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Why does Ubuntu attract so many haters? Snaps might be a reason, but there's more to it. šŸ˜…

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in reply to It's FOSS

I Kind of like Ubuntu... Is there hate? I am quite new to this.
in reply to It's FOSS

True. I don't like it, but that just results in me not using it. And that's fine, isn't it?

(Though the way things are going recently with *all* distros, LFS is looking viable again.)

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I've used many distros over the decades and was quite happy to have Ubuntu be a major one for a long time. But the Snaps are annoying.
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as much as I hate snaps, Ubuntu remains the best distro for my personal requirements
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You can use snaps, flatpaks and deb-packages side by side, and you can allways decide by yourself which one to use, so what's all the fuss anyway? Ubuntu just works.
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I've been using Slackware and spinoffs for years - currently Porteus - and I accept that this is Linux so everyone is entitled to their own opinion of 'what works'. We may not agree because we have differing priorities, and needs from our software 'ecosystem' but STOP WITH THE UBUNTU BUTTHURT willya? ' The hate it gets is over the top'? Grow up! Stop crying! Grow some more distros!
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many reasons to hate Ubuntu, hope the list fits in a tooth:

Centralized proprietary Snap ecosystem forced on users

replaced gnu utils with Rust

Amazon ads, sent search queries to Amazon (2012ish)

their license gives extra rights over contributions

Building Unity vs collaborating with GNOME

Creating Mir instead of using Wayland

Forcing Snap versions of apps like Firefox

Killing projects like Ubuntu Touch and Unity after pushing them heavily

Telemetry added in Ubuntu 18.04

in reply to It's FOSS

I love Ubuntu. What is wrong with Snap?
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I don't hate Ubuntu but the last LTS came with some issues that were very frustrating for me and which would have vexxed someone with less experience. Three that spring to mind:

-NTFS driver that doesn't work (why can I suddenly not access my NTFS drives!?)

-appimages restricted (why can I not open these programs that I rely on!?)

-GTK version not being backwards compatible (why do the GUIs of these plugins I rely on suddenly not work!?)

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I learned a lot with Ubuntu desktop many years ago, but at one point, I felt like I was fighting more with it than I was actually using it. Snap made it even worst... For the desktop, I left for Pop!Os for many years, but now that they are not updating the Gnome version anymore, I switched to Debian. I still use Ubuntu-server a lot though...
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@Normand_Nadon Oh, I get it. If a desktop gets in your way, then it is doing something wrong.
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for me, it was like someone had rearranged a room in a way that didn't make sense to me.
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my first distro was kubuntu (ubuntu shipping with kde) and its probably the worst distro ive used so far and ive used a lot, its not that its doing anything wrong (even tho it does with snap and probably other things) its that i dont see much reason to use it over something like fedora or just base debian

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