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'
As much as Canonical are a bunch of dinks and snaps make my balls itch, Ubuntu has been an awesome gateway OS for getting users in control of their devices. If the project were every to go away it will be a sad day for the Linux/*nix/GNU/BSD world.
Exactly!
There will never be a “year of the Linux Desktop”. The only way you’re going to win that one is if you get Dell or HP to make Linux the default, and that will be a cold day in hell before any publicly traded company puts anything other then Windows on a computer. Facts is facts.
Just be happy that we get little wins. God knows that SteamDeck and Android have been huge with helping Linux grow.
I know it gets some flack here, but they really got a lot of people into Linux and helped the whole FOSS world immeasurably.
As much as Canonical are a bunch of dinks and snaps make my balls itch, Ubuntu has been an awesome gateway OS for getting users in control of their devices. If the project were every to go away it will be a sad day for the Linux/*nix/GNU/BSD world.
Exactly! There will never be a “year of the Linux Desktop”. The only way you’re going to win that one is if you get Dell or HP to make Linux the default, and that will be a cold day in hell before any publicly traded company puts anything other then Windows on a computer. Facts is facts.
Just be happy that we get little wins. God knows that SteamDeck and Android have been huge with helping Linux grow.