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Ubuntu is feeling more and more like Windows every day. There are lots of parts that feel unpolished, and blatant bugs make it feel untested. I had to use Ubun

Ubuntu is feeling more and more like Windows every day. There are lots of parts that feel unpolished, and blatant bugs make it feel untested. I had to use Ubuntu for a couple of days recently, and in just that little time I found a handful of glaring bugs. This bug here doesn't surprise me. So this is what happens when distros become too commercial, huh?

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>Ubuntu is feeling more and more like Windows every day. There are lots of parts that feel unpolished, and blatant bugs make it feel untested. That's way worse than Windows. All core Windows GUI components actually work and are stable. GUI wise, my Ubuntu 22.04 provided at work is way, way, more buggy than my Windows 11 Pro install at home. Don't know if it's Ubuntu issues, GNOME issues, GNOME extensions issues, Wayland issues, SNAP issues, pipewire/pulseaudio issues, or a combination of those, but as a user trying to get work done, I don't have time to debug which component of this bazaar engineering laundry list is at fault. The whole point of Ubuntu is that you were getting older packages and components, but it was bulletproof, battle tested, working and stable. They seem to have lost the plot a while ago. I can't even disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in lol. Granted, Gnome has some stellar UX choices though, credit where credit is due, but if I were to recommend someone a Linux distro reagrdless of desktop environment, to it wouldn't be Ubuntu.
- ehnto 4y ago
  I have yet to fully grok and rein in pulse. It's just easy enough to fix it ad-hoc that I never bother to dive in and resolve my issues fully.
- erwincoumans 4y ago
  Agreed, Ununtu is way worse. Especially when Ubuntu performed a background update, and the NVIDIA GPU stops working properly. It happened several times to me, and a few times the GPU drivers were so hard to update that a reinstall of Ubuntu was quicker/easier. This never happened to me in Windows.
  - archontes 4y ago
    I can echo this experience. Upgrade to the next major version? No GPU for me. I spent an hour trying to fix it before rolling back to my last backup.
    - rosmax_1337 4y ago
      I also suffer from this, using NVidia graphics cards and Ubuntu. The computer fails to start the x-server once or twice each month, because of an update. Reinstalling or updating the package "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" fixes the problem for me. You need to use Ctrl+Shift+F2/3/4/5 and switch to another tty inorder to perform these updates, as the failed x-server start leaves you with a black screen.
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ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>Ubuntu is feeling more and more like Windows every day. There are lots of parts that feel unpolished, and blatant bugs make it feel untested. That's way worse than Windows. All core Windows GUI components actually work and are stable. GUI wise, my Ubuntu 22.04 provided at work is way, way, more buggy than my Windows 11 Pro install at home. Don't know if it's Ubuntu issues, GNOME issues, GNOME extensions issues, Wayland issues, SNAP issues, pipewire/pulseaudio issues, or a combination of those, but as a user trying to get work done, I don't have time to debug which component of this bazaar engineering laundry list is at fault. The whole point of Ubuntu is that you were getting older packages and components, but it was bulletproof, battle tested, working and stable. They seem to have lost the plot a while ago. I can't even disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in lol. Granted, Gnome has some stellar UX choices though, credit where credit is due, but if I were to recommend someone a Linux distro reagrdless of desktop environment, to it wouldn't be Ubuntu.

ehnto 4y ago
I have yet to fully grok and rein in pulse. It's just easy enough to fix it ad-hoc that I never bother to dive in and resolve my issues fully.
erwincoumans 4y ago
Agreed, Ununtu is way worse. Especially when Ubuntu performed a background update, and the NVIDIA GPU stops working properly. It happened several times to me, and a few times the GPU drivers were so hard to update that a reinstall of Ubuntu was quicker/easier. This never happened to me in Windows.
- archontes 4y ago
  I can echo this experience. Upgrade to the next major version? No GPU for me. I spent an hour trying to fix it before rolling back to my last backup.
  - rosmax_1337 4y ago
    I also suffer from this, using NVidia graphics cards and Ubuntu. The computer fails to start the x-server once or twice each month, because of an update. Reinstalling or updating the package "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" fixes the problem for me. You need to use Ctrl+Shift+F2/3/4/5 and switch to another tty inorder to perform these updates, as the failed x-server start leaves you with a black screen.

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