Hello everyone! I would like to know why there seems to be some dislike toward Ubuntu within the Linux community. I would like you to share your reasons for why you like Ubuntu or, on the contrary, why you don’t. Thanks 🙇

  • @fool@programming.dev
    8•3 months ago

    I’ll give some anecdotes.

    1. A friend long ago was setting up VSCode and Java. He wasn’t the most familiar with Ubuntu, or Linux at all – imagine his struggle when his JDK couldn’t be found. Why? Non-obvious to him, it was sandboxed as a snap.
    2. When I was a noob, I was looking for a package for some app, but when I found a PPA, it was an enormous command to set up. And hunting online for software… how Windowsy.
    3. When I was a noob, I was theming my system with a mildly rare theme. But Firefox was a snap. And since the theme didn’t have a snap, I had to try to integrate it myself or de-snap Firefox… shiver

    Maybe it’s changed now. But (1) pushed me to Mint, (2) pushed me further to distros with simpler text-based package management, and (3) is hopefully easier nowadays.

    Bottom line (as many agree): Snaps are uncomfortable for a lot of levels of Linux.