.04.

• what can you expect from london? since london has a strong geopolitical agenda probably Ubuntu is one of their medium through Canonical. I'm starting to worry about the solidarity of the ubuntu fanbase which has been built for decades as if they are starting to lose fundamental trust in the product they use.

• i use snap in fedora and yeah there pretty slow compare to rpm

• It's not in decline ibecause it's not your choice everyone I know talks about flat packs and snaps

• Seems like they made the mistake of instead of building performance in right from the start, they decided they'd optimize it later after they've got the functionality in, and if you've ever worked on a large project — if you didn't build it from the ground up to perform well you're likely going to really struggle to optimize it later.

• Meh, been hearing this since 11.10. Whenever Canonical does a thing the community cries that the thing is "pointless" and should be immediately scrapped and replaced by a competing Red Hat solution.

• so yeah they didn't abandon it at all I am so sorry past year chris

• Considering how many distros are based on Ubuntu, I'm worried what happens when Ubuntu goes away.

• I'm running windows 11 on one of my gaming laptops and it literally open Firefox faster with a fucking game open faster than Ubuntu opens that Firefox snap package and nothing else, holy shit

• For me tho, the Best Ubuntu LTS release that I have used is 20.04 LTS. Its's fast, responsive looks beautiful, both wallpaper and Yaru. I just formatted my laptop running Windows 10 and replaced it with Ubuntu. I love it. I will continue using it till the eos. Since I have Ubuntu Pro, I think i can get security updates till 2030. Never gonna replace anything with Ubuntu.

• Always used Mint. Been very happy with it.

• I downloaded Ubuntu years ago on a spare hard drive so that way I could bypass parental restrictions on accessing games, and somehow managed to make a folder that contained itself and I couldn’t delete it or move it.

• Many Ubuntu user's seem to be moving to Fedora and Debian. Ubuntu 22.04 was launched with so many bugs that it was more like an early beta than a final release. I moved to Debian 12, the Debian developers and community put high quality and reliability above all else. No software is perfect by any means but Debian sure comes as close to perfection as humanly possible. In my eyes Debian has raised the bar for quality!

• I used to use Ubuntu, but yeah it's become complete garbage now. Snap is the worst thing anyone ever tried to do to a linux distro. I run Debian now with KDE, and it's so much better it makes it comical that Ubuntu is downstream from Debian.

• Do a video on Ubuntu slow bootup and errors with bootup

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