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This is actually incredible. I can't believe it's this hard to get your hands on their most important product. I can totally imagine this costing several woul

• nix23 5y ago
  >on their most important product. That's the ec2 image over at amazon.
• derefr 5y ago
  I feel like at this point, Ubuntu Desktop is actually something downloaded more by OEM integrators than by individuals. More and more, the people who want a computer that has good Linux support, can just buy a computer that ships with an OEM Linux install. And that Linux installation is usually Ubuntu! (Mind you, there are plenty of “retail” installs of Ubuntu — but individuals will often just upgrade Ubuntu to a new release using built-in tooling, rather than downloading a fresh release-image. They only need to visit the site once—the first time they install.) I think, if you’re visiting ubuntu.com nowadays, you’re most likely to be looking for an Ubuntu Server image.
  • blacksmith_tb 5y ago
    Hmm, I would have thought that a lot of people 'looking for a server image' would be spinning up a VM from a cloud provider, who probably doesn't yet offer the newest version? Of course, depending on how disposable your server will be, you may not want the newest, I wouldn't generally use any non-LTS versions in production, but maybe that's just me.
• PopsiclePete 5y ago
  > on their most important product. If Ubuntu depended on random users pointing their browsers to ubuntu.com and then clicking a download link to download and burn an ISO, they'd be long, long gone. There hasn't been any real $$$ in that since, well, forever?