Ubuntu Was My First Distro—Here’s Why We Went Our Separate Ways

Obonto has once used and followed its development with great excitement, such as a child with the favorite control unit and the game are both free of charge. Now, at best, I feel contradictory. What happened along the way?

Everything began around 2008 …

I do not remember exactly how I stumbled for the first time through UBUNTU in high school, but at a time when I discovered a general and generally open program: applications like Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, AbiWord and Openoffice. This was a program that anyone can possess, regardless of whether they had money or “good” computer.

My brother and I shared the desktop computer that we had at the time, so I couldn’t risk its breach by installing the Linux distribution with zero knowledge of what I was doing. It was almost almost my only arterial artery for a social life. So, I instead played with Linux on a general laptop with a single version of Ubuntu to be working on: Xubuntu. But without working drivers for the calling mode, there were limits for what I could do.

Here’s a look at the shape of Xubuntu at the time.

The following year, as a student in the first year in the college, you have completely switched to Ubuntu. I could not suddenly found courage. I have broken my copies of Windows Vista, which will not be running one day, and the data was not recovered due to the disciplical encryption program that I was using. Everything was lost, so there was nothing to lose.

In the early days, it was fun

At high school, I played with a Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Live CD disk, but it was Ubuntu 8.10 IBEX IBEX that I will eventually install on the university laptop. I was enthusiastic about every change in 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and 9.10 KARMIC Koala – Things like a menu to manage instant messages account (known as MEMENU) and a more dusty theme. I have invested at the time that these versions and names are engraved in my mind without having to search for them.

I was along the ride in the development of the UBUNTU NetBook, which ran on Nabok while it is in the college. This would eventually grow into the unit desktop facade that will come to define Ubonto.

My opinion turns a little with the clear 10.04 lynx. This was the first time that I saw the Ubuntu LTS version, and I didn’t like cosmetic changes. I was not a fan of the new purple and orange color scheme. I did not dug the application of the application, which put an embarrassing division between the application menu and the rest of the application window. I did not like the window buttons movement to the left. I remained disappointed when the appearance was largely polished at Ubuntu 10.10 MAVERICK Meerkat.

All of this was able to change easily, so I could overlook it, but it increased my interest in other distributions.

Obonto had phone dreams and televisions

In its essence, we were just small computers. They did not request all this new technology to create programs for it. The story was different with phones and televisions. So when Canonical announced that it was bringing Ubuntu to these devices, she might have felt excitement if I believed that there was any opportunity to reach the United States, but part of me did not think that the company would get the resources necessary to withdraw this matter.

When Canonical began to develop technologies that would form the basis for the UBUNTU, this symbol also promised to develop an upcoming version of the UBUNTU desktop. This version of Ubuntu will be ready next year, or the following, until it comes in the end.

This effort, which was misleading, was truly damaged Obonto in my eyes. But this was not everything.

She continued the ecclesiastical on her way

I liked free and open source programs based on cooperation. It was not just the idea that a code is available in the naval that caused me; He also watched many volunteers and companies from all over the world cooperating on the same symbol.

However, Canonical began to abandon known techniques to develop itself. Instead of embracing the 3.0 release from Genoom, the Canonical interface has developed its unit’s interface instead. You can say that Genome 3 was not completely ready at the time, but neither of them!

Instead of gradually moving from X.ORG Servant to Wayland, Canonical decided to create Canonical to create Mir name. Instead of embracing the emerging Flatpak package to install the applications, canonical made its own format (fortunately, you can always install Flatpaks on Ubuntu if you want it).

When the Gnome developers began to request Distros not to have the subject of their applications, create Web site dedicated to this request,, I continued the desktop on the theme of the desktop anyway. I understand why – projects want to have their own visual identity. Completely combined, using Ubuntu means that I was using different programs from most other distributions, even if most of the applications are the same.

Obonto has become a less stable basis

If Ubonto has successfully pulled all this, I may feel differently, but this was not. The abandoned ecclesiastical unit in 2017. Obonto decided to use Windh for the desktop after all, after years of working on Mir. Canonical abandoned the Ubuntu Touch project, which is now run by UBPORTS. At least, you can still get ubuntu touch and run on some phones. As for UBUNTU TVs, I do not know anywhere ever.

All the time, the Ubuntu desktop has become less stable. The unit was stagnant for years before pulling the ecclesiastical plug. The distribution was charged a non -identical set of GNOME applications and libraries with different version numbers. The desktop is increasingly hair with a maintenance project on life support.

Obonto desktop now looks like a later idea

When Ubuntu moved to Genoom, I was briefly excited, but the ecclesiastical was not to his ways in experimenting with what the desktop could be Genoom. The company added some of the extensions that made its copy of Genoom look like a unit, and these changes that I did not like to largely were. I prefer a fully lacking of Genoom in desktop icons. I loved the Gnome berth that appears only when an overview of activities is opened, rather than always visible. From the launch of the Gnome 3, every GNOME designing decision preferred to Ubuntu, and it became increasingly clear Ubuntu and no longer a good match.

Obonto has remained largely as it has since. The ecclesiastical does not talk about the desktop all this much. Her interest in the shots appears to be. I have never cared about the lot or Snap Store. Most of the applications I want Flathub instead of. UBUNTU has a new and fixed application store, but these changes are around the edges.

However, I am happy that Gnome Ubuntu is running now. I am happy because he uses Wind. I appreciate Obonto’s contributions to these projects and more. Everyone benefits from cooperation. I love the presence of Ubuntu as a friend. The excitement has ended, and I will not call what I feel anymore, but I am happy because they are there. I wish them all the best.

These days, I don’t see any of the traditional Linux distributions. I have been flirting with Samsung Dex about a year ago, and I think it has become serious.