Ubuntu popular, Ubuntu hated
Some people signaled that with the rise of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, more people on the innernets seem to express their hatred of the millionaire-funded project.
Well, hatred of Ubuntu is obvious.
People that feel good about being special using Linux, feel kinda funny that even granny and uncle John can now use Linux (i.e., Ubuntu, cause that’s what their nephew installed for them) without having to resort to King Geek daily.
It does take some of the Xclusivité out of the deal. First Linux’s goal was world domination, then it seems to kind of happen on some scale and then its suddenly scary.
I think we should try to find a way to criticise certain projects and distros in a fair way without ending up in the trenches. That might be more difficult than asking from a newb to recompile his kernel, fix Grub and kill X to load his new xorg.conf. Let’s face it people, Ubuntu’s doing something right. So do so many other projects.
I still recommend CentOS for the stable and Fedora for the funkiness, but it’s getting hard with this Buntu release being LTS. Ubuntu’s doing someting right, just find out what, copy that, improve on that. It’s legal, it’s encouraged, it’s being done.
What’s good for the distro king, is good for the distro joker.
