4 Reasons Why I Don't Like Ubuntu - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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David
Ubuntu still hackable into what you want, long as you don't get carried away, in over-your-head with customization. If we don't like something in Ubuntu (or in GNU/Linux, certainly) it's - much - more possible to turn it off. That's the difference between Ubuntu and Windows. The difference between Ubuntu and other Linux distros is - support -. Ubuntu is The Big U. Whether or not it's maker--Cannonical, Ltd.--is the big C. Ubuntu's sheer footprint as a GNU/Linux distribution (esp on the desktop) has generated a - large - and generous Community. Documentation and how-to support are excellent and have been for a very long time.
Yeah, it's too bad Cannonical squandered a lot of user loyalty and good-will by doing the Unity/Amazon thing. But unlike a certain very famous operating system maker, Cannonical - listened - to us (users), and the deal with Amazon & other merchants is gone. So is Unity desktop, alas (though it's now been forked!). Unity was crummy when foisted-off on an unsuspecting user community. But it sure got developed over succeeding versions. And if you didn't like it you could always just nuke it. D/L another GUI & use that. And uninstall Unity if it bothered you.
Dude, I was a - truck driver - for most of my life before falling into I.T. I can still just barely program. And - I - and my trucker self could read how to do these things on Ubuntu forums & do them, and way before I got into I.T. as a profession.
Just don't fall into the graphical Linux trap-door: - too much - customization. Yes, it's a free-and-open platform. But GUI Linux os is like a cockroach (in a good way): it's tougher to kill it with a virus. A cockroach--like the lobster--is a creature that lacks the type of central nervous system found in higher animals. A cockroach can live for up to 2 weeks without its head, and even mate. It would be able to survive indefinitely if it didn't need to eat.
GNU/Linux is immune to most viruses (viri) probably mostly due to low market share. But it's also different in internal, inherent ways that make it tougher to malware. (Tougher, not impossible.) One of these is lack of a central Registry, a' la' MS Windows. But this also means it can be tougher to restore to defaults if we -bork- our iteration.
Just use Ubuntu, learn to turn off things that aren't to your taste, and don't get carried away with personalization/customization. Changing Desktop Environment for one you want more is not overcustomization. Nor is installing Nitrogen or a program like it. Just refrain from mucking about in the sys internals just because you can. Don't care for Snap & Flatpaks ? (& I don't) Don't use 'em. Stick to Synaptic. Its point-and-click functionality is much improved. Just know to use its Refresh button on a new install, let it do it's update things, then shutdown & boot back up. Reopen Synaptic, install the softwares you want. Ubuntu is not so tough. Even for a trucker with virtually no tech experience. :)
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Ubuntu still hackable into what you want, long as you don't get carried away, in over-your-head with customization. If we don't like something in Ubuntu (or in GNU/Linux, certainly) it's - much - more possible to turn it off. That's the difference between Ubuntu and Windows. The difference between Ubuntu and other Linux distros is - support -. Ubuntu is The Big U. Whether or not it's maker--Cannonical, Ltd.--is the big C. Ubuntu's sheer footprint as a GNU/Linux distribution (esp on the desktop) has generated a - large - and generous Community. Documentation and how-to support are excellent and have been for a very long time.
Yeah, it's too bad Cannonical squandered a lot of user loyalty and good-will by doing the Unity/Amazon thing. But unlike a certain very famous operating system maker, Cannonical - listened - to us (users), and the deal with Amazon & other merchants is gone. So is Unity desktop, alas (though it's now been forked!). Unity was crummy when foisted-off on an unsuspecting user community. But it sure got developed over succeeding versions. And if you didn't like it you could always just nuke it. D/L another GUI & use that. And uninstall Unity if it bothered you.
Dude, I was a - truck driver - for most of my life before falling into I.T. I can still just barely program. And - I - and my trucker self could read how to do these things on Ubuntu forums & do them, and way before I got into I.T. as a profession.
Just don't fall into the graphical Linux trap-door: - too much - customization. Yes, it's a free-and-open platform. But GUI Linux os is like a cockroach (in a good way): it's tougher to kill it with a virus. A cockroach--like the lobster--is a creature that lacks the type of central nervous system found in higher animals. A cockroach can live for up to 2 weeks without its head, and even mate. It would be able to survive indefinitely if it didn't need to eat.
GNU/Linux is immune to most viruses (viri) probably mostly due to low market share. But it's also different in internal, inherent ways that make it tougher to malware. (Tougher, not impossible.) One of these is lack of a central Registry, a' la' MS Windows. But this also means it can be tougher to restore to defaults if we -bork- our iteration.
Just use Ubuntu, learn to turn off things that aren't to your taste, and don't get carried away with personalization/customization. Changing Desktop Environment for one you want more is not overcustomization. Nor is installing Nitrogen or a program like it. Just refrain from mucking about in the sys internals just because you can. Don't care for Snap & Flatpaks ? (& I don't) Don't use 'em. Stick to Synaptic. Its point-and-click functionality is much improved. Just know to use its Refresh button on a new install, let it do it's update things, then shutdown & boot back up. Reopen Synaptic, install the softwares you want. Ubuntu is not so tough. Even for a trucker with virtually no tech experience. :)
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Ray
I have been a dev for 20 years. Recently I worked for a company with a server admin who knew CentOS pretty well but could not really understand the value of JSON for PHP. This video is well informed but I would point out that in the enterprise setting comparing server software environments like CentOS vs Ubuntu is a bit like comparing Ford to Chevy: there are good and bad versions of each and they dont run well if you don't know how to tune them. I'm both a server admin and PHP developer and I am choosing Ubuntu every time because deploying it and securing it is fast and cheap - you can run it just as securely as CentOS, you can still run all your cumbersome and outdated shell and perl scripts on it and it's cross compatable with modern software environments. I like this because most server admins are not developers and vice versa. I have talked to CentOS admins for years that will swear up and down that their distro is the best, most secure etc, but at the end of the day teams spend hours fighting against incompatablilites caused by the hosting environment. Also there is a huge swath of server admins in the world that refuse to update their servers because they beleive that it makes the servers more stable and secure which is just plain GARBAGE. This is the best reason to adopt Ubuntu, the fact that you can get your security updates applied automatically.
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I have been a dev for 20 years. Recently I worked for a company with a server admin who knew CentOS pretty well but could not really understand the value of JSON for PHP. This video is well informed but I would point out that in the enterprise setting comparing server software environments like CentOS vs Ubuntu is a bit like comparing Ford to Chevy: there are good and bad versions of each and they dont run well if you don't know how to tune them. I'm both a server admin and PHP developer and I am choosing Ubuntu every time because deploying it and securing it is fast and cheap - you can run it just as securely as CentOS, you can still run all your cumbersome and outdated shell and perl scripts on it and it's cross compatable with modern software environments. I like this because most server admins are not developers and vice versa. I have talked to CentOS admins for years that will swear up and down that their distro is the best, most secure etc, but at the end of the day teams spend hours fighting against incompatablilites caused by the hosting environment. Also there is a huge swath of server admins in the world that refuse to update their servers because they beleive that it makes the servers more stable and secure which is just plain GARBAGE. This is the best reason to adopt Ubuntu, the fact that you can get your security updates applied automatically.
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Andrew
This is a little better than the horrible video that spawned it, but still... I dont like it 1) 'Cause its easy and gets more people away from M$ 2) Keeping software updated is the easiest step to improve security 3) KDE and other Desktops used to be bad at supporting a wide variety of hardware setups, so Canonical chose to invest in GNOME 4) Flatpak was not well known when snaps were rolled out, but Canonical has a history of making poor choices which is all too easy in the FOSS world. Sure, Canonical is a company, and they need to make money. They do have a painful history of trying to make money, but none of them were all that hard to disable/ignore. So why call it horrible or the devil? Would love to hear more about how great Red Hat is now that they bought out CentOS and killed it. Am I an Ubuntu fanboi, no. But I do need to get work done and dont have six months to 'get it just they way I like it.'
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This is a little better than the horrible video that spawned it, but still... I dont like it 1) 'Cause its easy and gets more people away from M$ 2) Keeping software updated is the easiest step to improve security 3) KDE and other Desktops used to be bad at supporting a wide variety of hardware setups, so Canonical chose to invest in GNOME 4) Flatpak was not well known when snaps were rolled out, but Canonical has a history of making poor choices which is all too easy in the FOSS world. Sure, Canonical is a company, and they need to make money. They do have a painful history of trying to make money, but none of them were all that hard to disable/ignore. So why call it horrible or the devil? Would love to hear more about how great Red Hat is now that they bought out CentOS and killed it. Am I an Ubuntu fanboi, no. But I do need to get work done and dont have six months to 'get it just they way I like it.'
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Josh
When I started in Linux, I was an Ubuntu user. I agree. Almost everything about it feels sort of -forced-. That's actually why I left Linux for a time. Then I came back, tried Ubuntu again, still didn't like, but got braver and started distro hopping a little to explore my options. When I started to realize that not all distros had that same feel is when I really started digging into it. Now I have it on several different computers, some live cds, some flash drives, etc, and use Linux in a wide variety of ways. Best switch I've ever made, and worth the push forward if at first it seems disappointing or scary, because of the amount of personalization that can be done in Linux. It's worth it.
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When I started in Linux, I was an Ubuntu user. I agree. Almost everything about it feels sort of -forced-. That's actually why I left Linux for a time. Then I came back, tried Ubuntu again, still didn't like, but got braver and started distro hopping a little to explore my options. When I started to realize that not all distros had that same feel is when I really started digging into it. Now I have it on several different computers, some live cds, some flash drives, etc, and use Linux in a wide variety of ways. Best switch I've ever made, and worth the push forward if at first it seems disappointing or scary, because of the amount of personalization that can be done in Linux. It's worth it.
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HEMANT
why is all the hate for ubuntu, don't forget chris that this is linux, you can stop the updates and also, ubuntu is great for people say in scool or in buissness, ubuntu isn't bad, you arch users say that it is not -power user- friendly but use it for once and you will never want to leave it, i too love ubuntu, but the interface is meh meh so i installed themes and my esktop looks cool listen i am a -power- user. let us not forget the community support of ubuntu, all the reasons you said are illogical and GNOME? Well, dont you know that it is the most customizable desktop after kde? i love your videos but i hate you in this vide.
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why is all the hate for ubuntu, don't forget chris that this is linux, you can stop the updates and also, ubuntu is great for people say in scool or in buissness, ubuntu isn't bad, you arch users say that it is not -power user- friendly but use it for once and you will never want to leave it, i too love ubuntu, but the interface is meh meh so i installed themes and my esktop looks cool listen i am a -power- user. let us not forget the community support of ubuntu, all the reasons you said are illogical and GNOME? Well, dont you know that it is the most customizable desktop after kde? i love your videos but i hate you in this vide.
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Narendra
Your reasons are understandable, but most of Canonical choices are like that because Ubuntu is not just for advanced linux users. They do it because Ubuntu is a popular distro that any -noob- would wanna use without being scared of breakage. For example that update notifier might scare you, but they're more worried about the general user not updating their software at all. Linux Mint has this issue with people not updating, and they're trying to figure out how to notify their users more. If you think distros that care about their user's system are like Windows, then you can say that Mint is becoming like Windows now.
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Your reasons are understandable, but most of Canonical choices are like that because Ubuntu is not just for advanced linux users. They do it because Ubuntu is a popular distro that any -noob- would wanna use without being scared of breakage. For example that update notifier might scare you, but they're more worried about the general user not updating their software at all. Linux Mint has this issue with people not updating, and they're trying to figure out how to notify their users more. If you think distros that care about their user's system are like Windows, then you can say that Mint is becoming like Windows now.
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calonfir
I can understand reason nr 3...but...reason nr 1...really??? updates??? come on..you can do better than this. Update process in ubuntu is the best, period. Livepatch is awesome. Let's see other distros: in debian and fedora, you are forced to restart after updates and recently they made same update progress bar as in windows. In archlinux, almost after every update, there's a warning for restart. Sooo...yeahhh...in ubuntu, background updates are just awfull ...Oh, and gnome is the best desktop environment for so many reasons...stability, lack of screen tearing, keyboard workflow, menu simplicity
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I can understand reason nr 3...but...reason nr 1...really??? updates??? come on..you can do better than this. Update process in ubuntu is the best, period. Livepatch is awesome. Let's see other distros: in debian and fedora, you are forced to restart after updates and recently they made same update progress bar as in windows. In archlinux, almost after every update, there's a warning for restart. Sooo...yeahhh...in ubuntu, background updates are just awfull ...Oh, and gnome is the best desktop environment for so many reasons...stability, lack of screen tearing, keyboard workflow, menu simplicity
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Maksym
proprietary drivers are okay, because Linux is OS of freedom, and it's okay to make money on it, while it is not obligatory. And I think it's cool when Linux has best support on most of devices, even if some of drivers will be proprietary. So any person with any windows / Mac laptop may give a shot to Linux. and graphic card , wifi and Bluetooth will work just fine.
But of course, at least partially open drivers is better, they usually produce less bugs)
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proprietary drivers are okay, because Linux is OS of freedom, and it's okay to make money on it, while it is not obligatory. And I think it's cool when Linux has best support on most of devices, even if some of drivers will be proprietary. So any person with any windows / Mac laptop may give a shot to Linux. and graphic card , wifi and Bluetooth will work just fine.
But of course, at least partially open drivers is better, they usually produce less bugs)
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GriffdoAndSpitemim
Linux Mint: Ubuntu but lighter, more privacy-respecting, more stylish, easier to use, doesn't push snap crap on you, etc. Perfect for beginners: a beautiful GUI app store and system settings programs.
If you like how Ubuntu looks, go with Pop!_OS. Ubuntu, but prettier and without spyware and it has some kick-ass extras. Instead of the Snap Store, the Pop Shop prioritizes Flatpaks and Debs over Snaps. Much better, IMO.
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Linux Mint: Ubuntu but lighter, more privacy-respecting, more stylish, easier to use, doesn't push snap crap on you, etc. Perfect for beginners: a beautiful GUI app store and system settings programs.
If you like how Ubuntu looks, go with Pop!_OS. Ubuntu, but prettier and without spyware and it has some kick-ass extras. Instead of the Snap Store, the Pop Shop prioritizes Flatpaks and Debs over Snaps. Much better, IMO.
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urzu181
The vanila Ubuntu is at least stable and solid.. Unlike Kubuntu where something is bound to break as soon as you even boot up the system.. Trust me I've tried a number of Kubuntu versions but the KDE is just isn't stable there.. Lots of errors and crashes.. No doubt the look n feel of KDE plasma is really appealing but Kubuntu isn't the answer.. If you want KDE then use Manjaro or openSUSE the KDE is very stable in those distros..
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The vanila Ubuntu is at least stable and solid.. Unlike Kubuntu where something is bound to break as soon as you even boot up the system.. Trust me I've tried a number of Kubuntu versions but the KDE is just isn't stable there.. Lots of errors and crashes.. No doubt the look n feel of KDE plasma is really appealing but Kubuntu isn't the answer.. If you want KDE then use Manjaro or openSUSE the KDE is very stable in those distros..
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