Ubuntu Is a Canonical Product
Canonical gets a lot of rants nowadays (some with good reason, e.g. snap), but there’s an upside to the product as well: it’s managed as a desktop distro product from a user’s perspective.<p>I’ve been running a couple of Fedora versions as desktops on fully supported hardware and, oh my, they were quite bad in terms of stability (bluetooth not working, video calls breaking), speed, and general UX when compared with Ubuntu.<p>Sure, distro X, _when properly tuned_, will be better than Ubuntu. But a lot of users, even power users, are in Linux to do their job, which is NOT tuning linux distros.<p>Ubuntu OOB experience right now is still the best for a Linux imho (pop os actually, but it’s an ubuntu spinoff).
I tried Debian about 1y ago and its desktop defaults were very cheap, requiring a lot of work as a user.<p>Open to changing my mind. But please, let’a discuss a default experience, not a ton-of-tuning-patches-installs experience .