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.
By far my number one reason for hating Ubuntu is that a lot of lazy software publishers think that only supporting Ubuntu is good enough to reach Linux users, even though (as this article points out) they’re one of the more contrarian and overall difficult to work with distros in the ecosystem.
Its less of a problem today thanks to containers. Even when a dev doesn’t publish a flatpak, you can usually run it in a podman/docker container, or in a toolbox/distrobox.
Still, it pisses me off when I see that happening (even though it’s technically not Canonical’s fault)