Ubuntu was once the gold standard for desktop Linux. Is this still the case today?
>>109137608Honestly the only Linux I use every day is android.
>>109137608no, linux mint exists now
>>109137608Ubuntu went to shit when they stopped sending free cds outd.
WSL is the best distro in 2026
>>109137608I personally wouldn't use it because I think it's become too bloated. And I don't think it's, as you say, the gold standard, but I think it is the standard. They fostered early adoption by mailing free CDs out if you requested one way back, That's actually how I got into Linux. Ubuntu - once a totally weird African term that nobody ever heard of became synonymous with Linux, that was the end of it. It became the standard recommendation.
>>109137608I hope not. I'm using it and I'm not impressed.
>>109137608Ubuntu is the training wheels distro for the actual gold standard - Debian Sid. You know, the distro that all these other supposedly great distros are based on.
Ubuntu or Debian and gnome? I like the ubuntu styling...
>>109137608i started using linux with ubuntu 8 lol. It was such a nice and clean interface, when did it go wrong?
>>109137608Ubuntu is too corpo these days.I feel modern Fedora replaces Ubuntu for normies.
>>109138567normies don't use linux. you probably mean spergs on the lower side of the spectrum.
Every distro you could choose has drawbacks. We can spend hours nitpicking them and distrohopping to try to Goldilocks that shit. Or we can just stop caring, pick something, and live with it until it becomes untenable. I use Kubuntu. I don't consider it to be untenable. Nor do I consider it to be the "gold standard" which isn't a label I would apply to any other distro. I have complaints but I worked through most of my problems and my machine works how I want it to most of the time. That's the goal. Choose the distro you think is going to help you reach that and don't expect to arrive there upon install.
>>109138540Yaru is in Debian, although no Yaru 26.04 yet.
>>109138577I am not native english speaker, but yes i meant linux users who don't escalate into Arch/Nix etc etc
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>>109139347Which Linux distro is a spyware platform?
>>109139800>replying to a bot post
>>109137608I think fedora is better
>>109138581there wasn't too much change in the theming itself outside the icons, which should be pretty easy to install from source anyways https://github.com/ubuntu/yaruall you're really missing out on is automatic accent switching from GNOME settings but whatever, honestly
>>109137627Based shipit, I still have my 8.10 and 9.04 CDs
>>109137608the last time Ubuntu was good it was still named EasyPeasy
sadly, it is still the best in terms of support and compatibility
Ubuntu Server non-LTS + Flatpak is pretty dang good
>>109137608Depends on what your standard is. I like the server variant since it runs on anything and has extremely wide support.
fedora is the gold standard nowadays
I've used Arch Linux for 5+ years because I fell for the meme, Ubuntu is way better 90% of the time.However Arch is decent for learning Linux
>>109137608I miss the Ubuntu forums of 20 years ago. They were comfy.
>>109137608being the primary target for wintards like you doesn't equate "gold standard".although it's worth making the distinction and mentioning that the wintards of old weren't mostly jeets, which is why a significant minority of them came good.
>>109137608it's made by an African
>>109137608it's gold standard in telemetry and shady shit like pushing closed source code you can't remove into your fucking kernel (snaps)
>>109137608brown ubuntu is best ubuntu.
>>109141718>non-LTS server
>>109143901>literal liespathetic
Ubuntu for me personally stopped being great around the time the Unity bar was used to actively promote Amazon. I'm on Debian at the time so I don't know which version of Ubuntu that started that, but that was when I slowly loses respect of Ubuntu and Canonical. I'm sure it still has a reputable name in servers.
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