Ubuntu

“LTS is 5 years free + 5 years paid. You can also just upgrade your LTS and continue to get support for free.”

“Injecting ads into the desktop and cli, having a package manager that runs as a root service, their decades of poor upgrade testing”

“if Canonical didn't invest into making a Linux distro that's accessible to normal people, it wouldn't have the relevance it now does”

“It (mostly) just works on a wide range of hardware, whilst remaining up-to-date with the latest Linux developments.”

“Initial implementations will somehow be privacy protecting, but eventually the temptation to tie a specific person to an OS fingerprint will become too great.”

“I personally find Ubuntu's versioning to be the easiest to understand because you know when this Ubuntu version was released.”

“because of distros like Fedora and Ubuntu, I can keep using a 15y old Samsung notebook with a modern firefox”

“even the Ubuntu certification is a joke - Canonical is allowed to use customized versions of Ubuntu that they aren't required to release to the public”

“Dell have pre-installed & fully supported Ubuntu on a bunch of their Precision, XPS, and, more recently, Pro laptops for over a decade now.”

“If you could get the kind of driver support you have with Windows for just whatever the fuck you have lying around, I'd probably use my Ubuntu laptop as more of a daily driver.”

“Some LTS upgrades don't require many changes (mostly minor package name changes) and some take months of work to get rolled out”

“my experience running an Ubuntu LTS in my main computer has been straightforward, easy and as problem-free as one could expect”

“Stick with mainstream like Ubuntu and you will have tons of community support and knowledge to search through.”

“Because it's Ubuntu policy to replace some foundational part of the system with some janky unfinished experiment in every release.”

“It's better to use something that doesn't even have snap in the first place via another distro than play cat and mouse with Canonical.”

“Distro like Ubuntu are a fair compromise to get amd/nvidia GPU drivers, wifi, and brother laser printer/scanner networking installed.”

“Just install Ubuntu and remove snap. We are doing this for our University pool etc and encountered no issues.”

“Ubuntu in large production fleets isn't too bad. Sure, other distros are better, but Ubuntu's perfectly serviceable in that role.”

“Canonical is incorporating signed versions of both the new Nvidia open driver and CUDA into its own repo system”

“that's honestly reflected in it sometimes having hardware breakage during a version's initial two year mainstream support run.”

“I think it's an awful idea. Apart from making things less secure it also makes sudo's UX inconsistent with most of the other coreutils.”

“install one of the most mainstream distros like Ubuntu or Fedora, accept the defaults, and move on with your life”

“Who prevents forking Ubuntu and taking that extra mile, esp. now we have a company which wants to enable exactly that lockdown ?”

“after being burned by what Microsoft did to the Linux community for the last 20+ years, I'll just distance myself more from Ubuntu ecosystem.”

“A problem I've been having with Ubuntu is just quirky things with bluetooth devices and a monitor that doesn't always get recognized when waking the pc up from sleep.”

“The 22 -> 24 upgrade was better than I expected and I didn't lose more than a couple of hours of life to appease the shell gods.”

“beginner-friendly operating system in the same way that Fedora/LinuxMint/OpenSUSE/Pop!_OS/Ubuntu/ElementOS are”

“give you absolute control over your system and as a developer I've found this one feature outweighs pretty much all the issues”

“Ubuntu isn’t that different from windows. You got your 10 app icons, and a button to shut down the computer.”

“My (completely non computer savvy) parents and in-laws are on ubuntu/mint since 2009 and it was the best decision ever to switch them over.”

“I use Ubuntu because I've been using it for ~20 years and have better things to do than try out different distros.”

“Ubuntu is still a fantastic "get work done" distro, and I still use it on my office laptop because it just works”

“In the case of Ubuntu and Debian, and to a lesser extent RedHat, I trust the developers not to do that because they have a history of not "just pushing whatever".”

“Canonical proceeded to focus on the server side where there's more money, fewer loud freeloaders, and now they're somewhat more evil.”

“For them, better to install the latest Ubuntu LTS once, and then I can upgrade for them at Christmas in 4 years.”

“you don't need to put up with any of the continuous enshittifications Canonical subjects you to (Snaps, increasing poor quality code etc)”

“Ubuntu/Linux do have reasonable performance, but I think they prefer PF firewalls, so that makes Linux a non-option for firewalls.”

“Established software changes SLOWLY. It doesn't need to reinvent itself with a brand new dichotomy every 3 years.”

“I think it's horrible that they've taken extreme measures to overtly circumvent their users' desire to run the Firefox distributed through Mozilla's repo.”

“I have to use Ubuntu at work; have Mint in my jellyfin pc at home, and even between those there are a lot of annoying differences”