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Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary

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243 points aquova | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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linguae ◴[20 Oct 24 22:09 UTC] No.41898895[source]▶
I believe Ubuntu has been a positive for the Linux community. While there definitely were distributions before Ubuntu that focused on the user experience (Mandrake Linux and Lindows/Linspire come to mind), there are many people whose first experience with desktop Linux was through Ubuntu. Although I personally prefer FreeBSD for my Unix needs and Debian if I need actual Linux, Ubuntu is the distribution I recommend to those who are coming from Windows or macOS who want to try out desktop Linux. The last few times I used Ubuntu, whether it's on actual hardware or inside a VM, it seems to be reasonably simple to install, has sensible defaults, and supports a wide range of hardware.
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1. musicale ◴[20 Oct 24 22:49 UTC] No.41899119[source]▶
Also on the down side, Ubuntu seems to have lost the plot a bit by adding things like advertisements for Ubuntu Pro.

I would like to submit PRs to remove these ads, but of course they would never be accepted.

We've seen where the road of advertisements eventually leads (Windows 11), and it isn't good.

Adding extra garbage into CLI sessions is something that I greatly dislike because 1) it adds distracting noise and 2) it can break scripts. Some non-Canonical offenders include GNU parallel and Apple's cc and c++. 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. Tools should focus on the task at hand and avoid promotional messaging.