Whether it’s jokes about Snap packages or criticism of Canonical’s decisions, mocking Ubuntu often feels like the default attitude in parts of the Linux community.
To be fair, Canonical has made decisions over the years that have not always been well received, and some of the criticisms of Ubuntu and the direction it’s taken have their own merit. Yet, the derisive way Ubuntu is often talked about online isn’t particularly fair and, frankly, misses the point.
They’ve about a half dozen stupid decisions just in the past decade that has garnered the tarnish on their reputation. Trying to rationalize it won’t make the issues go away.
Note that this same hate sure isn’t going towards Debian.
Debian, Debian never changes to the point it’s almost a bad thing. But it’s stable AF. Ubuntu is your typical frat/tech bro. Move fast and break shit you rely on. Native packaging? Yep. Core utils? Of course! Broken broken broken.
Canonical clearly has too many resources and they waste those resources on positions that don’t need to exist.
That’s just the difference between an LTS and everything else though. Debian is meant to be slow to release, battle tested, and focused on stability.
Ubuntu aren’t that good with their LTS either. Other than that I agree.