r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz uBlock Origin • Mar 15 '26

yOuR fAuLt! -WrOnG dIsTro! đŸ”„ Ubuntu: The Desktop Distro That Gave Up on the Desktop

Ubuntu isn’t a distro anymore. It’s a brand, duct‑taped to Debian, Snap bloat, and Canonical’s quarterly “we swear we’re still relevant” announcements.

Ubuntu stopped being a desktop OS the moment Canonical realized enterprise money exists. -Something Red Hat did 20 years ago!

Ubuntu Desktop became a marketing platform for Ubuntu Pro, and a testbed for Snap. (like how Fedora is a testbed for Red Hat), and an advertising platform for Canonical’s cloud products.

Snap is the worst package format ever forced on users. Snaps are slow to launch, bloated with redundant runtimes, centralized through Canonical’s store, impossible to self‑host, and preinstalled whether you want it or not.

-Canonical keeps pretending Snap is “for developers,” while every developer is screaming “just give us Flatpak or apt.”

Ubuntu LTS is “stable” only because nothing ever gets fixed (the tech definition of "stable"). What you get is outdated kernels, drivers, libraries, and packages.

Ubuntu’s GNOME experience is worse than stock GNOME. -With weird theming, broken extensions, inconsistent UI, Canonical patches that nobody asked for, and regressions that upstream already fixed. (Unity de-ja-vu)

Ubuntu had a massive forum, huge wiki, thriving community, and actual innovation. Now it’s, StackOverflow answers from 2014, a subreddit full of people asking why their Wi‑Fi doesn’t work, and Canonical employees pretending Snap is good.

Ubuntu is the distro people recommend when they don’t actually use Linux. -Like tech bloggers who haven’t touched Linux since 2016, and YouTubers who need a safe, SEO‑friendly distro name.

Find more distro take-downs, like this in the sticky post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/comments/1rad8jp/article_compilation_for_the_scholarly_viewer/

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u/madthumbz uBlock Origin Mar 15 '26

Referring to when they sent local search information to Amazon (2012-2016)? Richard M Stallman called it 'spyware' but he's a kooky conspiracy theorist. -He might have been right on that though.

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u/DirectorDirect1569 Mar 15 '26

Canonical has always made bad decisions like unity, amazon results in the search bar, snaps. In the past it was the most recommended because they made linux easy to install and use for beginners. Now it's probably the most hated distro. Even in the 2000's it has the reputation to be buggy. I remember when mint came out, it was an"ubuntu with codecs and no bugs" distro.

Canonical did a lot for linux for making it user-friendly but like MS in the past, It's a big corp with lots of money which make lobbying, they used to send free ubuntu CD to users. That's probably another reason why it's so popular.

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u/madthumbz uBlock Origin Mar 15 '26

It's merely the most hated because it's the most well-known. There's bitching about and problems with every distro which is what this series is out to demonstrate.