by aquova on 10/20/24, 9:44 PM with 107 comments
by neom on 10/20/24, 10:36 PM
To me Ubuntu is what Mandrake never became.
by linguae on 10/20/24, 10:09 PM
by tastysandwich on 10/20/24, 10:48 PM
But man, I started using this distro 18 years ago? And I still use it today. I can tell you, it's gotten more usable, more stable, and easier to install, without (imo) sacrificing any of what we love about Linux systems. If you hate snaps you can just remove them.
It's an OS I can easily recommend to beginners who want to dip their toes in the Linux world. They can install it without any help.
And I get that so much is a testament to the software Ubuntu uses getting better. But it brings it all together in such a great way.
I used Arch Linux for a few years. But I didn't really like having to check message boards for any breaking changes before updating lest my system become unusable... As a busy professional and dad, I don't see myself switching off of Ubuntu anytime soon.
by singhrac on 10/20/24, 10:40 PM
She had no problems whatsoever using it for all of her work and barely noticed the change, and it brought new life to a computer that would have almost certainly ended up in a landfill 7 years early.
Given the hard work of the Wine/Proton developers (and many, many others) I can only imagine the situation is even better now.
by sundarurfriend on 10/20/24, 10:34 PM
In the mid-2000s, getting professionally packaged CDs, one for Live Ubuntu and one for installation, with clear instructions, and having that load into an easy to use (relatively, for the time) OS installer, made the prospect of trying out Linux so much easier and more appealing, compared to downloading it on a torrent or trying to find a friend to copy it from. That was right away a positive first impression of Linux, and probably played a part in me continuing to try it out despite many kernel panics in the early days, and then eventually moving to Linux entirely.
And along the way, I've been able to help out many others get into Linux and have an easier time of it as well. None of this might have happened if not for Ubuntu's attitude of actively reaching out to help new users, and the end products of that.
by wejick on 10/20/24, 11:45 PM
by thetyikergg on 10/20/24, 10:34 PM
Ubuntu was a big factor in me getting into Linux as a kid in India. In an era where the only internet we had was expensive dial-up, Ubuntu shipping CDs all the way here was such a nice act of kindness!
I was even able to evangelize people around me into Linux, since I was able to give away CDs.
by willmeyers on 10/20/24, 10:52 PM
by nikon on 10/21/24, 2:41 AM
by harel on 10/21/24, 12:12 AM
by vegabook on 10/20/24, 10:49 PM
by unpopularopp on 10/20/24, 10:32 PM
(even though I know since that Ubuntu wasn't the first Live distro at all)
by jakebasile on 10/20/24, 11:24 PM
It's sad to see so many Linux people try to tear Ubuntu/Canonical down over minor technical complaints (snaps are fine, Unity was good) since they've done so much for Desktop Linux in particular. I hope the distro will keep going strong for another 20 years as I have no desire to switch to another.
by meiraleal on 10/20/24, 10:24 PM
by jillesvangurp on 10/21/24, 2:55 AM
For personal use, I've moved away from it. I've had a Manjaro laptop for a few years now for some light gaming on Steam, which works great. I picked an Arch based distro because that's what Steam uses for the Steam Deck.
IMHO, Ubuntu should move to rolling releases if they want to stay relevant. It doesn't make sense to run years out of date kernels and software packages these days. Especially if you want to run e.g. games and benefit from driver upgrades. And the bi-annual upgrade cycle just creates a lot of hassle for users. I know lots of Ubuntu users that routinely wipe their laptop because it's just easier than upgrading. Not a thing with Manjaro. I installed it nearly three years ago and it's fully up to date. And there seems to be a steady flow of kernel work that has gradually improved support for the hardware I have. I wouldn't want to miss out on that.
Now that Arch has a more usable installer, I might move over to that but I'm not in a hurry. Three years ago installing Arch was a 50 step process that was a bit challenging as it involved fiddling with boot loaders and what not just to get it to boot to a cli with a working network connection (which requires the right kernel modules to be there). Manjaro has a nice live CD that sort of makes that a whole lot easier. That sort of makes it the Ubuntu equivalent for Arch, I guess.
by dgfitz on 10/20/24, 11:00 PM
by mattbillenstein on 10/21/24, 3:48 AM
by westurner on 10/21/24, 12:41 AM
SchoolTool also started 20 years ago. Then Open edX, and it looks like e.g. Canvas for LMS these days.
To run an Ubuntu container with podman:
apt-get install -y podman distrobox
podman run --rm --it docker.io/ubuntu:24.04 bash --login
podman run --rm --it docker.io/ubuntu:24.10 bash --login
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installs Ubuntu (otherwise there's GitBash and podman-desktop for over there)
The jupyter/docker-stacks containers build FROM Ubuntu:24.04 LTS: https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/main/images/do... :
docker run -p 10000:8888 quay.io/jupyter/scipy-notebook:2024-10-07by major505 on 10/21/24, 2:23 AM
After sufering a couple of years in slack, I tried ubuntu for the first time and was my go to distro until I foun Fedora. And them I never really leave Fedora, but I still try new Ubuntu and arch from times to times.
I do ernjoy how easy they make everything, and while I understand that people dont like Snaps, they do work well enough for the use I do of a linux desktop. I also run Ubuntu Server on my home server.
by nrvn on 10/22/24, 9:09 AM
Time flies. Things change. "The year of Linux on the desktop" is always next year. I am grateful to Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth for all their work that was done back then. For a lot of people, Ubuntu became their entrypoint to the world of open source, tinkering and Linux ecosystem.
by pentagrama on 10/21/24, 3:33 AM
Will have to go to their homes to change Ublock Origin for the lite version since they use Chrome tho. I think the developer should choose to update the V2 with the V3 on the Chrome Store.
by Coolbeanstoo on 10/20/24, 10:36 PM
I do wish the canonical hiring process was less goofy, as I think I'm qualified for roles there but I ended the process early years ago and now I don't seem to be under consideration since
by phendrenad2 on 10/21/24, 2:47 AM
Since then, Ubuntu's role in the Linux community has changed. I don't think anyone would seriously recommend Ubuntu to a newbie, when there are so many better options. (And that's okay, things are allowed to change).
by rootsudo on 10/21/24, 2:46 AM
I remember the live cds and install cds that were free to order. Brought life back to an old g3 iMac and it taught me much about grub bootloader to dual boot. Was also an early teen too.
20 years later and I knew I’ll be in tech. I’m 50/50 about that.
My first distributor was either mandrake or suse. But this was the one I used the most. The other exciting thing at the time was knoppix.
by bitwize on 10/21/24, 1:51 PM
by byhbwshdh on 10/21/24, 5:56 AM
Was one of the first times to try a usable Linux installation
by blackeyeblitzar on 10/21/24, 5:23 AM
by npteljes on 10/21/24, 7:54 PM
by evanjrowley on 10/20/24, 11:17 PM
by atum47 on 10/20/24, 10:55 PM
by rldjbpin on 10/21/24, 8:36 AM
despite running off of a cd and memory, a live ubuntu 10 experience felt faster on my p4 old box than the windows xp installed on a scsi drive. despite the challenges with certain hardware support (broadcom wifi on 12.04; nvidia hybrid mode on laptops especially around 14.04 era), it was a relatively safe environment to learn about the linux internals at my own pace.
from academia to work, i continue to see it being a default choice for linux environments, and for a good reason. happy birthday!
by CarVac on 10/20/24, 10:53 PM
Hopefully it'll be around for many more years.
by anacrolix on 10/21/24, 10:52 AM
Their hiring process absolutely sucks. Crap hiring processes means you hire people that don't have other options.
by shriphani on 10/20/24, 10:47 PM
by umvi on 10/21/24, 2:05 AM
by cassepipe on 10/20/24, 11:36 PM
by julianeon on 10/21/24, 12:56 AM
by kwar13 on 10/20/24, 10:54 PM
by omani on 10/20/24, 10:55 PM
a distro I liked in the past and now try to avoid whenever possible.
by dallas on 10/21/24, 1:38 AM
by musicale on 10/20/24, 10:41 PM
This kind of nonsense is one of the things that people hate about Windows.
Also adding extra garbage into CLI sessions is something that I greatly dislike because 1) it's very irritating and adds unnecessary noise and 2) it can break scripts. Some non-Canonical offenders include GNU parallel and Apple's xcode CLI tools. I don't like how vim includes political messages either, even for causes that I might otherwise support, simply because it is distracting when I want to concentrate on getting work done.
by bearjaws on 10/20/24, 11:34 PM
Went home and put it on my old crappy laptop dual boot, had barely any drive space left since it was like 60gb drive at the time lmao.
I am always thankful I got into Linux since it made learning programming so much easier, and my current career involves Linux every day...
by type0 on 10/20/24, 10:24 PM