Might not be a popular opinion these days but I am really glad there exists a distro like Ubuntu that provides a curated experience that just works out of the box.
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Hardware manufacturers and software developers formally test and certify it. For example, the new Framework 13 pro can be shipped with Ubuntu preinstalled as well as Lenovo Thinkpads, Dell, etc which all ship or formally support Ubuntu. Steam still only officially supports Ubuntu outside of Steam OS IIRC.
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The Ubuntu kernel will often have vendor patches and back ports before they are up streamed. OS components might also see improvements earlier (e.g. gnome triple buffering backport before it was even available in gnome stable).
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It is the defacto for AI, data science and other non-swe communities and increasingly popular server and cloud option.
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Snap gets a lot of hate but it has technical capabilities that flatpak doesn’t (CLI programs, even being able to handle kernels, etc). The prepackaged rocm and cuda snaps and models is a great example of something other distros can’t easily do.
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They give free enterprise level features like live patching and security centre for individuals.
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The UX is comfortable for both windows and Mac users with their prepackaged and maintained gnome extensions that make gnome usable and familiar.
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It provides a flexible upgrade pattern with LTS with or without HWE and 6 month cadence.
For people that just want to get to work Ubuntu still is one of the best options. Looking forward to this release!
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Time to wait another year and a half before this is finally supported out of the box by every framework
framework as in the laptop brand, or…?
Because if so, I think you can also install arch/arch-based and have bleeding edge
No things like ROS and other stuff.
I never understood how people use anything bit Ubuntu LTS since every tutorial is based on that but I’m probably ignorant.
containers
Containers are trash. Always have issues passing through devices like GPU or USB. I’ve tried it for a while but at some point you want to get work done instead of having to find out how to pass through all devices
“Native installs are trash. Always have issues resolving dependencies and compiling from source. I’ve tried it for a while but at some point you want to get work done instead of having to resolve why libxcomposite is not available”
I tried that once but there were so many dependencies that it became a nightmare. Eventually I just went back to Ubuntu from all the headaches because I want to use software not struggle to compile it.
Not to mention every tutorial using apt as an installer and having to replace it with “yum” or “pacman” at every copy paste gets tedious very quickly.
