i’m glad you shared this because it’s forced me to take stock of all the time that has passed by as he explained his experiences with ubuntu.
i got especially nostalgic when he mentioned compiz and the feeling of being on the bleeding edge. it felt so bleeding edge that when ubuntu made that public mistake w grub in one of their earlier releases, it got me to consider buying a linux laptop; which i did a few years later permanently, until recently.
also: unity was awesome.
“Take stock of.”
Thank God mint exists so everyone has a viable snap-free alternative.
Wish they’d drop it already.
The thing with Ubuntu is: Every single one of their releases since 2008 had a “I wish they’d drop this” thing.
What people want is a preconfigured Debian with newer packages and non-free Codecs.
But that’s not what Canonical wants. They use Debian as base to build off of its millions of volunteer work-hours, but very much try to commercialize and monetize their product.It sounds like people want Mint?
Mint with default KDE would be the perfect beginner distro.
Damn, now I feel old. The first linux distro I installed (and was able to run on my hardware) was their second release, 05.04.
You want to feel older? That release is older than me, and I’m a full grown adult.
I also started with Hoary Hedgehog!
I remember getting the pressed CDs in the mail for free. It was my first installed distribution but I remember messing around with a Slax Live CD before.
Peak low with Snap.
That’s what made me move onto other distros.
A link to the video on PeerTube through Tilvids: https://tilvids.com/w/e4fxGdZgmgZeHVUrPLunUt
It makes me feel so nostalgic.
I still remember trying something alien called Linux on an old Dell Laptop (and also on my Playstation 3) I had inherited from my dad’s company. It was good that everything worked out of the box because I had not technical knowledge. I can’t know for sure but I guess it was a version of Ubuntu between 6.XX and 8.XX.
Then it was Linux all the time, until having a Windows dual boot in the mid-2010 before switching back to Linux fully at the beginning of the 2020’s.
No more Ubuntu though since I fell in love with Fedora.
I’d still be using Ubuntu sometimes if it weren’t for the snaps thing. They only make sense for proprietary software… but snaps still suck. I don’t like packaged software. They contain all kinds of things that can’t be updated. The app store was getting better before all that changed. Now Debian seems better, but I still prefer source based distros like Gentoo because the ingredients come with recipes.
When both are free of cost, I prefer food delivery over cooking myself.
I just use Debian with the barest minimum installation needed to get flatpak running.
The only reason I don’t like snaps is because they don’t include all functionality. For example, I couldn’t print with Gimp and Darktable snaps.
You don’t mind that each snap you install is further slowing down boot times?
As a watercolor artist, who sells prints, the printing was a bigger problem for me.
My employer is forcing us to migrate from Debian to Ubuntu because they want access to paid support. Holy crap, I hate snap so much.
Complete history of Ubuntu: a lot of
highs, a lot of lowsbugs and poor decisions.There, fixed for you.
