Remind me again, what's so bad about Ubuntu? - Page 3 - Linux

Minor features are mostly not dealbreakers. This is about Ubuntu, an OS that was created for the 99% that are not experts and wouldn’t run Debian. I do like the Debian LTS idea, and with some struggle, could set it up to work for me. But I wouldn’t do it again (I discovered MX Linux, and Fedora) and wouldn’t recommend it to a noob. … 2. Curated repositories with maintainers that do rolling releases. Debian unstable and Gentoo do this. The versions aren’t locked into any release cycle and you get whatever the latest version that the maintainer thought should be included. For various reasons this can be different from the latest version. … I’ve used Ubuntu as my daily since…8.04 LTS? That feels about right. It was a struggle until about 14.04, but since then it’s been largely stable in daily use…and stability is what I’m after. I don’t care so much about having the latest and greatest on my desktop, but there’s also the side issue that a lot of the companies I’ve worked for also run Ubuntu Server on all their servers; running the same base system locally relative to the production environment removes mental translation steps when it comes to maintenance and bug-tracing. I’ve recently moved to grabbing non-LTS updates, but I’ve skipped 25.10 on the grounds that the Rust-based coreutils are fundamentally broken. 26.04 LTS is most likely going to be the decision point for me; if those coreutils are still crap, then I may well move to something else.