i'm glad you shared this because it's forced me to take stock of all the time that has passed by as he explained his experiences with ubuntu.
i got especially nostalgic when he mentioned compiz and the feeling of being on the bleeding edge. it felt so bleeding edge that when ubuntu made that public mistake w grub in one of their earlier releases, it got me to consider buying a linux laptop; which i did a few years later permanently, until recently.
also: unity was awesome.
"Take stock of."
Thank God mint exists so everyone has a viable snap-free alternative.
Wish they'd drop it already.
The thing with Ubuntu is: Every single one of their releases since 2008 had a "I wish they'd drop this" thing.
What people want is a preconfigured Debian with newer packages and non-free Codecs.
But that's not what Canonical wants. They use Debian as base to build off of its millions of volunteer work-hours, but very much try to commercialize and monetize their product.
Peak low with Snap.
That's what made me move onto other distros.
Damn, now I feel old. The first linux distro I installed (and was able to run on my hardware) was their second release, 05.04.
You want to feel older? That release is older than me, and I'm a full grown adult.
Child, when I started, I still typed WIN <ENTER> only about half the time I turned on the family 486, BeOS was a viable alternative, and Slackware took you days to get a system set up. And I’m not nearly as old as the great old ones roaming around this very forum.
I also started with Hoary Hedgehog!
I remember getting the pressed CDs in the mail for free. It was my first installed distribution but I remember messing around with a Slax Live CD before.
A link to the video on PeerTube through Tilvids: https://tilvids.com/w/e4fxGdZgmgZeHVUrPLunUt
It makes me feel so nostalgic.
I still remember trying something alien called Linux on an old Dell Laptop (and also on my Playstation 3) I had inherited from my dad's company. It was good that everything worked out of the box because I had not technical knowledge. I can't know for sure but I guess it was a version of Ubuntu between 6.XX and 8.XX.
Then it was Linux all the time, until having a Windows dual boot in the mid-2010 before switching back to Linux fully at the beginning of the 2020's.
No more Ubuntu though since I fell in love with Fedora.
I'd still be using Ubuntu sometimes if it weren't for the snaps thing. They only make sense for proprietary software... but snaps still suck. I don't like packaged software. They contain all kinds of things that can't be updated. The app store was getting better before all that changed. Now Debian seems better, but I still prefer source based distros like Gentoo because the ingredients come with recipes.
When both are free of cost, I prefer food delivery over cooking myself.
I just use Debian with the barest minimum installation needed to get flatpak running.
My employer is forcing us to migrate from Debian to Ubuntu because they want access to paid support. Holy crap, I hate snap so much.
The only reason I don't like snaps is because they don't include all functionality. For example, I couldn't print with Gimp and Darktable snaps.
You don't mind that each snap you install is further slowing down boot times?
As a watercolor artist, who sells prints, the printing was a bigger problem for me.
