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Well it’s the one often pointed to as “user friendly” even though it’s not my favorite. I would never choose it over say Debian but I also wouldn’t recommend De

Well it’s the one often pointed to as “user friendly” even though it’s not my favorite. I would never choose it over say Debian but I also wouldn’t recommend Debian to my family

sergeykish 6y ago
Ubuntu is a product of a private company (Canonical Ltd), I expect them to have marketing department [1]. There are 443 Canonical employees [2] and 13400 Red Hat employees [3]. I've heard "Red Hat" a lot in presentations of core stack - X, Cairo, Pango. Linux kernel contribution by company — Red Hat 8%, no Canonical [4]. Ubuntu made upstart, mir, unity, now snap. Red Hat made systemd and flatpak. Ubuntu experiments with users more than Arch Linux does. It is among the first on pulseaudio, systemd, wayland. Some reverted, some lived through. It is not stable. So why is Ubuntu user friendly? [1] https://canonical.com/careers/marketing https://canonical.com/careers/marketing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat [4] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-developers-and-companies-contributing-to-the-linux-kernel-in-2015-2016/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-deve...
- eitland 6y ago
  > So why is Ubuntu user friendly? It used to work out of the box and look great at that. Ubuntu actually made Gnome 2 look and work so well that for a few years that was my favorite. Red Hat always was a hassle to install for end users and their default Gnome was dated and at times poorly configured.
  - sergeykish 6y ago
    In 2006 Ubuntu showed me that Linux is easy to install and it looks great. That it breaks with dist upgrade, that I'd better to wait some time after release. Human theme was nice, it got worse with each release. I've never tried Fedora, at least its default theme is nice. It is 2020 — live USB, graphical installer, video review on https://manjaro.org/download/ https://manjaro.org/download/

Well it’s the one often pointed to as “user friendly” even though it’s not my favorite. I would never choose it over say Debian but I also wouldn’t recommend Debian to my family

sergeykish 6y ago

Ubuntu is a product of a private company (Canonical Ltd), I expect them to have marketing department [1]. There are 443 Canonical employees [2] and 13400 Red Hat employees [3]. I've heard "Red Hat" a lot in presentations of core stack - X, Cairo, Pango. Linux kernel contribution by company — Red Hat 8%, no Canonical [4]. Ubuntu made upstart, mir, unity, now snap. Red Hat made systemd and flatpak. Ubuntu experiments with users more than Arch Linux does. It is among the first on pulseaudio, systemd, wayland. Some reverted, some lived through. It is not stable. So why is Ubuntu user friendly? [1] https://canonical.com/careers/marketing https://canonical.com/careers/marketing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat [4] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-developers-and-companies-contributing-to-the-linux-kernel-in-2015-2016/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-deve...

eitland 6y ago
> So why is Ubuntu user friendly? It used to work out of the box and look great at that. Ubuntu actually made Gnome 2 look and work so well that for a few years that was my favorite. Red Hat always was a hassle to install for end users and their default Gnome was dated and at times poorly configured.
- sergeykish 6y ago
  In 2006 Ubuntu showed me that Linux is easy to install and it looks great. That it breaks with dist upgrade, that I'd better to wait some time after release. Human theme was nice, it got worse with each release. I've never tried Fedora, at least its default theme is nice. It is 2020 — live USB, graphical installer, video review on https://manjaro.org/download/ https://manjaro.org/download/