The world is quickly abandoning Ubuntu. At one time it was a much loved Linux distro but now it is a pariah. Much of it started with that virus Unattended Upgrades. Then it was the bloat and slowness. After that they buried an “Upgrade to Ubuntu Pro” nag in the MsCorefonts package so it would appear on all YABU where users installed core fonts so Web pages would look correct. Pro is only “free” for a small number of computers. After that you gotta buy a license.
Now, we are well past bloat and suffering from full-on obesity!
Just look at that ISO file size!
Do Remember When?
Do you remember when the Ubuntu crowd poked fun at “Microsoft Bloatware?”
I remember when Linux fit on two 5.25 inch floppies and ran in 640K of RAM. I used it then. Then SuSE got a little bigger.
Then it started coming on a CD that could hold roughly 640MB even though we didn’t have 80MB of spinning disk on our systems.
I remember when Windows XP came out the Ubuntu crowd was poking fun at Microsoft Bloatware. Near fatal guffawing happened when the “dainty” <cough cough> Windows 7 was released.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS needs to be a contestant on The Biggest Looser.
It suffers from obesity run amuck.