This is from 5.10. Warty 4.10 was the first Linux distro I actually installed, after only using a Knoppix live CD previously. I miss those days. A lot has improved for Linux but it seemed like Ubuntu was onto something. Then in 2010s they lost their way.
From what I’m reading only the header doesn’t hold up due to forced snap packages, something else I missed?
The snap store not being foss is such a slap in the face. The ads in the terminal (and a few other places) are particularly egregious as well.
I bailed when they did Mir and Upstart. You could literally see their ego affecting their technical decisions, leading up to “Not Invented Here” syndrome, like you see in particularly culty software companies in silicon valley.
Like one poster said, I was an early adopter (Warty) and felt the warm and cozy ‘Ubuntu’ everywhere in their system. It was visionary and beautiful in it’s simplicity and hopefulness. They sold out.
When the Banshee music player added support for buying Amazon Mp3s, when Ubuntu packaged it for their distro, they took the original authors affiliate code out and put in their own.
Snaps are the big one. I know Pro is free for the average users but imagine if they didn’t put security updates for the universe repos behind that sign up? I understand that they didn’t get those updates before Pro but imagine if they just gave those updates to all users. I still think it is one of the great all time distros. I just think their focus is more on enterprise than on the average user and I am nostalgic for those early days.
They were unbearable the second they started sending every search request to am*z*n in 2012. They enshitified their OS years before Microsoft.
Uhh
Which Microsoft products have you been using?
I’ve been (mainly) using Linux since 1996, but I can still acknowledge that Windows 7 (which was still recent in 2012) was peak Windows. As far as I know, Microsoft didn’t put ads in their start menu until Windows 10, a decade after Canonical.