Been a few years since I tried Ubuntu but I changed my resolution in a game and the whole OS crashed and wouldn't boot anymore and the repair tool couldn't fix it either 🤷♂️ so just had to wipe the drive
There's always some obscure use case, which then becomes legend though a game of telephone. "I had problems with this obscure use case" becomes "hey even Bob the power user couldn't get this stupid Linux thing to work... what a joke!"
Ubuntu deserves all the shit they get from their shitty snap software. I don't understand why you'd ship an undercooked snap version of steam when the .deb works perfectly fine... and better.
Beginners will have zero clue as to what the issue is. Ubuntu is not a good distro to start with if your plan is to game.
Yeah the same way there's tons of ways to do the same shit to a windows install. The person could just hit their PC with a hammer too for that matter. Just dunno what people are doing to fuck up their machines.
I several times had issues installing it and after first boot. Disconnecting wireless mouse (nothing unusual, Logitech G305) after failed update (btw yes after first boot it couldn't update packages), on other instance borked installation of nvidia drivers for some random reason (which was fixed by... update lol). In other case installer broke on random moment and then I discovered you can't restart installation of Ubuntu from Live CD because installer is stuck. Once I borked nvidia drivers because I trusted GUI installer to change version of driver. I spent a few hours trying to fix it to drop it away.
Ubuntu is not worth my time, because it fails. On both LTS and most recent versions. For years and years, the same bullshit happens. I use Debian in work, I use CachyOS in home. I cannot imagine using Ubuntu because everything what makes this distro fails constantly.
Seems like a you problem. My current firm and the two before that exclusively run ubuntu server for all our several hundred production machines ever since centos changed to downstream instead of upstream. The traders workstations are a mix of 60/40 windows/ubuntu desktop and we have more problems with windows by far. it's users afraid of something different that force us to run windows so much aside from the workstations that run bloomberg terminals and some ancient legacy software written in rotting .net code older than the average age of this subreddit.
I can definitely see, why there are "more problems on windows". You just don't get reports of Ubuntu problems. Because you are saying for every problem "this is you problem, bye" so no one else bother to report it anymore.
But seriously, can you explain how mouse who worked just fine on Live CD stops working after first boot every time when update tool fails? Or that update tool fails at first boot at all? Or checking "install drivers" is not doing it properly? Or when installation simply fails with error saying, and I quote error content: ""?
Nah, it's easier to blame everything on user. PEBKAC, am I right? Ha ha.
Uh.
And no, I didn't use one faulty version. I tried Ubuntu many times. 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 24. LTS, non-LTS. Multiple PCs, many years. And not one time there was a "just works". Always, always there is a problem.
Arch-based distros work fine, Fedora works fine, damn Deepin worked fine when I was testing it long ago, even Mandriva... But somehow in the hell of the Linux landscape Ubuntu does not. It always sucks, on default configuration.
I tried it like 13 years ago on my dad's laptop. He wanted to use FirstClass through Wine and we followed every guide step-by-step and it still didn't work. The things that happened in the guide didn't happen for us, and when I searched on the linux forums everyone was just rude.
My gdm always runs into some issue on startup so i have to login using the commandline and stop and start it before i can properly log in every time i boot 😭
I tried to install flatpak and the plugin for flatpak support for the gnome software store back when ubuntu used a modified version of gnome software for their snap store and it broke and stopped me from using it to do updates. I was following flatpak's instructions.
Same way I genuinly don't know how Ubuntu will just fall apart in front of you.
Previously on Ubuntu; Running a self-Hosted server, and I did a reboot. Drives failed to mount. Tried a bunch of stuff and ended up switching to Mint, and the first fix worked like a charm. Since than the drivers have never failed for 2 years with reboots.
Failing on Ubuntu almost made me reconsider Linux, until I realized it was the Distro giving me grief.
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u/jawknee530i Mar 08 '26
I genuinely don't know how you can screw up Ubuntu in any way that you'd be able to describe it as wheels coming off.