ninjapenguin120 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 It's sort of a "gateway drug" of sorts into Linux. It acted as a good staircase into more advanced distros for me, like Debian or Arch. By "look bad," it does, if you mean pure looks, kinda. Linux Mint looks more approachable, fimiliar, and graceful for sure, and the theme looks better. But guess what distrobution it's based off of. Guess. Ubuntu! It needs an overhall in visuals, like many other distroutions and interfaces, but I still think as far as what's under the hood, it's great, and makes Linux easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Ubuntu, or any of it's derivatives, are the worst distros I've ever used, and I've used a few of them. I will admit, I am definitely no Linux guru, but even playing it as safe as possible, some update has ALWAYS totally screwed up my system. The amount of bloat installed with it is about insane. Sure, they have a huge following and fairly decent support in their forums, but I will never use it again, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 What do you guys think? Depends what you mean. It lowers the learning curve compared to many other distros, so in that sense it's good for Linux. It's also the most well known flavour. Even non-techies have heard of it. In the battle for hearts and minds it's helping to dispel the myth that PC's only run Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Ubuntu makes Linux accessible. It has all the Linux goodness, but with a pretty large community of support, and the support of many 3rd party developers. Debian is stable, but 6 months after the latest "stable" release, it is already "really" far behind and you sometimes have to do some tweaking to get certain 3rd party applications installed. Ubuntu "just works". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seta-san Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 no. Ubuntu makes it look good. Android makes it look bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromvar Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Ubuntu is a very good thing for linux. Simply because it gets people who would normally not want linux, interested in it. For anyone who's used any linux distro, you know their are different levels of complexity you can choose to do, and Ubuntu makes using linux easy for people who have little knowledge of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusi0n Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Ubuntu is good for Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I think Ubuntu dumbs down Linux too much. Real Linux users use Slackware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted August 11, 2014 Veteran Share Posted August 11, 2014 You guys have to look at the original date of this thread. This was opened in 2010, when Ubuntu got that Orange+Brown thing going. The orange and purple of today, plus ambience/radiance plus a considerably better Unity looks a lot better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoDonpachi Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 no. Ubuntu makes it look good. Android makes it look bad. I would disagree, the year of Linux actually happened on mobile devices thanks to Android. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 A bit of thread necromancy going on here... But since we're doing it anyways.. personally, yes, it does. It's not Unity and some of the other questionable decisions.. I can deal with that. (And it's actually gotten to the point where it's usable and not that bad.) It's the advertising right out of the box in your bloody start menu that leaves a really bad taste.. yea you can disable it but still it just doesn't sit well for an OS that's built around the "FOSS ideals." Ubuntu's pretty much the "poster child" of desktop Linux, and sets a pretty bad impression. I would disagree, the year of Linux actually happened on mobile devices thanks to Android.Linux the kernel is not the same as Linux the desktop OS, which is what that stupid "year of" comment is always referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted August 11, 2014 Veteran Share Posted August 11, 2014 [Thread closed] 2010 was a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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