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Disclaimer: this thread isn't meant to start some kind of a civil war, please know that I appreciate every moment of work the community and canonical have spent on making Ubuntu a viable alternative to the dominant desktop OS over the years and that what in this post is my experience, if yours was better or worse, it doesn't neglect mine. I hope this is enough for most people.
I have been a user of Desktop Linux around the release time of Ubuntu 18.04, at the time I hadn't really dived in fully yet, I was getting my feet wet by watching videos and reading articles and kept learning about Desktop Linux for a solid 1-2 months before I had tried Ubuntu 18.04, as at the time everywhere I had seen kept repeating the same sentence which was "stick with LTS" so that's what I did.
So before I get into Ubuntu, first, the reason I left windows was the cooperate back, I don't care if it was M$ or apple or whatever, what I really liked about Desktop Linux was the fact that it is largely run by community based projects and a community that wanted the same thing as me, freedom, and it was the reason that sold me on it, It felt like for the very first time, I actually might gain control over my own workstation.
At the time, the Ubuntu release was INSANELY over-hyped, as the easiest most mature experience you could get out of a Desktop Linux OS and all of that nonsense and boy let me tell you.
gnome-software was a complete and utter hot mess, It barely worked and the amount of errors it was pushing at me for just browsing it was absolutely insane, but I wanted to keep Ubuntu, I didn't want to give up so quickly, I learned APT, I learned so many workarounds for Ubuntu's defaults and kept giving Ubuntu excuses that I didn't even need to consider giving using any other OS.
After installing certain software packages, for whatever reason, It doesn't pull in by default dependencies that make that piece of software actually usable. an example of this was Brasero, installing it by itself and running it, if I try to do anything on it, it will complain for a missing backend and that's a whole different trip for a new Linux User, I had this same exact issue with so many different pieces of software for one reason or another.
eventually and after 2 months I gave up after an upgrade of the system made it lock up on boot and it literally didn't wanna let me through as I was stuck because the lovely piece of software that is grub was broken, keep in mind that I had no PPAs on the system, I kept everything as native as possible and it broke. then I went back to windows and I was really bothered and my self deprecating self thought that I was doing something wrong, eventually, I realized that I wasn't the only one having this sort of issues and that so many other people who also started their Desktop Linux adventures on Ubuntu had the same exact problems.
But I kept coming back and tried a couple of releases after and every release was literally progressively worse, with more things being forced down my throat with every new release and the experience didn't improve in any aspect at all. and that was it for Ubuntu.
Then I thought of trying out a different distribution and the choice was Solus 3, because my mind set was very little software = better tested better moderated software, right? after I installed it I literally had none of the issues I had on Ubuntu, It was working really really well and had everything I wanted.
And guess what, a month in the same thing happened, updated and the system would dish out a systemd-boot EFI failure message with nothing to do except for to restart and see it again.
I was beaten down especially because I really liked the way of doing things on Linux but for whatever reason those systems weren't doing me any favors, at the time I kept reading about "Arch Linux" about how the community is toxic and is all about "Read the Fine manual" and how it is just for elitists and that it this same like every "rolling release" out there, breaks. But I kept finding it over and over, so I decided to give it a try. I wanted to see what the fuss was actually about and Lo and behold, by the pacstrap step, I was literally in love.
It was exactly what I wanted, I chose what I needed and what I didn't, I didn't need to care about using old software nor adding some random PPA with a bunch of random packages beside the one that I actually want, nor did I need to worry about an upgrade with gigs worth of packages to go well or not so well.. nor did I need to care or consider the few limited number of packages for whatever reason that is.
Today and after 3 years of being on Arch Linux, the thing did not, not even once, break on me, not even hung on boot once, nor did it make me scratch my head over what is going on with my own system because everything that was on it, was largely but by me there. That's what I really love about using Arch.
About a week ago, my dad wanted to try this "Linux thing" and so I put my own experience aside and told him to use Ubuntu.
A couple of days ago he asks me "Is it normal for everything to start so slowly on it?" and I told him "no, people generally move to Linux because it's faster and is lighter on resources than windows", then he proceeds with opening several applications he got from the software app and literally I could count down at least 10 to 15 seconds of launch time on everything, keep in mind that his system is AMD based, 3200G and 8gb of ram, this is NOT a weak system. and then it just hit me that he might have installed all of his software as snaps, and Lo and behold, everything he got from the software app was a snap.
I have nothing but disappointed towards the experience Ubuntu provides and nothing but confusion over the reasons why people still consider it as the defacto distro of Desktop Linux.
I legitimately don't get why people still mention Ubuntu as user friendly when it is literally the one distro that takes most amount of time fixing it just to make it actually usable. I might be biased although I really don't think I am, I want to know, like actually, why is it still mainstream in people's minds?
I moved my dad to endeavourOS instead of arch because I didn't want the install process to scare him and the thing is running flawlessly on his machine. I'm very sorry for the long thread/discussion/rant, excuse my ignorance if this thread gives that vibe.
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