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Why Does Everyone Hate Ubuntu?

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ccording to the 2007 Desktop Linux Survey, over 30% of Linux users run Ubuntu, and, if anything, the numbers have increased since then.

In June 2009, Ubuntu's users were estimated as 13 million, and the distro was described as "growing faster than any other distribution." When Dell began to preload laptops with Linux, it chose Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is the first and only distribution to have a print magazine dedicated to it. By any measure, Ubuntu is a major player in free software.

Yet this popularity has a flip side. If Ubuntu is the most popular distribution, it is also the most hated. Last year, a survey on the Linux Hater's blog listed Ubuntu as "the most hated community distro." Search Google for "why I hate Ubuntu," and 9260 hits are returned -- compared to 376 for the equivalent phrase for Debian, and 11 for Fedora.

What is happening here? How can Ubuntu be both so successful and so determinedly attacked? The attacks, like so much that is negative in the free software community, are likely from a minority whose obsessiveness gives them the illusion of numbers. Yet, if so, it still seems a larger minority than usual.

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Hate Ubuntu?

I don't hate Ubuntu but I've been around long enough to know that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Some of their actions such as sneaking things into the distro only to pull them out after user complaints smells of a young Microsoft. How long before they get large enough to install whatever they want regardless of the user complaints. Also their predatory practice of trying to leach users from other distros by promoting Ubuntu on various distros forums leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

re: hate ubuntu

oh I know, or every single article about another distro has to be commented on saying that ubuntu is so much better. it's crap like that that turns people off.

A thing even more annoying

What makes me irritated is all the articles on the theme greate-Ubuntu-applications or applications-for-Ubuntu, written in a style that would make the not initiated think that we're talking about Ubuntu-only-applications, or that mighty Canonical makes all funny applications in the free software world. The downside of this is that I usually avoid those articles, thus possibly missing out information about some good Linux application.

Besides that I don't really care. I wish Ubuntu good luck and hope for the best.

The "New Fav Distro (F '09)" seems to suggest that either Ubuntu users avoid tuxmachines.org or Ubuntu actually isn't that dominant as all the fuzz seems to indicate.

re: poll & ubuntu

KimTjik wrote:

The "New Fav Distro (F '09)" seems to suggest that either Ubuntu users avoid tuxmachines.org or Ubuntu actually isn't that dominant as all the fuzz seems to indicate.

They still seem pretty dominant to me. But the others are showing well too huh? I think I get a lot of other Linux lovers here cause ubuntu gets bashed around a lot and I also think we lost a lot of ubuntu lovers because of bashing around ubuntu a lot. So, I guess it equals out. Tongue

Well over the top

This headline is well over the top. To suggest that _everyone_ *hates* Ubuntu is simply incorrect. It's neither everyone nor a case of hate.

Ubuntu A Victim Of Success

lockergnome.com: Generally speaking Bruce and I see things on the Linux front fairly differently. But in this instance, I find myself in near complete agreement across the board.

As the article points out, Ubuntu is taking double hits from both general naysayers along with those of the purist group that simply feel that it is mooching off of Debian code.

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