Today is Ubuntu's 19th birthday! Yes, you read that right: nine-freakin’-teenth. October 20, 2004 was when Ubuntu 4.10 arrived, codenamed 'Warty Warthog'
  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    36·
    11 months ago

    I miss the days of Ubuntu being a new upstart and Mark Shuttleworth going into space and being cool. I was involved with the project a bunch back then and even talked to him briefly once online.

    There’s been a lot of poor decisions honestly since then unfortunately and I haven’t used Ubuntu in a while.

  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 months ago

    This article brought back memories. I remember struggling with various versions of Linux but when Ubuntu hit the scene it was a game changer. They had the first forums that were actually approachable for noobs. For the first time you got helpful, encouraging responses from people.

    Back then it wasn incredibly common to get told to fuck off or read the manual, derided, talked down to, and generally treated like shit for asking questions or not knowing something. There was tons of gatekeeping.

    So when the article says they cared about the whole user experience they left out one of the best parts: the support forums!

  • Hairyblue@kbin.social
    11·
    11 months ago

    I am a current Ubuntu user since around 2020. I left windows for good when they release windows 11.

    Love the look of the new snap store in Minotaur, but want the ability to install local deb file back.

    • levi@feddit.de
      5·
      11 months ago

      But… You still can? Even with the new Appstore, it supports snaps and debs.

      Edit: Oh, you mean like double-click a deb file. I just use dpkg -i or apt install ./filename.deb.

      • Hairyblue@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        I installed GDebi from the store and used that. But the snap store use to let you use the store to install the local deb file. To be more user friendly, I hope they make this work again.

        I have installed things with the CLI but like a GUI better.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I’ll forever have a soft spot for Unity. Ubuntu 14.04 was my gateway drug into Linux.

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
    5·
    11 months ago

    I switched 100% away from Windows to Ubuntu with KDE. It was a good desktop OS, but I switched to a rolling release for desktop as that suits me better.

    But for servers, Ubuntu, for me, is still king. It’s so simple to use, the docs are great, there’s always a guide for Ubuntu and it is so incredibly stable. It is just a totally solid rock of an OS and I can’t see myself moving away from it for server use anytime soon.

  • anothermember@beehaw.org
    2·
    11 months ago

    Like others, I remember when they were the new exciting upcoming distro. Though Fedora was my main daily driver at the time, I test drove 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) - it came with a video of Nelson Mandela (unless I’m embarrassingly misremembering), I still have the CD somewhere.

    I ended up eventually using the LTS’s 6.06 (Dapper Drake), 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for a lot of things, good memories, until eventually falling out with them over Unity and the Amazon thing.