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The expectation GAP - ubuntu goal and ubuntu today

9/11/2025Updated 3/5/2026

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Ive been in and out of this forum… because i was trying to find out why ubuntu feels so… unstable, unreliable and a pain to use (only tried ubuntu24 so far). ... I can most of the time assume correctly why something in linux is not working. I do it often. The difference is - I do it often because the issues I’m confronted with 95% have to do with my individualization of the OS. My first issue with ubuntu was during the 2nd step of the installer when I clicked the vision impaired magnifying glass. The magnetization aid messed up the scale of the UI so much - it was impossible to revert exit or continue and forced me to reboot. Many issues small and big followed. with a cleanly installed version 24 … Because what i unexpectedly got was an overcomplicated overly complex, badly documented, anti-intuitive, OS with a hard to use UI and a defensive community behind it. Imo. Users who take their valueable time to give feedback are either: - overwhelmed by the complexity of options to do so and give up because no place seems right - scared of - completely misunderstood … issue 1: why is there no option to give feedback on snap programs where they are obtained? issue 2:is there an alternative without the need to give personal information (phone) He also hints at the obvious … bigger issue imo. … “Ubuntu has a bigger percentage of newbies that probably won’t do the mobile verification” … i would wonder if those users would even try to understand where they ended up and not close github - immediatly. … I switched to ubuntu because i believed that claim still counts - and as experienced user - i restarted the installer 3 times because i was met with bugs and unclarity. after the installation… it was unclear which UI to pick - which store to use - how to create a “dock/taskbar shortcut”. I had to boot sign my nvidia drivers or was forced to disable safe boot instead… My NTFS drives where not recognized and not automatically mounts…

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https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-expectation-gap-ubuntu-goal-and-ubuntu-today/67178

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