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> Speaking of Ubuntu, it has atrophed. It used to be that it was popular enough that you could google your problem and someone would have solved it. Try doing t
by imzadi 1y ago
> Speaking of Ubuntu, it has atrophed. It used to be that it was popular enough that you could google your problem and someone would have solved it. Try doing that now, you get ancient posts from a decade ago that are no longer relevant. It's not like it's terrible, but I don't see anyone recommend it anymore. Though Mint has it's fans.
I think this is largely because most of Ubuntu support is through StackExchange and they tend to moderate the usefulness out of it. Every new issue is closed as being a duplicate, even when the linked "duplicate" is years old and not even resolved.
- CrackerNews 1y agoUbuntu went through multiple changes in the software stack that those answers can be outdated and inapplicable.
- hedora 1y agoIt’s also ridiculously unstable. The “multiple months to backport a 1 line zfs corruption fix” incident was the last straw for me, but they also did stuff like break syslog and out of the box dns resolution months into LTS releases.