Ubuntu celebrates 20th anniversary with a new release
www.theregister.com
The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability
  • neonred@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    10 months ago

    Ubuntu was once an okay-ish distribution, many many years ago. Then Canonical got rogue, made some very sketchy and irritating decisions (walled garden, snap, advertisements with Amazon, now advertisements in their package manager, … so much more)

    Ubuntu is the bane of Linux. Use upstream Debian if you like apt; Linux Mint for an easy entry; Arch, if you’re quick of wits and want to widen your knowledge and skillset.

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      According to this, the first was Boot-Root from Torvalds himself in 1991. The oldest that are still around are Slackware (July 1993) and Debian (Aug 1993).

    • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      The fact that Ubuntu is derived from Debian logically means it wasn’t the first Linux-based OS.

        • vzq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          10 months ago

          This is gonna blow your mind. There this thing called the internet, and people put loads of information on it. You can access this using “websites” called “search engines” that index all the content.

          • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Wow, can you tell me more about this thing called the internet? Where does the information get stored?

            /s

  • flemtone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    Tried both Ubuntu 24.10 and Kubuntu 24.10 and original flavour ubuntu lost to both kubuntu’s performance and customizability.