A very interesting video on Ubuntu’s birth and eventual decline. One of the lines from this video sums up Ubuntu’s life to this point…
Ubuntu is no longer what it once was. It went from “Linux for human beings” to “Linux for corporations.” It stopped being a shared dream and became a corporate platform.
What is funny is that Ubuntu is still the most widely used Linux desktop.
It is primarily the enthusiasts which have moved away from Ubuntu.
The people who know what they are doing…
No surprise. The vast majority of people blindly use Windows. But it’s quite sad that what Ubuntu is now is nothing more than a pale, dim memory of what it was. Ubuntu/Canonical have more in common with Microsoft nowadays in the way they operate, their philosophy.
I remember when Ubuntu was new & interesting…I was involved back then in the unstable testing group, and the fun and camaraderie were very enjoyable. I stayed for several releases—started with Warty Warthog until about early 2011…I went to Debian unstable/Sid after that & did not look back.
The “Unity” desktop was when I left…was NOT a very “unifying” time at Ubuntu in the testing groups…
Considering who has always owned it it’s always been the end goal. Luckily Arch has greatly displaced it with some truly fantastic distros out there.
I have good memories of my first years of using Linux with Ubuntu. I still use Ubuntu at work on my workstation, although I used the Mint method to disable snaps. I will probably switch to Debian or another distribution looking at the direction Ubuntu is heading.
RedHat and Ubuntu are simply commercial entities these days.
That is really sad. Ubuntu is terrible since snaps made it so slow. If more people used something else then I feel like more would continue to use it.
Ubuntu was what got me into Linux, back in the 6.06 days. I’m grateful for that. Using Ubuntu widened my horizon, helped me become aware of open source, Linux, and the communities behind them.
Ubuntu has moved on, and so have I.
To each their own.
But i do acknowledge that i would not be where i am now (as far as my ability to use and manage my computers the way i do now) if it were not, or had not been, for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu popularized Linux in many ways all other distros failed to do. I have no love for Ubuntu any longer, but back between 2005 and 2015, Ubuntu spread the word of Linux to millions of potential users, and shipped live, bootable media for free around the world. I give some credit where credit is due. Canonical also worked with hardware resellers to preload Ubuntu onto computers for sale in mass-market retailers, a feat few other Linux distros ever achieved.
To say Arch Linux has “displaced” Ubuntu is rubbish. Arch Linux, for all its positives, is but a niche player when compared to Ubuntu. I, like many long-time Linux users, have problems with Canonical and the direction it has chosen to take Ubuntu. My Linux journey started well before Ubuntu came along and it continues past the days of Ubuntu fascination. To each their own, and that is a beauty of open source.
buh-bye ubuntu, hello EndeavourOS 
“you just got knocked the f out (ubuntu)”
Same here. Started my Linux journey with Ubuntu 6.06+beryl+compiz. Oh! the desktop cube 
My feeling is that that was the objective all along. 1st get traction with the plebs, then, when most Linux users are Ubuntu adherents, move where the money is.
After all, Mark Shuttleworth is an entrepreneur, not a philanthropist.
On Plasma 6 the cube is back! 
And what will be the next step after Arch ?
Gentoo Linux with installer.
Yes, I’m aware of that but did not turn it on. The smoothness feelings is not the same
Yeah, the compiz one was a lot better. Still a nice thing to have though.
FreeBSD!
You know----it’s funny that I was on Gentoo’s website last night…Maybe I’ll give “emerging” Gentoo a try again…