Why does Ubuntu attract so many haters?

[lancejz@mastodon.social]

@Kalon @itsfoss what is annoying about 'the Snaps'?

[thezorse@hear-me.social]

@itsfoss

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!?)

[khanh@mstdn.social]

@lucasth @itsfoss lots of hate, especially on reddit.

[normand_nadon@hostux.social]

@itsfoss
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...

[lucasth@mastodon.social]

@khanh @itsfoss ok I will just ignore that...

[el_haych2024@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss for me, it was like someone had rearranged a room in a way that didn't make sense to me.

[kalon@mastodon.social]

@LanceJZ
Mostly I'm just used to the old way of doing things with .deb files.

Beyond that I guess I've come to accept Flatpak since it seems to have become the more common cross distro packaging system.

@itsfoss

[jerryjhird@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss 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

[lancejz@mastodon.social]

@Kalon @itsfoss I use Flatpak too, it depends on what is best supported by the dev, like the article talks about.

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

@el_haych2024 An interesting take, thanks for sharing!