[PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

[Russell Senior]

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 6:01 PM Michael Christopher Robinson <
michael at robinson-west.com> wrote:

> A lot of people seem to favor Ubuntu over all other flavors of Linux.
> I don't.  I have heard that in the Ubuntu world something considered
> important today can disappear tomorrow.


Example?

I was a Debian user for a long time, since before version 1.0. I started
using Ubuntu on the desktop, initially when setting up machines for others,
because it was pretty and those users felt comfortable with it, and because
it cut down on maintenance. Eventually, I got seduced by the "prettiness"
and the "just workingness". For development boxes, I've been using Arch,
just because it stays up to date on package versions, unlike Debian for
sure, which tends to just patch old versions forever.

Fwiw, your critique of Ubuntu does not spark any feelings of recognition.